Google adsense
over a year ago, and it still has great value today. (How could it
not be at only $9?) He mentioned a couple of the free resources below and said
that we should strategically link them so one list builder feeds two others, and
they circle around and around until you’ve built up so many affiliates underneath
you that you’ll never have to pay for traffic again. It was quite a headfull to me at
the time.
He was right, of course. However, for me the overall process was much too slow.
Also, what goes unsaid is that you’ll have to find a lot of constant traffic to stick in
the front of this funnel to begin with, and you’ll be doing busy work throughout
having to send out emails weekly or even every other day to each of your lists.
Well, although there’s no way around having to find upfront traffic and emailing,
you can always use the ads given by the other builders to email to your lists to
save time.
The issue of finding tr affic is one that we can definitely improve on right now, as
is the overall amount of time it takes to finish the whole process. With the
instructions below you’ll be able to use some or all of your 100,983 visitors to
build your lists with, which when done correctly, will turn into a constant stream of
excellent traffic that will be there for the rest of your life.
Finishing the whole process is undoubtedly a long-term strategy; one where
momentum has to be built because of the way these program’s MLM-like
structures work. But they do work, given time, and they have an exponential
effect. I call this “Compounding traffic”, because it ultimately yields a huge list,
AND a steady, hands-free traffic flow that you could never fully use yourself.
*Luke’s FREE Recipe for Compounding Traffic*
(Freshly updated for June 2007!)
Step 1. Install
the best two “Adbars”
-
Instant Buzz
&
Free Traffic Bar
.
You may have seen the earlier versions of this process, whic h I’m sure have
been modified hundreds of times over the past couple of years. They usually
include some kind of surfing exchange wher e you earn hits to your website by
spending your time surfing other websites. I believe
TS25
,
Traffic G
, and
Traffic Pods
are the most famous of that group these days, and you may want to
investigate those to add them to your initial traffic generation strategy.
Any form of traffic at all is fine for this first step, as long as it’s free, because this
is strictly a BULK strategy… No paying for any of this, alright? The two Adbars
I’m suggesting to you here have been carefully chosen, and don’t require you to
spend any time on anything you’re not already doing. They look a lot like the
Google toolbar for Firefox or IE browsers, except for the fact that they display
small text advertisements directly on them.
Doing this is vital for your long term traffic growth plans, as it represents the TOP
of your traffic funnel… The SOURCE of your leads. (Of course we can
supplement them in the beginning with our 100,983 visitors….)
These two AdBars somehow manage to be the least intrusive, most effective,
and, oddly enough, the most entertaining Ad services that I’ve found.
(Sometimes the ads are simply hilarious… All during November 2006 there was
a guy seriously trying to sell immortality rings on Instant Buzz!)
The best thing is of course that you don’t have to do anything like go out of your
way to a website you don’t want to see… There are no timers, no pressure at all,
just some funny or interesting ads at the top of your browser window whenever &
wherever you surf.
Every page you visit after loading these two free services gives you an Ad credit
towards your ads being shown to others. Your ads are displayed more and more
when you refer others to sign up under you. If they upgrade to premium services,
you get huge commissions. Best of all, loading both of these Adbars at the same
time gives you twice the credits when you surf!
Step 2:
Sign-up for
Track That Ad
.
This great service by Craig Haywood is almost too good to be true. I first heard
about it because they promoted their system’s ability to send your website “500
extra unique targeted visitors each and every day” as a free member… This
could actually happen, but traffic generation is not even their main service!
They also offer a great, automated, multi-tiered list building service for free, but
that isn’t the main service either!
Track That Ad is primarily a free ad-tracking service, where they generate links
for you to track all of your different ad campaigns with. This can be used for any
purpose such as gathering demographics, split testing, URL shortening, and
even just knowing which of your ads are the most effective.
This kind of service costs hefty monthly fees elsewhere (or is a huge server-side
script you’ll have to buy & install) but it’s totally free here. I can’t recommend it
highly enough, for all three purposes. You can click below to start your free
membership, which is a fully functional version:
Track That Ad
– Free Membership
I’ve even made one last film for you showing you exactly how to use Ad Tracking
services, featuring TrackThatAd:
How to Track Your Links Effectively for Free
Once you’ve got Ad tracking down, allow me a word about your email account
before we continue:
You’ll definitely want to set aside a mailbox for your list building campaigns…
Not
a ‘throw-away’ account, because you’ll need to access it quite often. You
need an account set aside for this purpose and none other because you’ll
eventually be getting 50 or so emails per day and you won’t be able to find
anything else that goes in there.
(If you think that’s bad, you should try using a safelist program…)
I suggest opening a new, searchable mailbox like Gmail. Stay away from Yahoo
and Hotmail accounts as they are not accepted in some list building programs.
STEP 3.
Sign up for all 3 of the following free list-building services.
I highly recommend that you sign up for all three of the following services, which I
have tested well and are the best out of many to be proven performers.
Each of the following three services can help you generate many more email
subscribers than you could possibly reach on your own, each in its own, different
way. They have different program specifics, but all let you build a downline 10 or
20 levels deep, which can exponentially multiply the size and/or frequency of
your mail-out allowance with them.
Downlines are the key
… I hope I don’t sound like I’m these guys’ paid
campaign manager, but it is true. It’s just like how the real winners in Vegas are
the little old ladies who spend tons on the slot machine over years, despite
breaking even every time. They win by getting all those perks such as the room
upgrades, free food, and entertainment.
With these programs, it’s all about how you compound your list quickly, therefore
I always look out for the programs with the best downline benefits.
1.
Sign up for List Joe here
.
2.
Sign up for List dot com here
.
3.
Sign up for List lotto here
.
List Joe is the first here because it will help you build your ListDotCom downline
automatically by introducing those prospects from inside your List Joe account.
For that reason I like to make sure that I send
everyone
through LJ before they
get out of the traffic funnel. (Keeping all available traffic pointed at LJ until all four
downlines are full!)
I’ve charted the whole process, how it looks from a bird’s eye view for those of us
who are visually oriented…
Keep in mind that you’d never have all flows of traffic going at the same time; the
chart simply shows the direction of traffic when it does flow.
Step 4. Start putting it all together.
Now that you’ve signed up for everything, you
can
start out by using only traffic
from Instant Buzz & Free Traffic Bar alone, although it is much faster to point
your autosurfs to them too, and maybe even do some manual surfing to
supplement those two sources.
The smartest plan would be to use some other traffic you might have access to,
to build your IBuzz and FTBar downlines first, so they can be the source for most
of your traffic later.
It wouldn’t make too much sense to spread out your traffic to other sources
during step four, but if you’ve got to get traffic to your site, send some traffic that
way, splitting all of your traffic among the three, perhaps equally.
Step 5. Sending Traffic to Track That Ad (TTA).
Once you’ve got a decent-sized downline
producing surplus flow
from IBuzz and
FTBar, let your downline in those finish building themselves while you redirect all
free traffic to the next target, TrackThatAd.
TTA is a jack-of-all-trades site that will bring you money, build your list, and
output more traffic than you can put into it down the road! Be sure to use this to
its fullest before moving on. (Again, you can send traffic to your website at the
same time if necessary.)
It is hard to say at what point, exactly, you’ll no longer need to send any of your
traffic to a particular program. Some would instruct to cut it off when you see the
bottom level start to get filled, some say much later.
It really depends on the specific program and when you feel that additional traffic
doesn’t help as muc h as it used to…. That’s good enough, because your
downline will keep growing without your help at that advanced stage. At that
point, discontinue sending traffic there and divert your surfers to the next
program that needs it.
Step 6. Time to start writing Ads!
One of your heavyweight tools inside of TTA is a listbuilder, and from this point
forward your main services will all be listbuilding services of some kind. You’ll
need to get used to writing or using Solo ads to be sent to and for each.
This is the step that causes the most anxiety in people. Although it’s completely
free and easy to do, no one wants to write to large numbers of people. I guess
it’s like public speaking… Luckily you’ll find that most of these services have a
“Promotional” section of some kind on their website, where they actually write
their own Ad copy for you!
Simply go to the site that you are promoting, find the promotional section, copy
the Ad or Ads that feel best for your need, and paste it/them into a text editor like
Textpad
to get them into the right format.
Then all you have to do is tie them together, write a sentence or more of Intro,
and send the finished product out to your list! It really couldn’t be much easier,
you just have to start writing with what they give you and the rest will flow from
your keyboard easily.
Any time you have something to say on the topic of your niche, to make your
mailing more like useful content than sales pitch, that’s a major plus… But not
even necessary for this step.
And don’t forget to Personalize! It’s never too early to start building up your name
recognition. –I always sign the bottom of every email I send, and I don’t trust
emails without someone being responsible for them at all.
Step 7. Send Traffic to all the List builders in sequence.
Once Track That Ad’s downline is nearly filled, you’ll have a lot more traffic, and it
will be time to direct it toward all the list builders, starting with ListJoe.
Since the purpose of our traffic is now to create subscribers, there’s no longer a
reason to concentrate on fewer targets. I would say that you can have your traffic
as spread out as you’d like, if it weren’t for the unique properties of ListJoe
automatically signing up your downline into your other list builders. (They don’t
currently include List Lotto at this time, but of course you can always email your
LJ downline and tell them about it, as well as send out the LL promotional
material in your allotted list sending.)
With LJ getting the bulk of your traffic for now, it will fill up even faster than TTA
did. Meanwhile, the other listbuilder LJ points to will fill up at the same time,
WITHOUT SENDING TRAFFIC TO THEM!
This is a major bonus of the system that I wish all list builder programs would add
in. I guess some of them have competition issues that keep them from teaming
up like that, but it’s holding us back as long as they continue (in my humble
opinion.)
The ListDotCom does a better job of list building for me with less mailbox hassle,
so I’m sure that it’ll fill up your downline before ListLotto, unless, naturally, you hit
their “Jackpot.” List Lotto leaves a lot to chance by design.
Naturally, y ou’ll have to spend more time sending traffic to List Lotto at this point
because it wasn’t easily referenced by List Joe.
Step 8. Sending traffic to your own List.
With all of the downlines under each program completely built up to and including
List Lotto, your ability to send emails out to mailboxes around the planet will be a
legendary
thing. There’s just one problem, namely these lists you have access
to won’t be YOUR lists.
What if some of these companies go out of business? What if the email tax finally
arrives? What if you already have your own list? YOU NEED TO GET THESE
PEOPLE CONSOLIDATED!
The most obvious way to consolidate the lists onto yours is to simply pitch your
own list from those, and even offer a bribe to get them to sign up for your list if
you have to… Give them some reason to jump over… But not too much of a
reason or you’ll wind up with a list full of deadbeats who never buy anything.
A membership site works just as well as a subscriber list as well, especially if
they have to pay something to get inside. Members of a membership site don’t
unsubscribe without canceling their membership, so it’s technically a much better
way to own a list. (Although there is a steep tech learning curve.)
But by that point you’ll have traffic flowing out of your ears! You’ll officially be a
super-affiliate. Perhaps even a semi-Guru. And nothing will ever be able to take it
away from you.
A quick note about Premium Services. (Upgrades)
All of the six resources I’ve mentioned here were chosen because they are both
effective and free. However, the owners of them aren’t dumb, they still need to
eat, so they have premium upgrades that they offer to free members in order to
pay their bills, and some of them can be quite tempting.
I personally invested in the upgrades that I felt would help me achieve my goals
faster, which is not all of them. I really hate to pay for anything when I know so
much stuff on the net is free these days… Maybe that’s just me.
If you want to upgrade as many services as you can, while paying as little for it all
as possible, I suggest taking advantage of the offers that assist each other.
For instance,
Ewen Chia’s
Secret Affiliate Weapon
course
, for $9, includes a
lifetime “elite” upgrade to Instant Buzz. Meanwhile, if you purchase the premium
upgrade for TrackThatAd, it includes a generous 100,000 impressions in IB as
well! (this is probably the one upgrade I’d recommend to everyone, as TTA offers
something for everyone, and it’s just a very, very good value.
I’m sure other interlinked networks have formed like this too, so you’ve got to find
and grab them when you see them. If you c an spare the time, that is. It has been
a while since I’ve signed up for most of these services, so I’m not in a position to
say which offers which bonuses for which… Perhaps one of my readers will write
a big report on that subject.
In the final building stage of this traffic funnel process, With all downlines filled on
all list and traffic builders, the obvious conclusion is simply to point all of these
traffic sources at your home website, list, or product ever afterwards… Of course
we are easily talking about MILLIONS of visitors monthly at that point, so I hope
you plan on monetizing it well.
Google Inc. is still working on ways to monetize it well themselves.
So, which methods are best for me?
Choosing the right tactic for your current needs is always the most important
question to ask. First of all you have to ask yourself if you really should be using
free traffic at all, or would an inexpensive but paid (and measurable) type of
traffic, such as an AdWords campaign be better. That is, after all, what the
corporations use.
But if you’ve simply got no budget at all then it boils down to how targeted you
need your traffic to be (Quality) & how soon you need them to show up on your
site. (Time to delivery) That’s why I put the indicators on each review here.
Note:
The third indicator, “Quantity” of visitors, is to be thought of as a ‘power’
rating… It is assumed that everyone wants as many people as possible
.
So, simply set aside the quantity rating for a moment, and make a note of all the
listings in here that you can live with the Quality and Time to delivery on. A few,
like Directory submissions, should be done anyway, regardless of your other
campaigns… They act as a foundation for all future traffic with the search
engines. Other than those no-brainers, you should take that list that you’ve
weeded down to and then look at the quantity score… The one with the most
little guys there should be tried first!
If one doesn’t work for you, then simply move down the list until you find one that
fits your unique skills and abilities the best. That’s really what this whole game is
about, not just raising traffic, but YOU raising traffic, which means you’re limited
to your own set of skills and preferences. As are we all.
Personally I have no patience for traffic exchanges but I can write ads or articles
better than most. Many out there find writing a horrible experience, but can
generate traffic faster than I can with exchanges alone. So it’s all up to your
preferences, although I’ve done my best in this encyclopedia to measure all else
equally.
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