Traffic Generation Tips

The most important thing in any web business is traffic – lots and lots of traffic. Obviously, this assumes you actually have a reason for wanting this traffic. Once the visitors arrive you can have them join your mailing list, purchase a product or subscribe to your RSS feed. The important thing is getting the traffic and sustaining it. Let’s talk about how to generate traffic…These are the best and fastest ways to get free visitors coming to your site: Web 2.0 Sites Article Marketing  .. Video Marketing .. Let’s talk about each of these.  Web 2.0  simply means the new family of websites that have user-generated content. These are great sites to work with because they allow you to participate in this content creation. Because these sites get so much traffic, Google and the other search engines treat these sites with greater importance in their algorithms. And that’s important to you because it means that Google and the other search engines treat links from these sites as more meaningful than links from other sites. So, if you place links to your own site inside your content, you get a search engine ranking benefit from those links. This is the hidden benefit of using Web 2.0 sites. Getting free web 2.0 traffic is a big topic that we’ll discuss more later. This is good overview of the reason to get into it,   The next thing we want to talk about is Article Marketing. Article directories fall under the category of web 2.0 sites.

Article directories are sites where users (including you) can upload articles they have written. Just as with the other web 2.0 sites, having your content included gives you immediate traffic and search engine ranking. And the hidden benefit here is that your reach grows as other people take your articles and put them on their blogs and sites. And because the terms of the directory say they have to include your “resource box” you get links back from all these other sites, too. In order to get the most free traffic make sure you: Do your keyword research Write specifically to target these keywords Hyperlink these keywords to your website – both in the content of the article and in your author’s info section.  Video Sites The last of this group is video marketing. Just like article directories, video sharing sites also rely on user-generated content. And just as article directories give you great SEO benefits and allow others to redistribute your content on their sites. video sharing sites give you all these same benefits. 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 are just a few video marketing tips: 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 Use the tags in your profile to enter the keywords you want to rank for Add a link to your website Add 1 or more videos to your profile  In the title, the description and the tags for each video, include your main keywords Putting it all together.

This is a great overview to get your started generating massive traffic to your site.