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How to Get Your Visitors To "Tell A Friend  by: Dawn Gray Does your website offer visitors a quick and easy way to recommend it to a friend? If not, you're missing out on a potential gold mine of free traffic. The benefits: Automated website promotion. You set up the program and your visitors do the work of promoting your website for you. You receive higher quality visitors. Your visitors will refer people *really interested* in your products or services. These people will be more likely to subscribe to your newsletter, request your free reports, and ultimately BUY YOUR PRODUCTS! Nobody will every be insulted or upset by this promotion technique (as long as you make it clear that the message comes from their friend). People can only participate if they visit your website, and email will only be sent by people the recipient knows. Just asking your visitors to recommend your website isn't enough. You need to make it easy. Offer a form on your website your visitors can fill out to recommend it to a friend. Either put the form on every page of your website, put it in a pop-up window, or link to it on every page. There are many ways to do it: Javascript. See the Javascript resources on my Webmaster Resources page at http://www.busymarketing.com/links.shtml for a website with instructions on how to use the script. CGI. I really like Birdcast at http://www.bignosebird.com - it's what I use on my website. You can find more options on my Webmaster Resources page. A service. Many remotely-hosted scripts are available. The most popular is Recommend-It at http://www.recommendit.com (which offers a contest as an incentive and allows you to add recommendation links to the email you send out). There is also a free program called Let 'Em Know at http://www.letemknow.com which allows you to run your own contest for participants and probably offers more statistics. Either can be set up in 5 minutes or less. Javascript and CGI scripts have the benefit of being completely under your control. You can customize them to work on your website and decide if and how visitors are notified about the origin of your script. Services are easier to set up, but have to make a living somehow and may use advertising or big, tacky buttons with their name and/or logo in order to do so. Don't delay! Set up a Tell-A-Friend system on your website to watch the number and quality of your visitors improve without raising a finger. About The Author Would you like to see more articles like this? Dawn Gray writes Busy Marketing Tips! Subscribe today by emailing subscribe@busymarketing.com and get a free Search Engine Tips screensaver. This article was posted on January 20, 2002 Read More Articles from the "Site Promotion" Category: How To Use Paid URL Inclusion To Increase Your Web Site Ranking by Daniel Foreman Why Hire SEO Professionals by Avneet Sethi SEO Best Practice: Befriend The Directories by Otilia Otlacan Pixel Advertising by Neville Ridley-Smith Would You Let A Dog Or A Butler Market Your Website? by Michael Cheney SEO Consulting: What is It? Do you Need It? by Moe Tamani Yes! Getting Targetted Hits To Your Website Is Still FREE! by Prashant Parikh Measuring the difficulty and merit of SE positioning results by John Tello Tips to Increase Link Popularity by Monica Villarreal Get Over $100 Worth Of FREE Traffic - No Strings Attached! by Michael Hopkins << Back to "Site Promotion" Index

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