Feature Article

How To manufacture Cheap Website Traffic

by: Terry Stewart AchieveItNow.ws

There is one hard and fast rule in generating wealth for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of creating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites clinical death. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn’t take a whole caboodle of cash to develop website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does heavy hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending plenty of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all lucrative because, well, they are what they are now, huge earning, big hitting websites.

You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to produce low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have counted on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I give to you the Top five ways to manufacture low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.

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Exchange Links

Exchanging links is one definite way to get targeted traffic to a website. Usually how this works is that before one party ask for a link from another site. The requesting site must first put up a link of the of the site they are requesting from. this mainly to show good faith and to encourage a link back in return and it is common practice. This method is not only good for generating traffic but it is also helpful for getting a good page ranking.

A main requirement is that the 2 sites that are linking should both be relevent sites i.e you should not have a dog lover site linking to a gardening site. This helps to provide continuity and keeps up the interested for your targeted traffic.

Traffic Exchange

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.

Traffic exchanges work when you view different sites on the exchange you get earn views from other people in exchange. Most traffic exchanges are free but you do get some that will charge a small fee. This is a very good way of getting good website traffic to your website.

Write and Submit Articles

Writing and submiting articles is a sure way of getting traffic to your website. There are lots of places where you can submit your articles. The articles must be unique and you must add a resource box at the end of it. A resource box is like a signature it should have your name and your website you want to promote. It is a good idea to write articles on your niche subject.

How this works is that people who are looking tor content will go to the article directories looking to use other peoples articles. Your articles can be a window for your website.

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Make a Newsletter.

Another top way of getting traffic to a website is starting a newsletter while this may seem daunting it is quite easy the advantages of getting traffic from your newsletter is thayt you can build up some rappor and rust with your cliente base and you can even do surveys to find out what people are willing to pay for.

If you are not a great writer there ar many resources on the Internet whre you can download articles that have been written by other people. All you have to do is to keep the little resource box at the end of the article. The only downside is that some subscribers may go off to other sites. But like I said you will have a group of people whom you can build up trust with.

Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

This is a free and easy method of promoting your website you should join as many forums and communities in your niche as possible. All you do is put your website in the the signature line. Then just start taking part in the online discussions and the traffic will start to roll in.

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Terry Stewart has been working online since 2002. He has been a qualified chef and started working online to spend more time with his family. www.achieveitnow.ws

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Second Article

Some Ideas For Creating Your Own Slideshows

by: Wayne Rice

Creating your own slide shows can be fun and entertaining, and easy to accomplish. Almost every digital camera now comes with some sort of software to manage your images. Some have more features than others. Some will allow you to create slideshows. Some will add transitions, and allow image durations to be adjusted. You can also use most video making programs to produce slideshows, which is one way to have more control over the outcome. For example, Windows XP offers MovieMaker, which has many of the functions of a full-blown video producer program. The program allows you to set the duration of each picture, the transition between each picture; offers various effects to apply to individual pictures, and allows you to overlay an audio track.

To start, I have found that most digital images need a little adjustment for viewing on monitors. If your program allows it, I recommend increasing both the brightness and contrast just a few notches. Also, if you can, sharpen them slightly. A note about color: colors come in two categories: transparent and opaque. When you prepare images for printing or for viewing on a monitor you must consider how colors interact with each other. Printed colors, when mixed together, go towards black. Projected colors, when mixed together, go towards white. Printed images are usually produced on equipment with a much higher resolution capability than your monitor, so they will appear richer and sharper in print. Most cameras are preset for printing, and that’s why it’s a good idea to sharpen, brighten and increase the contrast on images to be viewed on the pc.

Selecting your images and ordering them are the next important step. It is best to try and tell a story, to have a logical sequence to your images. Don’t show people going in the house before the shot of them getting out of the car. When you are taking pictures, remember that you may make a slide show, and try to take pictures that will present well in that style; for instance, in a room full of people , start at one side and take many pictures as you swing across to the other side of the room. When presented as slides, it will give the effect of creating the complete environment. Vary the duration of the slides; don’t make them all 3 or 5 seconds, make some shorter and some longer. If there’s one person in a picture, shorten it; if there are many people then lengthen it so people have a chance to look at every face.

Once you have assembled the slideshow and applied transitions and effects, you can put the crowning touch on by adding a narration. You can simply choose some favorite or appropriate music, but to really personalize it, a narration is best. Not everyone is a natural speaker, nor does everyone have the most recordable voice for such a purpose. Here’s where you can take advantage of a program like AV Voice Changer Software to create a separate track, or you could use AV Movie Morpher 2.0 to overdub the production. (You can go to http://mp3-player.audio4fun.com/free-audio-software.htm to download the software for free trials). In that case you will have to output the slideshow first and then open it inside the Movie Morpher program. The nice thing about both of these programs is that they can alter the sound of your voice to make it more entertaining. It can deepen or enrich it, or make it faster or slower; it can even change a male voice to a female-sounding voice. It can add special effects for emphasis or dramatic effect. You should work out either a written narrative or an outline of what you will say, practice it, and then record it. The final outcome will be an entertaining, creative, and personal record of part of your life, whether it’s a party, a graduation, or a simple family gathering, you will have created a cherished memory to be shared for all time.

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Wayne Rice is a freelance journalist, copywriter, photographer and artist. He currently resides in the United States.

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