Great tip for generating buzz and revenue simultaneously

Generating hype or buzz for your website, brand or product is one of the most important aspects of runnning a succesful website or web business. But it's not always easy to do. You have to work on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) that increases the likelihood of getting your webpages onto the top SERP (Search Engine Results Page).

Getting to the top of search engine rankings is super important, make no mistake, because it generates organic traffic and this is extremely valuable because it is long lasting and targetted. SEO and search engines are not the only way to go, however. These days it is equally important, some would say more, to use social marketing and networking features to drive traffic.

Social marketing can be tricky because self-promotion is almost universally frowned upon. This means, you can't take your shiny new product and tell people about it wherever your please. That's not how the system works. You have to give a little first - entice or encourage readers to visit your site with interesting and engaging content.

Again, this is not particularly easy. A lot of thought has to go into optimizing your effort to produce exactly the right content and share it in the right places. If you're interested in learning more, you can try the one day, crash course in SEO, social marketing and traffic building for people who aren't already rich and famous, available on Amazon in Kindle as well as online.

But, I digress... Here's the tip:

Why does this work, and how does it earn revenue? Well, making interesting and/or controversial predictions that can be easily shared on any number of social networks is a fun, free and most important engaging way to get yourself in front of lots of eyeballs. If your predictions are popular enough they can go viral, giving you a real traffic boost.

And the revenue? Each prediction on topulo.us is allowed up to three reference links. So link to a related product with an affiliate link, or link back to your book or product on your website to boost sales directly, or link back to your blog or website to increase traffic and ad revenue.

Check out this prediction about one of the latest, most widely anticipated video games in the world, Portal 2:

Note, in particular, the:

• affiliate links that allow people to go and read up more about each version of the game.
• social media buttons to allow you and your readers to share the prediction socially

Simple, effective, quick and free social marketing.