Just like the latest trends, holidays are things you should be taking advantage of annually. And with that said, Thanksgiving is here and of course, Black Friday!
For those of you guys that celebrate Thanksgiving as a holiday, I want to say Happy Thanksgiving! And for those that do not, at least eat all the traditional foods, especially if you’re going over someone else’s house and eating for free!
But with that said, all online entrepreneurs should (and most already do) take advantage of holidays to make some extra cash as well as build tons of traffic to their sites via search engines. And here are a couple of things you can/should do.
Take the Hottest Deals and Benefit From Them – If you don’t know about Black Friday, well, it’s probably the craziest shopping day throughout the U.S. Essentially, Black Friday is the day for the best deals for products and the cheapest deals you can find. I mean, people wait in lines for hours before stores even open. This is where you can use it to your benefit.
We’ll start with taking the hottest deals and how it can help you with tons of traffic. First, you find a hot product that everyone wants to buy. You can simply do this by going to any of the major store websites. We’ll use Bestbuy.com as our example.
Once you go to Bestbuy.com, right on the frontpage it shows what’s for sale. If not, you can also try clicking on their weekly ad sales to see other products. But since it was just Black Friday and Thanksgiving, they still have the holiday sales on there.
Since I know that Blu-Ray players have become a big deal within the past month or two, everyone is trying to get it for cheap. What you do is find the exact model that is on-sale through Bestbuy.com and simply blog out it, build a couple of links and you’re almost guaranteed more traffic based on that.
Essentially, you’ll be taking advantage of the holiday traffic and since everyone is in their holiday shopping mode (and wanting to save); they’re trying save money or find out more information on those products.
If you need more help with this, you can always check out how I do keyword research or subscribe to get the password to my $100/day Adsense post.
Affiliate Marketing with Targeted Products – It works the same with affiliate marketing because you’re essentially promoting a product that someone would be interested in.
But not only for hot items like Blu-Ray players or anything, you also have to remember that people travel a lot during the holidays. There are a lot of travel campaigns out there and I’m sure everyone is trying to find the cheapest airplane tickets so use that to your advantage when picking out your affiliate marketing campaigns.
In addition, this is probably the best time to take advantage of Amazon.com, Chikita and other advertising networks that promote products.
Build Adsense Sites or Landing Pages for Products – Some people may think this isn’t really worth doing because with holiday products, they are only hot for a certain period, but you’re wrong… well, somewhat.
If you build an Adsense site for a specific product, you want to make sure that won’t be the only version of it. For instance, say you build an Adsense site around Blu-Ray players, well, that obviously is going to be the next big thing which also means there will be plenty of Blu-Ray models, designs, gadgets, etc for them.
So, not only will you have to do minimal maintenance work for it, your traffic will be automatic because people will always be searching for those products and more importantly, we all know search engine traffic = money!
If you need help, you can read how I build my niche websites or create landing pages with Wordpress.
Those are just a few things you can do to take advantage of. The holidays are just one thing, but you shouldn’t stop at that. I only used holidays as an example because we all know it happens every year but if you keep up with the latest trends, you should have no problem using that to your benefit.
Let me know if you have questions!
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You are so right Jay. I also write for Huliq.com and this is also one of the strategies we use to gain more traffic…for those that think Jay is just blowing steam, you are missing out on some valuable information.
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well its really great to take advantage of the holiday wherein people are really looking to find something.
another good building traffic tips. i wonder so many people talk about traffic tips but i think it wasn’t working unless do some organic traffic.
i do believe in organics link building than the others trick.
I love the holidays. Had no idea what Black Friday was, though so couldn’t do anything.
This is a real cool way to leverage the current market. You can also check out shop and dealtime .com.
We don’t have a black friday here in our country. But i wish we do, so i could enjoy the coolest gadgets for a low price
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Like your style and timing in writing. Yeah it’s holiday, we must try to make money from it, and viola, you give us a great tips. Thanks.
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Some great tips there. Unfortunalty for me, my traffic seemed to go down the last few days. Not sure why that is. Perhaps people out enjoying themselves and not surfing for my kind of sites!
Also, none of your links seem to work. All say Not Found when you click on them.
Teasa – Yeah, it definitely works out GREAT! But I’ll have to check out your other site.
Melvin – And luckily there’s a holiday almost every month to take advantage of.
Exinco – Well, you need to know the basics of link building at the very least.
Jason – Well, now you know for next year. I’m pretty sure you’ll use your geniusness to make $xx,xxx in that one day!
L Weng – There are other websites as well…
Blogging from Scratch – I’m sure you can still find the deals online, right?
Dewaji – We don’t HAVE to, but then again, we need some money to go shopping too, huh?
Debt Free Living – Eh, don’t beat yourself up for the traffic, it happens. But thanks for the heads up on the links, I don’t know what happened but I fixed all of them.
Jay
too bad i had to work on black friday, otherwise i could have made/saved some extra money from the holiday shoppings :/
-jack
Good to see – you are having pretty good time.
Yup and also good for building some backlinks..
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I know Ill benefit from the fact that I should have some more free time to work on some projects. Normal weeks are so hectic and it never seems I have enough time to get things done.
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Some good points made here for sure.
I like your idea about building niche sites and creating landing pages to support your marketing post.
I’ll read those 2 articles next!
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