Unfortunately, making money online is a really difficult task. If you are not a marketing guru who can convert every 1000 visitors to $100 a day, you have to play the game according to the traditional rules. Rule #1 is simple but clearly explains everything. If you don’t have visitors you can’t make money. I will give you some clues (in no importance order) how I artificially increase my traffic when there is not enough Google search juice.

Don’t forget that these techniques are not for the long term but a quick and dirty approach to use for your specific pages to get cash as soon as possible. For example, you could be marketing an advertising network like Chitika etc. to get referrals as fast as you can.

• Use Google Analytics and look weekly where your visitors come to your specific page. Get the top list and stumble upon, digg them if you didn’t. If you have some time, post these articles using services like SocialMarker.com. You will get visitors as well because there are your links in those articles. If the traffic is from a comment you dropped before, write another useful comment on another popular article on the source site to refresh it.
• Use Facebook effectively. Create a page there and drop some useful content. Find some related forums and advertise your product page. Add new people from US cities to friend list. It is not hard but a little bit black hat. Find an attractive model photo, make your homepage to your ads page and your inbox will get hundreds of new friendship offers in a few day. Many of them will become your fans as well This is suitable especially if you are advertising a product page to get CPA cash constantly. It is quite popular in blackhat style moneymakers and Facebook seems to be not fighting with these evil money makers at all.
• Throw many Google Adwords campaigns on the network with the price of 0.01 dollar for a click with small broad word sets. Since most make money online bloggers are from Malaysia, Philippines and India limit the target to these countries. If your target page is a good opportunity to make money online, you will get back multiples of what you spend in terms of referrals.
• Do not check daily your earnings statistics for Adsense, statcounter or other income sources. Since you are not a media baron making millions of dollars, why to lose time with those little cash and dream for more. Don’t be slave to dreams. A weekly check is enough to see overall progress. Ok, it is a strategical thing, I admit.
• Do not waste your time writing usernames and passwords for the websites you extensively use each day over and over. Trust Firefox and save your information. It is quite useful if you use socialmarker because you don’t need to enter username and passes to every social network. This one is strategical as well.
• Don’t waste your Entrecard ECs in empty articles. Empty article is an article where you don’t get anything since you don’t have affiliate links inside. Instead, search for a profitable offer and if you believe you get many referrals chargeeeeeeeee with your 10,000 ECS in the network.
• Join free advertising networks like Mogado peel ads. This will bring a good click through rate because people wonder what resides under this cover.  Noticed the ads on the right top of my website?
• Advertise cheap on Adtoll with geo targeting. It is quite effective. There are many websites which you will pay only 0.01 for world wide traffic or 8 cents for targeted US traffic.
• Do not afraid to experiment with your money. I spend at least 10% of what I earn to increase my possibilities to earn more. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. The most important thing is it is calculated and in the budget.

As I said, it is a quick article (not strategical development) which I hope that it has given you some clues.

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