Traffic is key but you want to do it the right way and you want to work smart and not hard to get it.

Welcome tho the revamped version of my blog. The purpose of this blog is simple, to let you know of legitimate ways to promote your business and legitimate business to promote that you can become affiliates with and make money with if promoted properly.

I will also be sharing promotional techniques I use that has helped get the traffic I need to the sites I have been working on.

So let's get started shall we? OK first things first. If your just starting out in the online business world congrats! You have entered a world where you will learn something new every day. You will make mistakes on the way (trust me on this, i will be sharing mine with you ). If you don't get frustrated, learn what you did wrong and apply the proper techniques that come with running an online business you will become successful in time. I say in time because that is exactly what it's going to take.

T-I-M-E.

If your trying to do this for a quick fix and expect to live like a king within a weeks time then I'm sorry to tell you but you have the wrong blog page. Please, look elsewhere.

Oh yeah that's another thing I should mention. I have the tendency to be blunt at times. It's just my nature. Figured I'd let that out the bag now since transparency is the key to trust. If I'm going to be sharing information with you then we might as well trust each other.

With that said I'm going to let you in on the first mistake I made when I started out with my online business.

I set up a website through amazon selling video games called watchandplay.com. I paid 10 bucks a month to keep the sight up, registered the sight to the online engines as they instructed and waited for absolutely for NOTHING TO HAPPEN....FOR THREE MONTHS!!!! And you know what I said (say it with me now) "This thing doesn't work , I got ripped off!"

And I quit.

STUPID NEW GUY MISTAKE #1 : Set up website BEFORE researching ways to get traffic to it and expect it to run itself.

Yes that is exactly what I did. It was after that time when a co -worker had set up a similar site through amazon and showed me one of her commission checks...It doesn't matter how much it was for the point is she got paid. So of course I asked her what she was doing. She told me ten different ways she was getting the word out on the web. She showed me her traffic counter on her web page that averaged several hundred hits a day (again it doesn't matter how many hits she was getting ...she was getting more than me). Then I got mad! I wasted three months of my time doing nothing and expecting something to happen...and then had the nerve to blame the website for being a rip off. Then I did my home work. I looked into what she was doing and how she was doing it and told myself that if this stuff works I would give myself a try again.

Six weeks later I started up another venture known as cash gifting. You get a free site and a whole slew of info on how to get traffic to your site and you know what? Six out of the ten methods my friend was using were given on this site through video tutorials.

I have tried the methods through trial and error have found the best techniques that work for me.

I am going to share with you the very first technique that started to drive serious traffic to my sight right now.

Another thing about me you need to know is this...I WILL ONLY SHARE TECHNIQUES WITH YOU THAT I KNOW WORK BECAUSE I AM USING THEM AND THEY HAVE GIVEN ME RESULTS. ALSO THE TECHNIQUES I WILL SHARE WITH YOU WILL FOR THE MOST PART WILL BE FREE. IF THERE IS A COST INVOLVED WITH ANYTHING I TALK ABOUT ON THIS BLOG YOU WILL BE MADE AWARE OF IT.

Okay, the first and most effective way that started getting traffic to my site were safe lists.

A safe list is a mailing list where all members can mail to each other. These emails cannot be considered as spam because every member has opted (signed) in and confirmed their email address. A safe list can be used to advertise websites, business opportunities and so forth.

The people who opt in to safe lists are LOOKING for what you have to offer. It's like a classified ad but instead of you putting the ad out there and hoping people answer it, your sending your ad to the people who want to see it. Most sites that have safe list have two types of mailing strategies regular emailing and emailing for credits. The credit based emailing has given me the best results because the people who open your mail get credits for visiting your sight and they have to stay on your sight for at least 15 to 20 seconds giving them time to check your sight out.

NOW HERE'S THE THING...

The sights start you off with a certain amount of credits to start off with and the number of people you email your ad to depletes the number of credits you have (ex..you start off with 1500 credits...which is normal for most sites...you email off your add to 800 people and your left with

900 credits). To get more credits you can purchase more credits which are really cheap ( the sites that I use run about 5 bucks for around 2500 credits).

These sites also have memberships that you can sign up for if you choose ..but that's up to you...memberships run from anywhere between 7 to 20 bucks a month depending on the type of memberships you get.

SO HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED AFTER I TRIED THIS

I signed up for three of the safe lists that were suggested on the site that I run.

Each site had a membership of around 8500 members at the time. That's around 255,000 people I had the chance of getting my business in front of.

In total with all three sights I sent out a campaign to about 6500 people..(remember you only have a certain amount of credits to work with when you sign up for free and extra credits can be purchased.

These mailings went out on Sunday. The web page counter on my sights stat at that time read 60 hits. I finised my mailing campaign with the three safe list sights at around 11:15 pm. The whole process took about 45 minutes.

My wife was upset because I got to bed late. (Just keeping it real )

I checked my web page stats at around 12:15 pm the next day and found out that 167 people had visited my sight and 3 of them had signed in for more information about joining up.

That an increase of about 35% in traffic in one day. And about 2% of the people who visited took the time to sign up for more info.

In this business that isn't bad to start off with . When I had the chance to check my sight again it was about 5pm. The counter was up to 189. No one else had opted in for more info but I was pleased with the traffic I was getting.

When I checked my site on Tuesday morning I had a total of 229 hits and another opt in.

At the end of the night I had a total of 289 hits and 6 opt ins within two days time.

This technique has been the foundation of driving traffic to my site.

I am now member of 12 sites that I work with faithfully that have driven major traffic to me and has helped me to receive sign up to my sites as well.

This is just one of the methods that I am using to get the much needed traffic to my sites that I have up.

The second thing I've used is the video viral market.

You Tube, Meta cafe and others where you have the potential of exposing yourself and your market to literally millions of people......

( I will share that wealth of knowledge with you in my next blog...he he shameless plug)

I will be putting up my next post by April 2nd.

Please comment on the article you read..all constructive criticism is welcome..

See you on the April 2nd... trust me you don't want to miss out on this info.

Until then here are a couple of links to get you started on you getting the targeted traffic you need to get to your site.

Elite safelist

Global safelist

Newage Marketing

The mailbag safelist

Ad Tactics