Generating Traffic For Your Website

Naturally you will need to be sure the keywords you're targeting are the best ones to be targeting.

While doing your keyword research, ask yourself:

* Will you be able to rank for these keywords? Take a look at your competition. Are you going to be able to compete with other websites that are already targeting these keywords? * Will your target keywords attract buyers? If you don't do your research you'll end up with a lot of dead traffic that doesn't buy. You want to generate visitors that will convert. * What about affiliates? If you want to build a real business, you're going to need affiliates to help you. We will refer to this as your affiliate army. It's important to also target affiliates in the keywords you go after.

This all takes time and the best approach is to set your goals and lay out an action plan. Your goals will keep you on track and your action plan will keep you moving. If you're smart you will leverage your time and develop systems and tools. Outsource whenever possible and use website traffic software to help you with the process. Using tools leverages your time and speeds up the process.

Once you've completed your keyword research,you can begin using these keywords to get traffic to your website.

Here's a short version traffic technique:

Something not mentioned a lot are Surveys. People love filling in surveys and getting people to take some form of action is proven to improve sales. A survey in it's simplest form can be simply asking a few questions. Make it interesting and others will post your survey on their website. When your survey is on their site, they will include a backlink. This is a great way to generate traffic and most people never think of it. Just get creative and make up a survey that's interesting enough to get other people putting it on their sites.

Sites like yahoo answers are filled with people asking and answering questions for each other. Once again, the main reason for this site is not the reason you're interested. The other thing they can be used for is to get traffic to your site, leads for your business and sales!

One thing you can do is to visit sites like Craigslist and Yahoo! Answers and manually extract contact info to contact other users. The good news is that it's easy to find website traffic software that can do this automatically. This allows you to do the things in your business that can't be automated and let the software just give you the leads.

Video Sharing Sites are huge. Sites like YouTube and Vimeo are very popular. YouTube is the number 2 traffic search websites on the entire internet! If you're not taking advantage of this traffic, then you are missing out.

Even if you don't think you can make a good video, and it's easier than you think. You can take an article that you've written and convert it to a power point presentation or just read it. Simply record yourself reading the article or presentation. You can use your video screen if you like. There's even software that will automatically convert an article to a video!

Getting traffic just takes a little time, planning and consistent action.

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