Traffic Generation
Traffic Generation Tips
Making money online with a website is impossible if you don’t have traffic. There are many ways to get traffic to your website but if you are starting out it is a better to start with a few solid techniques.
When you first put a website online, your aim should be to generate as much natural (organic) traffic as possible. Well optimized pages and a growing number of incoming links will help to improve your placement in the search engine results dramatically.
Getting links back to your website and traffic from those links can be achieved at the same time thus killing two birds with one stone. The following traffic generation techniques are some of the easiest ways to build a steady flow of traffic to your website.
Video Marketing
Video marketing is becoming increasingly popular as a means of getting traffic to your website. One benefit of video marketing is that it takes very little time. There are also a number of high ranking and popular websites that you can place your video on.
Sites like YouTube have a no follow link, which means that the link itself carries no value to your website. This is far outweighed by the potential for high the levels of traffic that video marketing can deliver. Many videos have gone viral and received millions of views so video marketing is a must for 21st century marketers.
Article Marketing and Directories
A great way to get both strong one way links and visitors to your website is article marketing. Writing and submitting articles to directories is a common traffic generating practice among the Internet Marketing community. It is well known that submitting an article is a good way to get a couple of strong incoming links. I have many articles that have a page rank of 2 and 3 and that is a nice link to get back to your website.
A good marketer will also know that a well written article can drive many visitors to your web page. Once again it is better to submit your articles to large high ranking websites like EzineArticles and GoArticles.
Article marketing can be time consuming but is a worthwhile and common practice. There are many resources and services to make the job less tedious and many people who will write articles for you.
If you are into article writing you might want to take a look at magic article re-writer.
Social Networking
Social Networking websites are also commonly used as a way to get traffic and links.
Like YouTube, some of the social networking websites have no follow links but again they can be a good source of traffic.
FaceBook, Twitter are the two most commonly used social networking sites and they both receive millions of visitors every month.
Forums and Blogs
Posting comments on high ranking forums and blogs can bring high levels of traffic. Once again many of them now have no follow links. Posting on big, important or related forums and blogs can be productive. However posting on the wrong blogs (which will be that vast majority) will most likely be a complete waste of your time.
Link Exchange
Exchanging links with relevant websites is another good way to build links and get traffic. There are a growing number of online services that making finding websites to exchange links with easy.
When exchanging links you should stick to websites that are relevant to your own. Where possible try to get links with a good page rank. This may be difficult if your website is new so you should take as many as you can get but keep them relevant.
As your website matures and your page rank increases you will find it easier to find exchanges with higher ranking sites. When this happens it is a good idea to avoid exchanging with too many lower ranking websites.
A Word Of Warning
Inbound links and traffic are the life blood of an online business but before you consider building a website you must be sure that you are targeting a profitable market. No matter how much traffic your website gets, if the market is not a buying market you will not make a significant income.
Fortunately there are one or two programs that cover this subject in great detail, both of which I have learned a great deal and have been successful.
Two of the better programs that I have found were Google Sniper and The 4 Day Money Making Blueprint.
