[JaredCanaday]

Hello All,
First I would just like to say good job Jeremy and team with the new look for beyourownit.com! I have a question I would like to throw out for anyone who has some extensive marketing experience. I am looking to start up a new online business similar to facebook or myspace. Give me your ideas on what would be the most affective way of directing website traffic. In the past I have used paperclick and overture.com both of these proved to be affective, however also very expensive. I am trying to stay away from paying for traffic per click and I am more interested in ways to create natural traffic through search engines, such as google, yahoo, or bing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone and have a great day!

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success"!
Henry Ford

Jared Canaday
Canaday Computer
jaredcanaday@gmail.com

[Nate]

Well if you want to make something like Facebook or MySpace, you should target teen forums, because they will be very interested in it.

[JaredCanaday]

Nate
Good idea I know teen forums are popular, however I used the example of facebook and myspace to give you the general idea of what my website is going to be like. I didn't want to go into too much detail in regards to my website concept. If you have any good marketing ideas to direct traffic for a website that would be similar to those particular sites. I would be happy to hear. For instance how did facebook or myspace generate the initial traffic to their website before they were even popular?

[kickassman]

For my website, I used trafficswarm.com and it gave me a decent amount of traffic. It's free, but you also have to visit other peoples websites to get credits. The best I ever got while using trafficswarm is 1300 people in one month. (I'm pretty sure most of the traffic came from there, too)

[admin]

the number one tip, the only one that matters is provide a unique service, authoritative content, or whatever it is you want to do you have to do it better than anyone else..in a way nobody else is, its that easy lol...

but it is the only way people succeed online.

[flipsadler]

A good free method that some of the experts in internet marketing utilize is article writing. Writing articles with good content and useful information is a great way to get traffic to your site. Make sure you include links to your website at the bottom of your article.

[zoya]

If you have any good marketing ideas to direct traffic for a website that would be similar to those particular sites. I would be happy to hear. For instance how did facebook or myspace generate the initial traffic to their website before they were even popular?
thanks