1) Write articles: believe it or not this is an incredible tool for driving traffic. Well-written, relevant articles can net quite a bit of activity to your web site. Don't forget to add your URL in your byline. Articles should be 500 to 2,000 words in length. You can send articles to sites like: Article City, Go Articles, Submit Your Articles and Ezine Articles.
2) Social bookmark *everything* - and I do mean everything - you can bookmark each page of your site and each blog entry you post. While this might seem tedious, it's worth it. You'll see a strong increase in traffic if you social bookmark each page on your site and each of your blog entries.
3) List yourself in the best directories ? you'll have to pay for this but since most people don't do this (since everyone's looking for a freebie) you could really enhance your traffic by getting a listing: dir dot yahoo dot com, business dot org, botw dot org.
4) Get yourself listed at: DMOZ dot org ? it's not easy to get listed there, but worth the effort.
5) Review: if you can review hot new products or books within your market, head on over to Amazon and start positioning yourself as an expert. In order to do this effectively you'll want to create an Amazon profile and make sure and sign each review with a reference to your URL (your web site). You can also go to Epinions and Revoo to review products as well.
6) Offer a freebie on Craig's List: you'll be amazed at how much traffic you get from a single Craig's List ad. They key here is to send people to a page on your site and make sure they have to sign up for something (like your email newsletter) before they can grab their freebie. That way you're not just getting traffic, you're also building your list.
7) Create a "recommended by" list on your Delicious page ? you can do this by logging on and creating an account at there and then tagging articles, blogs and other content you think is important to your readership. Then offer this page as a resource site. You can add a link to this page in your email signature line or on your web site.
8) And speaking of your email signature line'do you have one? If you don't, create one. Believe it or not, people do follow these links. You'll be amazed how many folks read email signature lines. I have one and change it several times a year, depending on what we're doing or promoting or what books I have coming out.
9) Lend a helping hand: you can be an answer person at Yahoo Answers ? you don't have to spend hours on there, but maybe a few minutes a week. Make sure and include a link back to your site following your answers.
10) Set up a social networking site using Facebook, Linkedin, or Squidoo. It's free and easy to do, just don't forget the all-important link back to your site!
11) Make sure your blog has an RSS feed so if you capture a reader you don't lose them if they forget to bookmark your site or blog.
12) Join relevant groups at Yahoo groups. You'll find everything from groups on growing your small business, writing books, finding your passion, even underwater basket weaving. I dare you to find one that isn't right for what you're promoting. When you do find the right group, join and participate as you can!
13) Podcasting is another great way to drive traffic. Start a podcast by going to Audio Acrobat. There are other programs you can use, but I love Audio Acrobat. You can record the podcast over the phone quickly and easily and then hit the "send" button on your computer once it's recorded and the system will syndicate it to 27 podcast directories including iTunes. It's a great way to let people know about you and your web site!
14) Start a blog and then once you do, start commenting on other people's blogs, linking to them from your site or adding them to your blogroll.
15) Inbound links: don't squander your time (or a perfectly good link) on smaller low-traffic sites. Instead spend your time going after high traffic, high quality sites. Good sites should have a PR (page ranking) of 4-6 depending on the market. You can find out what a site's page ranking is by downloading the Google toolbar which comes with a PR feature built in.
16) Start an email newsletter: while it may not seem like a newsletter that you email can drive traffic to your site you'd be surprised at the effectiveness of this type of promotion. If your newsletter (like your articles) is interesting and relevant to your audience, you'll find that it has a huge pass-through factor, meaning that it is passed from one email subscriber to another. Also, if you have an email newsletter you should never, ever go to a single event without your handy signup sheet. Yes, you can even use offline events to drive traffic to your web site.
17) And speaking of offline efforts: if you're ever quoted in a magazine or other publication, make sure and mention your URL as it's appropriate to the topic. Don't be too pushy about this, but do not forget to tell folks you have a web site that may be a great resource for the topic of your interview
18) If you have products to sell, why not get a store on eBay? This site gets a tremendous amount of traffic and on your sales page you're allowed to list your URL. It's another great way to get an inbound link and a way for people to find you.
19) Load a video on YouTube and 57 other video sites (the rest listed on my Red Hot Internet Publicity blog).
20) While this isn't a tip per se, it's still important. If you're going to go through all the trouble of getting traffic to your site, make sure your site is converting this traffic into something. Get folks to sign up for something, your newsletter, the RSS feed on your blog. Whatever it is, getting their email address will help you remarket to them when the time is right. Studies show that visitors landing on a site often don't buy the first time. That's ok! You want to get them into your marketing funnel so you can market to them again and again ? not in a way that's obtrusive, offensive or downright annoying, but in a way that is helping them with their own mission.
An example of this might be an email newsletter. A helpful, informative newsletter is a fantastic funnel. A blog is another great way to keep people in your marketing loop without bombarding them with "please buy my stuff" email messages. Also, make sure you know what your traffic numbers are before you launch into any Internet marketing campaign. By traffic numbers I mean how many people are visiting your site. You want to know this so you can gauge a before and after view of your marketing efforts.
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You see, many people confuse themselves with all the different kinds of traffic strategies on the Internet, but little do they know even the experts who taught them all the different kinds of tactics—are really just focusing on FEW optimum traffic marketing systems to drive all the targeted traffic they need!
If you use these three simple traffic strategies in your business, rest assured—your Internet business will grow and you will not have to worry over driving constant, massive streams of targeted prospects for your products ever again.
So what are these three "secrets" to massive web site traffic?
First, you have ARTICLES.
As simple and measly as it sounds, articles can bring you all the traffic you ever need for your business—and they can bring in constant, long term targeted customers for your products & services over and over again once created, and submitted properly.
But since people think it's a hassle having to write good content by themselves—and many people think they couldn't write to save their lives, they give up on one of the greatest, if not most profitable ways to drive traffic to their web sites!
The fact is, writing doesn't have to be hard. Here's a quick tip (I share many other speedwriting tips in the past, you can find them any time): Write exactly the way you talk! And to do this, all you need to do is write FAST.
Other than injecting personality into your words, your articles will sound so personal and connecting readers will find it hard to hold themselves back from getting more information from you. Of course, make sure you have a resource box (author's box for more information) so they can visit your web sites.
Once you've completed each article, you can have the world see it by submitting to article sites like http://www.EzineArticles.com or http:///www.ArticleMarketer.com!
Second, you have SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
Surely this would take a hours of reading to truly comprehend, but search around on Google and you will find TONS of extremely valuable content on how to do it correctly.
A few crucial factors you should know about SEO will be on-page optimization, off-page optimization (which is what you should spend MOST of your time on), and a few basic copywriting knowledge to get people clicking on your links or descriptions when searching for information based on their search engine results.
Lastly, you have AFFILIATES.
If you're reading this article, you most probably don't know about me yet. But the fact is, I have a multi-million dollar Internet business, and my affiliates have been responsible for a massive part of the profits each and every month!
You see, most business owners just don't fully understand how to make their affiliate programs work. They didn't deliver what their affiliates truly want, and they wonder why it's so hard recruiting quality affiliates who make them five-six figures in online sales in the long run.
Done right, with a few simple changes, you could double, if not triple your affiliate recruiting rate overnight! But how do you really do this?
Discover what your affiliates really want. Many of times you think doing one little thing wouldn't matter, but to your affiliates it could be all that they want—all they need to decide to promote your products/services right now!
But until you fail faster, you wouldn't know what brings you success at an even faster pace. Before you decide these strategies wouldn't work, why not suspend your judgment and give either of them ONE MORE CHANCE to work for you?
As the saying goes: "PUT ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF ANOTHER" with each of the strategies 20 minutes each day (especially with Articles, if you are inexperienced with strategies 2 & 3), you'll be amazed with results you achieve looking back 30 days from now.
Stop reading, stop thinking. Go and make this work, I once wondered why I held myself from implementing them all the while. But since I've applied these THREE web site traffic secrets to my business, the rest is history.
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