Ebay Can Be a Good Source of Free Website Traffic

Website traffic: we all want it and we all need it.

One of the most difficult things to do as a webmaster is to get good quality traffic to your website, especially free traffic.

We want it bad and can't get enough of it.

We pay for it, trade links with other websites and tweak our web pages for better search engine rankings to get it.

Here's a way to get free targeted traffic to your website and best of all it's free!

If you have an Ebay sellers account an run auctions, you can use those auctions to drive more traffic to your website and/or affiliate sites.

It can easily be done by effectively using your "About Me" page.

Currently, Ebay doesn't allow you to link to websites outside of Ebay from your auction pages. However, you are allowed to link to other websites from your "About Me" page.

Take advantage of your Ebay "About Me" page by using your marketing skills to transform it into a mini-website.

Give it all the bells and whistles of a traditional website. This includes a way for visitors to subscribe to your newsletter too.

My Ebay about me page is responsible for a great number of my newsletter subscribers.

To maximize the traffic flow to your "About Me" page, simply place a short text ad at the top or bottom (or both) of all your Ebay auction pages.

Your ad should offer something of value to the visitors of your auction page.

Offer them a free ebook or free report as an incentive to visit your about me page. Free information is what drives the internet and it works on auction sites too.

You can find quality free ebooks and/or reports related to just about any subject. Just search the internet, there's a ton of free material out there for the taking.

However, you should be absolutely sure that you use something that is intended to be distributed freely, before you start giving it away.

Here's an Example of how I use this simple method to drive traffic to my website and, at the same time, build my opt-in list.

My offer reads something like this: "Grab a copy of this exclusive ebook"... (insert an image of your ebook in your ad if possible). Simply go to my "About Me" page and grab your free copy Click Here ( with hyperlink to your about me page).

That's it!

When they get to your "About Me" page have the ebook there available for free, as you stated on your auction page.

Instead of just making it a free-for-all, you should require them to subscribe to your newsletter to get it.

Place a form on your page where they would enter their name and email address. You can set this up with any free autoresponder. Have the autoresponder email them information on how and where to download the free ebook.

This will help to build your list. If you don't have a list, this is a good way to start building one.

An added twist would be to use an ebook that is branded with your affiliate links. This will create even more traffic to your affiliate sites.

Now, on your "About Me" page you should have text links to your website and/or affiliate sites. Be sure to use text links because they are more effective than banner ads. But don't go overboard. I would suggest that you use no more than 3 links on this page.

Be sure to place your ad on all your auction pages. The more auctions
you have running, the more traffic you will receive.

You will be totally surprised at how effective this technique is.

To monitor your results, simply place a free stats tracker or counter on your about me page and on the pages with links from your "About Me" page.

Here's a good website tracker that I use. This will give you all the statistical details you will need: http://www.addfreestats.com/

Now just sit back and watch the results!