Traffic Generation Tips

July 28th, 2010 by admin

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. What you do with the traffic when it gets to your site could be any number of things. So, the critical step is to generate a steady flow of visitors.

Let’s talk about how to generate traffic…

Here’s a short list of great, free traffic generating methods:

Web 2.0 Methods
Article Marketing
Video

OK, so how do they work?

Web 2.0 Sites

Web 2.0 is the name given to websites that get their content from their users. What this means for you is that you can join into the community and add your own content. And because of the highly interactive and popular nature of these sites, Google and other search engines “index” their content regularly. Which means the content on them gets “indexed” faster and with more weight. So, if you place links to your own site inside your content, you get a search engine ranking benefit from those links. The direct traffic from the Web 2.0 sites themselves is only part of the benefit. 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. In typical web 2.0 fashion, article sites rely on user-generated content (i.e. your articles). And because they are also considered authority sites by the search engines you get all the benefits of other web 2.0 sites just by putting your articles on them. 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. Here are a couple article marketing traffic tips:

First, spend the time to determine your keywords
Write specifically to target these keywords
Use anchor text links in the article and the “resource box”

Video Marketing

And finally, we need to talk about getting traffic from videos. Once again, this is really a sub-set of web 2.0. So, just like article marketing, video marketing enables you to add content to authority sites. And in addition to this, because Google and the others love video so much, you can get listed for highly competitive keywords much more easily.

Here’s how to get free traffic using video…

Sign up for YouTube
When people view your videos, you want them to visit your site, so turn all the other modules in your profile off
Add tags to your profile
Add a link to your website
Upload at least 1 video
For each video use your keywords in the tags, the descriptions and the title