Traffic is what every website needs to be successful. It is traffic that
provides the income a website needs to sustain itself. And if it were a
business oriented website, you are going to achieve the sales quota for the
day to earn a good amount of money. While setting up a website seems
easy, driving traffic to it is actually the biggest problem of all.
But of course, for every problem, there is always a solution. To solve the
problem associated with a slow day on your website is the tell-a-friend
script. While the script won't necessarily give you the spike of traffic you
want in a day; it could certainly double your traffic at any point in time. The
tell-a-friend script works by giving your visitors the means to send a picture,
a part of the content you have on your site, or simply an invitation to check
out what you have up to their circle of friends.
The script capitalizes on the word of mouth principle. If one person finds
your website helpful, he most probably will share it with others. And if you
have a fully functional tell-a-friend script; he or she need not log on to his
mail client or instant messaging service. All he has to do is use the link on
your site that says 'email this to a friend' or 'invite a friend' and he will be
redirected to a page wherein they can instantly send their personal message
or a canned message to their friends. They’ll only need to supply the
recipient's email address and it is all done.
The tell-a-friend script can really work for you. People inviting their friends
to your site proposes to be a better marketing strategy than sending
massive spam mails to people you don't know. Not only that spamming is
considered illegal, you are also going to give your website a bad impression
to the very people you want to visit.
The tell-a-friend script eliminates that problem. To make the script work for
you, try to place it at the end of every content article you place on your site.
Let your visitors freely surf everything you have placed on your website,
read all information-rich articles, and browse through the pictures and
images you have posted. Just make sure that the link to send the content to
their friends are positioned optimally on every page so they can freely do so
with every chance they get.
If people receive an email from someone they know, they are more likely to
heed the invitation. Mail from people they trust have higher chances of being
read rather the emails from a site or a person they haven't heard of.
It is very important that the tell-a-friend script you use is placing the name
of the friend who recommends your site right on the subject part of the
email. If their friend's name is not shown, they are more than likely going to
ignore the message and treat it as spam. You don't want that to happen, so
you have to make sure that the person's real name, if possible, is showing at
all times.
Other than that, you can also store the email address you collect for future
contacts. With the tell-a-friend script, you can make a database full of email
addresses of real people. You are not supposed to use these email address
for marketing purposes, though. Part of your privacy policy is to use only the
email addresses you have acquired for the actual purpose intended. Don't
send unsolicited emails to those addresses or sell them to other people, as
doing that is also considered as spam and that is punishable by law.
The simple tell-a-friend script could give you better mileage on your website.
You can obtain most of these scripts for free. Just make sure that you get
them from reliable sources to be sure that you're not creating security
threats for your site. However, you can also have them customized by a
seasoned programmer. You might need to pay them for their services,
though. But then again, it is only a one-time deal. It's a good investment
because you will be able to maximize your visitors once you have the script
up and running.
When it comes to generating visitors, you should do everything necessary to
make your site successful, as far as unique traffic is concerned. And the tell-
a-friend script is definitely something that you can use to make things
happen for you and your website.
Read more:
>-How to Create Backlinks to Generate Traffic
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