Traffic Building
Traffic BuildingTo be successful in traffic building, you don’t need to be lucky orrich. But you do need to know this:• You are what you do daily.• You first form you habits; then your habits form you.• It is just as easy to form habits of success as it is to formhabits of failure.Everyday you are online; you are in the process of becoming.Whether you are becoming better or worse depends on what you giveyourself to. Attracting hits and website trafficGenerating Traffic and Attracting HitsThis article is a overview of some methods of creating traffic and their advantages and disadvantages. It is the goal of any website of the internet to get traffic to the site, to be seen.One of the problems is the internet is so huge that there are more pages on the internet than people on the planet. How can you get hits and a flow of traffic to your solitary page'If your generating a page for general interest or fun without traffic your goals are not met. In the case of creating traffic for a business website it is literally a case of have traffic or have your business die.The internet is not like field of dreams "if you build it they will come", no they won't. Google has about 8 billion pages indexed on the net and its growing everyday. If you create a new site your chance of having a visitor just stumble on your site is about the same as winning the lottery.How then do we change the game so people can at least appreciate the work put into a website, or in the case of a business or affiliate website visit to make a decision to buy' The following are some of the most common methods that I use.Search Engine Optimizing.Basically this means you optimize your pages with the right keywords in the right places so that the search engines index your page as having great CONTENT in relation to key search words. The simple fact of the matter is that your chance of being on page one of the most popular search terms is next to nil. You will find thanks to the American domination of the internet that the most popular searched keywords tend to be American personalities, like Oprah Winfrey, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, etc. (Wonder why there are so many gossip magazines' The internet is no different, gossip is one of the most popular topics). In summary one of the first methods of traffic generation is to have a site geared to keywords and content that will draw in search engine traffic. Remember though the more competitive the keywords the harder this will be to achieve. Some companies specialize in generating rich content and links from other like rich content sites targeted to high rating keywords and charge big money for 50,000, etc, why' because free traffic to websites from search engines means lots of free traffic and a big chance for profits.A great Tool to use for selective key word choosing is my favorite "Google Pagerank Checker".Google Keyword Popularity Tool , Online keyword search tool. You can use this tool to define your keywords and combinations and viewing how many times per month that keyword or combination has been searched. What better way to find the money.AdwordsAnother method of traffic generation is to buy it. Yahoo, Google, etc sell advertising space. In the case of Google adwords you can pay to have your site on the first page but this can be an expensive proposition, 1 or more a click, to mere pennies. Why do people choose this method. Firstly it brings targeted traffic to your site. The advantage of targeted traffic is these people are looking for your exact topic and thus more likely to stay on your site and it results in higher conversion rates. The problem is although Google says its rewards content rich sites with lower click costs the truth is the better ad wins, not necessarily the better or most relevant site. To explain this further, Google will lower your cost of your clicks and even raise you in the list if more people are clicking through - its says it is rewarding you for having a relevant site - the truth though is its rewarding you for having a great ad that people want to click on.Advantage of this method is you are guaranteed traffic - disadvantage - its costs and takes time to tweek your ads so they work at maximum efficiency.Surfing Programs.Another way to generate hits to your site is to join numerous surfing programs, like traffic swarm, instantbuzz, fast freeway, traffic pods and many more. These will generate HITS to your site. In fact you can buy thousands of hits and get them in a very short space of time but although normally cheap e.g. 9 for 1000 hits, it has a myriad of disadvantages. Firstly you are only advertising to other surf members, many of them are competitors, already in the same programs as you, not really interested in your ad. I've found that you can build a down line and contact list from surfing programs, however keep the ad or website display very basic.One distinct advantage of most of these programs though is if you build a downline with them the amount of free traffic you get increases. You can surf for traffic at your leisure if you can't afford to pay for it, you might even find a program that perks your interest. Also in this category can be included banners, banner exchanges, etc which work on the same principle of you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours which in my opinion are a waste of time because it is very low grade traffic. However a trick that I learned from this is to join a load of banner exchange networks.(just google "banner program" for a list). Place all of your banner code on one page of your website. Then go buy some of the cheapest traffic you can buy, you know one of those sites that claims to give you 10,000 targeted hits to your site from redirected url's. Send this traffic to the link with your banner exchanges that you created. Now, do you see where we are going with this' Now, you will be getting some pretty good targeted traffic instead of that crappy popup or under traffic. A 50% markup on your traffic.If you are interested in surfing programs then they are plentiful . Just remember though that they are very untargeted and time consuming. Personally, I have never had too much luck with these either unless you want a handful of free traffic affiliates in your down line under your belt.Long Term Methods.One of these is article writing. Articles submitted to articles sites like goarticles, article fever, etc act as a magnet for search engines. Content rich and quality controlled if you get an article listed in one of these forums/ libraries you have the ability to have a constant stream of traffic through attached links.Why do you think I've written this article. To generate traffic. Yes I like helping and educating others and I do create not for profit websites and articles but most are to generate traffic. Another long term method is to contact and link to other similar sites. You can do this by requesting other webmasters to do this or create you own sites and link them to one another.Another long term method is to create an optin e-mail list and encourage people from you list to visit your 'great' site with your 'unbelievable' offer.One method that really surprised me was "adding a signature with a short ad and the url to your product or service".Replying to all of those emails in your inbox and especially replying to online ads will explode your web site counter if used daily.ICreating a blog like this doesn't hurt either. In summary I don't recommend any method over any other. Each has advantages and disadvantages. It can depend on what you are advertising.. If you do over time your internet presence will increase as will your total traffic. 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