subject: Streaming Other People's Traffic [print this page] Building up a stream of traffic is quite laborious especially for the beginner. It can be very time consuming and expensive. Thankfully there are some methods that can cut out a lot of the time and best of all, they're free! These 10 strategies can get you a good flow of traffic by using other peoples traffic and resources as leverage.
Guest blogging is a good way to get know bloggers and get traffic at the same time. Offer the blogger something in return for them allowing you to post something on their blog. There's a couple ways you could do this including switching post, links, articles or using their links on your blog or vice versa.
Trading blog links can prove to be very valuable in the long run. These links are more likely to be useful for a longer time then merely switching content. Also by linking to a blog that has a high page rank you'll increase your SEO. Switching articles or posts in newsletters is another way to share information and if that blogger also posts their newsletters on their blog then it give you a good backlink to your site to work with.
Affiliate programs can help to bring in a lot of traffic without you having to do the work of finding the audience. Clickbank.com is an easy place to start creating an affiliate program, it's not as hard as many people think it is. Offer your affiliates commission for every product they sell. You can also offer discounts or special offers to any customers they get to buy your product. This can give them a bit more of an incentive to sign up with you.
Trading product links with marketers that offer something similar to your product can catch those people that are still in the "buying mood". When someones just made a purchase they're more likely to buy something. Offer to trade product links with someone and you may both be able to catch each others customers in the right mood to buy.
If you're planning on physically shipping products then find some companies that are doing the same. Create a flier you can send with those products and ask the company if they'd like to trade fliers.
Bigger marketing companies are usually less inclined to switch products or fliers with a company they know nothing about. If you haven't made a mark in the industry yet then this probably means you, but that doesn't mean you can't grab their attention. Request an interview and then post it on your site. You may be able to get some useful incite out of the big leagues as well as a little recognition. If they're in the interview then chances are they're also going to advertise that interview as well.
Writing an article with another marketer can help with promotion. By co-writing an article you can get twice the amount of readers for one article, or maybe even more, because both of you will be promoting it.
Reports can also be useful for getting the word out there. Rebrandable reports allows other marketers to change the links in a report to their own so that anyone who promotes it can make money off of it. The process of getting traffic doesn't have to be as hard as it's made out to be. By working in company with other marketers you both can benefit extremely from each others audiences. The people are already there, by using other people's resources you are reaching out to an already acquired audience and in return those affiliates get to use the audience you acquire as well.
