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