Once you have written your free report and inserted links to various products offered by your affiliates, the next task on your list is going to be finding a home on the Internet for your free report.
You will also want to develop strategies for promoting the free report so you can generate some interest in both the report and the affiliate links contained therein. Here are some ideas to help you make a permanent place online for your free report, as well as publicize the report in the right places.
First off, you must have your own website. These days, it is very easy to get excellent pricing on the joint purchase of a domain name and a basic hosting that will only cost a few dollars a month to operate.
The advantage of having the free report on your own web site and hosted on a remote server is that you can update the report whenever you like.
Also, you have control over which affiliates can post ads on your free report pages, and certainly can update the links in your free report whenever you like. This makes creating free reports very simple, as you can have several free reports that are posted under one domain name, just on different pages.
Once you have a permanent home on the web for your free report, you can begin the process of promoting it. Here are some ways in which you can promote your viral report:
1. Classified Ads
Write a short blurb, no more than a paragraph that will let the reader know what your free report is about. Include something that will serve as a teaser, catching the interest of the reader. Include the link over to your free report. Try to use classified ad web sites that rate high with the search engines. This should produce some traffic to your free report in just a few days. Here are some sites:
E-Book Directories
Another alternative is to get your free report listed in listings of E-book directories. Look for directories that focus in some manner on topics that are related to the subject matter of your free report. This will make it easier for people to come across the link to your free report while looking for information online. This approach is a little less direct than the classified ads, but can still lead to some excellent traffic for your free report.
Article Marketing
Another avenue of promoting your free report is to target web sites that invite authors to write articles on a variety of subjects. Write a two hundred to five hundred word article about a topic that involves some aspect of the information found in your free report. Include a link to the free report either in the body of the article, or in the author description. Make it a point to go with one of the article sites that tends to rate high with the search engines, and you may find some great traffic coming to you from that angle. Here are some good article directories in which you may distribute your articles:
Making sales with your free report involves three basic elements:
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Stanley Tang
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Hi, I’m Stanley Tang – a 19 year old tech entrepreneur, author and student. Since 2006, I’ve been building internet businesses ranging from online magazines to social web applications. I also published a book called eMillions, which was a #1 best-seller on Amazon.com.
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Hi Stanley,
Just stumble upon your site, totally love your site and this particular post. So, I decide to leave a comment here to intro and also connect with you.
Those are all great traffic strategies that I personally use them too. There’s some nuggets of gold in which you mentioned about Classified ads which a lot of newbie do not know how to leverage on them.
Nevertheless, great meeting and look forward to catch up with you.
To Your Success,
Roy Phay
http://www.RoyPhay.com