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Website Traffic

Posted on: February 7, 2010 by Peter No Comments

At the forefront of many Internet Marketers minds is how to increase the amount of traffic they get to their website. At the end of the day, without traffic your website might as well not exist. However, there is a big difference between getting traffic and getting targeted traffic. Given the choice between getting 1,000 visitors a day and 100 targeted visitors a day I’d take the latter! Without targeted traffic you won’t be making as many sales as you could.

Some marketers think that by simply writing one good article they will be able to get all the targeted traffic they need, however although it might give an initial burst of traffic, writing one article may not be enough to sustain your sales over a period of time. To get targeted traffic it requires consistent work (not hard work, just be consistent!). Follow these tips to help ensure a steady flow of traffic for the long term.

1. Content: create great content on a regular basis. The easiest way to do this is to create lists like the “The Top 10 Actors Ever” or “5 Great Films You Haven’t Seen” (assuming you are making a website about films). These are great for link bait and publishing on social bookmarking sites to get hits. They take a bit of effort to write, but done properly they can attract enormous amounts of traffic.

2. Social Networking: Use Facebook and Twitter to let your friends and followers know about the latest blog post. I don’t know about you but I get a huge spike in traffic when I post about my latest blog on social network sites.

3. Article Marketing: Don’t underestimate the power of the large article directories to send targeted traffic to your site. EzineArticles in particular is very good for targeting long tail keywords to get traffic to your site.

4. Social bookmarking: Use sites like digg, stumbleupon and propeller to send loads of traffic to your site. I’ve had a lot of success with stumbleupon for a quick shot of traffic.

5. Search Engine Optimization: Ensure you are using the correct tags and good SEO on your site so Google recognizes it as good relevant content for your target niche

6. Forums: Use Google to find forums located in your niche and start talking to people and ask questions. Don’t promote your site directly, just include it in your signature link otherwise you could be accused of spamming.

7. Create a sitemap: Allow search engines to discover all the pages of your site by using a properly formated XML sitemap. There are online generators that can do this for you or if you have wordpress there are plugins that will do it for you automatically.

These are just 7 ways in which you can get traffic to your website, but there are hundreds of other methods. At the end of the day even if you just choose a few methods you must keep at it and do it consistently to ensure long term profits.

There are hundreds of ways to get more traffic to your blog or website. These are just a few to try, but remember that generating traffic is one of those tasks you should never stop doing!