Need an Easy Way to Boost Traffic to Your Website? Use a Simple Tell-A-Friend Script

August 25, 2009

Viral marketing is an amazing thing: with only the barest of time, money and effort, a website can effectively market itself to thousands of people across large social networks online. So it is probably of no surprise that most blogs, affiliate web pages, and even corporate websites nowadays are using this simple marketing strategy to boost traffic. If you own a blog or web business yourself, then you might also be thinking of using viral marketing to get your site heard on the web. And if that’s the case, then the best viral marketing approach you can use is the simple tell-a-friend script.

If you want to market your blog website virally but do not want all the hassle, you might want to try out the simple tell-a-friend script. Also known as the viral friend script or tell-a-friend code, the tell-a-friend script is an HTML or PHP computer script embedded on the website that enables users to recommend the site to others via e-mail. Visitors of the site simply have to fill up an online form (provided by the script) with their name, message, and the e-mail addresses of the people they want to send the recommendation to. Once the Send button has been clicked, the script will automatically forward the message as e-mail to the target recipients.

With the simple tell-a-friend script, the website is promoted by its visitors to their friends and family, who in turn can promote it to others. What’s more, because everything is done by e-mail, the website spends little resources on propagating the recommendations virally.


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