Here are some of the top ways to get targeted traffic to your website and increase your online earnings.

* Start off with a press release. This is written by you in the form of a third party announcing that you have a business. There are free press release services but it is better to pay a bit and really get the job done right. One press release can increase your website traffic for up to a month for a fairly good price.

* Article writing and distributing them on the Internet is an excellent way to get traffic to your site. A good written article can create many one-way links to your site and they stay on the net for a long time. An article written today can still be drawing traffic two years from now by getting indexed with the search engines if distributed properly. This can be done for free but is quite time consuming.

* Posting in message boards and forums are much the same as article writing. They create one-way links to your site and the search engines pick some up higher ranked sites quickly. This is usually free but there are some forums that charge a fee to join.

* Blogging is another free method that does generate website traffic. This is like an online business journal where you can post your thoughts about growing your Internet marketing business. You can post your articles, press releases, tips and strategies that you use. You can post a topic on a problem that you solved or what you learned. If you can post to your blog daily and not have to much duplicate content your blog will be indexed with the search engine overtime, this is not immediate traffic but good traffic. Also give you another site for a linking campaign.

* Create a Squidoo lens. This is similar to blogging but if you create a good lens you can get ranked in the search engine within days of setting up your lens. This is a great way of getting free traffic to your website and a site for a linking strategy.

*Submit your site to the top ranked directories throughout the Internet. This is part of search engine optimization and if you can submit 5 a day, every day it really helps to get a higher ranking in the search engines. This is free but you can have a service to do it for you, of course for a fee.

* Brand yourself by starting a whois page. This is a page where you tell the world who you are, what you do and what your all about. Think of it as your personal web page and what you are selling is yourself This can take some time to set up and a fee can be charged for this.

There you have some strategies that work very well for increasing your website traffic and increase your chance of succeeding in your Internet Marketing Business.