Increase Web Site Traffic

Now that you have set up your online business, I'd like to congratulate you, and tell you that was the easy part.  Now you have to determine how to drive lots of targeted traffic to your site.  Without web site traffic, all of your efforts thus far can mean absolutely nothing.  

There are many methods that you can use to promote your business and I have listed the ones I recommend to your right under 'Traffic Generators'. I must however tell you that Search engine placement, should remain the ideal for any ‘want-to-be’ successful internet marketer, since more than 75% of persons seeking goods and services in this massive multi-trillion dollar global marketplace, seeks and finds the goods and services they want to purchase by conducting searches on search engines.  Search engines have become the ‘Yellow Pages’ of this seemingly limitless Global Marketplace in which we now live.  Therefore, if as a supplier of goods and services, you are not listed there, then someone else will be servicing customers that could have been yours and you will be missing out on lots of sales and therefore on the possibility of retiring early and really enjoying and living your life.  You should therefore make every effort to be listed in as many search engines as possible - particularly the major ones such as Google, Yahoo, MSN etc - for the goods and services that you promote or sell.

Online Communities such as Adlandpro can also be an important source of traffic for your online business.  The provide a direct market that you can tap into by sending messages directly to persons within the community or by participation in online forums.

As we discuss various methods of generating traffic for your website, we will look in particular at the following methods:

• Autosurf Programs - In exchange for viewing other other persons' / business ads, your ads are shown to others.  This form of advertising may not bring you targeted traffic, but it can boost your Alexa ranking.

• Purchasing of visitors - This method allows you to purchase 'real' visitors from online traffic stores.  The ones that will probably give you the traffic you need will be those that sell visitors according to categories.

• Classified Ads - There are literally tens if not hundreds of thousands of classified sites in the internet, and is a very popular form of generating traffic.  Your major challenge here will be to write ads that will pull a crowd.  We will talk more about this on the Classified Ads page

• Ezines - These are electronic or online magazine.  Many of them will publish your ads for a fee.  Here your focus should be placing your ads in ezines that have a large enough subscribership, and that are relevant to your business, especially if you are paying for it.

• Link Exchange - Many of the larger search engines like Google and Yahoo etc., will rate your site on what is called links popularity - that is the number of incoming links you have to your site.

• Pay-Per-Click Services - With this service, your ads are displayed when someone makes a search at the search based on keywords that you have chosen.  With this method, you will have to bid on your selected keywords, and will only pay when someone clicks on your ad.

• Search Engine Submission - This I think, remains one of the surest ways of getting targeted traffic.  Here you can be listed on the major search engines within 24 hours.