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.
Traffic is King, but this comes FIRST
Visitors to your site are critical - getting them there automatically is even better. Here's how...
But, first...
Keyword research is really the first step in getting traffic to your website. The reason this is so important is that you are going to be building content and traffic sources for specific keywords. This means it's critical to select your keywords properly.
While doing your keyword research, keep the following in mind:
- Will you be able to rank for these keywords? You'll have to analyze the competition and see what's out there for this.
- Will the keywords you're targeting bring buyers? If you don't do your research you'll end up with a lot of traffic that doesn't buy from you. You want to generate visitors ready to buy.
- What about affiliates? Nothing brings more buyers like an army of affiliates. This means that some of your traffic focus should be on getting affiliates to your site.
This is critical to your business, but it takes a lot of time and effort. And hiring an expert is very expensive. Which is why practically none of your competitors will do this! If you're smart you will use website traffic software to help you with this process. This way you get this critical step done fast and done well.
Once you know your keywords...
Now that you've completed your keyword research, you can begin using these keywords to get traffic to your website.
Here are a couple of clever ways to do this...
- Most people overlook the power of Surveys!
- "Traffic Traps"
- Video Sharing Sites
Surveys
The truth is that people really enjoy taking surveys and finding out what other people think. You can use this fact to provide "sticky" content for other website owners. And when they put your survey on their site, they will include a link back to your website. Think about that - you get website traffic for free just for making a survey! Using just this one extra idea will put you ahead of your competition . . . who think surveys are for gathering information! Just make the question interesting enough that people will want to share it with their own visitors.
"Help" Websites
Maybe you've seen these help sites where people post questions and other people answer them. But, like the surveys, that's not why you're going to pay attention to these sites. The other thing they can be used for is to get traffic to your site, leads for your business and sales! Now, you can do this all by hand - visit a classified ads or answers site and one by one copy and paste contact info. The good news is that it's easy to find website traffic software that can do this automatically. These tools put the whole thing on auto-pilot and just deliver the leads to you each day.
Video
No doubt you're aware of YouTube and other video websites. These sites generate massive traffic and people watch over 2 billion videos a day on YouTube alone . If you're not taking advantage of this rich source of website traffic, then you are really missing out.
You don't have to be able to make awesome videos for this to work. You can even take a webpage or article that you've written. Then simply record yourself reading the text and you video the screen with a simple screen capture program. I've even seen software that will automatically convert an article to a video!
Summary
Getting traffic is not that difficult. Use your noodle and come up with things other people aren't doing. Plus, there's lots of great software out there to help you.
Don't waste any more time:
- Keyword research first is key
- Next, set up a survey or two with viral appeal
- Build your traffic traps
- And don't forget about video