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Affiliates - Promotion(See also, books on self promotion, search engines and on building web traffic.) March 2003 UpdateEven though it was a short month, thanks to nice folks like you, there were over 16,000 visitors to JohnDilbeck.com in February, 2003. This is a 60% increase since the November Update, below, and it's still growing. In late February, I checked my Alexa ranking for JohnDilbeck.com and I'd risen over 50,000 in the rankings to my current ranking of 320,245. That puts me within sight of 300,000 which would be about the top 2% of all websites. (See Arts & Crafts Business, for more information about Alexa.) This just underscores my idea that if you follow a set of procedures and stick with it, you can build a website with lots of visitors without spending a lot of money. Persistence is the key. Once you learn how to build a website and make it attractive to the search engines, you just have to continue to work your plan and your site will grow. November 2002 UpdateIn November, 2002, JohnDilbeck.com had more than 10,000 visitors. That is more than a 500% increase over the same time last year. I credit the increase, and my stats back this up, to promoting my site more effectively to the search engines. I'm getting regular referrals from all of the top search engines now. This increase was due to buying, studying, and implementing what I read in Ken Evoy's Make Your Site Sell! ebook. It was there that I learned about WordTracker.com and I've used the site extensively to find what people are looking for on the Internet and then locating niches where I can attract visitors. Once I had my site running the way I wanted, which required an extensive overhaul earlier in the year, I submitted to all the major search engines using SelfPromotion.com. These three tools, which together cost under $100 so far, provided the knowledge and services that have quintupled my traffic in less than a year. I've made hundreds of dollars in return for this small investment in money and a much larger investment in time and effort. I feel this is a good investment, because it's all in place and my traffic is continuing to increase every month. I expect to earn thousands of dollars next year as a result of investing time and effort in my website this year. It's working for me 24 hours per day, and I haven't had to resort to those annoying pop-up ads or bothering people with e-mail. I recommend these three companies and their products to you. If you learn to use the tools and put them to work, they'll make your website produce better for you. I also recommend joining their affiliate programs and recommending them to your visitors, customers, and friends. Ken Evoy's 5-Pillar ClubSee Affiliates - Top Sites for more information on their products and how you can join their affiliate program and put it to work for you. SelfPromotion.comSelfPromotion.com - I used this site to do the original promotion for JohnDilbeck.com and I'm very happy with the results. He bills his affiliate program as 'get rich slowly' and that's about the size of it. I mention it here because that site has been the single best way I've found to attract visitors to my site and the other sites I manage. A web site without traffic is worthless. It used to be easy to get visitors to your site, but now there are millions of websites. How are you going to let the world know that you exist? How are you going to invite them to visit your site. I've found that the most cost-effective way is to build your sites so the search engines -- especiall Google.com -- like them and then promote them regularly. The best way I've found to promote my sites is through SelfPromotion.com. Try it for free and see how it works for you. Then, when you know for sure -- and only after getting results -- go back to his site and give him a few dollars for all his hard work building a system that promotes you. He's earned it. If you have a website you want to promote, you should check out SelfPromotion.com. It's a resource for do-it-yourselfers where you can learn to prepare your pages for the search engines, then use a sophisticated robot to submit your webpages to all the important search engines and directories. You'll also find tutorials about website promotion, and much more. Best of all, you can use the site for free -- if you like it, pay what YOU think it's worth! Check out the SelfPromotion.com partner program. If you join, and work it, you'll get additional income based on the contributions they generate - and this goes 4 levels deep! For example, if Fred joins the partner program, he gets 10% of whatever his referrals generate. And if Fred gets Barney to join the partner program, he also gets 2.5% of whatever Barney's referrals generate. Then if Barney recruits Betty, Fred gets 1.5% of whatever Betty generates. And finally, if Betty recruits Wilma, Fred gets 1.0% of anything Wilma generates. This site is definitely an Editor's Pick!. WordTracker.comDiscover the keywords that will skyrocket your website traffic! The top searched for words on the net. Click here for your FREE report. Take the free trial for a spin and discover the niche keywords that will bring traffic to your site as it has to mine. Don't just take my word for it, visit their testimonials page and see what others are saying about their service. They have a two-tier affiliate program. Every order placed through your sponsoring website with the Wordtracker online order system will be eligible for 15% of any sale made. Anyone that joins our affiliate program from your link automatically becomes your subaffliate. This means you earn a 5% commission from all their sales.
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