"Outside The Box" Techniques..

Hi and welcome back!

I realise it's been a while since I last did any blogging but what can I say? Life just seems to get in the way ;) - moving house, DIY work, new cat.. Nevertheless I'll continue as normal and make sure I do a good job providing you with informative content and report any results here.

What do you think to the new blog layout? I thought I'd go for a more simpler and fresher (less official) web 2.0 look.. hope you like it!

Anyway, in this post I thought I'd better blog about a traffic generation technique that I've only recently started applying and whether or not it has made a permanent impact to date and if it's something worth while doing in the future - software submission.

I'm sure you've heard of article submission and directory submission but not many seem to talk about software submission as a valid way of generating traffic.

So does software submission work? In short - YES. How much traffic? A few 100 clicks a month depending on the 'software' you submit. Is it worth doing?.. YES - because it's free, highly targeted and there's lots of room for competiton!

So how does one approach software submission?

You may think that you have to create a piece of complicated software but you'd be way off. You can compile HTML pages into an .exe file with a free HTML compiler and the software directories are more than happy to accept them and list it on their website for others to download.

Here's one I did earlier;


You can download it here;
http://www.digital-downloads-247.com/files/PCBooster.exe

As you can see, it's not really a piece of software - just webpages constructed into iframes and formatted into an .exe file.

For tracking I add a statcounter code to the eBook so I can tell straight off the bat how many downloads it's receiving.

To submit this little piece of software to multiple directories automatically I use a software called RoboSoft which submits your piece of software to over 1100 directories in literally hours.

There are 2 monetization techniques on this piece of software - an Email capture form and a link off to a ClickBank affiliate product - a registry cleaner in this case. Simply turn your content into an .exe eBook and link off to a related affiliate product. The software directories will provide the traffic for you and you make backend commission.

Don't think that you're limited to just 'computer-related' niches because I've even submitted random niche eBooks like 'PSP Hacks', 'Drawing', 'Tattoos' and 'Six-Pack Abs' and they are all receiving download traffic - even ones I submitted nearly a year ago!

Conclusion? If you're not submitting 'software' you're missing out on a lot of traffic and potentially a lot of sales. I would definitely recommed this technique for generating and building your list!

You can see a screenshot of the monthly traffic I'm receiving below..



Regards,
Aaron.