How to Maximize Your Online Referral Link Marketing Efforts
Coming from an
information technology / web site development background
and having discovered the wealth that can be earned several
years ago from marketing incentive / reward / get paid to
/ paid survey (GPT) sites such as
GreedyClicks.
I have discovered several simple and little-known strategies,
tips, and tricks for maximizing online marketing efforts:
1.
Many
search engines and indices (plural for index) will allow
you to submit your whole referral or affiliate link (though
most wont.) Most notably
Google
and
MSN Live Search
( I knew someone that got his referral link for another
site posted on the FIRST PAGE of Google and made a killing
in referrals!) One quick way to test a search provider
if you have been promoting your referral links for some
time would be to do a
search
for your username (usually present at the end of
your referral link) and see what the results show.
Look for your own referral links listed in the search results.
If your referral link shows in its entirety then you know
to add that search provider to your list for periodically
submitting all of your raw referral or affiliate links directly.
2.
Buy
or earn yourself a snappy new domain name and have it redirect
(the whole domain) to your referral or affiliate link (you
don't even need hosting – just use domain forwarding.) Then
promote your new domain to the search engines, indices,
forums, and blogs. It helps not having the obvious referral
link look. Cheap domain names start at just $1.99
or can be
FREE if you
know where to look (below):
DomainLagoon
| HostingLagoon
| URLSavings
|
AnotherFree
| URLFreedom
3.
Choose
a referral banner that doesn't give up the whole site URL
(or edit/make your own.) Many people will (for some
reason) choose to type in the URL manually if they have
the benefit of knowing it rather that clicking upon an obvious
referral link. Leave them guessing a bit (make
it a bit of a mystery) as to what site the banner is speaking
of. When speaking of sites in text, refer to them
in a way that doesn't obviously or intuitively disclose
the URL (for example, if I was writing about www.GreedyClicks.com,
I would say "Greedy Clicks" rather than "GreedyClicks",
or "GreedyClicks.com".
4.
Start
blogging about your referral sites / links at
Blogger. Blogger
is Google based and I’ve found is your best chance at a
popular blog with a great Google rank. I’ve noticed
that Google regularly favors their own blogs based on their
own blog site interface (and it doesn't hurt to promote
this blog to other search engines and indices as well.)
Blogger will also host your blog for free seamlessly on
your own domain. Another good blog site with max exposure
is the
eBay based blog.
Make an eBay blog and promote it as well.
5.
Regularly
do a search, as if you knew nothing at all about the subject
of the type sites you are promoting. See what
pops up. Notice the first site on the list.
Notice what they are doing right? ...and what you may be
doing wrong? (meta
tags, keywords, description, etc.) Notice
keywords, etc. Improve the quality, quantity,
and newness of your textual content regularly. Be honest
and open, don't resort to superlatives and hype wording
like "Go to this site and make $500 in an hour" and "fire
your boss" (a big turn off and one of the reasons why people
may leave your site early.) Morph your site into a
closer rendition of the top site and re-submit (another
step up the ladder?) ...just common sense.
6.
If
you run your own referral sites... do your homework
on
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques
(freely available all over the web.) Learn
about the proper use of META TAGS, robots.txt, and sitemap
files. If you are going to do it, do it right!
Oh, and don't use "frames" when building your site (they
are not search engine/index friendly - don't shoot yourself
in the foot.)
7.
Purchase
professional web site promotional services and/or software
that will automate your site submission efforts. Don't
get fooled by software / services that say they will promote
your site(s) to 30,000 search engines, etc. Chances
are 95% of those sites will be
Free For All (FFA) sites
which likely no human ever looks at (at one time
FFA sites increased your "link
popularity" - which mattered then - but all respectable
search engines and indices have learned to ignore the FFA
sites now - seeing their obvious abuse and non-consequence.)
Anyways, what's the point? Most FFA sites want you
to manually confirm your entry nowadays (want 80 or 90 emails
to respond to personally - go ahead and submit to useless
FFA sites.)
8.
Be
persistent, but DON'T SPAM the search engines/indices. A
good interval for me (with good luck) has been to
submit
at least once a month (but NOT more.) A lot
of engines/indices will quickly add you to their trashcan
if you bug them more (not a good place to be.)
9.
Join
a
link exchange network
(thousands out there.) This may help significantly
depending upon the quality (interest generated - staying
power) of your own site (compared to others in the network.)
10.
Take
over an already popular web site domain that has
expired
(get them cheap if you know where to look) and post
your referral links / banners there. Enjoy instant
popularity with the twist of people not knowing what hit
them once they've arrived.
11.
Think
of a unique niche of people that might appreciate the product,
service, or site you are promoting and post to forums covering
that niche. ...for example, people with some sort
of social anxiety (such as agoraphobia, etc.) or other homebound
people might want to learn about online money making from
home sites , etc. Post to social forums covering that
niche topic.
12.
Double
or triple the impact of your message forum posts by promoting
your posts to the search engines and indices as well...
Yes, after writing posts to a particular forum I always
try to go back, gather the "permalink"s (or URLs) of the
specific posts I wrote in notepad and spend a bit of time
afterwards adding them to the search providers to crawl.
Below is a Partial List of Links
to Popular Search Engine and Index URL Free Submission
Pages
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Wesley Bibro
of
FreeCashPro.com
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