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How To Generate Traffic To My Website

Targeted vs Non-Targeted

How to generate traffic to your website is a major concern for anyone who starts an internet business. Flash, hot graphics matter little if I don’t generate traffic to my website.

You must create website traffic in the same way as a brick & mortar business must have a constant flow of customers coming through its doors. It’s called marketing.

Free Report: What’s The Fastest Way to Get FREE Traffic?

I live in a large metropolitan city on the East Coast. When a new business opens downtown, they start a marketing blitz.There’s people handing out fliers up and down the streets, there’s a huge “GRAND OPENING” sign out in front of the business, T.V. ads, radio ads, giveaways, contests – you name it. Why? To get people in the door. Some businesses depend on walk-in traffic while others, like specialty shops, located at a mall rely on traffic generated by the major retail “anchor” stores. In addition to their own advertisement, they receive spill-over traffic generated by the major retailers like Sears, Macy’s, JC Penney, etc.

Targeted Website Traffic

Simply put, “Targeted Traffic” is traffic that you drive to your site based on your specific product or niche. Think of it as the difference between searching online for: “Hotel” – Very general “Downtown Hilton Hotel” – Targeted. Obviously, if you were in the hotel business, you would want to attract visitors to your website that are looking for hotels in general, but were specifically looking for your hotel. Perhaps they are member of your Hotel Bonus Club, conventioneers, or vacationers and they have prior knowledge or experience with your hotel. As a result, they might be looking for a location of your hotel at their destination point. Proper Search Engine Optimization will produce improved website traffic through better search engine placement. A properly optimized site will rank higher in the search engines. This placement is like a great “location” used in the above example.

Promote Website Traffic

There are many ways to promote website traffic. Cheap website traffic (FREE) is by far probably the easiest method for Internet Marketing Newbies. You can also purchase website traffic using PPC (Pay-Per_Click) services like Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing or MSN’s Search Advertising. And, you can purchase website traffic from paid directories and through banner campaigns places on high PR (Page Rank) sites. All of these websites traffic generation methods will work. Some will produce a greater volume of website traffic than others, but it’s important to keep in mind, that they all require effort. There is no “magic-bullet” that will generate “instant website traffic”".

Free Website Traffic Methods:

• Traffic Exchanges (Non-Targeted)
• Safelists (Can Be Both)
• Organic Traffic (Can Be Highly Targeted w/SEO)
• Social Bookmarking (Targeted)
• Blogs (Targeted)
• Article Writing (Targeted)
• Forums (Can Be Both)

Paid Website Traffic Methods

• PPC (Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, MSN Live Marketing)
• Paid Directories
• Paid Advertising on High PR Websites
• Press Releases

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Increase Website Traffic With Zero Cash…

How To Generate 1000 Visitors To Your Website In 24 Hrs.

1. Trade links with other web sites. They should be related to the subject of your web site. Instead of trading links, you could also trade banner ads, half page ads, classified ads, etc.
2. Start an e-zine for your web site. When people read each issue they’ll be reminded to revisit your web site. They’ll see your product ad more than just once which will increase your orders.
3. Form an online community. It could be an online message board, e-mail discussion list or chat room. When people get involved in your community they will regularly return to communicate with others.
4. Write articles and submit them to e-zines, web sites and magazines that accept article submissions. Include your business information and web address at the end of the article.
5. Give away an electronic freebie with your ad on it. Allow your visitors to also give the freebie away. This’ll increase your ad exposure and attract people to your web site at the same time.
6. Combine your products or services into one big package deal with other businesses offerings. You could share a web site and advertise the package deal; which means double the traffic.
7. Submit your freebie to the online directories that list your particular item or service for free. If you’re offering a free e-zine, submit it to all the free e-zine directories on the internet.
8. Participate on message boards. Post answers to other people’s questions, ask questions and post appropriate information. Include your signature file at the end of all your postings.
9. Exchange classified or sponsor ads with other free e-zine publishers. If there is a huge subscriber difference between e-zines, one can run more ads to make up for it.
10. Post your ad on free advertising areas on the internet. You can post it on free classified ad sites, free for all links sites, newsgroups that allow ads, free yellow page directories, etc.

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