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It is hard to drive free traffic to your website. Webmaster have developed many new techniques over the past year to increase website traffic. Not all ideas have had much success but lets take a look at what has.

The best type of marketing is one that is completely free. This free marketing comes at the cost of your customers. Viral Marketing. Viral marketing is basically considered word of mouth. It is the best type of advertising because it builds credibility, trust and most of all free.

Scenario 1:

Joe tells Sheryl about widgets. Sheryl trust Joe about the widgets and buys them.

Scenario 2:

Sheryl see’s an ad on T.V. Turns on Young and the restless and forgets about widgets.

Everyone trusts his or her good buddies about anything. Think to the last time how much your friends had an influence on your decision making?

Go ahead tell a Freind

Most websites over look this script to generate viral marketing. Webmasters think their visitors will call their friends and have a slumber party about the product/service. But here is the catch. That is too much work for your visitors to do.

So make it easy for them. Implement a “tell a friend” script instead. This is a simple program that allows your visitors to fill out a form and send your offers to your friend. Placement of these scripts should be on your product offering page or sales page.

New scenario:
Sheryl gets an email from Joe about widgets. Her attention is caught and she click the link in the email that points to your products. That increases your chances of closing a sale.

It might be a slow start but “telling a friend” can go a long way for your web business.