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traffic is a must.
You could have the best site around - but if you have no traffic - then it
will be hard to make it work. Obviously
it is better to find the ideas that take the least amount of effort. How
do you find this out? Through using a website tracking service. For example: www.statcounter.com.
If
you find where your visitors are coming from the most - then concentrate on replicating
what you have done to attract them. Really
- Internet Marketing is about -
Product
And
- Traffic. So
how do you get traffic? 1.
Be wary of traffic generators
Be wary of traffic generators websites
or those websites that you pay to get traffic. 9 times out of 10 you won't get
any and your money will be wasted. Also - these are often against the Terms and
Conditions of Adsense. 2.
You need relevant traffic.
You need relevant traffic. Put it this way
- if you are a person looking to buy some jewelry. You end up at an website trying
to sell an eBook on how to fix computers. What is the likely chnce of you buying
the eBook. - YES - Almost Zero. Therfore your traffic is irrelevant and wasting
your time.
"Obviously
it is better to find traffic ideas that take the least amount of effort."
3.
So how do you get relevant traffic?
One of the easiest ways is to join
forums SPECIFICALLY for your niche. You need to be genuine about this - register
and provide feedback to others about topics on the forum. Include your web address
details in your signature. If
you show credibility and become a regular part of the forum - people are likely
to visit your website and then are more likely to buy your products. 4.
Organic Traffic
Make sure you have your keywords in your domain name.
This will attract the search engines and generate traffic naturally. There
are thousands of ways to generate traffic. Here is a huge list of ideas that you
can try. Here
are some ideas for generating traffic to your webpage. 1.
Write unique content. Do this daily and add pages daily. Traffic will follow organically.
2.
Create a signature link in forums. This will direct traffic to your site. Choose
forums that are relevant to your niche. 3.
Leave comments on other people's blogs that link back to your site. Check out
any Blog. You will see the place to leave a comment. Make sure you write something
worthwhile - so that there is more chance of the owner approving your comment.
4.
Write a controversial topic in a forum. This will create many varied opinions
and therefore - much traffic. 5.
Answer questions on Yahoo Answers - be careful how much you do this as you are
likely to get kicked out. 6.
Post in Yahoo and Google Groups with a link to your site in your signature. Be
careful here as well as sometimes you may get a spam warning. 7.
Make sure your 404 page redirects to your homepage. This means if there is ever
a page that is missing or has no reference on your site - your visitors will get
redirected to a part of your site instead of a standard Not Found 404 page. 8.
Create a freebie product to give away 9.
Trade links with other webmasters and advertise their site on yours and vice versa.
10.
Write articles and submit them to article directories 11.
Write a Press Release and submit it to several of the Press Release websites.
Optimize the titles of your pages for keywords people will search for. 12.
Use PayPerClick Traffic e.g Adwords 13.
Mention your website in a post on Craigslist
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