Opt In Marketing Getting Traffic To Your Opt In Page To Build Your List

The first thing we have to remember when we are building up our processes for list building are the two main components, our squeeze page and our traffic.

If you don't already have a squeeze page and a free gift to giveaway, take a look at convincing squeeze pages in your marketplace that you find on the Internet, that are setup for opt in marketing.

You can use them for a starting template and edit them in something like the free NVU editor. You'll also need to get an autoresponder account, I recommend Aweber for most people.

This article will focus on what you need to do next though, to get traffic to the page and start building that influx of people to your list.

Traffic is pretty much defined as the numbers of people coming to your site, on a daily basis.

So, why do some sites only have 3 visitors a day, while some have 300 or 3,000+? Basically in most cases, the people organizing the starter sites don't have a clear understanding of the basic way the Internet works to direct the conduits of traffic.

Some people say use PPC (eg: Google Adwords) and other paid techniques. This is not really fitting here and I'll tell you why. A basic list building exercise just starting out is not receiving revenue (money) off the the opt-ins. If you are smart, your thank you page will have some revenue opportunities in there (I prefer recurring income programs.)

But, in any event, when you're starting out in the beginning you won't be able to justify the 50c-$3.00 per click that Adwords will cost you, and there's no reason to have to pay that.

So, what are some more stable, and sustainable traffic methods to build your list fast?

Remember, that things will seem slow at first, but what you are doing will start to multiply and grow and will soon snowball hugely! It's exciting stuff, I was surprised how fast it happened to me, seemingly near silence then an explosion of traffic and opt ins!

Here's how to get started:

1) Find your top 2-3 keywords for your niche and focus on those in your opt-in page. What this means is to do basic keyword research with Adwords Keyword Tool. You're looking for at LEAST 500 searches a month. And, then go to Google and search for these terms. Focus on ones with less than 500K competing web pages (it tells you on the top right corner).

2) Find a way to write 2 articles per day of 400-600 words, each one focused on one of your top 2 keywords. (It should appear once in the title, summary, and body of the article. It should also be anchor text meaning that the keyword should have your site behind it as the link behind the keyword.

3) Write a resource box of at least 250 characters, which can be a generic sort of natural flow from any article. It should be like a continuation in the subject and should have your link itself at the end to get more information.

4) Publish these articles to as many article sites as you can using Articlemarketer.com, or similar article posting services. This will save you a huge amount of time.

5) Think of ways you can reuse the content and re-purpose it for PR Releases, audios, videos, blog posts, forum posts, etc. All to create more backlinks back to your site.

6) Be Consistent. If you really put 2 articles a day through the process, within a few weeks you'll start to see real traffic to your site, and your list will begin to be built on autopilot!