7 Great Ways To Increase Your Traffic Starting Today

The goalposts move regularly in this world! For example, Google is always updating their algorithms and rules. You will probably have heard of the "Google Slap"? This is when Google changes something (to benefit the searcher) and all of a sudden, certain techniques used by marketers fall foul of the new rules.

If you're on the wrong side of the new Google line, you will find your Cost Per Click increase dramatically.

So, you need to keep abreast of the changes that happen and make sure you are always running with the pack leaders. It's not easy, but if you want a successful online business this is what you have to do. In my opinion it's a small price to pay to keep out of the 9-5 rat race!

So, here we go seven great ways to increase your traffic starting NOW.

1) PPC Advertising

Google’s Adwords, Microsoft Search Network and Yahoo Search Marketing provide great online advertising mediums that ensure instant traffic...at a price. So, although it's a guaranteed way to increase your traffic it does cost some money. While you might shy away from spending money to increase traffic, these methods do offer quality, targeted traffic immediately.

In the last quarter of 2008, $1.6 billion was spent with Google alone. If you needed any further proof that this method works, that should provide it for you. However, you do need to FULLY understand PPC before you get involved.

2) Exchange or Trade Links

The aim in exchanging links with other sites, is for both of you to benefit and therefore to increase traffic. Make sure the sites you trade with are relevant or at least related and ideally trade with sites that have a higher page rank than you.

Don't get this confused with backlinks which is a different strategy.

3) Use Viral Marketing

Viral marketing is a great tool that allows you to spread the word about your company, product or website at very low cost indeed. Some people think this is a bit of a sneaky method, but in truth it is just good solid marketing and making the best use of your resources to maximize profits!

The idea is simply that you have links to whatever product or page you want to promote within another product, video, article ebook or whatever. Now if you want to create a real stir give the product containing the links away free, allow others they can do the same and very quickly you will have your link all over the web and people pass the information around. You've seen this happen with a funny YouTube video.

Tom Hua's Working With Clickbank (click on the link to get a free copy) is an excellent example of a viral product that has been downloaded and passed around hundreds of thousands of times. This one is virally set up for APD products! Please feel free to pass it on or even sell it at $47! How cool is that?

So, if you provide great content and allow people to either give it away or sell it on, watch it "go viral" and your traffic go balistic!

4) Optimize Each Page For Just One Keyword Or Keyword Phrase

If you want to rank highly in the search engines and been seen on the first few pages for a certain key phrase, you need to optimize a page for each keyword or keyword phrase. This is what ensures a top ranking. If you try to optimize around more than one phrase the chances of getting that high ranking are very low.

5) Write Keyword Based Articles

Submit articles to the article directory sites and make sure, as for your web content, the articles are optimized around just one keyword or keyword phrase. You can use press releases as well. This strategy will give you great high PR links back to your relevant pages and make sure you get lots of highly qualified traffic.

6) Join Forums and Online Communities

All you need to do to find relevant forums is a Google search for "subject + forum" and you will get a list of relevant forums. You need to make sure you complete your forum signature file as this is where you get (hopefully) high PR links back to your site.

Some forums do not allow a sig box until you have made a certain number of posts (10 normally).

And, when you first join, don't go in and blatantly sell. Ask for help by all means, offer advice and participate. Get yourself known and accepted into the forum before you start to sell, and when you do, make sure you are subtle about it! Many forums do have a specific section where you are allowed to sell.

7) Lastly Write and Publish A Newsletter

If you are truly knowledgeable about your subject write a monthly or weekly newsletter. It's a great opportunity to sell and promote, it gets more of your information out on the www and they can go viral as well. A newsletter is also a great source of new and unique content that you can use to help keep your site alive and regularly updated.

That's it for this subject, you have some great ideas for free traffic generation there. I know they are not in depth and you do need to research and get more information, but this will very definitely help point you in the right direction.


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