The 3 components of that you need to have to make money online is to have a good product with good conversion strategies and lastly traffic to your site.
This 3 components work in hand in hand in order to make the whole online business work.
But the one component that most people are concern about is getting traffic to their site. That is why traffic generation products like Michaels Traffic Videos are selling very well online. “How to generate traffic to my website” has become a chant for most beginners in most internet marketing forum.
Today I’m going to share with 7 simple ways that you can implement to start driving traffic to your site. To simplify the sharing, I have break down the traffic generation into 2 categories, the paid traffic categories and the free traffic categories.
Traffic Generation Category #1: Paid For Traffic
Paid traffic is the best way to get traffic fast to your site. It is also the best way to test your conversion before you approach any JV partners.
Here are the few paid traffic generation methods:
1. Using Google Adwords
Pay Per Click advertising is one of paid traffic generation method that you need to implement in your online business. Google Adwords is the best place you can start your PPC advertising and if you do not have an account, you should get one immediately at http://www.google.com/adwords.
New to Google adwords? You might want to check out this Perry Marshall’s free google adwords ecourse, he is one best guy that teaches how to use PPC advertising.
Here are some of the other PPC search engines that you can advertise in. It is not as big as Google Adwords but it can be profitable to advertise in.
Microsof Adcenter
Signup for your account here:
https://adcenter.microsoft.com
Yahoo is the other source. You can find out more from them here:
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com
2. Banner Advertising
There are thousands of blog out there with various niches that banner advertising so what is limiting you to find a blog that is related to your niche and advertise.
It cost around $100-$300 per month to put a banner ad on a blog so it is still a relatively cheap way to advertise.
To find related blog to advertise in, check out this network at http://www.projectwonderful.com/
Traffic Generation Category #2: Get Free Traffic
Even though I categorize as free traffic, there is no such thing as free traffic, it either cost you money or your time. In this instant, it will cost you your time rather than your money.
1. Article Submission
Article Submission works for the longest time. It is one of my favorite traffic generation strategies because you need to submit the article once and it will generate traffic to your site for a long time.
Here are the steps to do article marketing:
Step 1: Research for long tail keyword (You can use free keyword tool at SEOBook.com)
Step 2: Write article with the research long tail keyword
Step 3: Submit your articles to the various article directories.
If you have limited time, you can have article submitted for you at isnare.com
2. Start A Blog
If you have not start to use blog to generate traffic, what are you waiting for? Go and create your free blog right now at blogger.com or you can register a domain name and have your blog hosted at your domain (A better option) with wordpress.
Blog is the best way that you can get free traffic to your site by you posting content rich content on your blog. So start posting content rich articles on your blog.
3. Blog Commenting
You can now leave your website link on other people’s blog by leaving comment. Of course you do not want to spam the blog instead you should leave good useful comment so that people reading the blog will take notice of you and click on your link to find out more about you.
You can find blog related to your niche by doing a search at searchblog.google.com
4. Forum Posting
Forum Posting works much the same as Blog commenting just that you are getting traffic through your forum signature file. To use this method effectively, you need to post good content, be helpful to answer the question that other people are asking in order to pay attention to you and click on your signature link.
Here are some good internet marketing forums that you can post too:
1. Warrior Forum
2. Conquer Your Niche
5. Affiliate Program
If you have a product of your own, then you need to have an affiliate program in place. Having an affiliate program allows you to leverage on the effort of other to drive traffic to your site instead of you doing yourself.
Having an affiliate program and increase your sale by another 50%-70%. So if you do not have an affiliate program now, you need to setup one now.
2 of the affiliate system you can use are:
Go there now to set-up oneand try it out for yourself. Not only can you run your affiliate program, it can also handle all your sales, recurring billing. It is a handsfree system.
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