Internet Viral Marketing – What You Need to Know

By anitobopper | Dec 4, 2008

Internet viral marketing is one way to promote your site on the internet. Most internet viral marketing is generally free to implement. There’s a bit of a catch though, if you have a blog, it has to have original content that your readers would find useful and valuable that they will trust you as a good source of information. If it’s a mini-site you’re promoting, it has to have a solution that your target market earnestly need and want.

With that in mind, your internet viral marketing would generally consist of just informing readers and encouraging them to tell their friends as well as their contacts in their social network what your site is all about. If they find your site interesting, they in turn would tell their friends about it and so on and so forth…. So your site spreads in the internet in a viral sort of way – by word of mouth. This kind of internet marketing is one way to help your site get the much needed traffic you want.

But how does internet viral marketing really work? It really all boils down to being able to effectively propagate your name and URL through word of mouth and you can do this by giving away free e-books, e-courses, reports, PLR articles, e-zine submission (to your site of course), reseller or free distribution rights as well as utilizing conventional methods such as classified ads, press releases, print and other forms of media.

Although it’s coined “internet viral marketing”, this does not mean you cannot use conventional ways of promoting your site. Using a combination of technological and conventional promotion would help your internet viral marketing agenda.

Another internet viral marketing strategy I see on sites is that they use a “tell-a-friend” box. By letting your visitor tell 2-3 friends about your site, you maximize your internet viral marketing threefold with the help of your visitor.

Another internet viral marketing strategy is by giving a free distribution right on an e-book you made that allows your readers to also give away your e-book to their friends or readers. Don’t forget to strategically place your name and URL and maybe a contact page throughout the e-book. By doing so, your internet viral marketing is being done by not only you but also with the help of your readers as well. Just make sure that the content of the e-book is a valuable reference to anyone who reads it.

Internet viral marketing may be time consuming and needs a lot of networking to help you propagate your name and URL but the upside is that you don’t need tons of money to get it going. If you readily give useful and valuable information to your readers, it will just be a matter of time that they will trust you and would freely talk about your site or maybe give love links to your site on their own.

If you have affiliate products to promote or maybe ads placed strategically on your site, chances are your growing traffic brought about by internet viral marketing would have done its wonders and would generate a steady increase in income that would last you a lifetime.