There are many ways to bring more traffic to your website, but I will tell about my favorites. One way is going to forums (that allow it) and answering questions and putting up a link to your website. This is the closest thing to helping someone in person with a problem that they have. On some sites this can give you links that will help the search engines to send more traffic to you. Some people on these forums may be asking for exactly what you have.
Someone on a forum wanted to know what Kevin Trudeau's miracle cure for being overweight was before spending all that money for his book. I sent him to my site and he read about it. Then he thanked me for saving him all that money which would have made him feel like a sucker who was ripped off. Since then, the F.T.C. Federal Trade Commission) has gone attacked Kevin Trudeau for claiming that you can eat whatever you want on the infomercial while the book says that you should not eat any unhealthy food.
Another way to create more traffic is by finding directories online and putting your link on their website. There are some companies that you can pay to do this for you. You may find that some of these site want you to put a link back to them, but others do not. Links to your site like these, are good for the search engines giving you more traffic. There are hundreds of these directories out there. Some let you use the code to make a keyword (or term) the link instead of the address of the site. So you can make "vampire antidote" the link to your site. Then this will help you when someone does a search on a search engine for "vampire antidote." This is better than a link that just says "www.henderson.com."
Another way is to write articles and submit the article to article sites like with what you are reading right now. In exchange, they put up a link to your website. The link is usually in the author or bio information. Some only allow text, so you have to just put up your url like "www.henderson.com." Some allow html where you put in the code so the link will say "vampire antidote."
Some of these article sites gets lot of traffic so you can even get people coming to your site from the article. There are others sites that get a small amount of traffic but the links can help you with search engines. To see how much traffic a website gets, see the Alexa.com site. Also you can check on a site's Google PR rank to see how much a link from them will help you with the search engines.
There are hundreds of these article sites and they are growing everyday. I may put up a list of them on my website in the future. Also I may create my own article site in the future. Articles have created a lot of great information on the internet. Reading these articles can help you learn a lot. Also when you get one of these articles put up on a site (published), you can say that you are a writer who writes articles.
This way the information that is out there is not just controlled by the publishers, but it is controlled by the people, like you and me. This is a good example of the first amendment of the United States Constitution at work. It will be interesting to see the changes that happen with the world wide web being so new. Many of the founders of the U.S.A. were writers.
I check out these links and most of them have active links to my site. Sometimes a site will have an inactive link and I will contact them to let them know that it is part of the condition to be able to have my article on their site. There are sites that have problems with getting their site to do what they want. Once in a while they use the code rel="no follow" which means that they have the intention to benefit from using your article without you benefiting as far as the search engines go. I click on VIEW and then SOURCE to look for this code.
Tell the sites that do this to remove your article. You can also tell them that you will spread the word about them. You can even write an article about it and they may even put it on their site without realizing what they are doing. A few days ago on a forum I saw someone asking if the article sites actually put up a link to you or just use your article without doing anything for you so this has answered that question. Copyright 2008 by Chuck Bluestein
Too many marketers think that all they need to get started making money online is a product and a website to promote it. While those are vital components, many marketers fail to understand the need for traffic. If you fail to drive traffic to your website, you will not have any sales and therefore no business.
Article Writing
There are a number of ways that you can drive traffic to your website. One of the most effective ways is by utilizing article writing. While most of us are not skilled writers, thankfully it is not necessary to be in order to write good content. You will need to research your topic of choice and then spend about an hour composing the article. The reason that articles are so effective is because they never leave the search engines. It is also a low cost option. It only costs about $20-$30 per month to be a member of an article submission company. Many of the companies submit your article to numerous different article sites, therefore increasing your presence online. The important thing is to be consistent. You cannot write one article and then wait a month to submit another one. It's best to write about 4-5 articles per week. It will take a few months to build up some articles online, but you can easily earn a six figure yearly income solely off of good article marketing.
Pay Per Click
Pay Per Click advertising is where you pay search engines such as Google or Yahoo to show your ad on the results page of certain keyword searches. For instance, if someone searches for "home based business" in Google and you are targeting that keyword, your ad would appear on the results page. While it can be pricey, it produces immediate results. You have to be very diligent at watching your ad campaign and managing your budget. It will require some trial and error to find what works best for your specific situation.
Free Classifieds
Placing free classified ads is also another great way to generate traffic to your website. One place to do this is on Craigslist. There are even software programs that you can purchase that will post hundreds of ads for you daily. It is best to dedicate one email address to this form of advertising as you will get lots of junk email from people advertising their products or programs.
Hopefully this article has given you some quick and easy ways that you can start increasing traffic to your website. Getting targeted traffic to visit your website can be an online nightmare at times. However, once you master the art of advertising, you will be swamped with traffic.
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