{"product_id":"2940015024975","title":"How to Get A Million Visitors to Your Website","description":"In this e-book you'll find the complete transcript of the interview Louis Allport had with Neil Shearing specifically on just one subject: How To Get At Least A Million Visitors A Year To Your Website!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are some quotations from the e-book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeil started on the internet selling a little report called \"How To Make Money On The Internet\" (which he now thinks is a really cheesy title!) ... and that was just to make a bit of extra money while studying at university.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFive years later, Neil's online business has grown so much that he now has 4,000 affiliates ... 2,500 customers, and over 32,000 people subscribed to his newsletter. What's most amazing is that it all started from a business running off free web space!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHi Neil ... I remember you saying that you get at least a million visitors a year to your\u003cbr\u003eweb site ... I wanted to ask you exactly how that happens and how other people can copy that\u003cbr\u003esuccess. So what would be your first steps, what would you recommend?\u003cbr\u003eWell it’s not any one thing, it’s obviously a combination of lots of different things that pull in\u003cbr\u003etraffic. I don’t do much advertising myself so I couldn’t say one way or another whether that brings in\u003cbr\u003ea lot of useful traffic.\u003cbr\u003eThe two main things I rely on are the associate program that I’ve had since about 1998. I’ve got\u003cbr\u003eabout 4,000 affiliates now so they send me a lot of traffic. So starting an affiliate program actually\u003cbr\u003eworks very well.\u003cbr\u003eAnd search engine strategies -- I get a lot of traffic from being listed in Yahoo and listed in\u003cbr\u003eGoogle and they send me a lot of traffic so between the two of those and recurring traffic from when\u003cbr\u003eI mention something in my newsletter I use a link to the Scam Free Zone even if it just redirects\u003cbr\u003esomewhere else, and links to customers when I email my customers I put links in there that go\u003cbr\u003ethrough the Scam Free Zone.\u003cbr\u003eSo I would say those three main things: the associate program, search engine traffic, and\u003cbr\u003eresidual traffic from just emailing my lists.\u003cbr\u003eOkay. It’s interesting you say you don’t actually do any advertising. When you were\u003cbr\u003estarting out a few years ago did you do some advertising then?\u003cbr\u003eNo, I was just too tight to spend any money on advertising so I really didn’t, I just optimized a\u003cbr\u003efew pages for the search engines and then it snowballed from there.\u003cbr\u003eI didn’t do too much search engine optimization, I’m not completely skilled at that, I just\u003cbr\u003eoptimized a few pages and that brought in traffic and then gradually built on it by launching new\u003cbr\u003eproducts which always generated more traffic because the affiliates would then put up more links\u003cbr\u003eand things like that. It just snowballed really.\u003cbr\u003eI do actually do a little bit of advertising though, I shouldn’t say I don’t do any because\u003cbr\u003esomeone will probably say \"Hey, I know you advertise\".\u003cbr\u003eI have a sponsored listing on Yahoo, and that’s probably responsible for quite a bit of traffic but\u003cbr\u003eI don’t actually track that, I couldn’t say how much I make from that whether it’s profitable or not\u003cbr\u003ebecause they only send traffic to the root domain name, so I haven’t actually analyzed that traffic.\u003cbr\u003eCould you explain what exactly is a sponsored ad in Yahoo and how do you use that?\u003cbr\u003eWell first of all you have to be listed in Yahoo so you have to pay their listing fee just to get into\u003cbr\u003ethe directory.\u003cbr\u003eThat’s about $200, is that right?\u003cbr\u003ePage 3\u003cbr\u003eIt’s $299 for them to review your site. You don’t pay to get listed, you pay for the review\u003cbr\u003ebecause that allows them to say \"No\" if they want to. And I think it’s now $299 per year so I only paid\u003cbr\u003e$299 once -- it was just a flat fee ... now it’s $299 per year.\u003cbr\u003eThen once you’re in their directory you can pay to \"sponsor\" that section of the directory. And\u003cbr\u003edepending on how much traffic that section gets they will charge you pro-rata so if it’s a very, very\u003cbr\u003ehighly trafficked area of the directory you’ll pay more to sponsor it than a back-water area of the\u003cbr\u003edirectory.\u003cbr\u003eI think I pay $100 a month to sponsor the Business Opportunities directories web site. Then\u003cbr\u003eyou get an enhanced listing at the top of that part of the directory.\u003cbr\u003eSo -- are you sponsoring keywords or is it just sections of the directory?\u003cbr\u003eThat’s right, it’s just sections of the directory, so wherever you’re listed, say they put you under\u003cbr\u003ebusiness opportunities you can apply to be a sponsored listing within that part of the directory and\u003cbr\u003ethey’ll tell you how much it is and if you’re happy you can say \"I want to sponsor that part\".\u003cbr\u003eOkay. And you pay -- is it on click-throughs? 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