Friday, February 24, 2012

How to Generate Traffic to Your Website

By Alex Grady


Maybe it has slipped your attention, but the most often used approach to making money on the web is to have a website. Naturally, you'll need to make it possible for people to find it. The people who visit your website are called, collectively, "traffic". This is because the more people who see your site, the more likely you are to make sales and earn money. More or less, making as much as possible is the big goal for online marketers, of course. So now we'll go into how you can increase those traffic numbers to your site.

Search engines, and visitors, like sites with fresh content, and often, and you can easily do that with a blog. If your site has not been kept up to date, you're pretty much only looking at one-shot visitors. If you update your site regularly people will have a reason to keep coming back. You are more likely to sell things to repeat visitors than you are to "drive by" traffic. And you'll able to establish your name in addition to getting more traffic. It's all good.

You'll want to write articles, maybe, and then submit to the best article directories. Make sure that, in the resource box most article directories afford you, you include a link to your website. The net's full of article directories, and some are more powerful than others. But directories can be picky, so be careful about submitting the exact same article everywhere. You'll find a few directories that may ban you if you submit a lot of duplicate content. To avoid this problem, just write some fresh articles each week, and then spin them using a good program. The more content you put out there, people will become more aware of you and your traffic will increase.

Use offline advertising as well as online advertising. You should not ignore the power of this form of advertising. A well placed classified ad in a magazine could do wonders for your site. Great giveaway products like key chains and pens are another way to spread the word-just drop a few off at different places as you run errands. The leads you generate with offline marketing may become easier sales for you if they're not familiar with online marketing tactics.

Some marketers have trouble deciding what traffic generating tools or strategies to focus on, as there are so many to choose from. Thankfully, you can try out more than one method at a time. The trick is to consistently devote a couple of hours every day to your traffic generating campaigns; this way, before you know it, your website will be visited by hundreds of people every single day! Some of these visitors will become buyers!




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