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This is probably one of the most important tips I can give you in regards to driving traffic to your websites.
You may have heard about replicated affiliate websites not being allowed in the search engines. That is true with an exception: Only the most popular website, i.e. the one with the most incoming links, will be listed. You have the ability to get your affiliate websites listed in Google, Yahoo!, MSN and others.
You can start by asking your affiliate manager to allow creating a personalized introductory paragraph on your affiliate website. That will make the first paragraph on each page unique. That is generally enough to get that page treated as being different from any other.
From there, you can go through the Free Website Traffic document that can be downloaded here and found on the newsletter subscription confirmation page. That document is just a start though. There are many other things you can do to get listed higher in the search engines and get more traffic, with or without the search engines.
The primary methods I use to get onto the first page of search engine results are:
- Get my own domain name with the keywords in the name and build the site with unique content.
- Advertise that domain name instead of my affiliate websites. A blog is an asset to have on the site, which can be used for the site itself.
- Participate in social networking (MySpace, FriendsWin), discussion forums and Yahoo! Answers.
- Place classified ads on high traffic sites such as Craigslist, USfreeads, etc.
- Publish articles outside the blog, such as in ezinearticles.com, articlecity.com, MySpace, FriendsWin, etc.
All of that can be broken down into one word: Participate
When you actively participate in various venues, you not only get traffic from those venues, but the search engines pick up your on your activity, follow the links you provide in them and drive traffic to your site. It makes you visible to the world and that is what brings people to you.
Along with the Free Website Traffic page, which has a PDF file for you to download and print, visit www.affref.com for more marketing ideas. There is a newsletter subscription option there that will allow you to get weekly tips in email.
Thanks for being with us!
Jim Hutchinson
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