Affiliate Program: Ways to Increase Your Traffic

Increase your sales by increasing traffic. To increase your traffic you will want to make sure you do the following:

1.	Submit your site to search engines and directories and re-submit on a monthly basis so that you retain your rankings.
2.	Promote your website and follow the search engine tips given to maintain a good ranking rate.
3.	Start a newsletter, join link exchange programs, newsgroups, webrings, email campaigns and otherwise spread the word!

We Have Gathered Resources to Help You Build and Promote Your Site

Search engine listings are important to drive traffic to your website. Each search engine or directory works in different ways. To get better results, we need to make sure that you have your title and Meta Tags placed correctly. You can sometimes submit more than one page from a website (see the tips in each search engine).

Major Search Engines and Directories

You may submit your URL to the following listed websites, in order for others to find it. Is recommend that you submit your website to each of these by hand:

Google
Yahoo
Alta Vista
MSN Search
AOL Netfind
Excite Infoseek
LookSmart
FreeFind
Dogpile
Overture
Hotbot
Webcrawler
Northern Light
About
Find What
Lycos

How to Submit Your Website

We are providing the following listing for you to search and revise in order to market and advertise your website all over the Internet. The websites listed bellow, will submit your URL to many search engines and directories.

Submit-it! - The most popular search engine-marketing service.
AddPro.com - Offers Free Website URL Registration in major search engines.
1-hit.com - Search engine optimization services and search engine submission services.
SubmitToday.com - Search engine submission and search engine ranking services.
SubmitExpress.com - Website submission to over 75000 search engines and directories.
SiteAdd.com - Banners, premium listings, search submission.
AddMe.com - A leading resource for webmasters and small-business owners specialized in website submission and promotion in the search engines.

How to Promote your Website

Following are listed up-to-date websites for you to visit and analyze the content, with numerous tips and instructions in how to promote, advertise, optimize and market your website.

SearchEngines.com - Search engine rankings and search engine optimization tips.
SearchEngineWatch.com - How search engines rank web pages
BruceClay.com - Search engine marketing: optimization, ranking, promotion services and SEO tools.
APromotionGuide.com - Free website promotion guide and tutorial.
Promotion101.com - Website marketing and promotion information center.
SubmitCorner.com - Meta Tag guide and optimization tips.
NorthernWebs.com - Search engine tutorial for web designers.
WebknowHow.net - This site provides over 1200 resources for webmasters.
FreeWebSubmission.com - Free search engine submission and site promotion.
Epage.com - You can announce your site for free.
MarketingTips.com - Marketing tips, softwares and newsletters.

Pay Per Click Search Engines

The Pay Per Click is a type of advertising which you can join and pay only when someone actually visits your website. Overture is the king of this type of service and it has a well-organized system, including features like how you can control and adjusts your bids at all times. There are many other options to choose form highly targeted traffic websites, offering the same type of services at a lower cost:

FindWhat.com - Distributes your keyword text ads throughout a distribution partner network of hundreds of high-traffic websites including large search engines.
GoClick.com - It is recommended pay per click search engine that is always growing in traffic and having new tools and utilities added. You can have bids automatically raise or lower based in a maximum set by you. Local targeting is available, select from US/Canadian or worldwide specific traffic.
EnhanceInteractive - On this website, you can participate in its LogoLink program by including a logo graphic next to your listing. Listing your site with them will make your site visible to about 50% of the top 10 pay per click search engines.
7Search.com - The results brought by this website, appear in over 35% of the top 150 search engines in English-speaking countries and Alexa shows it to have a significant amount of traffic compared to other pay per click search engines.
Kanoodle.com - Kanoodle has partnerships with sites such as, NetZero, DogPile, CNET, Metacrawler and Turbofind. Non-paid listings are supplied by Inktomi.
ePilot.com - The results provided by ePilot are displayed on partners' sites such as YellowPages.com, Fitness.com, Index.com, Pageseeker, and many more.. ePilot's suite of account management tools is designed for ease of use. Search123.com - Has great tools to help you control your pay per click advertising budget. You can set a spend limit by the hour, day, week or month.
SearchFeed.com - Provides specialized tools that allow advertisers to create campaigns from scratch or easily upload existing campaigns using the Bulk Keyword Uploader and there are easy to follow online forms available for adding smaller sets of keywords.
Espotting.com - is a UK based pay per click search engine. Your top 5 listings appear on Yahoo! UK, Lycos and Hotbot UK and will reach 72% of the UK Internet population. It also allows you to target a German, French and or Spanish audience with Espotting across Europe. Espotting has merged with FindWhat.
GoogleAdWords - Utililizing Google AdWords, you are able to create your own ad, choose keywords to match with your website's information and you pay only when someone clicks on it.

Newsletters

Starting an email newsletter about your website, keeps your visitors from coming back. Let those who signed up, know when you are making changes or having special features on your website. Send it out every frequently, every week or at your own criteria. You can get free email lists from the following:

MessageBot.com
Coollist.com
Bravenet.com
Zinester.com
Topica.com
Yahoo! Groups

Remember: NO SPAMMING (unsolicited email) or we will terminate your affiliate website immediately.

Banner and Link Exchanges

You can also generate traffic by putting links and banners on your website in exchange for links on other sites.

LinksManager.com - Editor-based link management application service.
Links4trade.com - Help you in managing link exchange and link trading to improve link popularity.
LinkMarket.net - Link exchange directory.
Click4click.com - Free Webmaster banner exchange to increase your website's traffic.
Bpath.com - Free banner exchange program - free advertising for your web site!
ShowYourSite.com - Free banner exchange with a 10:9 exchange ratio.

Newsgroup Discussions

Join discussions that are relevant to your site's topic and include your site name and URL to promote traffic. Make sure you do not send commercial messages when posting to the newsgroups. Commercial messages will be considered spam and will get you in trouble with the newsgroup and its members.

WebRings

These URLs will help you find a group of sites like yours. Those who are interested on the same topic as you, will be able to find your site through the ring.

WebRing.com - Join one of thousands of online communities or create your own.
WebRingWorld.org - This web site is the result of the collaborative effort of some experienced ringmasters engaged in the webring community.
CrickRock.com - You create or join webrings for free.

Start New Sites - Web Hosting Accounts

You may want to start new sites for different subjects you might want to cover. You can then submit your new sites and link the sites together to share the traffic. Here are some places where you can get free sites:

Get Your Own Domain Name

You may want to get your own domain name as this helps your website's credibility and will get you listed higher in search results. Ideally, you want to choose a name that is easy to remember and spell and that relates to the topic of your website. We'll give some suggestions of where to register your domain name:

GoDaddy.com
Register.com
Internic.net
NetworkSolutions.com

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