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Znews.com --
There are many ways to build traffic to your website, and you should put some effort into a variety of promotional programs. In this article, we'll cover three of the most effective methods for building website traffic.
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Below you'll find direct links to all the free "Submit URL" pages on the major search engines (including Google, MSN, Lycos, Alta Vista and Yahoo), tips for getting top listings on the major search engines, and a discussion of the most effective pay-per-click search engines that can deliver targeted traffic to your website for pennies:
- Pay-per-click (PPC) Search Engines
The best and fastest way to get traffic to your site (you probably found this site through a PPC search engine), keyword bids on the top pay-per-click search engines can easily get your website listed in the top 5 search engine results and get you thousands of qualified leads for as low as $0.01 per visitor.
- Website Search Engine Optimization
Though this takes quite a bit of time and maintenance, we'll cover the steps you should take to optimize your website to improve your site's chances of appearing in the top results of the major web crawlers and search engines, such as Yahoo!, Google, AOLSearch and more. We've also included links to free "Submit URL" pages on these major search engines.
- Merchant Affiliate Programs
If you sell a product or service on your website, joining an affiliate program as a merchant can help you build a virtual Internet sales force to sell your products for you world-wide.
Pay-per-click (PPC) Search Engines
In general, a PPC search engine allows you to bid on a certain keyword (such as "Credit Card") or set of keywords relevant to your website. When someone types in that word on a search engine, your listing shows up as a top search result. The exact rank depends on your bid.
Overture, for example, provides the PPC results, or sponsor matches, for Yahoo, AOL Search, MSN, CNET and other high-traffic search engines, and you can gain top placement using Overture for as little as $0.05 per click. Other PPC search engines will give you top listings for $0.01 per click.
The fastest way to get traffic to your website, Pay-per-click (PPC) search engines will get keyword-targeted customers to your site instantly. For example, our Credit-Review.com website went from 200 visitors per week to over 3,000 per week in a matter of days when we bid for select keywords on the PPC search engines listed below.
Our succesful strategy has been to use PPC search engines when we launch a site, and to submit keyword-optimized URLs to the major free search engines. The PPC advertising helps improve your free search engine ranking by putting links to your website all over the Internet right away -- Google and other major search engines, for example, boost your search results rank based on how many other sites link to yours.
Since Pay-per-click search engines license their technology to many websites, links to your website can show up on hundreds of other websites, as Google picks up many of the search results from Kanoodle PPC and Findwhat PPC affiliate website search results.
There are thousands of PPC engines, and the quality and volume of traffic varies. While some will work better than others depending on what you're selling on your site, we've only listed the Top 5 below.
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PPC Company
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Minimum Bid
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Minimum Deposit
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Minimum Monthly
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Partners
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Overture
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$0.05
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$50.00
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$20.00
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Major Partners
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Review: Overture has by far the most coverage, having signed deals with the highest traffic search engines on the Internet. Overture's paid search results appear as top results on most of the major portals and search engines, including Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, AOL Search, Lycos, Netscape, CNET, NetZero, and InfoSpace, and more. While you could pay less per click at some of the other PPC search engines, Overture is more likely to give you a high volume of qualified traffic. Overture is also currently running an offer that will give you a $10 credit when you sign up. Overture is a bit more strict about websites it will accept -- for example, if you site is a page with very little content and only contains links to affiliate merchants, they may not accept it. If, however, you have a good deal of content with integrated banners or text links, you'll have a better chance. If you can get into the Overture search results, do it. Highly recommended.
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PPC Company
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Minimum Bid
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Minimum Deposit
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Minimum Monthly
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Partners
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Ah-Ha
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$0.01
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$50.00
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No minimum
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Earthlink, AltaVista, LookSmart
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Review: Ah-Ha search results appear on Earthlink, Altavista, Looksmart, and many other large sites. It's $0.01 minimum bid makes Ah-Ha a great place to get good traffic and to test your ads and keywords. There are currently about 450 million Ah-Ha searches every month. Somewhat lower traffic than some of the other PPC search engines, but with less competition from other advertisers, the keyword bid amounts are nice and cheap.
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Minimum Deposit
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Minimum Monthly
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Kanoodle
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$0.01
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$50.00
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No minimum
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10,000+ Affiliates
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Review: Kanoodle provides good solid sales leads and traffic. Kanoodle search results appear on Kanoodle's own search site, CNET.com, AskJeeves.com, MetaCrawler.com, Galaxy.com and Hotbar.com, as well as on over 10,000 smaller affiliate websites. Kanoodle currently gets over 400 million searches every month. The Kanoodle advertisers site allows you to upload multiple keywords, track your click-throughs, and proxy bid for top positions. You'll also see your ranking when you place your bid.
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LookSmart
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$0.15
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$49 fee
+$45.00 refundable deposit
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No minimum
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Major Partners
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Review: LookSmart works a bit differently from other PPC search engines. You pay a $49 listing fee, pick up to 10 keywords for your website, and select a category where you'd like your site to appear. You then select a monthly budget, and you pay $0.15 per click until you reach your budgeted amount. LookSmart is a premier search engine and should give you excellent quality traffic. With LookListings, links to your website will be in the lucrative core layer of search results on MSN, About.com, Netscape, AltaVista and CNN.com, and reach 77%, or nearly 4 out of 5 Internet users. Highly recommended.
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7Search
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$0.01
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$25.00
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no minimum
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20,000+ affiliates
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Review: 7Search is ranked by Alexa as the second most visited PPC search engine in the world, and your listing will appear in 35% of the top 150 search engines in English-speaking countries. Though the 7Search website is somewhat clunky in its design with roundabout explanations and hard-to-find links to relevant information, once you get used to it you'll find that 7Search can deliver traffic.
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Get Top Search Engine Ranking
Getting your website listed at the top of the search engine results is no easy task, but it can be done -- especially if you target your webpages to specific keyword searches. For most major Free Submit programs, expect to see some results show up in the search engines in 6-8 weeks. You can't guarantee top results like you can with the PPC Search Engines, but if you build your site well, you may see some of your pages in the top 50 results for specific keywords.
If you haven't built your website yet you should definitely incorporate your keyword website promotion plan into building your site before you submit to search engines. If you have an existing site, you can improve your chances of appearing at the top of search engines with some simple changes to certain HTML tags on your webpages.
One of the most useful tools in website promotion -- both for Pay-per-click keyword advertising and search engine optimization, is WordTracker, which helps you determine the keywords in your industry that are searched for the most. You'll be a lot better of at the top of the search engine rankings for keywords that get a lot of querries than for those that don't.
Our free Search Engine Optimization Report will give you step-by-step instructions on how to get your website to the top of the major search engines, including Google. To get the report by email, please fill out the form below. You will receive an email that you must confirm, before receiving your report. This confirmation is to prevent spam abuse.
It's best to optimize the HTML of your webpages before submitting the URLs to the major search engines. This is not necessary when using a Pay-per-click (PPC) search engine because with the PPC service, you pay for placement of your specific keywords in the search results. If you do not plant to optimize your HTML webpages, you can still submit your URLs to the major search engines, but you should also use a PPC service for maximum qualified traffic to your website.
Submit Your Website URLs
Here are the links to the free "Submit URL" pages of the major search engines. Most of the search engines below are free, while some now offer a guaranteed listing option for a small fee:
- DMOZ (Helps improve your Google listing. Submit here first)
- Google
- MSN
- Alta Vista
- Lycos (Create free account, then scroll down to bottom of page for free Submit URL section)
- Yahoo (Free for non-commercial Submit URL; paid Business Listings)
- Alltheweb
- Add-Me (submits to multiple search engines)
- Excite (Update: Has recently switched to paid listing)
For a faster and more sure stream of immediate qualified traffic to your website, try one of the Pay-per-click (PPC) search engines, which can send you targetted customers for as low as $0.01 per lead.
Merchant Affiliate Programs to Increase Your Sales
You can join an Affiliate Program as a merchant if you sell merchandise through your website. In effect, you will be signing up a number of Affiliates who will refer customers to you in exchange for a commission on sales. This is a great way to broaden the reach of your website by allowing other website owners to promote your products and services for you.
See Best Affiliate Network Programs for a list of the top Affiliate Networks with Merchant Programs.
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