These breakthrough online marketing ideas have proven to be extremely effective. Use them to boost the traffic to your website, and generate a nice income.

1. Provide your visitors with free content. Your content will be more attractive to your visitors if it's up-to-date or original. You could also offer people the option to reprint the content in their e-zine or web site.

2. Give your prospects extra incentives so they will order quicker. It could be free shipping, a faster shipping option, free gift wrapping, free ebook with useful information, etc. It must be something that is useful, and will help the to solve a problem.

3. Combine your products or services into one big package deal with other businesses offerings. You could share a web site and advertise the package deal; which means double the traffic, and a possibility for a lot more sales over time.

4. Create a directory of web sites on a specific topic. Give people the option of adding the directory to their web site by linking to it. Put your business advertisement at the top of the director's home page. This technique will get lots of people to link to your web site and give you free advertising. As a bonus, your search engine ranking will become a lot better when you get people to link to your website.

5. Exchange content with other web sites and ezines. You could trade articles, top ten lists, etc. Both parties could include a resource box at the end of the content. Make sure to post your articles to directories. Don´t know how to write quality articles? There are people who will write articles for you very cheap.

6. Follow-up regularly with all your prospects and current customers. When people see your ad more than once they are more likely to buy. Another point is that when you follow-up regularly, people will trust you ,and you will become an authority. This leads to more website traffic and sales!

Always test your advertising and marketing. You will save time, money and big headaches promoting the right offer to the right group of people. Use key codes with all your advertising so you will know which ad pulls, and which is not.