50 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Website - Part 2

In the previous part 50 ways On how to drive traffic to your website,  we described 5 ways to drive traffic to your website. Now I will tell five more ways to drive traffic to your site.



6. Choose your name wisely

Choose a memorable domain name. If you're launching a new site, choose a name people will remember easily. Ask Yourself "Will people remember my domain name?"Try to choose a name which won't be confused with similar names. You don't want people typing your competitor's domain name when they’re trying to find your site. NameBoy.com has a handy tool to help you choose domain names. Also, you can find a surprising number of good deleted (expired) domain names at Whois.net

7. Buy the wrong domain name, too.

If you think people may confuse your domain name with a similar name, try to buy that name, too.Here is an example sometimes when newsletters mentioned AssociatePrograms.com they put the "s" in the wrong place and called it "AssociatesProgram.com". So when that wrong domain name became available, buy it. Now, if you muddle up the name and type "AssociatesProgram.com" you're automatically redirected to “AssociatePrograms.com”. It occurred to me that people in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, who think "programs" is spelled "programmes", might also have trouble getting my domain name right. So I bought AssociateProgrammes.com, too. It also redirects to the correct domain. A good domain name registrar will make it very easy for you to redirect one domain name to another. 000Domains.com is one that does.

8. Make your domain name easy to read - especially if it's a .NET

Which of the following is easier to read and understand? www.incomefigure.com or www.IncomeFigure.com. See how using a capital letter at the start of each word makes the second domain name easier to read - and easier to remember. Whenever you mention your domain name anywhere, ALWAYS present it in its most readable form. A good place to start doing this is in your email signature file. If you're unfortunate enough to have bought the ".net" version of a domain name because someone raced you to the ".com", help people to remember your site by writing it like this...

Example.NET

Being MEMORABLE helps you get more repeat visitors.

9. Use appropriate keywords in your image file names.

You can get hundreds of visits a month from people who are searching for images. I'm not sure how valuable those visitors are, but I didn't have to do anything very special to get them. Google Images - http://images.google.com - makes it easy for people to search for graphics online. To take advantage of this, when choosing the file name of an image on your site, use an appropriate key phrase, for example, "book-ends.jpg" if you're promoting book ends. When you search in Google Images for "book ends" I discovered that the very first search result was for a page which did NOT contain a graphic of book ends! Instead, the page contained a "book ends" LINK to a book ends graphic on a second page. It if suits the design of your site, you may want to experiment with this technique. I'm not sure how much use traffic to images is, but if it's ADDITIONAL traffic you can get simply by choosing image file names carefully, it's worth having.

10. Do REALLY SERIOUS keyword research.

If you want to get LOTS of traffic from search engines, you need to find out the exact phrases which people are typing into search engines. There are free tools available for this, but they're not nearly as useful as the more comprehensive paid tools. For example, if you're using the Overture keyword tool for your research, be warned, its results can't be trusted. The Overture tool is useful to give you a quick rough guide, but NOT for serious research. "The harder it is to discover a certain search phrase (getting traffic), the less competition you will have in the SERPs (for that search phrase). If a keyword research tool is free and popular, how many competitors will you have for the phrases you discover there?"

50 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Website - Part 1

Even if you are the smallest blogger in the world or one of the biggest blogger you would be still looking for new ways to bring traffic to your blog. In this article I will tell you top 50 ways to drive traffic to your blog to your blog these methods are completely free and easy to implement.



1. Your Content Matters The Most

The most important thing of your website or your blog is your content. Your content should be updated regularly and remember not to compromise on your quality. Yes, that is correct if you have written a quality content, it will automatically force the reader or the viewer to come back again and again. People will not visit your site if you don’t write quality article and new customers won’t come back.

2. Your Design and Your Layout

Most people complain about not having much traffic. But they don’t see is whether there site is worth visiting or not. First impression is the last impression. That is correct the person visiting your site will look at it first and then will go further. So choose your design and layout wisely make it user friendly.

3. Guest Blog

Offer to write a post on someone else’s site. Even better, have the post already written up and then let the blogger know you have a post ready to guest blog on their site, if it’s okay with them. When you write your guest blog post, find a post on your own blog that’s related and link to in your guest blog post. A link for you on their blog, will definitely increase your site traffic.

4. Search Engine Optimization

Websites, unlike other marketing tools, have to be publicized. When you write a radio commercial, you pay a radio station to run the ad when you design a brochure, you give it away. But when you publish a website, you must promote it to drive in business (visitors).

An excellent way to lead people to your site is to use a specialist. If you can't afford the cost of professional search engine optimization (SEO) however, you can do a good portion of it yourself.

In its most basic form, SEO is the practice of making a site available for the search engines to index in their database. Once your site has been optimized for the actual keyphrases your customers are searching for, you can be found in the page listings on Google, Yahoo! and other engines.

In addition to SEO, there are many other ways you can promote your site that are effective and free

5. Social Networks

Facebook, Twitter, Google+ are some examples of most popular social networking websites. Make an account there if you don’t have, synchronize your website with them. Follow people and like most popular pages. Keep updating there and definitely you will get good amount of traffic from there. These are very powerful tools if used correctly and wisely.

Make Money From Facebook Part 3

So this is the third part of our make money from facebook series. If you haven't read them before, Go ahead and do it right away.

• Make Money From Facebook - Part 1
• Make Money From Facebook - Part 2

Most of the people use facebook just for fun or to connect with their friends and beloved people. Hope you liked our last two articles on how to earn from facebook. In this article I will be discussing five more ways to make money from facebook.

11. Garage Sale

This is a very cool app that facebook has launched. As you can see in the name it is a garage sale point of your items but not in your garage but on facebook and it is really simple. Simply add Garage sale to your profile page and list everything you want to sell. When someone buys something, Garage sale automatically bills the buyer’s credit card. Money is directly credited in your PayPal account. BUT! Garage sale charge 5% commission on the total sales price, but that’s all. No other hidden charges or a fee to signup.

12. e3buy Auction

This is another facebook app which allows you to earn money. Using this you can buy, sell or trade anything. Auction your new or used items. With this application it is like opening a customize store. You can upload your logo and start selling things. The best part of this application is that unlike eBay or garage sale there is no commission or fee to be paid. It is also fully integrated with eBay so you can be paid fast.

13. FlameTunes

FlameTunes was founded in 2007 by an Iranian-American named Nima Khakpour. This app is more for the artists to sell their music. So, if you are an artist, FlameTunes enables you to sell your music on your Facebook. You can also use it to sell music on MySpace.

14. Zazzle and facebook

Zazzel.com is a website which allows you to create and design any product on their site(which is free) and sell them on your face book. Think about the potential buyer base for customized t-shirts and hats and etc, specially if you have a lot of Facebook friends. You can also sell product created by other artists and earn a commission on those. So, even if you don’t want to deal with designing, you have a way to make money on face book using Zazzle.

15. Write a Book

If you are good at writing, this way is for you. Facebook is attracting more and more members everyday. And lets face it, not all of these people are facebook savvy. And even though getting started with facebook for you and I might be simple and quick, many people have problem with the basic things. Write a small and to the point e-book about facebook and how to use it. Maybe a simple step by step instruction for getting started with facebook. Or an e-book about how to use different application to make facebook experience a better one. There are many possibilities. With the huge amount of facebook apps and all the new ones that are added daily, this can be quite big. You don’t even have to pay to promote your e-book, simply use your own facebook or better yet create one for your e-book and start promoting it.

Make Money From Facebook - Part 2

This is the second part of the article on how to Make Money From Facebook. I hope you liked the five ways I told in the previous article, now I will tell five more ways about how to earn from facebook. Choose the way which suits you most. Other five ways are as follows:

6. Ether

Ether is the website that you can make money on by giving advice to people over the phone or by chatting. But now, you can use their new application on facebook to make money while giving advice, this may be the way for you to make some extra money on facebook. Also if you know a second, this app makes it easy to teach others and make money. You set the rates and Ether provides a number that individuals can call. The call will then be forwarded to your personal telephone number.

7. EBay

 eBay, the top online market. If you know the power of eBay you can integrate eBay with your facebook. Now you can have your eBay on your facebook. This application allows you to add eBay auction listings to your Profile. Sell things to your Facebook friends from you can sell almost anything from clothes to diary, from furniture to jewelry and moreover here you can also have the option to add a charity auction that you support, on your Facebook profile. I think it’s a very smart way to combine eBay and Facebook, and you don’t even need an eBay account.

8. Music Blaster

This allows you to put your own music store on facebook, and sell music from blastmymusic.com. You earn 5% on every song you sell. The cool thing about this app is that you can support your favorite singer or your favorite band and help them sell their music.

9. Become a Facebook Party Planner

Facebook is an awesome place to throw a party. Complements your real world party, facebook provides everything you need to find and invite your guests, provide continuous updates, create photo albums following the event and create a forum for party guests to continue the discussion where they left off. Party planners better have Facebook promotions in their plans. Actually, since they’re still pretty much in the dark, why not be a facebook event planner and bring on the party revolution.

10. Position Yourself as a Facebook Marketing Expert

This brave new world of social networking is completely beyond the grasp of many marketers today. If you are really in the know about Facebook, offers you services to advertising and public relations agencies, as well as small businesses alike. Put your knowledge to work. Why not become a Facebook advertising specialist – just as Google transformed search advertising, Facebook will have a profound affect on social media advertising in the future. Help companies with their Facebook Strategy.

More parts to come keep on visiting IncomeFigure.

Make Money From Facebook - Part 1

Facebook the most popular social networking site to this day. Almost everyone is on Facebook these days. Facebook makes unprecedented reach and powerful communications tools available to anyone. If you have a business to market, a product to sell, or a personality or celebrity to pitch, Facebook is where you need to be.

In this article I will give you tweaks and tips on how to earn from the world’s most popular website after Google, that is Facebook.

1. Sell Products via Facebook’s Market Place

If you are into a business then Facebook market place is one of the best place to do business. You will find from books to baby items to home furnishings, almost all kinds of products for sale. It is like an online shopping mall. It is a virtual garage sale. If you don’t like eBay or Amazon or your country does not support these do try Facebook market place and make a sale today.

Here is the link to Facebook’s Marketplace.

2. Develop a Hit Application

Want to earn and grow your business almost instantly? Here is an idea develop a hit application yup that is right. All you need is an idea and drive to be a facebook entrepreneur. Companies have been created overnight with a Facebook application. If you don’t know Java or PHP, there are programmers available to be hired who can design a hit application exactly as what you want. You will be amaze to know that YouTube was initially started as an application on MySpace.

3. Become an Ad Arbitrager

Facebook’s self service ad system offers extremely targeted advertising on both a CPC and CPM basis. Given Facebook’s tremendous audience reach and virtually unlimited ad inventory, smart media buyers are purchasing ads on facebook and selling the targeted traffic via ad networks. Could Ad Arbitrage be the next big thing in an increasingly digital media world?

4. Become a Celebrity

Facebook allows you to create a forum from which to be heard. Not unlike the town square with its soapbox speakers. Facebook is today’s digital town square equivalent. Anyone can have their own soapbox. Why not get paid for your expertise? A facebook page allows you to market yourself to your Fans, those interested in what you have to bring to the table. Start the next generation of newsletter, offer how-to videos, or a subscription based txt message service. Who knows, you could be the next Vin Diesel or better than that.

5. Get Paid For Market Research

If you have traditional market research skills, it doesn’t take a genius to see the potential when highly-targeted audiences can be completed in half the time and at a fraction of the cost than was previously possible. Facebook provides marketers with a giant focus group waiting to be tapped. If you are a market researcher and you’re finger isn’t on the pulse of social media, you need to re-examine your business strategy and retool for the future of consumer opinion mining.

More parts to come keep visiting IncomeFigure,

Five Ways To Make Money Online Without Having A Website

Have you ever wanted to earn good money sitting at your home in front of your computer? Ever felt thirsty after watching top earning websites? You don’t know how to make websites that can earn you a handsome amount? Well no problem, Incomefigure will teach you how to earn without a website. Yup that’s right this article is about how to earn without owning a website that get thousands of hits daily across the globe. Following are the ways you can choose from or which suits you the best to earn. So therefore In this article we will tell you how to make money without having a website.



Make Money Online Without Having A Website:

1. Online Surveys

There are many companies which pay money for each online survey you give about their product. This is one of the best way to make money online. Many manufacturers and companies pay handsome amount to market research companies to gather feedback from consumers, which they do by conducting online surveys and where people like us come in play and earn. These research companies share money with the participants who take part in online surveys. Although these days, it is very hard to find a non-spamming company to connect with but still there are hundreds of legitimate companies out there, willing to pay you. Here is one we can recommend to you Survey Scout.

2. Freelancing

Most of you out there will be not aware of this term, but this freelancing has changed lives of many. There are freelancing sites available on the internet which pays you for your services. Projects are being posted there and amount of money is decided and if you are lucky enough that you and the guy posting the project are agreed on the deal, the job starts. There are thousands of projects categorized in thousands on categories you can choose from. I will recommend you to choose the one you are best at. The two best freelancing sites are Freelancer.com and Odesk.com

3. Paid to Click

As the name suggests you get paid for clicking on the adds, there are several programs such as Neobux which you can sign up with. They give you number of adds per day on which you have to click and view it for some seconds. The earning by this method is pretty slow but there are people who make thousands each year using paid to click but be careful again there are a lot of scam websites promising that they will pay if you signup with them but in the end you are the only one regretting . So please be carefull.

4. Earn sharing videos

Flixya.com and thevideosense.com are the two video sharing websites. They are not that popular as YouTube but a good website for you to earn they allow users to earn Adsense commission by uploading there videos from YouTube and Google video. Here Adsense adds are published on video pages to earn revenue from it. The adsense commission you earn is based on the page views of the video pages so more popular your video is more you earn.

5. Writing Articles

If you are good at writing articles and you are good in your language, you can earn a lot by writing and giving your articles to online blogs. There are hundreds of webmasters looking for fresh writers to get new articles to post on their websites. They usually pay more than $5.00 per article. You can find the right people for your article on freelancing websites mentioned above.

How To Submit Your Blog Sitemap To Google

Do you want more traffic to your blog from search engines like Google and Bing. You will have to optimize your blog by submitting a sitemap to each of the search engines. Submitting sitemaps of your blog to popular search engines can help you get tons of traffic because by doing this your blog will be indexed almost instantly. If your blog is on blogger.com, it is a good news because Google owns blogger.com platform and most sites are indexed by Google automatically.

Now I will discuss the steps you will have to perform in order to submit your sitemap to Google:

1. Create a account and sign in to Google Webmaster Tools

Webmaster tools help you manage your blogs and gives you detailed information about how Google is indexing your blog. Click on the link to get to Google Webmaster Tools. One more way to get to Webmaster tools is directly from your blogger account. Just click on My Account on navbar and choose google webmaster tools from the list.

2. Add your site

Around the left hand corner you will see the option of add a site. Click on it and give the url of your blog with http:// prefix for example http://incomefigure.com

3. Webmaster tools Overview

After adding your site, you will see your site being listed in the list. Click on your site and you will be navigated to the overview page. Here you will find all the information about how google is indexing your site. If your site isn’t indexed yet there will be a message saying “No pages from your site are currently included in Google's index"

4. Verify your site

You will need to verify that you are the real owner the site before moving any further. You will be asked to verify your site. Webmaster tools will give you two options to choose from in order to verify your site. (1) Uploading an HTML file on server. (2) Adding a meta tag in your HTML code. However you don’t have access to the server when using blogspot so you will have to add a meta tag to verify your side. After choosing the option several lines of code will appear in front of you just copy it.

5. Adding meta tag

Click on Design>>Edit HTML. Search for “Head” tag, it will be somewhere near the top. 

Below the tag paste the code you copied in step 4. Then click on save template button. And you are done.

5. Verifying

Return to Webmaster tools and click on verify at the top of the page in the “Dashboard>>Verify a site” screen. If you have done everything correctly up till now you will receive a confirmation message from google that your site has been verified.

6. Adding Sitemap

Navigate to sitemap page by clicking on the Sitemaps link in the side menu. Here you will find a button labeled Submit a Sitemap just click on it. Type atom.xml or rss.xml and click on test. If you have done everything correctly up till now, Google will then display a message indicating that your sitemap submission is pending. It can take some hours for your sitemap to be fully updated by Google. How to submit sitemaps to yahoo and other search engines will be covered in upcoming articles. Keep reading us.