In reality, it also isn't a virus at all.

A traffic virus is just termed a virus because it has a few of the same features to it. It will spread itself around the Net automatically from person to person without you even being involved.

Unlike a computer virus, it isn't damaging to the recipients. It helps them instead! This is the key aspect to a traffic virus, it helps the users and this causes them to send it to their friends.

The key to the viral system (another term for a traffic virus) is that friends and family must come to your web site. They in turn will send their friends and family to your web site. This never-ending cycle will continually bring new visitors to your web site who you market your products and services to. It becomes an automatic traffic generator.

Here are a few examples of possible viral marketing strategies:

• Postcards - Visitors send postcards to family and friends. Their recipients visit your site to read their postcard, then send postcards to people they know. The cycle continues for automated traffic.

• Send an Article - You provide readers with an article containing valuable content, then allow them to send this article to their friends. Of course, you do the sending automatically for them.

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