Traffic is King, but this comes FIRST
The best way to ensure your success is to build automated traffic sources to send you visitors day and night.
Traffic is useless . . . unless…
Before you begin trying to get traffic to your site, you need to do your keyword research first. The reason this is so important is that you are going to be building content and traffic sources for specific keywords. This means it’s critical to select your keywords properly.
Here are the important considerations for your research:
- How competitive are the keywords you’re going after? You’ll have to analyze the competition and see what’s out there for this.
- Are these “buying” keywords? Certain keywords are good for generating a lot of visitors who don’t buy anything. What you want is buyers!
- Another thing to think about is affiliates. If you want to build a huge business, you’re going to need affiliates to help you. This means that some of your traffic focus should be on getting affiliates to your site.
This is critical to your business, but it takes a lot of time and effort. And hiring an expert is very expensive. The upside is that these two factors keep most everyone from even doing their keyword research. What I recommend is using website traffic software to save the time of doing it yourself and the money of hiring someone else. Using tools like this speed up the process and improve your results, too!
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’s a short list of sneaky traffic techniques:
- Most people overlook the power of Surveys!
- “Answer” Sites
- Video Sharing Sites
Surveys
Here’s the thing – people love surveys. It’s human nature. And if you make it interesting, other people will post your survey on their website. They benefit by getting free content for their site and you get a link to your site under the survey. Think about that – you get website traffic for free just for making a survey! Using just this one extra idea will put you ahead of your competition . . . who think surveys are for gathering information! So, get creative and make up a survey that’s wacky to get other people interested in putting it on their sites.
“Answer” Sites
Maybe you’ve seen these help sites where people post questions and other people answer them. However, you’re interest in these sites is not to ask and answer questions. You are going to generate traffic, leads and sales from them. One thing you can do is to visit sites like Craigslist and Yahoo! Answers and manually extract contact info to contact other users. But a much smarter method is to use website traffic software to do it for you. Then you just get a daily batch of fresh leads delivered to your inbox.
Video
Another great resource is video sharing sites like YouTube. YouTube is one of the most highly traffic and search websites on the entire internet! If you’re not taking advantage of this rich source of website traffic, then you are really missing out.
Even if you don’t think you can make a good video. One super easy thing to do is take an article or website 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
It’s not that hard to get traffic to your websites. It just takes a little time and some ingenuity. Plus, there’s lots of great software out there to help you.
Get started right away:
- Step 1 is researching your keywords
- Next, set up a survey or two with viral appeal
- Build your traffic traps
- And definitely include video sharing sites
