How to build your own email list with free traffic methods?

If you want to know how to build your email list using free traffic methods, you should read this article.  In this article you will find out what should be used in order to attract people to join your list, and what are the two ways to drive traffic to your squeeze page and get people opt in to your list.  After reading this article, you should be able to get start building your list tomorrow and see results very soon.

Free Ebook, Software and Video Works Well

We all know that everybody loves free stuff.  And free, useful information is much more valuable than free crap.  So in order to attract people to opt in to your list, you should be able to provide some valuable information to your visitor in exchange of an email address.  You can pack your information, tips and tricks in PDF format.  However, it is not necessary to write long, 70 or even 100 pages books.  All you need is just 3 – 5 pages of “white paper” that describe the problem and how to solve it.  That will be fine.

After preparing your free stuff, the next step will be to drive traffic to your squeeze page.

Use Blog To Drive Traffic

There are many ways, both free or paid, to drive traffic to your website.  One of the methods is to use a blog.  It can be a free blog or you can have your own blog.  Then the next step will be to provide useful content in your blog.  To move one step further, if your blog content have keyword that you are trying to optimize presented in a natural way, search engine will be able to find and add your blog page to their index, which allow people to find and go to your website.

At the end of each blog post, you can put a link to your squeeze page.  If people like your blog content, they would follow your link naturally.

Use Forum To Drive Traffic

Another method is to make use of online forum.  First, you need to go to search engine to find out the forum that related to your niche and join.  After that you would need to go through the forum and find out what questions, especially the common one that people are asking.  Finally you just need to answer them sincerely, and include a link to your squeeze page if necessary.

Now that you have learnt the way to build an email list by using free traffic methods.  Remember that people love free but valuable stuff.  So in order to attract people to opt in to your site, your information should be able to solve other people’s problem.  After creating your free stuff, the next step is to drive traffic to your website.  Two of the most effective methods are writing blog post and answering questions in forum.  I hope that this can help you to build your list effectively.

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