| The Bible tells the tale of the fishermen who were just | | | | Second, if you can get multiple credits for each visitor |
| not catching a thing. Jesus came along and told them | | | | to your site ... if you stagger the two services along the |
| to cast their nets on the other side of the boat, which | | | | well-worn surfing routes. I have SR code on my home |
| they did. Surprise! They caught so many fish their nets | | | | page, and SD code on my Self-actualization Resource |
| began to tear. | | | | Center, where the largest number of home page |
| Jesus had a strategy. He thought outside the box. And | | | | visitors tend to gravitate. |
| he knew where to go. Of course, when you're God, | | | | Let's start thinking way outside the box. |
| you tend to know a lot of things. | | | | 5. How do you get big traffic to your site? Suppose, |
| What about fishing for ezine subscribers? Don't | | | | for instance, your ezine and web site are about |
| expect Jesus to tell you where to cast your | | | | Internet marketing, competing with 4.5 million savvy |
| subscription net. You will have to build some other | | | | entries on Google. Slim chance getting a top ten |
| strategy. In the meantime, here are the six steps I sued | | | | ranking, or even a top 100 ranking. |
| to grow my free online Happy Class ( http:/ | | | | Consider your hobbies. Suppose you like horseback |
| hehappyguy.com/self-actualization-happy-class.html )list | | | | riding. Why not have a page on horseback riding, |
| by 27 last night, and my Daily Dose of Happiness (http: | | | | optimized for a couple juicy equestrian keywords, |
| hehappyguy.com/daily-happiness-free-ezine.html | | | | where you compete with just 700,000 not so savvy |
| ) by 10. | | | | web sites? What does horseback riding have to do |
| Step # 1: Sign up for Subscription Rocket ( http:/ | | | | with Internet marketing? Everything, if it is about the |
| hehappyguy.com/SR.html | | | | publisher (you!). You might also post a page on Italian |
| ) and install the code on every page of your web site. | | | | cuisine, where your keyword optimization competes |
| SR is a small pop-under offering your visitors free | | | | with only 200,000 other Google entries. These could |
| subscriptions to newsletters. Unlike some pop-ups, this | | | | both be under "About the publisher". |
| pop-under is unobtrusive and nobody has ever | | | | In addition to the untargeted traffic who will bring you |
| complained. Every time the screen pops under your | | | | targeted subscribers from other sites by tripping the |
| site, your ezine pops under four other similar sites. | | | | SR and SD codes, your visitors will get to know you |
| Most of my ezine subscribers had never even heard | | | | better as a human being, a key factor in building trust |
| of me or visited my site before they signed up. | | | | with them. You can also add affiliate links for related |
| Step # 2: Get lots of traffic to your site. The Internet | | | | products (want to sell a horse?) and actually make |
| traffic gurus will tell you to attract only TARGETED | | | | some money from these extra pages. (If you like |
| traffic. But, with SR, any traffic will do. 1000 | | | | happiness, why not use one of my happiness articles |
| non-targeted visitors might be useless to you, but they | | | | and sell my two happiness ebooks through affiliate |
| will trigger 4000 appearances of your ezine notice to | | | | links from http:/ hehappyguy.com/earn-money.html?) |
| targeted visitors of other sites. Get the most targeted | | | | 6. Another way to boost traffic to your site is to keep |
| traffic possible, yes, but whatever you do, get traffic. | | | | sending your subscribers to your site. If there is a free |
| More on this later. | | | | ebook download (or software or puzzle or graphic or |
| Step# 3: Get sub-affiliates, and get lots of them. Every | | | | recipe) or a contest to enter, you can have |
| time web sites you referred get visitors to their sites, | | | | subscribers visiting your web site each week. I set up |
| you earn three credits. So 1000 visitors to means | | | | a Daily Fun page http:/ hehappyguy.com/l |
| YOUR ezine gets seen by 3000 targeted visitors at | | | | daily-happiness-fun-page.php for subscribers to Your |
| other sites. | | | | Daily Dose of Happiness. Every time one of them |
| Step # 4: Replace some of the SR codes with | | | | visits, she earns me four views of my ezine notice to |
| Subscriber Drive codes. What's the difference? Not | | | | targeted traffic on other web sites. This page is getting |
| much. They are almost identical. You can see how SD | | | | an average of 100 hits a day, and that will increase as |
| works at . Why use both? Two reasons. | | | | my ezine readership grows. |
| First, you don't want to run out of targeted subscribers. | | | | Jesus could help you catch way more subscribers |
| For instance, if you run an Internet marketing | | | | than I can. But until he offers some alternatives, these |
| newsletter, you don't want one service to run out of | | | | are the steps you can take to turbo boost your |
| similar sites on which to display your ezine and start | | | | subscriber catch. |
| showing it to visitors of vampire-slaying sites. | | | | |