subject: IM Elite - Profile on Traffic Generation [print this page] IM Elite is a membership community specializing in Internet marketing training resources. Initially made available only a few months ago to a privileged few, George Brown and Alex Shelton have succeeded in delivering an exciting and interesting membership formula for internet training that will become available to the public on July 1st. Given the vast array of topics that are covered within IM Elite, this article will focus on only one, but look out for subsequent articles, each profiling a different area of training made available to IM Elite members.
As a membership website, IM Elite endeavors to supply a vast array of continuous training and coaching on numerous aspects of internet marketing. Topics covered would include CPA Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Product Creation, Information Marketing, "Sniper" style Site Creation, and Traffic Generation, among others. Additionally, there is a large emphasis placed on its social networking aspects made available through its forum. Their exclusive platform within the membership provides a social networking community comprised exclusively of Internet Marketers.
In this article of the series, we're going to focus on Traffic Generation. Traffic Generation is an area of expertise that at some point in time, all marketers must focus some (if not a lot) of their attention. After all, no matter what area of internet marketing you might choose to specialize in, without traffic coming to your website (or offers, as the case may be), it is not possible to earn any money. In fact, to a great extent one can argue that the opportunity to scale up your income, and the resulting profits you can earn, is directly proportional to the amount of targeted traffic that you are able to get to your offers. While it matters little the means you choose to use to drive targeted traffic to your sites, the bottom line is that you need to learn how to do it, and do it in a way that it is profitable if you are going to survive in this business.
There are many ways in which traffic can be generated. The typical categories are paid traffic, free traffic, and also very popular these days... joint ventures.
Within the category of paid traffic, there are numerous options available to you, provided you have the budget for the advertising campaigns. Examples of the most popular forms of paid traffic are: banner ads, contextual advertising, CPM (cost per thousand impressions), PPC (pay per click), CPV (cost per view, also known as PPV), among others. In order to be successful (as in profitable) in using paid traffic, one must learn how to do effective keyword research, target appropriate terms, learn how to use the desired advertising network interfaces to set up your campaigns, generate the appropriate affiliate and tracking codes, utilize specialized tracking software, gather and interpret the resulting data, and optimize your campaigns based upon those results. Well, that's if you really want to learn how to do it like a pro. Otherwise, you can just "wing it" and hope for the best, like most others who fail to get the necessary education to run campaigns the "right way."
The next category of traffic generation is free traffic. This is generally referred to as SEO, or "search engine optimization." With SEO, the objective is to optimize your website such that it can be readily found by the search engines, with the goal of arriving on the first page of results for your targeted search terms. This is typically accomplished by performing certain specific tasks and techniques within the coding of your website (this is known as "On page SEO"), as well as through external means involving link building campaigns (this is typically referred to as "Off Page SEO"). Most of the efforts people make with regard to SEO are focused at obtaining search engine rankings specifically by Google, as they currently drive the greatest amount of traffic online, and is most often highly targeted. Unfortunately, in addition to being a very time consuming, long and arduous process, Google does not "show you their play book," so much of this field of wisdom comes from trial and error. Additionally, they are constantly updating their algorithms, so success and proficiency in this area is really a moving target.
Another significant area of traffic generation comes from what are known as joint ventures, or "JV's." They are known as joint ventures because each party engages in a common effort - call it a project, whereby one party is typically contributing the offer, and the other party is contributing their efforts in driving the traffic to that offer. For JV's, the traffic is typically driven to a website or offer, through the means of emailing their "list." The lists are typically very targeted and specific to a niche, and the more relevant that niche is to the offer, the better that offer will perform, all other things being equal. In this area of traffic generation, you have either developed the ability to drive the traffic or you seek to make a deal with people who have the ability through mailing their lists. Accordingly, the necessary skills here are list building, or the effective solicitation and persuasion of those that have the lists of targeted people you see to reach.
To learn the actual strategies, tactics, and effective techniques to become a successful in the area of traffic generation, a resource such as IM Elite would be of immense value to you. As a member, you will learn the insider knowledge and secret techniques of people who are masters at driving traffic. In fact, George Brown's previous hit product was called Traffic Ultimatum, and you can be sure that many of those secrets will be imparted in the many training videos find available to you inside the training library. Another fantastic benefit of membership is that if you want to learn a particular aspect of internet marketing that is not already inside the library, you can request to have it made for you, creating what can almost be referred to as "education on demand." Furthermore, if you can't wait for that, you can always jump over to the forum and ask the vast community of like-minded internet marketers, most of which are happy to help each other out. And if that still doesn't do the trick, there are designated forum groups broken down by particular topic, monitored by a staff of marketing experts who "coach" the community, as needed. IM Elite is a vast educational and networking resource and considering the relatively small investment, you'll save a fortune versus the cost of investing in various individual courses or coaching that most marketers get caught up in! All in all, IM Elite gives you everything that you need to become a successful internet marketer "all under one roof."
On the next page you will take a sneak peak at the upcoming release of this crazy $4,000 day system for driving herds of targeted traffic to any site, affiliate or product and dump wads of cash into your bank account using free traffic from the dark corners of the internet
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So if you want to take a behind the curtain pre-release look at the free traffic secret that is about to shake the internet to its core then I strongly recommend you read everything on the next page before it's too late!
