Viral Marketing Tips to Sky-Rocket Your Traffic and Profits - Marketing

Viral marketing strategies are marketing techniques which onceimplemented take on a life of their own; they continually expand theirreach across cyberspace drawing more customers and their cash intoyour net. They can spread like wildfire from place to place, luring,enticing and pre-selling prospective customers before they even reachyour site.

Viral marketing strategies are so powerful that whole ebooks andcourses have been written on how to implement and use such techniquesto squeeze the most out of them. As once set up correctly you maynever need to pay for advertising again...

So what types of techniques work?

Well as I said there have been book written on the subject, so here'sa quick run down of a few techniques which I've used to help createsteady streams of traffic to my websites.

Writing and submitting articles such as this is a great technique forgetting more links back to your site and for drawing in more visitors,as people publish them in ezines, on their blogs and websites andyou'll find them popping up all over the place. If you go to Googleand type in "How to profit from your home business blog" you'll findabout 9,290 listings of that article which I wrote a while back...it'salso the most popular download at contentdesk.com with over 4200downloads last time I checked. So if you're not regularly writing andsubmitting articles, why not?

Power tip: Make your article viral, by adding at the end somethinglike this to encourage distribution:

"(Feel free to use this article online and in your email newslettersas long as you leave it intact and do not alter it in anyway. Theby-line and biography must remain in the article.)"

Putting together and distributing viral ebooks is another strategyI've used with good results. The key is to make them 'brandible' sothat consumers can brand the ebook with their own affiliate links,this gives them an incentive to pass them on and on.A few places you can give these away are, to your customers, websitevisitors or in article/forum signatures. This is an excellent exampleof a free viral ebook which is like nothing you'll have ever seen:

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These are two strategies you can implement straight away. Other viralmarketing techniques you could use are:

-Creating and distribution podcasts on your niche; turn your articlesin to podcasts and you'll add a new stream of visitors to your site,don't forget to submit them to podcast directories.

-Create viral videos and submit them to google video, ifilm and othervideo related websites. Done properly, these are a very effectivestrategy.

-Add refer-a-friend scripts to your site, these are freely availablejust do an internet search, I've used "Spread The Word" which is agood free script. If you give away an incentive for referring friends(e.g. viral ebook) you can really enhance the effect of this strategy.

There are many more viral marketing techniques that you could use,focus on one at a time and keep working until you get the results youwant. Decide now to take action and take your business to the nextlevel.

(Feel free to use this article online and in your email newsletters aslong as you leave it intact and do not alter it in anyway. The by-lineand resource box must remain in the article.)