Traffic is King, but this comes FIRST
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Visitors to your site are critical – getting them there automatically is even better. Here’s how…
Before we begin
Before you begin trying to get traffic to your site, you need to do your keyword research first. This is because you will building your traffic funnels around specific keywords. So you need to make sure the keywords you’re targeting are worth targeting.
A couple things to keep in mind when doing keyword research:
- Are the keywords you’re interested in attainable? You’ll have to analyze the competition and see what’s out there for this.
- What kinds of visitors do these keywords bring? Certain keywords are good for generating a lot of visitors who don’t buy anything. This is not what you’re looking for.
- What about affiliates? Nothing brings more buyers like an army of affiliates. So make sure you are also targeting keywords to attract affiliates.
This is critical to your business, but it takes a lot of time and effort. Experts are expensive and don’t guarantee results. Which is why practically none of your competitors will do this! The smartest marketers use website traffic software to automate this and other aspects of their business. This will not only speed it up. It will give you better results, as well.
Only then can you start getting traffic
Now that you’ve completed your keyword research, you can begin using these keywords to get traffic to your website.
Here are a couple of clever ways to do this…
- Most people overlook the power of Surveys!
- “Help” Websites
- Video
Surveys
The truth is that people really enjoy taking surveys and finding out what other people think. And smart website owners know this, so they will include your survey on their site if you make a good one. And when they put your survey on their site, they will include a link back to your website. This allows you to get free website traffic from other people’s sites! Using just this one extra idea will put you ahead of your competition . . . who think surveys are for gathering information! The only thing you have to do is think of a novel question for your survey.
“Answer” Sites
Maybe you’ve seen these help sites where people post questions and other people answer them. But, like the surveys, that’s not why you’re going to pay attention to these sites. What you want to do is use these sites to generate traffic and leads for your business. One thing you can do is to visit sites like Craigslist and Yahoo! Answers and manually extract contact info to contact other users. So, if you’re smart, you’ll use website traffic software to do it all for you. These tools put the whole thing on auto-pilot and just deliver the leads to you each day.
Video
No doubt you’re aware of YouTube and other video websites. YouTube is one of the most highly traffic and search websites on the entire internet! So don’t miss out of this incredible source of free website traffic.
You don’t have to be able to make awesome videos for this to work. You can even take a webpage or article that you’ve written. Then simply record yourself reading the text and you video the screen with a simple screen capture program. And like anything else, there is software available that will turn articles into videos for you automatically.
In Closing
Getting traffic is not that difficult. It just takes a little time and some ingenuity. You can even use software to automate most of what we’ve talked about.
Get started right away:
- Step 1 is researching your keywords
- Next, set up a survey or two with viral appeal
- Take advantage of the “help” sites
- And don’t forget about video