subject: Viral Gate Review: Can You Really Increase Website Traffic By Restricting Access? [print this page] Viral Gate Review: Can You Really Increase Website Traffic By Restricting Access?
Viral Gate is a unique marketing concept designed to increase website traffic by blocking access to that website. This concept has been used successfully on social media sites like Facebook to prevent visitors from viewing a popular website unless they bring other visitors back with them. The ticket to admission to the site is by bringing friends along with you.
I had never heard of the concept before and was really rather skeptical that it would be effective. Perhaps this content blocker idea will work on a very popular site, but I don't see how it will work on lower tier sites. None the less, the concept has been proven to work. So who am I to judge. So the neat thing is that you can build viral traffic to an established website by getting your site visitors to do all the work. This will virtually eliminate the need to backlink building and expensive ad campaigns. Just block access to increase traffic. It's that simple.
Viral Gate was developed by Nick Marks who has recently been named "internet marketer of the year." Mr. Marks is a well known author, speaker and internet marketing coach who has developed over two dozen products including: Forex Enterprise, Affiliate Hijack, Newbies Cash Vault and Treasure Hunt Marketing. His email list has over 400,000 subscribers, so I guess this guy knows what he's talking about. He knows how to build an online business, drive traffic and convert leads into sales.
The Viral Gate content blocker tool is only a part of the program however. The other part of this opportunity is an invitation to monthly webinars conducted by Nick Marks himself. The live webinars will include, in depth mentoring on how to make money online and build a solid internet business, which then opens up to a lively Q&A session. This session will allow participants the opportunity to pick the brains of Mr. Marks, his staff and any special guests he's invited.
Viral Gate launched in December of 2010 and has received some solid initial feedback, but the word on the street right now is its too soon to tell. The one thing thats certain is that Nick Marks has a rock solid reputation and so he probably isn't going to risk that reputation on some half baked concept at this point in his career. Viral Gate sells by either making a one-time purchase of $197 or by getting a 7 day trial for $1 and then paying $37.95 per month after that. The content blocker tool is probably for a webmaster with a red hot website that people will tell others about, but the coaching webinars are something that any aspiring internet marketer could appreciate.
