I don’t know if you guys know this, but I used to be friends with some people who made a living dealing in the online adult business. I know it isn’t the kind of thing you’d expect me to do, but I’ve never been one to judge people. These guys are actually on the cutting edge of internet marketing and usually develop new technologies before the mainstream world. For example they pioneered much of the credit card processing, fraud prevention, and subscription based sites technoligies we take for granted.

One of the things I learned from my friends was that they would create some sites which were considered to be traffic generators. Then when they launch any new web site they would be able to take some of this traffic from their “traffic generators” and feed it into a new web site. This allows them to launch a new web site and instantly get a significant amount of traffic to it.

They would have different types of traffic generators. Some would be open to the public, others might be closed to only their friends and partners. Others might be for only their personal use. So a gallery site might only list their galleries and might be a way to filter traffic into their galleries. Search engines started to catch on to this though, and they’d rank people down for only linking to their own pages. So then they’d allow a small network of friends and partners to share links. They’d all route traffic to this one “directory” or “gallery post” and they’d fill these listings with all of their own sites.

Another idea that worked really well was to have gallery sites but open it to the public. This gets you a ton of traffic and allows you to create some advertising revenue. Meanwhile you promote your own sites and links in prominent locations on the site. You’re helping the general public getting them traffic to their sites. Meanwhile you’ve been building a new advertising revenue stream while continuing to promote your own sites. By opening up your gallery listings to everyone you’d be able to generate more traffic, get better page ranking, better SEO listings, and everyone would benefit. Then when you want to launch a new web site you simply replace some of your normal ads with ads for your new site. Or you’d change your popup window to popup your new site. Wha-la instant traffic.

Keeping this in mind, I’ve been working on generating my own traffic for my affiliate projects, network marketing, and affiliate programs.

I’d pay $24.95 to Link Market to get listed. $1.99 at Blog Universe. $19.95 a month at Links Manager. It quickly adds up. For some of my big sites that regularly generate several sales a month it is no big deal. However some of my new ideas may take awhile before they start to generate sales, maybe they never work!

So one of the things I’m doing is building some of my own traffic generators. I’m going to use LinksManager.com to setup my own link exchange directory. If I can build my directories PR up to 6 or 7 (see yesterday’s article) I can get any new web site I want listed on Google in a few days with a PR of at least 3.

I’ve got some other ideas along these lines too. I’ll keep you guys posted.

- Ben

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