A website without traffic might just as well have never been built. It's invisible and unsuccessful. It's a fact - No Traffic = Invisible! There are many tried and tested free methods for driving web traffic to your website. Many of these free methods are absolute gems that can drive truckloads of web traffic to your website. Here are the top free methods I use to gain PR4 and PR5 for most of my blogs and web sites.

1. Offer a great freebie like an ebook or tutorial, with your web site links imbedded, then let others give it away for free at their site, too. They can use it as an incentive, bonus, or just as a gift for visitors. It adds value for those sites that spread it and it creates more visitors back to your site as your freebie spreads because of your imbedded links.

2. One of the best ways to increase web traffic is to accumulate quality links to your site. Not only do you get more people from the linked sites to visit your site, but you get better rankings with search engines. The combination of increased traffic from linked sites and more internet traffic from the search engines will provide a huge pay off for the time and effort you invest. But, stay away from Link Farms and buying links. Go only for sites with quality that matches yours.

3. Visit and comment in Forums. If your comments are interesting and liked by the forum members, they will click on your link and visit your website regularly. This is a great way to create a targeted traffic. This mode of free website advertisement is also relatively untapped by many marketers for driving web traffic, so you can take full advantage by using your writing skills and create traffic from the forums. Just remember - Your posts should really be useful to the members of the forum. Don't post just to sell something. You will be banned.

4. Another great method of driving targeted web traffic is joining popular social networking web sites. Social networking web sites can immediately send your website a flood of targeted web traffic. The common factor between all the social networking sites is social interaction. These sites are hugely popular and are liked by the search engines for this fact. Social sites like the Facebook and MySpace are so popular that they can send you massive traffic.

5. I saved my #1 method for last - Article Marketing. Article Marketing can dramatically increase the targeted traffic to your web site and increase your search engine rankings at the same time if you provide quality information! Your high quality, original, search engine optimized content will be spread around the web. Your articles feature your Author Box which is where you place a snippet about your web site and it's products and services.

Article submission sites are extremely popular, and many web masters depend completely on them to borrow free articles for their own web sites with a condition that the articles borrowed shall contain the full text and the Author Box. These could be your articles with your Author Box! This creates a free viral traffic to your website when your quality articles are published by other web sites.

Try free methods before you consider buying traffic. Frankly, I have yet to pay for traffic since first going on line in May of 2006.

Jim DeSantis is a retired TV News Anchor and the editor of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how to use free methods to quickly drive thousands of targeted visitors to your website or blog! Go here: "Free Traffic"

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Whether a YouTube video has 10 views or 10,000,000, people always want to know the same thing: who's watching this? Where do viewers come from? How did they find my video?

Finally, we have some answers. Today we're releasing YouTube Insight, a free tool that enables anyone with a YouTube account to view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload to the site. For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in different geographic regions, as well as how popular they are relative to all videos in that market over a given period of time. You can also delve deeper into the lifecycle of your videos, like how long it takes for a video to become popular, and what happens to video views as popularity peaks.



How does this help you? Well, using these metrics, you can increase your videos' view counts and improve your popularity on the site. For instance, you might learn that your videos are most popular on Wednesdays, that you have a huge following in Spain, or that new videos that play off previous content become more popular more quickly. With this information, you can concentrate on creating compelling new content that appeals to your target audiences, and post these videos on days you know these viewers are on the site. (Maybe even post your next video in Spanish?) And for those of you who are also partners, the more popular a video is, the more advertising revenue it can generate.

We'll be making new features and additional information available fairly quickly -- like a specific breakdown of how viewers discovered the video -- so keep an eye out as we roll out new features. As for now, you can find currently available metrics by clicking under the "About this Video" button under "My account > Videos, Favorites, Playlists > Manage my Videos."

Just about every online business is now adding some sort
of video advertising to their websites. This includes
software retailers, car dealerships, travel agents, real
estate agents, and even manufacturers. Businesses are
realizing that they can get the attention of a viewer
immediately with video as opposed to using a normal
advertisement. Let’s imagine that you have a website
that sells coats. A potential customer visits your
website and sees various pictures of models wearing
your coats. The prices are included, along with an
ordering form. Now imagine if you decided to add
videos to your website. Instead of having just a
bunch of pictures, you have a video for each coat
where a model is wearing that coat and showing
you in detail that coat’s special features. Don't
you think that would increase your sales conversion rate?

Travel Agency Videos



Travel agencies are now using videos to showcase
vacation destinations for the packages that they
are currently promoting. Potential clients who
watch the videos feel as though they are taking
a trip when they take this “virtual tour”. The
video takes the viewer on a mini vacation where
they get to see highlights of the local attractions,
hotels, beaches, nightlife, and more … all
from the comfort of their home computer!

This virtual tour sparks the potential customer’s
desire; they see themselves on the tour and it
makes them want to visit the destination! The more
someone knows about the positive aspects of a
particular tour, country or vacation spot, the
more likely they are to want to book a vacation
with the travel agency to this particular destination.
Real Estate Videos Speaking of virtual tours,
many real estate companies are now using video
advertising on their websites. Instead of just
seeing photos of a home, now you can see a
walk-through tour of each room in the home,
just as if you were actually there walking
through it. A potential customer could watch the
video and see little details that they would
never be able to see in just photos.

Musician Videos





In addition to businesses and professionals using
online video advertising, many musicians are now
using online videos to promote their bands. Music
videos debuted in the 1980s and were shown frequently
on MTV. Here's the problem: it was rather expensive
to create an interesting, “creative video” for the
band. Bands who had creative videos depicting beautiful
models or something unusual were selling quite a few
more cd's than other bands that did not have the money
needed to create such videos. Back in the 1980s, it
was nearly impossible to find a decent video camera
priced less then $1,000. And, of course, if you wanted
the video to look professional you had to hire a
director and some actors as well.

Now in 2009, amateur musicians are able to use
online video advertising as quality video camera
can be bought for less then $500 … and they’re
pretty easy to use. It’s also fairly easy to
transfer the video fromthe camera to your
computer and then upload the video to your
website. If you surf around MySpace, you will
find literally thousands of amateur musicians
doing this. They just get someone to film their
act with a camcorder, upload it to their
MySpace page, and they get free online
advertising! It’s certainly a whole lot
easier then it used to be when you had to pay
out thousands of dollars to record a demo
and then find some DJs on the radio that
were willing to play your music.

Entrepreneur Videos



Entrepreneurs who have items for sale are also
using online video advertising to promote and
sell their products. The best part is, thanks
to YouTube it’s quite easy and cheap to do.
You see, YouTube will let upload your video for free.
You don’t have to pay them, nor do you have to
pay for web hosting. If your video is interesting,
it is quite possible to get over 100K views! It’s a
pretty simple process:

1. Create a funny/creative/interesting/weird video.
2. Mention your website in your video.
3. Upload it to YouTube.
4. Enjoy the traffic!

Are you an Internet Marketer...?
Do you know the power of web 2.0 marketing by streaming video on the web...?
Do you understand S.E.O Search Engine Optimization...?

Well if not you need to read this and if you do well this is exactly what you have been looking for.

Did you know that out of all the places online to market with video that YouTube is the #1 place to stream your videos and with over 5 million+ YouTube users 90% of them are internet marketers. There are several people who understand the power of marketing with video on YouTube but the main problem with marketing there videos is they don't understand how to optimize their video for maximum exposure.

The real power behind marketing on YouTube is not just uploading your videos and expecting people to see them. It's knowing how to upload your videos and get them to the front page for your chosen keywords. The reason why I say this is because anyone can upload a video to YouTube but if it's not within the first couple of pages your chances of you video being seen by thousands of users is slim to none.

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Now the power of understanding how to upload your videos to YouTube and getting them on the first page is priceless. The reason why i say this is because when people are searching for your business or opportunity most likely they are going to watch the first few videos on the front page. What this means is the guy with all the videos on the front page for his chosen keywords is more then likely generating thousands of dollars weekly regardless of what he has to offer because the fact is his videos are getting viewed several times a day by people searching for what he has to offer.

The reason why I bring this up is because just imagine if your videos were in those top positions when people look for what you have to offer you will then be generating the money you deserve and work so hard for. Let me tell you this I was in an activity where I currently generated close to $5,000 dollars a week and the only thing I ever done was uploaded my videos to YouTube did my little bit of video marketing then I was set I never had to do anything again and the reason why is because my videos are now DOMINATING the front page of YouTube and there getting watched several thousand times a week generating me sales while I do nothing on my end after uploading my videos.

Sound Interesting yet...?

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What im trying to say is regardless if your an affiliate marketer or in a program or currently run your own business the power of YouTube has changed my life forever. I generate on a bad week near $5,000 dollars a week just by having my videos uploaded to YouTube and having my videos stuck in the #1 position for my chosen keywords. My videos currently show up in the top of the first page on youtube out of 400,000 plus videos and they also show up in Google on the top of the first page for my chosen keywords with search results of 60,900,000. Yes that 60 Million 900 Thousand search results and my videos show up in the #2 and #3 position on Google as well as YouTube.

So can you imagine the income I generate from my business getting maximum exposure like that. Ok I know what your thinking what is this guy talking about RIGHT...?

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Well I have recently put together a YouTube Marketing Course where I EXPOSE every little secret every tip and trick that I do to DOMINATE YouTube and Google with my videos. What I teach in this course is how to upload your videos to YouTube and make them get the #1 position or at least some where on the front page for your chosen keywords regardless of the number of search results. Not only that your videos will show up on the first page in under 48hrs and stick there and most likely never move for the life span of your video. So why your video is sitting on that front page generating you massive amounts of money you can do what ever you want to do in life spending the money your videos earned you with absolutely no effort on your part at all other then uploading your videos.

I know it sounds a little unreal to believe but do your self a favor visit www.youtubesecretsexposed.com and see for your self. I guarantee you will be shocked with the proof video results that you see on how I DOMINATE YouTube and even if you decide not to get my course it's amazing to see someone DOMINATE YouTube as hard as I do.

Any Way I wont keep you waiting any longer but I highly recommend you take a look at what I have to offer you because I am only going to release a limited number of copies to the public before I decide to lock my secrets up in a vault and throw away the key for ever. So keep in mind if it interest you at all the next time you visit the site it might be gone for good.

Ok Ok I'm done talking now go check it out for your self and watch the videos and I'll let you decide on what you want to do.

As Always I look forward to seeing you at the TOP

The YouTube Guru
Mike Keller
www.youtubesecretsexposed.com