After an Adwords campaign that has been fairly successful, you may be looking for other ways you can get lots of eyes on your ads, and drag them through to your websites. If Adwords hurt your wallet, then is it because you didn’t have a high enough quality landing page? Is it because your competitors were outbidding you? Or is it because Adwords is now one of the most guru dominant marketplaces in niche marketing?

It would have to be said that the latter is certainly true, whilst the former are just possibilities. You may not have heard, but Google now run TV ads. Not just videos appearing on websites, but live TV advertisements that run on national cable access channels in America. This is a step too far for some website owners, and they see it as a gimmicky way for Google to continue world domination.

If you can imagine Pay Per View marketing, but with extremely good demographic targeting, you would still be quite far from where Google TV Ads are. They enable you to pinpoint the exact type of viewer you want, and allow you to track them and improve your ads over time. Just like Adwords, you can set a budget, and then tailor your campaign. Amazingly, you can start on a budget of a few hundred dollars (though Google say you can start with $20). You just need a good video. And if you do not want to pay thousands of dollars for this, you can pay someone in the marketplace that Google have set up. This video for example cost around $500. You will agree that it is indeed a nice video, and would get some visitors to a website. If you add in the cost of impressions on your ad, you could get this up for about $1000. Considering the amount of people you could get to a niche site, that is monetized well, you may end up earning much more for your dollars than Adwords could ever provide. And remember – each ad is seriously targeted…

When you are looking for relevant places to advertise your website, you cannot really get much better than forums. They are a minefield for some people, but if you learn how to use them properly, and within the rules of the particular forum, they can be a goldmine. If the forum allows signatures, then you can put a link to your website in there and get some traffic flowing to your site for nothing. It will only cost your time, and will pay you dividends over many years. Your link will be on the internet as long as the forum is alive, and considering some big forums have been online since 1995 and going strong – it is genuinely a good investment of time.

If you can be the guy that provides the answers to people, then you can certainly be the one who gets a lot of traffic. People respect others who help people out, and if you can be that guy – then you will get the traffic. All you need to do is look for the questions that people are asking the most, and then go and research the product/service. You can usually find answers on places like Yahoo! Answers or Wikianswers. There’s also millions of online blogs. If you are willing to do the digging, and you enjoy helping people, this could end up being your sole source of traffic. A lot of people get traffic daily by helping people like this. If you get a reputation for being the forum’s ‘go to guy’, people are more likely to take what you say as authoritative, and any link you post will be followed. This is a good place to be.

If you cannot find the answer to a question, you can still actually participate in the conversation, by doing a little research on the niche, and then posting a comment. Even this has the capability to get traffic.