The simple truth is that if you want to attract a load of cash in hand, ready to pay customers to your website, you musn’t follow a single traffic route. You use multiple strategies. Personally I use a combination of 3, sometimes up to 10 of the traffic techniques.
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Joining forums, sharing opinions and creating your own communities
Anyhow you look at it, this is very effective and if you are not using it. I beg you to start immediately.
Forums are online community, a place where people come together to share ideas, get help and just talk. The great thing is that you will find millions of forum online relating to almost anything you can think about. If you love sports or have a sports blog for instance, find and join sports forums.
If you have a site about internet marketing, join internet marketing related forums, there are four basic keys to getting traffic from forums;
Join as many forums as possible relating to your site.
Introduce yourself when you join the forum.
Start making your own contributions. This is very important! The more contributions you make, the more you will get people to visit your websites. However, do not make junk or useless contributions or else people will come to regard you as a member who should be reckoned with.
Always make sure to add at the bottom of your posts a link to your website. This is called your resource box. Doing this alone will send you good traffic to your site daily. Forums you can try out are www.warriorforums.com, www.websitebabble.com, www.digitalpointforum.com.
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Article writing
Don’t say I am biased but I love this one. You see, all you need to do to get people visiting your website daily is simply to write quality articles relating to your websites and start sending out the articles.
Now, at the bottom of the articles, you have to include your website and a little description of yourself. Before you start submitting articles, learn the rules of the website and make sure you don’t disobey them.
Here are some sites you can submit your articles to; www.ezinearticles.com, www.articlecity.com, www.ideamarketers.com, www.triond.com, www.buzzle.com, www.isnare.com, www.searchwarp.com, www.articledashboard.com, www.amazines.com, etc.
The best part is, if your articles are good enough it’ll get published on so many other sites thereby generating a consistent flow of traffic to your site.The beauty of this method is that your articles get used up over and over again on the internet so much that there won’t be a day you won’t get result from those articles over after a short period of writing and submitting.
Another method to explore is to write articles and send to newspaper and magazine publishers. The fact is that these set of people are always looking for stories to publish and they will be more than willing to publish your work if they are great. The result is a herd of traffic to your websites.
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Email Marketing
This traffic strategy seems to be going into oblivion in the internet marketing arena but it’s still very relevant. All you will have to do is send an advert by email to thousands of people. I bet you will start getting results the same day. This is usually called ezine advertising and it works like magic.
However, you have to be very careful because there are so many fake ezine publishers out there! You should subscribe to the free version first and see how it works before you actually buy it. Also, try and see if the ezine truly has the size it claims to have.
For instance, some ezine publishers will tell you that your adverts will go out to 10,000 people whereas they have only 100. To get a huge list of ezine publishers, dates of publication, advert rates for both classified and solo ads. Visit www.directoryofezines.com
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Place an ad in a target market magazine
Although this can take a chunk of your money, they tend to be very effective and when you do it right you will get good rewards.
The key is to choose a popular magazine that gets large followership and also that’s much related to your niche area. For instance, if you’re into health niche look for a health related magazine to place your ad!
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Create business cards
Have plenty of them and be ready to give them out to as many people as you meet everywhere you go. You could give friends, colleagues, business associates, etc…
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Create a guru/expert status
This does not appear as an obvious way of getting visitors to your website but it works. You see, people prefer to associate with experts.
Therefore, no matter what your website is all about, work hard at becoming an expert on that topic. To do this, go out and research deep into that area, uncover the myths, demystify the mysteries and always come out with angles that people fail to notice.
When you do this consistently and make such information available regularly, your site will seem to have a life of its own and will start bringing you steady streams of daily visitors.
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Yahoo Answers
Most people don’t give much attention to this method but yet it works. Yahoo has a question and answer section where people from all over the world participate. All you have to do is join and start helping people by answering their questions especially questions relating to your topic.
When they like your answer to their questions or the manner in which you have answered it. These people will take you for an expert and hence visit your site often.
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PPC
PPC stands for pay per click and it is a form of ingenious advertising where you only pay for the result of your adverts. You can do this program to drive tons of traffic to your site. Examples of sites that offer this services are; www.google.com/adwords, www.publisher.yahoo.com, www.bidvertiser.com, www.kontera.com, www.chitika.com, www.infolinks.com, etc…
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Videos
Almost every businesses online has either their adverts or information on videos. In recent times, video marketing has been the hub of online marketing as many people believe that there’s power behind vision.
Millions of people watch videos online everyday, when you visit sites like www.youtube.com, www.metacafe.com you’ll see videos that has actually been viewed millions of times. So you could take advantage of this medium to drive insane traffic to your site by putting up your own video.
Putting up your own video is not a big deal at all as there are video editing software around that can help you in that regard.
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Freebies
Anyday! anytime! anywhere! free gifts work because people love free stuff. People will flood to your site when you tell them you have something free to offer!
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Social-Bookmarking
A Social bookmarking websites is a situation, whereby people create, save and bookmarks websites of their choice.
These bookmarks can be viewed by other people and let’s them know about new information and current trends which are making waves in the online world. Examples of social bookmarking sites are technorati, digg, delicous, stumbleupon, reddit, etc.
Although they are not as popular to Google as they once were, they can still bring a lot of back-links, traffic and exposure to your website!
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Search Engine Optimization{SEO}
Search engines get loads of visitors daily. If you can get your site to show up on major search engines, you will get good traffic delivered to you automatically without any payment from you.
Find out courses and materials on search engine optimization and implement it on your site.
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