Marketing and Traffic Generation Techniques

The basic strategy for marketing virtually anything on the internet is getting traffic to a specific site. The idea is a to begin at a place where there is already plenty of traffic and channel some of that traffic to your site. The more the better. As most people know the major search engines, such as Google, are primary sources of traffic.

To get your actual link in the search results of Google is an important eventual goal, and this is done mainly by what is called backlinking. Among other things, Google and other search engines rank sites by how many other links point to it or link back to it. The links you leave from higher traffic and well known sites point to your smaller site and gradually cause it to be seen as a relevant site. This makes it go up in search engine rankings.

Thus getting traffic to your site both brings visitors who may purchase things of click on advertising, and also causes it to rise in search engine rankings. Keyword usage (also known as SEO) also plays into all of this - use of keywords, both in links and in any test you write, that are popular and not too competitive. At any rate let's get to the list. Read over it and draw your own conclusions.



1. Article Marketing. This is a well known technique that can be used whether you're selling your own products, affiliate products, trying to get traffic to a blog, etc. You write articles on the general topic of what you're advertising and include a link at the end of the article or in your author bio.

2. Forum Posting. In this technique you visit forums, also on the general topic of what you're selling or promoting, and leave forum responses that include a link. We've all seen these on forums and in fact they may be quite far from the topic in question - only distantly related. Note: forums often have rules for the inclusion of links so make sure you check those out before posting a link in a response.

3. Blog Commenting. In this technique an individual visits various blogs and leaves blog comments that contain a link to what the individual is promoting or trying to sell. Again there may be rules for approval of these comments so make sure you know what these are before leaving a comment.

4. Email lists. In this technique people on a list of email addresses you've gathered are sent promotional messages and offers. This is often done automatically by programs called autoresponders such as Aweber.

5. Use of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Friendster, Linkedin etc.

6. Use of link directories. Link directories are sites that have large lists of organized links, often submitted by users. Some examples are Yahoo! Directory, Best of the Web, and SunSteam Search.

7. Use of classified advertising sites. You can simply create classified ads promoting a website, blog, or affiliate product. One primary example is Craigslist.

Long List of Ways to Make Money Online

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My name is Will MacBride. I put together this list of all kinds of strategies, techniques, and ways to make money online. It's as much for me as it is anyone else - I'm just getting into this kind of work and I felt like it would be helpful to see all this in one place. Feel free to check out the list.
Of course, I haven't tried all the methods on it. It's in no particular order. It's basically just stuff I've dug up from all over the internet, some of which I'm just getting into myself. It can often help a lot just to see things all in one place.Let's see how many income generating online methods there actually are. Enjoy!

How to Use the List

A good way to use this list is to simply read through it and make a note of which methods seem interesting to you. On other pages of this blog I may offer more detailed explanations of a certain technique or some aspect of the technique, so feel free to click the link and read a little more about it.

1. Do affiliate marketing. This is a common way of approaching internet marketing. Set up a site or do article marketing, use social media (i.e. sites like twitter, facebook, youtube, etc.) or advertise them in countless other ways to sell the products you're signed up with. [I may make a different list of all the ways to market things.]

1a. Take offers to sell actual products (or eproducts) and get a commission on them. Again, market the heck out of them with in all the ways mentioned on the internet marketing page and any other ways you can think of.

1b. Take CPA (cost per action) offers and do the same. This is a type of affiliate marketing in which the customer doesn't even have to buy a product for you to get paid by the advertiser (the company) you're promoting. All they have to do is do some specific action such as fill out a form or supply their email address.

1c. There are even cost per click offers, but I have heard they are rarer.

2. Write articles on Ehow.com. You make money when people click on the ads that are placed on your article. I have tried this, but to be honest, it seems more like a trickle of money to me. In March for instance, I earned .86 cents. But hey, anything could add up if you did enough of it. An additional note here is that now Ehow has been "cleaned up" and people have to submit samples and be hired in order to write articles for the site.

3. Get paid to read emails. Sites like Inboxdollars.com offer to pay people to read emails. I'm not recommending this method but it is indeed a method so it deserves mention here. The amount of emails you would have to read and the sheer dullness of the job would probably make it a bad choice of methods.

4. Start your own small search engine.

5. Be an affiliate of a bottom feeder search engine.

6. Write software product reviews at Softwarejudge.com, Eopinions.com, etc.

7. Think up domain names at Pickydomains.com. Thye pay as much as 25.00 for a domain name chosen.

8. Write articles for examiner.com

9. Write answers for Justanswer.com. Here you get paid a small amount for answers you find to questions.

10. Build you own Q&A website and business. Use the Association of Independent Information Professionals (aiip.org)to help you get started. I've built my research business at xooxleanswers.com, and it is a steadily growing source of income for me.

11. Write for Firehow.com, helium.com, Xomba.com (collect 50% of ad revenue from clicks on adsense ads on the page), Squidoo, and many others.

12. Create a blog with adsense, in-text ads (get them from infolinks.com, Kontera.com, and others), and make money when they are clicked.

13. Buy an abandoned blog at Orble.com and collect a portion of the ad revenues.

14. Sell photos or videos at Istockphoto or Shutterpoint.com. You get royalties when photo or vid is used.

15.Do online office work/book keeping. Teamdoubleclick.com

16. Be an online Juror. onlineverdict.com, and trialpractice.com

17. Get paid to play video games. They make lots of ad revenue and send some of it to the gameplayers to attract traffic.

18.Online teaching and tutoring. Tutor.com and ehomeworkhelp.com

19. Participate in various graphic design projects ("crowdsource design") and get paid. 99designs.com and threadless.com.

20. Flixya.com. Get 100% of ad revenue for all types of content - photos, blog posts, articles, video.

21. Creative Weblogging. site: http://creative-weblogging.com/50226711/get_paid_to_blog.php. You get paid to write blog posts. Ehow article says you can make 100 dollars a month there for a few articles a week.

22. Mylot.com says you can earn any time you use the site. You write content and they also pay for people you bring to the site.

23. If you type well try speak-write.com. It's a dictation service.

24. 2020research.com. Get paid between 50.00 and 150.00 to paricipate in focus groups. Ehow article says they only pick you for a group once or twice a year though.

25. Review music of upcoming artists. Slicethepie.com

26. Review websites. Usertesting.com. Ciao.com. If selected you earn 10.00 per review.

27. Apply for freelance writing, web design, etc. freelance type jobs at elance.com, guru.com, ifreelance.com, freelancer.com many others. A site called Textbroker.com is another good and easy to use site that pays directly by the article and is very easy to get signed up on

28. Apply for actual online, "telecommuting" jobs. http://www.genuinejobs.com/ and other sites.

29. Write a google knol. This is like an encyclopedia article. You put adsense articles on it to generate revenue.

30. ConsumerSearch.com, about.com - both are owned by the New York Times and pay hundreds of dollars for decent write ups. Hard to get but well paying.

31. Bing.com - offers cash back when you shop.

32. Set up an online store.

33. Ebay Arbitrage. Find things in newspaper or on craigslist that sell often. Get average selling price. Buy on ebay for cheaper and resell.

34. Get paid to post in forums. Posting Direct, Wired Flame, Forum Booster, Paid Posting Tools

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35. Translate documents if you speak a second language.