How to get Targeted Traffic to your website? If you’re a Network Marketer trying to build a successful online business, getting a steady flow of interested visitors to your website or Blog should be Priority Number 1. If only you remember one thing from this article, let it be this, He or She that gets the most Targeted traffic to their website WINS.Which brings us to the question of, How do you get Hordes of Traffic to your website? It’s simple really, it’s been around for a while, and it’s FREE. So why do I call it an Amazing New Discovery?Well, It’s amazing how many network marketers aren’t using it to market and It’s new because so many marketers are just now realizing it’s potential as a way to market their product, service, opportunity and themselves. Now before I reveal what this new discovery in targeted traffic generation is, let me list 8 benefits of using this strategy.1. Attract visitors to your web site2. Establish yourself as an expert in your Niche (field)3. Builds link popularity4. Improves search engine rankings5. Helps to pre-sell products, services and opportunities6. Gain returning visitors to your web site7. It’s viral (It spreads all over the internet from one visitor to the next)8. Last but not least, it’s FREE.Now that you’ve seen some of the benefits, you may have guessed that the marketing method I’m talking about is, Article Marketing. That’s right Article Marketing. There are hundreds of ways to market your products, whatever they may be, but article marketing is one of the most effective. Not to mention, cost effective.If your like most network marketers and Building Your Business On A Budget, traffic generation can be a real pain in the backside, because of the cost factor. That’s the beautiful thing about article marketing, the only thing you spend is your time writing the article and distributing it to article directories.You can learn more about writing articles and article directories in the Author’s resource box below. Now I know you may be thinking, I can’t write articles, I don’t know what to write about, don’t worry, we all feel that way at the beginning. That’s perfectly normal and let me be the first to say, it’s going to take a consistent effort and require you to educate yourself in whatever your niche may be. Keyword being EDUCATE, You can then share that new found knowledge with others through your articles.If your serious about targeted traffic generation (getting more traffic to your web site), make article marketing one of the top marketing strategies you use. Degan Smith says it best, articles are like business cards online, how many business card do you have working to produce a constant flow of visitors to your website? Now I no the question has been asked, Does article marketing work? My answer to that is, the fact that your reading this very sentence is proof that it does. You can learn more about article Marketing and other low to no cost marketing methods in the Author’s Bio .
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Amazing New Discovery Drives Tons of Targeted Traffic to Your Website. Free!
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Seven Ways to Drive Unique Traffic to Your Website
Friday, January 15th, 2010There are several ways to drive traffic to your website here are the seven unique ways. An affiliate marketer may have all the things needed for him to be able to succeed in a business such as affiliate marketing. He may have the necessary drive, diligence, and perseverance to be able to understand how the system works. He may have all the tools necessary in maintaining the business, including a really unique and interesting website which could earn him a fortune if only the whole world could see it. However, all these would prove useless if he does not know how to drive traffic to his website. His business would sink into oblivion together with all the sales, fortune, and dreams that he might have realized if he only knew how to do this particular task.
Getting people who matter to see your website is a difficult undertaking if he tries to consider the fact that there are rivals everywhere waiting to pin him down. The immensity of the internet as well as the affiliate marketing world has given birth to the fierce competition between affiliate marketers, each of whom has his own great product to offer. With all the websites piling on top of each other, how would one be able to stand out? The seven best ways to drive laser-targeted traffic to your own website would help those who are bent on sticking it out with this business wherever it is bound to take them.
The first way is through writing your own articles. This is an effective way in promoting a website, because good content that are appreciated by readers will lead them to visit the writer’s very own website out of sheer interest.
The second way in driving traffic to your website is by contacting other webmasters for a possible link exchange partnership. Locating websites that are related to your own website is the primary task. Once there, he should be able to establish communication by personalizing everything as much as possible. It is then possible to make reciprocal link exchanges between webmasters whichever way the affiliate marketer prefers.
The third step in driving traffic to your website is by relying on search engines and what they can do for the affiliate marketer concerned. Because they are popular for driving free targeted traffic, they should not be ignored by all means. Having top search engine rankings is vital in building popularity links, and the use of the right keywords is important in attaining this goal. Once a website is on top of the list, it is easily accessible to anyone who wants to see it for himself.
The fourth way is through joint venture marketing. This is one of the most effective ways of promoting a product or a service. Having a partner through ad swap or link exchange is beneficial to both parties as it allows them to reach a wide customer base in a short amount of time.
The fifth is through joining affiliate programs. Having affiliates to do the work means allowing them to bring tons of traffic to a website. Skyrocketing sales would be realized as a result, and both the affiliate and the website owner will benefit from the situation.
The sixth is by having a list of subscribers that one can refer to every so often, because they are those which would prove to be valuable assets for the marketer concerned. The use of autoresponders and personalized newsletters is one way of keeping track of them all, and holding on to them by letting them know about new products and services is an essential task that should be done by the affiliate marketer concerned.
The seventh is by knowing your market through and through. It is important for traffic to be targeted to those who might have a special interest in the theme or topic of your website. This way, a solid customer base is going to be created. Once a potential customer shows an interest in a particular website by paying it a visit, one must not waste time in trying to show him that his effort is worth it.
Traffic generating strategies are important in trying to make your affiliate marketing career inch forward. It is always advantageous to plan your moves in any business that he might undertake. This is particularly so in affiliate marketing. If one knows how to get people to see what he has to offer, then he is on the right track.
3 Steps to Driving the Right Traffic to Your Website
Thursday, January 14th, 2010One of the biggest challenges many of my clients have is getting enough visitors to their websites. And not just any visitors, but the right kind of visitors – the ones who are high quality prospects for you.
There are literally hundreds of ways you can drive the right kind of traffic to your website, and usually a combination of several brings the best kind of visitor to your site – the ones who are most likely to take action with you – whether that’s to sign up for your teleseminar, join your bootcamp, buy your info-product or simply sign up for your ezine list.
But once we get into looking at a client’s site, the piece we often find missing is a clearly defined niche. If you don’t know who your target clients and customers are, it makes it really difficult to find them and to let them find you.
Step #1. Who is your target market?
Once you define who it is that you’re most meant to serve, the easier it will be to know where and how to find them.
Once you have a clearly defined niche, you want to be sure that your website is optimized in the sense that it’s ready for the traffic that you’re going to be sending to it. There are two essential pieces that you need to have in place before you start driving that traffic to your site:
~ An Invite Site:
This is a simple one-page website where you direct your target market to sign up for your lisst.
~ A Free Taste:
This is your free offering to entice people to join your list once they arrive at your Invite Site.
I’d like to invite you to take a look at your website and make sure that it’s super-clear what step people should take when they arrive. The first thing that your visitor should see is the sign-up for your Free Taste.
If you’re going to make the effort to get people to your site, you want to make sure you have a way to capture them once they get there to get them on your list and in your marketing & product funnel. Following this model is a foundational piece to building a successful and sustainable business online.
One you have that foundation in place, you need to find ways to access your niche, to get in front of them, so you can drive traffic to your website. There are two key ways to drive traffic to your site:
Step #2. Find Them
The second key to driving traffic to your website is to find out where your target market is hanging out online. Here are some ways you can do that.
> Join Online Networking Groups/Discussion List/Forums/Blogs
Find 3 online networking groups and list your profile and website address that points directly to your sign-up page for your Free Taste. Some great groups can be found on Ryze.com and LinkedIn.com. Search Google Groups or Yahoo Groups for other groups that apply directly to your niche.
The key to utilizing this tool is to build that relationship with your target market, not to sell anything. Every list has it’s own set of rules, but most lists will allow you an email signature where you have your URL listed that points to your Free Taste on your website. Many lists also have Promo days where you can point people to your website as well.
> Offer Free Teleseminars
Another way to get in front of your target market is to offer free teleseminars for groups and associations that are made up of your target market. You invite people to visit your site during the teleseminars, and/or when they register – depending on how the association wants it set up. Associations are always looking for speakers, so put together an offer to speak and send these out.
> Do Internet Radio or Podcast Interviews
Offer to be interviewed for a Internet radio or podcast show whose audience is your target market. Make sure you are able to give the URL of where you want people to sign up for your Free Taste. To find an appropriate show, Google “your niche + podcast” or “your niche + radio shows.”
Step #3. Let them find you
The third key is to leave clues for people to find you online.
If your niche isn’t clear in the sense that they’re not necessarily hanging out together, this is sort of a sideways way to reach them.
> Pay-Per-Click Advertising
Google Adwords or Yahoo Overture are the two biggest players in the pay-per-click arena. You can create a PPC campaign for a very small investment, and because you have complete control over your budget, you can set it for whatever amount you feel comfortable with. It’s very difficult to get to the top of the “organic” search results (on the left side of the search results page) but can be very easy to get on the first page of results with a PPC, bringing targeted traffic to you. And, the best part is you only pay when someone clicks your ad that takes them to your website.
Use the PPC’s research tool to help find the best keywords for your target market (keywords are just search terms that help people find you online), and then use them in your articles to help the search engines drive traffic to your site.
> Write & Submit Articles
There are several reasons why you want to implement this strategy. One is to educate your target market about you and what you do. Another is that it helps to position you as an expert. And another reason is that your articles give people a taste of your style, what it is that you offer, and it gives them an opportunity to get to know you a bit without risking anything.
When someone enters your keywords in the search form, your article will pop up and that will drive traffic to your site.
> Optimize Your Website for the Search Engines
You’d have to be a fulltime search engine optimization expert to keep up with all the changes the major search engines make, but there are a few basic things you can do to help your site come up for relevant searches. Here are some to get you started:
a. Define your keywords – this is how people will find your business online. The trick is to find keywords that are highly relevant to what you offer and popular enough that they will attract decent traffic to your site, but not so competitive that you can’t rank well using them. Use your keywords in your web page copy.
b. Create your metatags – this is how the search engines “read” your site. Put your keywords in your metatags on each page of your website.
c. Submit your site to the search engines:
Why wait for the search engines’ robots or spiders to find you? Submit your website (it’s best if you submit every page individually) to at least these three major search engines manually. It’s easy and only takes a minute.
Convert Your Article Archive Into Press Releases For Increased Web Traffic
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010The old “billboard in the basement” dilemma continues to dog many individuals and organizations: Put up a web site with great content and appealing offers, and you still have to work hard at getting visitors to come have a look. If you have an archive of articles, though, you can quickly and easily solve this dilemma. Convert those articles into newsworthy press releases and distribute these media magnets online, then enjoy increased web site traffic, both directly and indirectly.
The direct impact of distributing press releases online comes from readers who view them on various newsfeeds and then click through to your site from the links in the release. Among those readers are often journalists, who then can give you a big boost in credibility and visibility when they write about you in their publications.
Because online news sites are considered high-quality sources of information, distributing press releases online also produces the indirect effect of raising the rank of your web site pages in search engines due to the links in the press releases.
The key to converting your article archive into press releases in order to enjoy those benefits is coming up with newsworthy publicity angles that serve as timely or useful “hooks” on which to hang some of the article content. Although there are countless possible publicity hooks, these nine are easiest to use in relation to your article archive:
* tips
* trend
* upcoming event
* holiday or seasonal tie-in
* freebie or giveaway tie-in
* controversial claim
* predictions
* activist cause tie-in
* piggybacking on media hot topics
Let’s say, for instance, that you’re a martial arts expert and have an archive of articles relating to various aspects of self-defense. Here’s how you could link some of those articles with the kinds of angles listed above.
Article topic: At what age can children learn self-defense?
Publicity angle: Trend (Bullying) + Controversial Claim
Press release headline: Martial Arts Expert Advocates Nonviolent Self-defense Training for all Second-Graders as Cure for Bullying
Article topic: Are women better protected with mace or self-defense training?
Publicity angle: Holiday Tie-in (Valentine’s Day)
Press release headline: To Keep Your Sweetheart Safe, A Self-Defense Class Works Better Than Mace as a Vanetine’s Day Gift
Article topic: Seven benefits of martial arts training
Publicity angle: Upcoming Event (Lecture)
Press release headline: Dallas Martial Arts Studio Offers Free Lecture April 17 at the Brooks Branch Library, “Seven Benefits of Martial Arts Training”
Once you’ve selected an angle and written the headline, follow the established press release format by completing a four or five paragraph release in journalistic style. Do a Google search for “sample press release” and you’ll quickly find models. Be sure to include a link to your home page or a special landing page for the release in both your first and last paragraphs.
Next, distribute the release online through any of the dozens of press release distribution services. Again, do a Google search for “press release distribution” and you’ll quickly find options at various price points. In addition, post the release at your own site.
Then repeat the process with another article in your archive. Over time, you’ll enjoy a boost in web traffic and maybe even a little fame.