Almost anyone who has tried submitting to free-for-all sites
will say that they are no longer worth the effort as a traffic
generating tool. Automated FFA submissions to "millions" of
sites are also not that useful as most of these sites are only
ever "visited" by automated submission scripts and not by human
eyes. The only thing these auto submission tools achieve is to
get your e-mail address bombarded with "confirmation" e-mail
from the FFA page owners.
Many unsuspecting users who submitted their personal e-mail
address to these submission tools have suffered incredible
frustrations because of the "spam" they receive. (Technically
they are confirmatory e-mail that the submitters agreed to
receive.)
However. one previous "victim" of confirmatory "spam" managed to
turn the tables around with a very ingenious twist to the
process.
He basically submitted his web site using the FFA auto
submission tools and agreed to get the "millions" of
confirmatory email...but submitted an e-mail address that led to
an autoresponder that replied back to these emails with a "thank
you for your offer which I'm considering...please have a look at
my web site in the meantime" type e-mail.
Incidentally, Outlook Express also has message rule function
which we can use to achieve a similar effect. Simply click on
"tools", "message rules", "mail", "mail rules", "new", "where
the message is from the specified account"(the e-mail account
you intend to receive confirmatory "spam" with), and "reply with
message", then specify the message you want to reply with.
Don't forget to also freely distribute your e-mail address to
multiple mailing lists, classified ads sites, and anywhere that
is likely to get your address "spammed" The best part is when
"spambots", and bulk e-mail address harvesters etc. pick up your
e-mail address and it gets included in those "e-mail 100000
prospects for $49.95" offers, you'll be promoting your site to
many people with absolutely no effort on your part at all!
Have fun with this one.
About the author:
Terence Tan is the founder of MLAP.net, a website dedicated
towards the development of Multi Level Affiliate Programs as an
alternative system of business. Visit http://mlap.net to learn
how MLAPs can multiply your affiliate referral commissions.
