How To Get Traffic To Your Site

There are several ways to get traffic to your site. You can pay for your traffic or get it for free. I’d like to concentrate on free traffic.

The first thing you need to do is make sure your site is key-word optimized for the search engines. For a new site, using low competition words can help you to get placed high on some search engines and give you much needed targeted traffic. If you have a site with several categories, doing at least one optimization a day will slowly but surely build your business. With more than one category this gives you an opportunity to be placed on the search engine with each category and not just your front page.

Another way to help build targeted traffic and links to your site is a blog. You can have the blog linked to your site. If you update your site regularly and ‘ping’ your blog with one of the free pinging services, you will gradually build your traffic and business.

There are many sites that have free content that you can use on your blog. Once you’ve set up the blog and find the right ping service, this would only take you a few moments a day. When using free articles, be sure and use proper etiquette, giving the author credit for his writing.

The tried and true way to build ‘free’ traffic and links, is articles. You can write about anything you want or about the services or products your website distributes. If you’re not able to write the articles yourself, there are a number of services available that can do it for you (you pay). Then post your article to as many directories as possible. Webmasters are constantly on the look out for good, new content.

The number of links to your site is critical in your placement with most search engines. Articles and a blog help build your site targeted traffic slowly. But to speed up your linking process, you could search and join some link exchange sites. The more links the better.

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Here's A Quick Way to Increase Your Traffic With Keyword Suggestion Tools

One needs to choose those keywords that are frequently searched for and which is in high demand, but not being already used by many other websites and competitors, and thus has low competition. There are a number of keyword research tools that can help you find them. Finding these keywords are a breeze with these tools. Using these keywords in your articles, blogs, or website will increase your targeted traffic. Try to use keywords between 1000 to 500 searches for your website.

Apart from the Wordtracker , we have some more equally important research tools like the Seobook, Google Ad Words Keyword.

Seobook keyword suggestion tool is free and much quicker to use than Google Keyword Tool but is not as powerful.

    Google Keyword Tool generates potential keywords for your ad campaign and reports their Google statistics, including search performance and seasonal trends. Features of this tool include,
· Sorting the results of your desired keyword search by popularity, past performance history                   within the Ad Words system, cost, and predicted ad position.
· Easy keyword manipulation where you can select a few keywords here and there or add them              all at once.
· Searches for keywords present even in any web page URL specified by your search. It can also            expand your keyword search even further to include those pages that are linked to or from the               original URL page.
· More keyword results are generated based on regularly updated usage statistics database. This helps you to get new keywords or phrases.


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Two Types of Traffic: Targeted and Non-Targeted.

You may already know that there are two types of traffic: targeted and non-targeted.

Targeted traffic consists of people who are interested in your product or service and would be more likely to spend money to get it from you.

Non-targeted traffic consists of the rest of the world. These individuals are not interested in buying what you have and, therefore, will not part with their cash for it.

Obviously, it's the targeted traffic that we're interested in. We don't care about nor do we want to spend any time trying to convince the non-targeted group into buying from you. You'll be wasting your time and theirs.

You should also know that the "targeted traffic" group can be further divided into two groups:

•prospects that you go after, and
•prospects that seek you out!

Let me illustrate this using an offline example...

Imagine that you've been given a list of prospects who have previously shown interest in purchasing the kind of product you are selling. Now...if you decide to sell your product door-to-door by visiting these prospects, you're going to them...on your time. (The same applies if you use telemarketing strategies to call them.)

Instead, if you have a store at the mall that prospects come to, they're seeking you out...on their time.
So, while both groups of prospects above are targeted, the second group is obviously easier to sell to because they are taking the initiative to look for you, and they are usually ready to buy!
In the online world, these prospects are the ones who visit search engines, shopping sites, eBay, etc. They are already out there "looking", searching for what they want. They are ready, or at least more inclined, to spend their money!

So how do you get targeted traffic?

Long tailed keywords in your articles and website.

Best place to get keyword research is Seobook.com. 

It's free to join and an excellent keyword research tool.

Using Viral E Books For Targeted Traffic

Viral eBooks

Another tool that can dramatically increase your website traffic is a viral e book or report. Most of the time, a viral e book is a PDF that people send to their contacts, which contains your marketing message. It is called viral because every person that receives the e book is given a reason to pass along your material.

Before starting a viral marketing campaign, it is important to create a reason why people will want to pass along your marketing message. Some of the best reasons can include simple greed or a desire to provide entertaining information to their friends. If you can develop a hook that will take advantage of either of these, then it will be easy to create a successful viral marketing campaign.

What I usually do is create a special 5 to 10 page report on a specific topic. Then I find an affiliate program that is related to the topic. Then I create a mechanism where people can easily brand this e book with their own affiliate link.

This type of viral e book is valuable because you can place a mini advertisement or sponsorship on every copy. In addition, you can let the reader know that he or she can make money by offering this viral e book. As a result, there is a chance that every person that reads the book will click over to your site.


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Invest in good advertising with search engines

Google’s Adwords  provides a great advertising scheme that are very truly popular and assures great traffic. Although with this surefire way to increase your traffic  it would cost some money. While some would shy away from spending money to increase traffic, it is imperative in this case to do so because Adwords  is the top surefire way to increase your traffic.

You could see for yourself the success this search engine advertising methods have reaped rewards for so many companies. Lots of site feature these advertising system and many have signed on to reap the benefits. Do not be left behind. Every penny is worth it with using Google advertising.

Using Twitter

When using Twitter you want to have as many twitter accounts as you can. One twitter account for each product you are promoting or niche you are in.  With a lot of accounts you also open up the
possibility of cross-referrals.

Using Twitter for Advertising

Exploit Twitter. This is a great free marketing tool for your business. It is free to use
and a great platform to promote your business.