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[T1223]Traffic To My Web Site

by Alexander Kent, Ale

Traffic, traffic, traffic. Any article you care to read about having a successful web site will always stress the importance of traffic. It is absolutely essential if you want to succeed in any internet based business. You can have the best designed web site, a great product to promote or sell, but without traffic, you have nothing.

Whether you already have a web site and not getting enough traffic, or thinking about starting up one, traffic has to be at or near the top of your list of priorities.

To help you generate more traffic for your web site, here are some surefire ways to increase your traffic.

1) Invest in ppc (pay per click) advertising with the major search engines.

Google's Adwords and Yahoo's Overture provide great advertising schemes that are very popular and assure you targeted traffic. While this is a surefire way to generate traffic, the downside is the expense which can be quite considerable if you are in a very competitive niche. While some shy away from spending money to increase traffic, this is a guaranteed way to bring potential customers to your web site.

2) Exchange, trade or buy links.

When you exchange links with other sites, both of you benefit from those exchanges as the traffic one site generates can flow on to the other. This is especially beneficial to you if the other site has a higher page ranking. The search engines crawl high PR sites regularly and will follow the links to your site and hopefully rank your site higher as well. The more links you trade with other sites the more traffic you can expect. Just remember early on in your traffic generation program, to keep the links within the same or similar niche.

3) Use Viral Marketing.

Viral marketing allows you to advertise your company or product with minimal or without any cost at all. This method involves attaching your link to a variety of media such as a funny video, entertaining games, interesting articles or a gossip. With this method, people get infected with the creativity and entertainment of the medium and pass it on to others. Your link will be seen and investigated.

4) Search Engine Optimization.

Ensure that you use proper keywords/keyword phrases that relate to your site's content when you design your web site. Search engines look for certain keywords that they show in their results page. Having the right keywords/keyword phrases is a high requirement in ranking well in search engine results and thereby getting lots of traffic.

5) Write and submit Articles

Submit your original articles to article distribution sites. You can write these yourself or have others do it for you. Make sure that you attach a description as well as a link to your web site in the resource box at the conclusion of your article. As well as directing readers to your site, you will also get backlinks to your web site which will increase your web site's ranking.

6) Join forums and contribute to discussions.

Show your expertise and credibility by making constructive comments. People will begin to trust you and your site will benefit from the traffic of those wanting to visit it to get more information about you or your product.

These are just a few methods you can use to generate traffic to your web site. Obviously there is a limit to how much detail can be explored and each of the above topics merits an article in its own right.

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Get some experienced help. Find someone with a legitimate interest in your niche who already browses and posts on related forums regularly. Ask that person if he is willing to add an endorsement in his signature to your business. In exchange, you could give him weekly compensation or give him free access to your site or some resource you have.

Be creative. Make a number of creative and enticing non-commercial pages on your site. Submit these to social book marking sites. Spend the time to pick out the right tags, so that your pages actually get seen by a considerable amount of viewers. If this experiment is successful, a number of people will book mark your site, increasing its ranking on those sites.

Expose your newsletter. Consider advertising your newsletter through co-registration programs. These registration programs will add you as a box someone can check off when they are registering for a different newsletter. In many cases, you can purchase double opt-in leads for your newsletter for as little as 50 cents each using these programs.

Track your results. Use some type of tracking system for your website promotional activities. Preferably, you will want to find one that allows you to track visitors on multiple levels, not just on one. For instance, you will want to know who is coming to your site to begin with (and where they came from); and from there, you will want to know how long they stayed on the page and if they made the purchase.

Promote "off-line." Consider promoting your website in various print media outlets. For instance, you could consider purchasing classified advertisements in a number of different newspapers. You could test the response with smaller markets to see how effective your classified ads are. Once you develop an effective ad, you can use it in larger papers.

Use billboard advertising. Many billboards can be rented for as little as $800 per month, depending on the location. Consider using a billboard to improve your current marketing campaign and to drive additional traffic to your web site. You may find that this form of advertising is less saturated than advertising with websites and it may even end up creating more sales than Internet-based advertising.

If you consistently send customer support emails or emails to joint venture partners, it is best if include an opt-in page link in all of your emails. While the amount of traffic and sales you may get from this is minimal, you will still pick up additional sales that you otherwise never would have seen.

Consider advertising your newsletter through co-registration programs. These registration programs will add you as a box someone can check off when they are registering for a different newsletter. In many cases you can purchase double opt-in leads for your newsletter for as little as fifty cents each using these programs.

Avoid guaranteed traffic scams. In virtually all cases, these 100,000 hits for $25 deals chiefly entails moving untargeted visitors to your site who can't even read the dialect in which it is written. Rather than counting on one of these scams, it is a good idea to go with providers who have a proven history of positive results.

Start doing these things today or you may be disappointed with your results and profit.

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