1. You need to subscribe to an email marketing service like Aweber.
2. Add your opt-in form (which you’ll obtain from Aweber) on to your Facebook Fan page.
3. Offer a free gift like a report or a video to motivate your fans to opt-in to your mailing list.

Since adding an opt-in form can be a bit technical for many people, here’s a cool video I found that shows you how to do it…

Click here to view the embedded video.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

Well, I’m guessing the executives at Facebook have never heard the saying before because if they have, they wouldn’t have shot themselves in the foot by redesigning their home page.

According to several online polls, over 90% of Facebook users hate the new design. And I am one of them.

Their original home page design was just fine. I don’t understand why they feel the need to tinker with it. The redesign has now turned into a public relations headache for them.

So, the lesson of the day is:

Listen to your customers. Unless they tell you that they want something changed, leave it alone.

Social bookmarking sites (e.g. Digg, StumbleUpon) store lists of internet resources that users have found useful by category, tags or randomly. These bookmarked sites and pages can be shared with other people who have similar interests.

These links can also be organized by user defined keywords or tags (called folksonomy). Resources can be rated by users, include email links, have comments added, be sorted by popularity and algorithms that draw inferences from other keyword references and participate in automated notification systems.

Social bookmarking links can also be included in your press section and press releases.

There are many social bookmarking services which allow users to add web pages to their bookmark list.

As a blogger, you benefit from having someone add a page from your site to their social bookmark list. Your web page will become searchable in the entire bookmark directory and is available to all members of the service. People will also be inclined to share it with others. This is a great way to build your blog’s audience and increase exposure.

Just by adding a special link to your blog posts, your visitors can add a page from your website to their social bookmark list. There are now over fifty different services available to manage social bookmarks.

On StartupRebel.com, we use the ShareThis widget for social bookmarking, which you can see at the bottom of this article.

If you want to add the ShareThis widget to your blog, click here to get started.

1. Find YouTube videos relevant to your market that has a high number of views, subscribers and external links.

For example, if you have a website about dancing, look for the twenty most popular dance videos on YouTube.

2. Contact the account holders and offer to buy their account.

Most YouTube users are just posting videos for fun. So if you offer money for something that they consider worthless, they may just accept your offer.

3. Add your link to the video’s description.

Once you’ve taken over an account, add your site’s URL to the description and watch your traffic grow. Of course, you should also insert a tracking link so that you can monitor the effectiveness of your strategy.

And make sure you insert a live link.

For more unusual traffic strategies, do check out the Startup Rebel Competitive Magic course. It’ll teach you how to compete for traffic against competitors with bigger budgets.