Traffic Generation Tips
If you’ve got traffic coming to your site, you’re 99% there. The other 1% is what you do with that traffic, but if you have to traffic – you can figure out the rest. After getting the traffic you just need to convert it into subscribers and customers . . . but that’s the easy part. So, the critical step is to generate a steady flow of visitors.
How, then do you get traffic to your site?
Here’s a short list of great, free traffic generating methods:
- Web 2.0
- Articles Directories
- Video
And here’s how to use each method…
Web 2.0
Web 2.0 simply means the new family of websites that have user-generated content. What this means for you is that you can join into the community and add your own content. 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…
Article Marketing
The natural next topic is article marketing. Article sites are in essence web 2.0 websites. Just like web 2.0 sites, article websites allow you to upload your own content – as articles. Just as with the other web 2.0 sites, having your content included gives you immediate traffic and search engine ranking. But you also get the extra benefit of other users taking your article and putting it on their site. And along with your article, they have to include your author information and a link back to you – so you get more free traffic and SEO benefits. In order to get the most free traffic make sure you:
- Figure out what keywords you want to go after
- Tailor the content of your article for the keywords
- Use anchor text links in the article and the “resource box”
Video
The last of this group is video marketing. Just like article directories, video sharing sites also rely on user-generated content. And it carries all the same benefits of article marketing. And if all that wasn’t enough, you also stand a much stronger chance of getting a high search engine ranking for the keywords you want with video than you do with text-based content.
OK, so how do you do effective video marketing?
- Get a YouTube account
- Turn off all the modules in your account profile
- Add tags to your profile
- Make sure to include in your profile a link to your site
- Add 1 or more videos to your profile
- For each video use your keywords in the tags, the descriptions and the title
Summary:
If you want to get traffic to your site, then follow the advice in this article.
