Sep 11
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Traffic is King, but this comes FIRST
Visitors to your site are critical - getting them there automatically is even better. Here's how...
Before we begin
The first thing you need to do before you start going after any traffic is keyword research. Why? Because you have to target these keywords if you are to have any hope of actually generating traffic for them. Which means you need to put some thought into the keywords you're targeting.
Here are the important considerations for your research:
- Are the keywords you're interested in attainable? This involves doing some competitive analysis to determine the ease of entry for each keyword
- What kinds of visitors do these keywords bring? Certain keywords are good for generating a lot of visitors who don't buy anything. You want to generate visitors ready to buy.
- What about affiliates? Generating your own customers is great - having other people do it for you is even better. This means that some of your traffic focus should be on getting affiliates to your site.
Although this is an essential step, doing it all by hand can take a very long time. And hiring an expert is very expensive. And that's why most people skip this step! The smartest marketers use website traffic software to automate this and other aspects of their business. This will not only speed it up. It will give you better results, as well.
Once you know your keywords...
Now that you've completed your keyword research, you can begin using these keywords to get traffic to your website.
Here's a short list of sneaky traffic techniques:
- Surveys
- "Answer" Sites
- Video Sharing Sites
Surveys
Here's the thing - people love surveys. It's human nature. You can use this fact to provide "sticky" content for other website owners. And when they put your survey on their site, they will include a link back to your website. The beauty of this is that it generates website visitors for you with no work on your part. This is a sneaky little idea that most people never even think of. So, get creative and make up a survey that's wacky to get other people interested in putting it on their sites.
"Help" Websites
These sites, like answers.yahoo.com are filled with people asking and answering questions for each other. But, like the surveys, that's not why you're going to pay attention to these sites. The other thing they can be used for is to get traffic to your site, leads for your business and sales! Of course, the process of digging through these sites and pulling out the content info of leads for your business is very time consuming. So, if you're smart, you'll use website traffic software to do it all for you. Then you just get a daily batch of fresh leads delivered to your inbox.
Video
No doubt you're aware of YouTube and other video websites. YouTube is one of the most highly traffic and search websites on the entire internet! If used properly, video sites can get you more website traffic than you know what to do with.
Even if you don't think you can make a good video. You can even take a webpage or article that you've written. And use free screen capture software to record yourself reading it. I've even seen software that will automatically convert an article to a video!
In Closing
It's not that hard to get traffic to your websites. It just takes a little time and some ingenuity. And today there are tons of options for software tools that can help with every part of this process.
So, start right now and:
- Step 1 is researching your keywords
- Then create some surveys born to go viral
- Take advantage of the "help" sites
- And definitely include video sharing sites
