Traffic Generation Tips
Everyone knows the number one thing you need to be successful online is traffic to your website. The other 1% is what you do with that traffic, but if you have to traffic – you can figure out the rest. Once the visitors arrive you can have them join your mailing list, purchase a product or subscribe to your RSS feed. The important thing is getting the traffic and sustaining it.
Here are some tips for generating website visitors:
Here are a few of the most popular way to get traffic to your site – for free:
- Web 2.0
- Articles Directories
- Video Marketing
And here’s how to use each method…
Web 2.0
A Web 2.0 site gives its users the ability to interact with each other and create the site’s content together. These are great sites to work with because they allow you to participate in this content creation. The other interesting thing about these sites is that all the search engines (including Google) treat them as “authority sites”. And that’s important to you because it means that Google and the other search engines treat links from these sites as more meaningful than links from other sites. So, if you place links to your own site inside your content, you get a search engine ranking benefit from those links. This is the hidden benefit of using Web 2.0 sites. How to generate web 2.0 traffic is something we’ve only scratched the surface on. I don’t want to be exhaustive – I want to give you an overview of all the methods…
Articles Sites
The next thing we want to talk about is article marketing. This is because article websites are really web 2.0 site. Article directories are sites where users (including you) can upload articles they have written. And just like other web 2.0 sites, you get all the SEO benefits from having your content on them. And the hidden benefit here is that your reach grows as other people take your articles and put them on their blogs and sites. And in return for getting to use your content, these other users include links back to your website that gives you further search engine ranking and more free traffic. In order to get the most free traffic make sure you:
- First, spend the time to determine your keywords
- Write specifically to target these keywords
- Use anchor text links in the article and the “resource box”
Video Marketing
The last of this group is video marketing. Once again, this is really a sub-set of web 2.0. So, just like article marketing, video marketing enables you to add content to authority sites. And in addition to this, because Google and the others love video so much, you can get listed for highly competitive keywords much more easily.
OK, so how do you do effective video marketing?
- Sign up for YouTube
- When people view your videos, you want them to visit your site, so turn all the other modules in your profile off
- Use the tags in your profile to enter the keywords you want to rank for
- Include a link to your main site in your profile
- Add at least one video to your profile
- In the title, the description and the tags for each video, include your main keywords
Putting it all together.
If you take action on the items listed here you’ll have free traffic in no time.
