The biggest act of online theft is, in my opinion, perpetrated by affiliate programs. You might think I mean the theft of commission by those mean sponsors who only register a fraction of the leads you generate them but, no, that is not what I mean. You might think I’m talking about the affiliate marketing programs that change their terms and conditions so that they only have to pay out “if” you send them enough business each month, but you’d be wrong again. You would even be wrong to think that I intend sponsors who “go out of business” just as you start to earn commission or those who suspend your affiliate account just before you’ve earned enough commission to earn a payout. Nope, there is an even bigger scam!
When did you last confirm that your affiliate sponsor pays out when the sales you generate are made by surfers from a country outside of your affiliate program’s catchment area?
I mean, does the affiliate marketing program you use to monetize your web site with ads and links have multiple online presences – one for different regions of the globe – to market products for its vendors to people in different geographic locations?
Getting traffic to your website without the right knowledge and guidance can feel like you’re taking a long hard trek up a very slippery slope. When you do start getting traffic, turning it into a few hundred dollars every year to cover your server fees, domain registration fees and time is doubly harder because surfers are so used to getting Internet resources for free that many surfers would rather risk repetitive mouse click injury and picking up a nasty virus from a seedy backstreet website than parting with their cash to buy a good product from your reputable website.
No matter how good your website is and how well written, interesting and informative your content, you will make no money from your hard work unless you can grab paying surfers from other websites and steer them toward your sponsors’ products.
As we all know, more traffic equals more potential sales clicks. So learning the various free methods you can use to get lots of surfer traffic to your websites is a must do for all webmasters. New or old, it never hurts to learn new tricks for attracting traffic.
I can’t promise to make your websites glow like sweet golden honey to a bee but I can promise you several thousand new and unique visitors to your websites every month by using the free resources and easy to implement methods set out below. Broadly speaking, these free traffic resources split into six action categories…
A lonely fact of a webmasters life is the time spent locked away in solitude as we notch up backlinks to our websites. Some come organically through people visiting our sites and bookmarking us on a do-follow social networking site or by placing a link to us on one of their own websites such as a free Wordpress or Tumblr blog. Other links we create artificially by connecting with other webmasters and asking them to link to us in return for a link back to them or we add our sites into the many directories that are available to us. It takes a lot of time to build backlinks even when auto submitters are used.
A couple of days ago I learned about a directory project that is changing all that. It is called BungeeBones and offers 10,000 backlinks for the price of 1. Intrigued, I took a look, thought this sounds good – too good to be true; so I looked more deeply into it and contacted the project’s leader to find out more details. After several email exchanges, which I might write about in a later article, and a bit of research I concluded the project is genuine and will do as it heralds, namely, give thousands of backlinks for the free price of one.
BungeeBones is a directory with a difference – it is a remotely hosted human edited directory hub that allows webmasters to plug-in to it and display it on their own websites. Any webmaster can submit URLs to the directory and can optionally place a version of the directory on a submitted site. Each version of the directory is a stand alone product. Thousands of webmasters are already plugged in and connected through it so a link submitted to a directory on one site will potentially display in every other directory that is connected to the hub. It is like using an automatic directory submitter: one click submits a link to thousands of directories.
