One way to get more website traffic, quickly and for free, is to use viral marketing principles.
Sounds interesting, but what does it actually mean? How does it work, and is it effective?
That’s three solid questions that need answering, so let’s get started…
In the medical world, a virus self duplicates and spreads, increasing its’ coverage everytime and being notoriously hard to stop. In the marketing world, processes that grow and spread rapidly are called ‘viral marketing’ processes. Before the internet was around, the technique was never called by that name, although some business used the concepts behind it..
The basis behind viral marketing is giving something of value to somebody else, for free. For the campaign to work effectively, the given item needs to have some link back to your business website, or encourage use of your product. Through the giveaway people enjoy the product and are encouraged to pass it on to more people that they may know.
The chain of people passing it on self perpetuates, all the time with your website being a core element of the giveaway. It means your marketing message or website can be seen by a number of people that you cannot predict, and cannot control.
If done correctly, your viral marketing campaign will result in thousands of visitors all flocking to your website as part of this chain-reaction!
I’m sure this sounds good to you, but is it really possible?
Viral marketing is actually responsible for a large (if not all) portion of website traffic for many businesses who ‘get it right’ with their campaign. It definitely works.
You may choose to give away a product, a report maybe on the subject matter of your market. You may choose to give away a service, maybe providing a neat twist to a software application. You may choose to use a video, and this can really be exciting.
On the biggest and most well known video sharing site, YouTube, they give you magical help to make your video go viral.
You could make a short video about your subject, or even screen shots, and once you’ve uploaded it to You Tube, people have the chance to make comments on it. If you can start an argument, you’ll have people falling over themselves to watch your video!
Videos can be shared on websites as YouTube gives you the HTML code to copy and paste the video right into any webpage that you want.
Once the video is over, YouTube even offers the view the ability to forward it to their friends by just clicking one simple button.
This is almost too good to be true, but it is all there, and crushingly simple, quick and free to do, it just takes some of your time. Let’s not make any false claims, the first few times you do it, you’ll make mistakes and take a bit longer to produce your video, but once you get the technique sorted, you can use video to go viral, and get a huge amount more website traffic.
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