Building Traffic

The current affiliate module (http://drupal.org/project/affiliate) needs some work. Some features that could be added:

Payout Options

• Pay affiliates using PayPal
• Pay-Per-Sale (Percentage)
• Pay-Per-Sale (Flat Rate Payout)
• Pay-Per-Click (Unique Visitors Only)
• Pay-Per-Lead
• Custom payout levels
• Different payouts based on user role
• Pay by giving in-site credit(eCommerce)

Link Generation

• HTML code generated for affiliates to copy & 0aste
• Text links

I've found one thing that works very well, if you are a programmer: create small/simple utilities and give them away on your site.

I've found no better way (short of buying ads) of generating massive site traffic. I've put several free Windows utilities on my site, one of them caught on in January of 2006 - mentioned on digg.com, lifehacker.com, and dailycupoftech.com, to name but a few. This single item is now responsible for much of the traffic to my main corporate site right now (I'm taking steps to increase traffic to the other content, organically, so it'll take time.)

I've found MyBlogLog to be a useful tool for promoting a site and gaining new sources of site visitors.

I've created a MyBlogLog module to simplify the task of adding MyBlogLog support to a Drupal-based site. You can check it out here:

http://drupal.org/project/mybloglog

If you have any experience with MyBlogLog and building site traffic, let's talk about it here!

I've had some success in building traffic by using the Ping module (and more recently, the multiping module (more info here).

I have the multiping module configured to ping ping-o-matic and technorati. I've seen some new traffic coming in from those sites, but it's not growing very quickly. So, I'm trying to figure out how to get people's attention on those kinds of sites.