Everyone wants free traffic. Everyone wants targeted traffic that is free. If you could get free traffic that was already interested in your offer (sales page, affiliate link), you would be happy, and the more you got, the happier you would be,...right?
You can generate free traffic to your offer by using something called a link ring. It is basically a series of blogs or websites that refer back to your sales page. What is unique about this (instead of backlinks from other people) is that you own and control all the links! Some people consider this to be covert, and in a way, it is... But first, let me explain how it works for you.
If you have multiple sites referring back to your website or sales page, the search engines love it. They increase your popularity, and sometimes get you indexed and ranked higher much faster than just a single website that is search engine optimized, hoping that your keywords will get you the traffic. You need to be careful though. If you over-use this method, the search engines may push you aside and you won't move anywhere. If used with good sense, this will work.
To create a link ring requires some work on your part. But once it is created, it is very easy to update once every several days to keep it generating all that free traffic back to your primary offer or salespage!
First, you need your product to promote, and a sales page. This can be on your own website, or an affiliate link. It will work equally well with either.
Next step is to sign up and get several free blogs. There are a multitude of sites offering free blogs to you so that won't be a problem. Create a different blog post for each of your blog sites. They should all be relating to whatever product or service you are promoting on your main sales page or affiliate offer. They need to be 'different' from each other so that the search engines do not see them as the same post repeated several times.
Now, at the bottom of each blog post, you refer to your sales page or website/affiliate link that you are promoting. This can be done in a simple sentence such as "If you liked this post and would like more information, visit......".
The final thing is in the anchor text right below this. You put in a sentence that says something like "To see a related article/post on the same subject, visit: ........and add in the URL of the previous post. Basically, in your first blog, you refer to your last blog. In your second one, you refer to the first one. In your third one you refer to the second one, and so on so that each of your free blogs that you created refer to one other blog. This is the ring.
You then go and ping each of your blogs to notify the search engines that there is a blog with new content. The only other thing you need to do is to update the blog every several days with some newer content, still on the same subject. You don't need to refer to any offer or sales page...make it just informational. That way people won't think you are only trying to sell them something. Your first blog post will still have the link ring component in it. After you have updated your individual blogs once or twice, then you can add in a reference to your main sales page again....just make it appear random.
This is my perspective on how a link ring works...and believe me, they do work. It is not necessarily the fastest way to get more traffic, but it is a good way to generate free traffic. Once it starts coming, as long as you update every several days, it will keep coming, and coming.
I'll provide more traffic generation techniques in future articles.
