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Ethical Parasite Marketing
Ethical Parasite Marketing
In this month’s issue of DotComSecrets, Russel Brunson President of DotComSecrets
skill-fully explains how you can become an Ethical Traffic Parasite
and how you can use the concept of Parasite Marketing to drive targeted traffic to your website or blog.
The First Thing You Should Know There is nothing wrong with being a Traffic Parasite even though
the name indicates otherwise.
It is in fact a very easy and clever way of marketing. Especially if you don’t generate much traffic by yourself.
So what is Parasite Marketing? Parasite Marketing is done by you attaching yourself to an already existing
traffic source that is similar to your own, website, product or theme.
Just like a Parasite that attaches itself to an animal.
Some Juicy Rewarding Tactics Used By Traffic Parasite Marketers Revealed
Some of the favorite methods of leeching traffic for the Traffic Parasite is
- Blog Post Leeching
- Commenting on Live TV Shows
- becoming a Testimonial or Caste Study
to name the most commonly used leeching tactics.
#1 Blog Post Leeching
This tactic is easy to understand, easy to use but timing was hard for the first Traffic Parasites.
The idea is for the Parasite to be the first to comment on very popular blog posts on blogs in the same industry
or theme of your own website, blog or product.
After a new post is posted on the very popular blog a lot of people will read it. When you are the first to
comment on the blog post a large portion of the readers that found that blog post interesting is very likely to
read your comment as well.
You can get massive exposure this way, Russel Brunson experience doing this is that making comments
this way can get you 200 to 300 new subscribers or more every time you post.
So this is definitely something that is worth doing right. Before posting though make sure you read how to
make a good comment so your post isn’t deleted.
Read about how to make a good comment later in this article.
Blog Post Leeching – The Difficulty and The solution One of the problems the first Parasite Marketers
experienced was the difficulty in being the first person to comment on any new hot blog post simply because
they didn’t know when that post was made.
Since sitting and manually refresging the popular blog wasn’t very effective the challenge was simply to be
notified when a blog post was made.
Sure now days we have RSS with all the bells and whistles but that also requires you to be behind your
computer manually looking at it to see if it had updates.
Luckily there is a solution to this problem and the best part is that it is free.
http://www.CommentSniper.com is a program that assists you in notifying you whenever a post is made on
any of the leading blogs in your niche. This allows you to run to the blog and post your comment.
Find out how to post a great comment later in this article.
#2 Commenting on Live TV Shows
A new trend in Online Marketing is to hold a live TV Show. In short the person broadcasting the TV Show
does so by allowing his web camera to be publicly broadcasted by a service provider.
Two commonly used services for this is http://www.ustream.tv and http://www.justin.tv
The Parasite Marketer joins a highly popular TV Show relating to his or her own niche. The Parasite Marketer
joins and uses his or her own website or blog url as the nickname in the TV Show chat window.
During the course of the show the Parasite Marketer writes high quality, high use value comments related to what
the show host is currently talking about.
The effect is that the other viewers of the show are likely to see you, the Parasite Marketer as an authority figure in
your niche and visit your site.
Learn more about how to become an Authority Figure or Expert here
#3 Become a Testimonial or Case Study
The third method the Parasite Marketer uses to ethically steel traffic is by becoming a Testimonial or Case Study.
This exposes you either on a sales page or other highly Exposed page, this will showcase you as an Authority Figure
or a successful person.
The tricky part here is to figure out how you can become one.
Connecting with people that creates and launches products related to your niche is probably your best bet.
The same goes for becoming a Case Study.
The end result in both cases is the same. More traffic finds it’s way to your website or blog.
What to think about when you write Comments on Blogs or Live TV Shows
The most important thing to remember is that your Comment should support the Author or TV Show Host since
writing bad comments can get your comment deleted or you being kicked out of the TV Show chat.
Some other guidelines are
- The Comment should add to the comment or topic of discussion.
- Be of High Quality packed with High Use value
- If you don’t agree don’t post
- By making your information useful for others that read the blog post or watches the TV
Show you apear as an Authority or Expert Figure.
I Highly recommend you to learn more about how You Yourself can be seen as an Authority or
Expert figure by Signing up for Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring course, you will learn more
about Online Marketing as well.
In Closing
I hope you have been inspired to use some of these Parasite Marketing Traffic Leeching
Concepts in your own marketing efforts.
Below you will find a list of useful resources so you can start to implement this
marketing concept straight away.
It’s up to you now to take action and get some more traffic to your website.
And like NIKE Says, JUST DO IT!
Resources Mentioned
- Russel Brunson
- Mike Dillard’s – Magnetic Sponsoring
- http://www.CommentSniper.com
- http://www.ustream.tv
- http://www.justin.tv
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