More and more webmasters are discovering the dilemma of ‘how to increase traffic to their websites’. During the past few years many methods have been developed to solve this most basic of ’webmastering’ problems. While most of these traffic driving tactics may work; there are many that are too complicated or just simply don’t work at all…!

Then webmasters it would seem to come back to the age old idea of the ‘Tell A Friend’ script. Using a tell a friend script to drive traffic is probably one of the oldest, yet most effective of methods of getting new visitors to your website. in fact if you don’t use a tell a friend script to drive traffic to your website, you’re probably missing a great free source of traffic to your site!

Tell a friend scripts enable webmasters to use viral marketing to drive traffic to their websites. Viral marketing makes use of the tendency of a person to share something they find informative, entertaining or amazing with their friends.

In fact it’s true that many companies bank on this ‘viral marketing’ behaviour that is ‘in built’ in people to increase their products ‘reach’, or increase the ‘popularity’ of their company or their website. Viral marketing makes use of many mediums in enticing this natural human behavior. It might be in the form of an interesting story, an addicting flash game, an amusing video or many other innovative ideas or pranks that may catch a person’s fancy and entice them to share the ‘source’.

The ingenious thing about viral marketing is that it is typically low cost or even free and is a wonderful tool for any company or webmaster to use – you basically rely on other’s using the ‘tell a friend’ function that has been built into the viral marketing campaign, there by allowing people to ‘do the work’ marketing your website for you.

The benefit greatly overshadows the cost or efforts to initialize this marketing technique. Any website would greatly benefit that viral marketing. In fact, with basic ‘tell a friend scripts’ or ‘Share This’  buttons, most webmasters can implement a viral marketing campaign on their website for free or next to nothing!

Tell A Friend Script

One of the easiest methods in viral marketing is using a tell a friend script. This is a simple programming script that you can attach to the programming of your website. Generally, tell a friends script are installed in pages where a media is placed so that a person can easily send the media to any of his friends or his family members.

The basic concept of  a tell a friend script is a script wherein a person may input his name, e-mail address, the recipient’s e-mail address and send the media to the intended recipient much like an e-mail with an attachment. As the recipient receives the e-mail he wouldn’t think of the mail a spam mail because he would see the sender’s name as someone he or she knows and trust.

Tell a friend script eliminates greatly the chances of any email being blocked because the tell a friend script uses the information entered by the sender – the person using your tell a friend script to drive traffic to your website. This also allows for an even wider spreading of this marketing method, as the email that was initially sent by a ‘friend’ is then passed on between friends, and more friends and so on.

Thus by simply adding a tell a friend script to drive traffic to your website, you can put your website in front of many different people’s ‘eyes’ all because you added some form of tell a friend script to your website. It can be quite sneaky method of adverting but it is very effective. That’s the joy of viral marketing using a tell a friend script to drive traffic to your website!

With the e-mail sent and opened the sent media will either be read, viewed or played. Also along with the mail would be a brief description of the company or site that sponsors the media sent. This allows for the introduction of either the site, company name or its products.

Then the process begins again. As more people use the tell a friend script, more and more people will know of the existence of the sponsoring company or originiating site. People who read the email sent to them via the tell a friend script who liked what they see would go and click on the link and visit the site. This drives traffic to the site resulting in greater number of potential visitors or customers.

Tell A Friend Script Availability

A tell a friend script is very simple and does not require a complicated method of programming. In fact, you can copy paste a script and simply put it on an intended page. Finding one is even simpler. All you have to do is go to a search engine and type in the search box “tell a friend script” then press enter or click go.

In the search results page you will see many links that will direct you to a site where you can get a tell a friend script. It would just be a simple matter of looking and searching for the script and copying it to your intended web page.

With a tell a friend script viral marketing strategy you can drive traffic into your site which could potentially spell profits. This is a simple harmless script that offers great benefits for low cost paired with great creativity and foresight.

It is imperative that you have patience in using a tell a friend script. If your chosen media doesn’t get the mileage that is expected of it, it may take some time before it gets spread or shared. But surely many people will see your ads and there is great probability that they will visit your site increasing your traffic flow.

If you have a blog, it’s even easier to add a tell a friend script to your site to drive additional traffic. There are many plugins available for you to add to your blog, this then allows your blog readers to automatically ‘bookmark your site’ and tell a friend about your site this way – through many of the newer web 2.0 platforms.

These new social networking platforms have made it all the more easier for webmasters to entice people to click their ‘tell a friend script’ or ‘bookmark this’ or ‘share this’ type button. All you have to do is to write or post something enticing enough to get people to begin this social network marketing for you.

To see what I mean about the newer methods of social network marketing using a tell a friend like script to drive traffic to your website, see the ‘share this’ button below this post… If you like the above article on using a tell a friend script to drive traffic to your website or blog, then perhaps you’ll be kind enough to click a social bookmarking web 2.0 site that you use and tell your friends all about it!

Use A Tell A Friend Script To Drive Traffic Today

It’s been nearly three years since my last post and a lot has changed personally, and despite all the doom and gloom merchant’s predictions, nothing basically much has changed SEO wise – for those of us plugging away in the trenches at least!

I have gone from working full time in a SEO / web marketing corporate environment, to working full time for myself in a log cabin down the bottom of my garden. Ironically I launched a couple of online shops to fill the time between clients when I was first setting up, and these online shops have become my main income generator.

Although I have done a little SEO for clients – my main client has become myself! In the last couple of years I have worked on holiday cottage, printing, insurance, car hire, dating and a few other website niches for a few outside clients personally introduced to me by family and friends.

Anyway, I was doing some URL house keeping and refound this SEO blog that I had initially started with grand ideas before I ‘went it on my own’, due to the pressures of time when launching a new business this DIY SEO blog has sadly been left by the wayside.

Now I seem to have a passion for SEO for the small business, the Mum and Dad team working at home in the evenings attempting to suppliment their day job incomes, the underdogs, the Davids working against the Goliaths, those who seem to be able to sneak under the corporate radar and dominate a small but profitable niche right under the noses of the big boys.

I intend to update this a bit more regulary in future, so hopefully it won’t be three more years of SEO before the next installment!

I’ve ended up getting a couple of friends to create this web traffic blog site for me, I specifically asked that it have as many ‘SEO friendly’ plugins added as possible and be virtually ‘plug and play’ for me in the admin areas… They’ve done a great job for me so far. Cheers guys, you know who you are.

So I would like to add to the excellent list on blogging myths that are holding you back, and include a number 7 to this list of ‘considering yourself technically unable’. Honestly, if I can do this, then anyone can. Believe me, get stuck in and start a blog on something you’re passionate about today, connect it to you ‘sales’ website and watch the daily visitor numbers grow!

Go on, dispel those blogging myths that are holding you back and do something about them today.

Want to see if something blog traffic wise is working, or is worthwhile doing to increase traffic to your own blog? Looking for blog promotion tips and hints? Then this is the section to read.

 As this is a new blog, you’ll see these traffic generation methods being used first hand. I’m pretty excited and willing to give anything a ‘crack’. I’ve never promoted a blog before, so I’m having to adapt my usual website promotion methods and see if they work on blogs too!

Look out for my next blog promotion post.

Your website’s title ‘tells’ the search engines and the potential visitors viewing their result pages, what your site is all about. Your website’s title and the effective use of keyword target ’rich’ titles on pages deeper within your website, can make or break your website’s natural search engine ranking on your site’s chosen keywords. 

Getting your website’s title tags right could see your site leap-frogging your competitor’s websites in the natural SERPs on your chosen keywords, and gaining your site high visitor traffic as a result of these boosted search engine result listings.

So with title tags there are only a few things for you to consider;

This is nothing to do with the actual truth of the situation, but it helps keep the myth alive for certain individuals who’d have you believe that SEO is a ‘black art’, in order to discourage you from having a ‘go’ yourself.

In fact, in some way the whole of website DIY SEO is based around the keywords you’re site is targeting. You need to target keywords that are relevant, uncompetitive, trafficked and profitable. It sounds hard doesn’t it, don’t worry though, it’s not that difficult!

The keword wizardry section of the website traffic blog will concentrate on aquiring effective, uncompetive, trafficked and profitable keywords for your website. I’ll show you simple methods of discovering the keywords your website should be targeting.

With a little bit time and practice working on DIY SEO, you can become proficient enough to make a positive effect on your website’s search engine optimisation through ‘doing it yourself’.

This section of the 123 website traffic blog will show you simple, easy and effective methods of DIY SEO. If you’re prepared to put some time in, there’s no reason why your website won’t benefit from your efforts.

Like most things, you can measure effective SEO in either time or money. If you’re ‘cash’ rich, get someone to do it for you. If you’re ‘time’ rich, then do it yourself.

Keep an eye out for simple daily DIY SEO tasks that I’ll post here.

According to reports published at the back end of last year, Yahoo Answers had 96.1% of the online ‘questions and answers’ site type traffic. This worked out to be over 47x more visitor traffic than their nearest competitors.

The report published by HitWise, measured Yahoo Answers against other ‘question and answer’ type websites, the results also showed that Yahoo Answers was ranked 100th most visited domain against over 500,000 other websites tracked by HitWise. The site was 2nd in the Education – Reference category, although interestingly, Yahoo Answers’ traffic stats are only 1/5th of Wikipedia‘s.

So the question now is; can internet marketers take advantage of Yahoo Answers’ massive visitor numbers? The answer is yes of course we can!

Over the next few posts, I’ll show you how to ethically exploit the ability to provide answers to questions posted by other Yahoo Answers’ members, and gain additional free website traffic and visitors to you site.

So in answer to my original question of; does Yahoo have the answer? My reply is, yes they have the answer, one of them in any case!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Well I think I’m going to leave this auto generated post here as it’s a date and time stamp for the creation of 123 Website Traffic.

The site is currently being built with the help of a few friends who’ve suggested I start this, plus a mate who knows a little more about installing wordpress, plugins and themes than I do.

Once it’s finished I’ll hopefully have a plug and play blog, through which I can post my feelings on the current internet marketing ’buzz’ methods and proven website traffic generating techniques in general.