The regulars

So here you are for some extra website traffic information or inspiration. Before I start, make sure you have done your regular website traffic optimizations.

You have build your website. You made sure your website is conform the latest Search Engine Optimization and you have put enough good content on your website. Depending on your website you have created a RSS feed and submitted your feed to the different engines (tip: rss-specifications).

All these things have a high geek/nerdy level. Their purpose is to get your web pages, which make up your website, indexed by all the major search engines (i.e. Google, yahoo and msn). So people who search on certain keywords can find your website. You can find a lot more information by using a little google magic.

Off line and other things

Promoting your website off-line would be putting it on all things you can think of. You put your url on t-shirts, car, bike or any other merchandise. You could even grab a crayon (please don't use a spray can) and put it in front of your home on the streets or in the busy street down town. Of course this all depends on your website content.

Let's make fun

Now for the fun part: promoting your website online for free or with a tiny budget. My next promoting tip will cost you $0.20 and it goes as follows. You draw a nice simple funny picture, make a funny photo or make a screen dump from a non-regular web page. If possible try to come up with something that is relevant to your website. When you make a screen dump and you browse with firefox make sure your other tabs point to your own website.

I have done the latter and made a screen dump of a Google error page. As we all know Google is almost never down and to have a screen dump of a Google error page is rare.

After you have your funny, scary or rare digital item you put it on eBay as an auction. Yes, this is the fun part. You come up with a funny, exciting description. Remember to display your website url in your description at least three times. Make it red, bold or whatever as long as it stands out. Remember to put an ebay viewing counter in your auction description to check your total auction views. Also make sure you have got a descent web statics program to check which are your referring sites. (I use the free awstats).

For inspiration you can check ebay's category Everything Else > Weird Stuff. You might want to put your auction in category Everything Else > Weird Stuff or a subcategory.

Next thing to do is to submit your auction to:

    * dumbauctions
    * wayoutauctions
    * strangebids
    * bizarrebids

And hope your auction will create a buzz. You will find a lot more weblogs and websites which solely concentrate on rare auctions.

With my ebay auction I had 1276 views on ebay, 134 clicks from ebay which make a 10 % CTR. In my opinion an almost free marketing campaign with a 10% CTR is not bad. And I am definitely sure that you as a native english speaking person can do a much funnier description, which would be pick up faster by the weblogs.

There might even be person who bids on your auction and you earn your initial $0.20 back or even way more. In my case there was no bid.

I hope it works for you as it worked for me.

Sent your auctions results and feedback to: [email protected]

Copyright 2006 Simon Page

About the author: Simon Page runs a couple of money making websites of which 100000eurohomepage is targeted to making money on line. 100000Eurohomepage.com is a quest to make 100.000 euro on line with zero budget. More money making ideas on website: http://www.100000eurohomepage.com contact: [email protected]