Buzz Gnosis

My poor friend Earl has been out of a job more times then he has had a job. It is not that he is a bad worker, it is that he is just in a position that changes with the economy and lately it has not looked good for him again. In his latest venture though he has decided to try to work for himself and he created a wonderful website advertising his services. My piece of advice to him was to contact an adwords expert along with trying to work on his own business. The more traffic he can have visit his site the better it will be for business.

I am baffled with how easy it is to register your websites with an adwords expert. I am constantly working on my websites and making sure that they have the most current information for my customers. I love writing my blogs or my articles and I hope that people are truly interested. Not just that I hope they are interested but I hope that I am able to catch the right amount of traffic to get paid for all of my hard work. I have a few different sites now working and making some nice revenue and it is so easy to register with the experts.

I see many new webmasters throw up websites with a few words about what they are offering and call it a day. Months later, these new webmasters find that they haven’t seen more than a few visitors and they are wondering what went wrong. The fact is, they could have helped themselves a lot more had they been using dynamic content on their websites.

You Are Competing For Eyeballs

The sorry state of the matter is that nowadays, you’ve got billions of other websites competing for a limited number of eyeballs. You’ve not only got to stand out from all of those static webpages, but you’ve got to find a way to get your visitors to return again and again.

It’s Not 1996 Anymore

Many new webmasters think that if they build it, the traffic will come. But, although it may have been that way in 1996, it’s not anymore. (1996 was the year I put up my first niche website, way before they were called niche websites. I went out one evening after posting it, and three hours later I came home to find it had been visited more than 101,000 times.) Those were the days!

Perl CGI Scripts To Your Rescue

If you want to make your site really pull massive amounts of visitors and have them return again and again, you need to make your website “sticky”. What this means is that you’ve got to make a website that your visitors will want to return to again and again-like flies to a streetlight. (Just don’t zap your visitors because you want them to return!) To do this, you need to stand out from the rest of the pack. There are several steps you are going to want to take. I’ll explain each one and how static pages compare to dynamic pages in each area.

Get your traffic by getting listed in search engines based on good content.
Perl CGI scripts can help you do this.
Static pages can do this well.

This is an area where static content actually performs well. Search engines love wordy websites that make sense. If you’ve got access to a lot of original information on a particular topic, you’ve got the beginnings of a good static content site. A good dynamic method of getting free content on your website is to allow your visitors to leave a message on a guestbook. Even if they are simply advertising their own sites, they are still adding content to your website that the search engines will love. There are many perl guestbooks available.

Keep your traffic by making a part of your website something that is so useful that it is addictive or “sticky”.
Perl CGI Scripts can help you do this.
This would be difficult to do with a static website.

The ultimate sticky website is the search engine. To deny this is to lie about the fact that you use one just about every time you are online. Most people think that it’s impossible to get started in this area now that Google seems to have firmly implanted itself as number one. This is simple not true since there are many niche areas that could still be dominated. There are many perl search engine scripts available.

Multiply your traffic by encouraging word of mouth advertising.
Perl CGI scripts can help you do this.
This would be difficult to do with a static website.

Another good method of promotion is to have your visitors (who keep coming back because of your search engine or other dynamic content) refer their friends so that they can visit your site over and over. It is said that birds of a feather flock together so if your visitor liked your website, it’s a good bet they know other people who would like it too. There are many perl refer-a-friend scripts available.

Pull your traffic back again by reminding your visitors (and their friends) about your website, and subsequently any products that you are selling.
Perl CGI scripts can help you do this.
Static pages can’t do this at all.

Once you’ve got your content, visitors, and their friends, it’s time to get them to subscribe to your mailing list. Once they are reading your mailing list (make it something they’ll be interested in or they’ll unsubscribe just as fast) you can squeeze in an ad or two for products that you are either selling or are an affiliate for. This is where the traffic can really start to snowball! There are many perl mailing list scripts available.

Protect your e-mail address from spam robots.
Perl CGI scripts can help you do this.
Static pages can’t do this at all.

Make sure that you are not leaving bait for spam robots. If you’ve got your e-mail address displayed on your website in plain view, you’re probably getting a great deal of spam from sites you’ve never even visited. Don’t think that putting the word ‘at’ instead of an ‘@’ symbol is going to stop them…any programmer worth their salt could write a robot that could beat that “security”. The only secure way to allow your visitors to e-mail you without making it easy for spammers to harvest your e-mail address is to use a website contact form. There are many perl contact form scripts available.

Static Pages Will Be Outperformed By Your Dynamic Website

Out of our five methods for driving massive traffic to your website, we’ve just seen that only one of them is easily achievable with static webpages. Which brings us back to our original topic. Why are so many new webmasters still putting together static webpages and wondering why they aren’t getting any visitors? Dynamic content is definitely the way to get lots of traffic to your website.

Yes, every website needs it’s fair share of static content because as we’ve seen, this is how the search engines find and list your website. But that’s only effective for attracting and keeping the search engines’ attention. To attract and keep your visitors’ attention, and to truly drive massive traffic to your website over and over again, you’re going to need some dynamic content to keep them coming back. And that’s exactly the type of work that perl cgi scripts are really good at.

Thomas J. Delorme has been designing websites and perl cgi scripts since 1996.

He runs many successful websites, including his custom website design site, and his affiliate link protection service.

Trying to get traffic to your new website or to your gateway pages for an affiliate program can be difficult if you are just starting out and have little or no advertising budget.

This article will explain how you can use traffic exchanges to get a steady stream of visitors to your website, without having break your budget or spend hours on end clicking away to get credits.

In simple terms, a traffic exchange is a place that you can join and view other members web pages in exchange for having your own web page viewed. Every time you view another member’s web page for a period of time (e.g. 20 seconds) your balance of credits increases. Every time a member views your web page for the same period of time your credit balance decreases.

There are two main types of traffic exchanges - manual exchanges and auto exchanges. A manual exchange requires a real human being to view the web page and click on a link to proceed to the next web page, whereas an auto exchange can be left running in your web browser and will automatically refresh to a new web page.

Although both of these methods will bring hits to your website, the use of a manual exchange is far more likely to bring a visitor who will actually read what is on your web page. The auto exchange user who leaves their computer on all night, surfing web pages while they sleep is unlikely to buy your product! It is for this reason that I have not ventured down the path of using auto exchanges.

So how do you go about choosing which traffic exchange(s) to use? First let’s take a look at the most common features of a traffic exchange, so you can differentiate between the competition.

* Credit Surfing - all traffic exchanges allow you to earn credit in return for viewing other member’s web pages. Also look out for bonus credits. Many exchanges will give you bonus credits for signing up, for surfing a certain number of pages, or for winning competitions or sweepstakes.

* Minimum Time Limit - when surfing for credits, most traffic exchanges require you to view a site for a minimum amount of time before you earn a credit. This is normally somewhere between 10 and 30 seconds.

* Anti Cheat Mechanisms - to ensure that a real person is viewing your web site most traffic exchanges employ anti cheating mechanisms. This usually means that instead of clicking a “Next Site” button you have to click on a specific graphic such as a number, letter, picture or coloured icon from a selection of a few, to proceed to the next site. Repeated failure to do this correctly means suspension or termination of your account.

* Referring Others - this is the fastest way to build up your credits. Most traffic exchanges provide you with referral pages and banners. You can use these to recruit yourself a downline. When someone signs up from your promotional web page or banner they are placed in your downline. This can earn you an immediate bonus plus a percentage of your downline’s credits e.g. 1 credit for every 10 sites surfed.

* Paid/Pro Memberships - most traffic exchanges offer paid memberships as well as free memberships. Normally a paid membership earns you privileges such as an allocation of credits per month plus an increased number of credits for your own surfing and the surfing of your downline. Most exchanges also allow you to purchase extra credits. I don’t recommend going for a paid membership or buying credits until you have tried out the traffic exchange for free first.

A quick search on Google, using the keywords “traffic exchange” will reveal almost 200,000 results, including hundreds of differently themed traffic exchange websites. Within minutes you can sign up for an account, submit your URL and start surfing for credits. Easy? Yes, but how do you know if this traffic exchange will give you results? How do you choose between the hundreds of different traffic exchanges?

I use a report from a company called Traffic Hoopla to decide which traffic exchanges to sign up with. This report is updated weekly with the top 50 traffic exchanges and the top 10 new traffic exchanges. You can find out from this report who delivers the highest unique percentage of visitors and who will deliver traffic to your website in a timely manner. Armed with this information you can sign up for only the best traffic exchanges and get the biggest reward for your efforts.

Once you have signed up for some of the top traffic exchanges, you now need to earn some credits. There are three ways to do this:

(1)Personally surf for credits

(2)Purchase Credits

(3)Build a downline

In the beginning you may want to set aside a few hours each week to personally surf for some credits - in fact some traffic exchanges require you to surf a certain number of sites to activate your account.

However, the best way to be successful with traffic exchanges is to build your own downline. This way you can keep the credits flowing in by letting your downline do all the clicking for you.

You can do this by using the referral web pages of each of the traffic exchanges that you have signed up with or you can sign up with a downline builder such as Traffic Hoopla or Profit Rally and build downlines for all the best traffic exchanges by advertising a single link.

I chose the latter method and after signing up for the top 10 traffic exchanges I had over 60 people signed up under me in the various programs after the first week. I can’t quite put my feet up and stop surfing yet, but every week I can spend less time clicking on traffic exchanges and more time deciding how to use all my credits.

Suzanne Morrison is the webmaster and owner of http://www.homebiz-direct.com Visit her website to learn more about Building your Downlines