5 Effective And Better Ways To Get Traffic And Build A List

1. Add a simple pop-up script like Add this to your website
If you're not using a squeeze page, then a pop -up ad with your opt-in form in it is the next best thing.
Some people believe that pop-up ads have fallen out of fashion. 

 

In fact, many browsers come pre-loaded to block certain categories of pop-ups, so many believe that pop-up ads can no longer be effective.

However, this belief couldn’t be less true. Many sites are using variations on popup ads (hover-over or fly-ins) that aren’t typically blocked and can do an excellent job of generating subscriptions. 

 

There are several free pop-up scripts that you can use with any type of website (static HTML, Blogger, PHP, Wordpress etc). Just Google "free pop-up script" or "unblockable popups" and see the results. On a slightly different tangent, there is the "exit pop up". 

 

This is good to use on any type of website including squeeze pages and especially sales pages. It will show a pop-up ad to your visitors when they try to leave your site. The best way to use this is to direct them to a squeeze page before they leave your site forever. 

 

There are many on the market, but by far the best one I have seen is the Exit Splash script. It is used by hundreds of internet marketers because it is unblockable, it's easy to use and it works like magic to save the traffic and turn them into subscribers.

2. Improve your email subject lines
It is easy to spend all your time searching out more subscribers and paying more for new traffic, rather than focusing on existing subscribers. 

 

Writing better email subject lines will draw more views, re-energize existing list members, and generate more clicks on links to offers and other pages you want to share. I suggest using one or more of the following tricks to improve your email headers:
 

i. Personalize the subject line. Use special tags that your autoresponder gives you to automatically insert your readers' names into the email header.

Some autoresponder systems have a handful of these special tags that you can use for personalization. Tests have shown that personalized subject lines with the reader's name gets 3 times more opens than without the name.

ii. Avoid spam filter trigger words. Email's worst enemy is the spam filter and using some words can trigger the filter and trap your emails. Avoid using words like “free” and “$$$” and “guarantee”.
These may work well as psychological triggers in sales letters, but when it comes to email headers, you should use them more carefully. Here is a big list of words that you should avoid to stay out of the spam box.

iii. Split test different subject lines. If you are running a new campaign or setting up a follow-up sequence, you should test subject lines to see which one gets the better response. The body of the email can stay the same or not, it's up to you. Again, there are services that allows you to set up split testing with your email marketing.

In general, finding ways to boost your email opening rate will tend to help you retain and re-activate subscribers and turn them into customers. This will mean that you can generate more profits with the subscribers you already have, rather than aggressively promoting your website, only to ultimately lose those subscribers to an ineffective system for subscriber retention.

3. Retain your subscribers
As mentioned previously, subscriber retention is a critical component of generating and maintaining a strong list. When thinking about your list, remember it's easier to keep subscribers than to generate new ones. That is, think about the difference between your losses and gains. 

 

If you can simply retain an additional 20 subscribers per week, that is no different than gaining at least 20 subscribers a week.

So, when designing your follow-up series and promotions, keep this in mind. Think not only about generating more traffic, but about retaining your existing subscribers. 

 

Give them incentives to stick with you, be engaged, and to promote your list to others when given the chance. In short, concentrate just as much effort on retaining and energizing subscribers as you do finding new ones.

4. Use viral ebooks
Viral ebooks is one of my favorite methods of generating free subscribers. You can turn any ebook or report you have already or are planning to write into a viral traffic and list building machine easily. There are several ways in which you can do this, but I personally suggest the following approach:

i. You'll need an ebook or report on a popular subject in your niche. 

 It needs to be good enough that people will want to read all the way through it. You can write it yourself or hire a ghostwriter to do it for you. You may also want to design an e-cover for it.
 

ii. You can find a writer and a graphic designer on http://www.elance.com or on http://fiverr.com.
Contract them to complete the book for you, according to the outline you’ve designed. Work with both the writer and graphic designer to ensure that the project turns out according to plan.

iii. Insert links throughout the ebook that go to recommended resources (affiliate links) and related web pages, but most importantly, point to your sign up page.

Don’t add so many links to the book, but instead enhances it. Additionally, include links to free products on your site that are related to the material, so that you can send people to more locations where they are likely to subscribe to your list.

iv. State in the early stages of the book that the reader has "free giveaway rights" to your ebook.
This will ensure that it can potentially circulate all over the web. You can also consider giving people the right to resell it, which will give him or her an even stronger incentive to circulate the book but f or a bigger spread, free giveaway rights will work better .

v. Contact other list owners and offer them to share your viral ebook. Allow them to give it away to their respective lists for free. In many cases, these list owners will be hungry for free content. 

 

And, if it is good, they will snap it up and give it to their subscribers. That is the basis of creating viral ebooks. However, to make a viral ebook really take off, you should make it rebrandable also! This will let your readers rebrand the links inside the ebook with their own affiliate links and links to their website. 

 

This will give them more incentive to share the ebook because they have the chance of building their list too and making money through the recommendations throughout the ebook. use the Easy Viral PDF Brander script and experience some amazing success. 

 

It's one of the easiest scripts to use and it's dead-easy f or your readers to use it. No complex or annoying software for them to install. They can do all the rebranding online. 

 

If you're going to use rebrandable ebooks, then Easy Viral PDF Brander is the one to use. In short, your goal should be to create a high quality ebook, to incorporate links to your squeeze pages and other recommendations throughout the ebook, and to let people rebrand it (but leave links to your squeeze page in there) then let them circulate that ebook to the widest audience possible.

The more people see and pass on the ebook, the better f or all involved. If your venture is successful, it will pay off for years to come in terms of new subscribers and sales.

5. Podcasting
Podcasting is a great way to reach a different area of your niche on the web and share your knowledge and tips with them at the same time. You don't always have to stick with writing reports and ebooks to build your list. Many list owners have found success in integrating their newsletter into their website. 

 

That is they simply use the newsletter to update their blog or website or notify subscribers that they have added a new issue to the website.
 

But using don’t have to stick to text all the time. Instead, you can record an audio(podcast) and share it on your blog or website to draw traffic and get people to subscribe to your list. For one, audio recordings have a higher perceived value over written ebooks. 

 

It takes a while to get comfortable talking to an audience but once you do, you can start interviewing important people in the industry; and you can then incorporate them into your newsletter and vice versa (make some JV deals).
 

To get a really wide scope on your audience, you can upload your podcast to several podcast directories such as http://www.podomatic.com/login or submitting to Apple itunes podcast section.
 

Not only will this generate traffic directly to your site, it can also work as a viral tool if you provide good and interesting content and encouraging word of mouth advertising. You can use archived audio interviews as content to convert visitors into subscribers. Have a wonderful day.