Traffic Generation
Traffic Generation is crucial to Internet Marketing. In fact, some say it’s the most important ingredient in successful Internet Marketing.
Let’s face it, you can have the best product and sales letter on the planet, but if you can’t get visitors to your site you’re not going to sell a thing. Makes sense, doesn’t it? Everything else you do is basically just optimizing to maximize the profit you make from the visitors you get to your site.
How do you get traffic to your site?
There are many ways to get traffic to your site but basically they can be broken down into traffic you pay for and traffic you get for free. Here are some examples of each type:
Traffic you pay for
- PPC: Pay Per Click advertising.
- Paying other sites to link to yours.
- Advertise in ezines and online newsletters.
- Submitting to paid search directories.
Free traffic
- Organic Search Engine traffic, the better your are at SEO (Search Engine Optimization) the more natural (not paid) search engine traffic you will get.
- Social Bookmarking: you can increase your traffic if you and/or others, bookmark your site on social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, OnlyWire, Furl, and StumbleUpon.
- Social Networking sites: promote your site through social networking sites like Squidoo, Fanpop, FaceBook and MySpace. It also includes social networking microblog sites like Twitter and Jaiku.
- Posting relevant and useful comments on blogs.
- Posting in online forums and putting your website address in your forum signature.
- Email: putting your website address in your email signature.
- Getting other sites to link to yours for free.
- Article Marketing: writing articles which other webmasters can use on their website for free as long as they include a link back to your website.
- Submitting to free search directories.
- Creating viral reports with embedded links back to your site.
These are just some of the ways to get more traffic to your website. There are many more ways to get visitors to your site, but this is enough to get you off to a good start.
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