Traffic Generation Tips
If you've got traffic coming to your site, you're 99% there. Obviously, this assumes you actually have a reason for wanting this traffic. Once the visitors arrive you can have them join your mailing list, purchase a product or subscribe to your RSS feed. The important thing is getting the traffic and sustaining it.
Let's talk about how to generate traffic...
These are the best and fastest ways to get free visitors coming to your site:
- Web 2.0
- Article Marketing
- Video
OK, so how do they work?
Web 2.0
By web 2.0 we mean any site where the users actually create the content. What this means for you is that you can join into the community and add your own content. And because of the highly interactive and popular nature of these sites, Google and other search engines "index" their content regularly. Which means the content on them gets "indexed" faster and with more weight. By placing links to your websites in this content you've created, you get traffic from the site and search engine ranking for the keywords you choose. The direct traffic from the Web 2.0 sites themselves is only part of the benefit. There are many more web 2.0 traffic tactics we don't have time to get into here, but this will get you started.
Article Marketing
The natural next topic is article marketing. This is because article websites are really web 2.0 site. Article directories are sites where users (including you) can upload articles they have written. And just like other web 2.0 sites, you get all the SEO benefits from having your content on them. But you also get the extra benefit of other users taking your article and putting it on their site. And in return for getting to use your content, these other users include links back to your website that gives you further search engine ranking and more free traffic. Here are a couple article marketing traffic tips:
- Figure out what keywords you want to go after
- Tailor the content of your article for the keywords
- Be sure to link to your site on the keywords you've chosen. Do this inside the article itself and in your author's bio.
Video Sites
And finally, we need to talk about getting traffic from videos. Just like article directories, video sharing sites also rely on user-generated content. And just as article directories give you great SEO benefits and allow others to redistribute your content on their sites. video sharing sites give you all these same benefits. And if all that wasn't enough, you also stand a much stronger chance of getting a high search engine ranking for the keywords you want with video than you do with text-based content.
OK, so how do you do effective video marketing?
- Get a YouTube account
- When people view your videos, you want them to visit your site, so turn all the other modules in your profile off
- Add tags to your profile
- Include a link to your main site in your profile
- Add at least one video to your profile
- In the title, the description and the tags for each video, include your main keywords
In closing...
If you want to get traffic to your site, then follow the advice in this article.