How to Build Traffic using FFA Sites

By: Ray Ricardo
Submitted: 2009-04-23 14:24:59
Print this article | Tell a friend | For publisher |

Rating:

 

FFA stands for Free For All. Basically, an FFA site is nothing but a constantly rotating list of web sites. People list (advertise) their web site on the FFA page in hopes of generating traffic to their site. The owner of the FFA site sends a "confirmation" (advertising) e-mail to the contact address every time a web site is submitted for listing. Every FFA page owner does this every time.

There are a zillion FFA sites out there. There is even software available (FFA Blaster) that will submit your web site link to thousands of FFA pages at once. There are also "Link Advertising" sites that offer to submit your web site to "a thousand search engines" so that you can start getting more traffic to your site. What they mean is that they will submit your site to Yahoo, AltaVista, and 998 FFA pages.

The novice takes them up on their offer and gets 998 "confirmation" messages from the FFA owners. The experienced user knows about the "confirmation" e-mails so he uses a bogus address, so he won't get overwhelmed by the traffic. The real purpose of having

an FFA site is so the owner can collect addresses to send his advertising mail to.

Here are some great tips I picked up from Terry Telford, a marketing guru.

Instead of trying to get leads by posting to FFA sites, why not own an FFA site? Owning an FFA site gives you the ability to contact every person that posts to your site? Is this realistic? Yes. Try it and you will be pleasantly surprised by the results.

If you had multiple FFA sites, how many sales would you make? Sure it will take a bit of time and money to set up all these sites, but once you have the initial set up complete, your future costs are covered by your sales.

There is a trade off between quantity and quality. FFA leads are quantity leads. Most of the addresses that prospects use at FFA sites are collection addresses. Most mail is only trashed and not read. To grab the attention of the prospects that skim their mail before trashing it, your headline has to scream out your loudest benefit and grab the attention of the mailbox owner.

Owning an FFA site costs a bit of money. Some sites cost around $20 per month. The best FFA site I've found is MPCM, Massive Passive Cash Machine.You get your own FFA site that feeds you over 1000 leads a day, a Safe list site for posting your ads daily and a box load of other goodies. The Massive Passive Cash Machine gives you a multitude of other services for your marketing efforts. Each day you get a list of email addresses from your FFA site that you can send your ads to. It's a very efficient system

A word of warning to those who are new to FFA sites. You get a massive amount of mail when you post to an FFA site, or send your offer to prospects who have posted to your site. Make sure you use a free mailbox or several free mail boxes to collect the mail that comes back to you. You will be overwhelmed by mail if you use your regular address.

Don't just trash all of your 'junk mail.' There are some legitimate offers that will come your way. By taking the time to scan your 'junk mail' for possible gems, you may find marketing techniques that you can use in the promotion of your sites.

FFA sites can help you make sales. I wouldn't recommend using only FFA sites to promote your online business, but it should be a tool in your marketing toolbox. As long as you are getting fresh leads every month and you are making sales without investing too much time, then continue to use your FFA site.

Article source: Expert Articles