Viral Marketing Tips and Ideas

Any marketing strategy that encourages people to pass on a marketing message voluntarily to others is viral marketing. A successful viral marketing campaign will spread your marketing message like virus and reach your marketing message to thousands, ten thousands or even hundred thousands of people. And as a result, it generates massive amount of traffic to your websites or blog and increase your products sales and AdSense revenue. Below are some of the tips and ideas that can help you start a viral marketing:

1. Write an e-book related to your products, website or blog. Make sure you have mentioned that your e-book is free to give away and included links to your sales website and blog in the content of the e-book. Upload the e-book to your site and blog to allow your visitors download it free. If your visitors find that your e-book is worth reading, then they might recommend your e-book to their friend, share with online communities by the posting link to download your e-book in forums and social networking websites. Thanks to your visitors help on spreading your e-books all over the Internet, you get a lot of free website and blog traffic. In addition of that, web publishers who always want to provide value to their visitors may recommend your e-books in their website and blog.

2. Write articles and publish them on your website and article directories with reprint rights that allow your readers to republish them in their websites, blogs, magazines, e-zines or newsletter. Each article should contain a resource box at the bottom promoting your website, blog, products or services that others must publish them if they reprint or republish your articles on other places.

3. If you experience a lot in web design. You may consider spending some time to create some website and blog templates, graphic, headers, etc. Upload them to your website and give away free to anyone interested. Like e-book, people who like you web design freebies will mention your download link in forums discussion, blogs and websites; and your website gain free exposure from that. Also make sure that you place a link back to your site in the copyright notice of each template and people who use them keep your copyright notice in tact.

4. A forum or other bulletin board can also be a great tool for viral marketing. You can build a forum for people to interact and discuss with each other. Grow your forum to become a favorite place for people to discuss and search for new info and your forum's members will start telling their friends and family to participate and interact with them in the forum.