Secrets2Traffic

If you want to get instant, targeted traffic to your website, then paying for it is the quickest way to go.

=> Set up an Adwords campaign on Google and you can have visitors flocking to your site in minutes.

=> Submit a top sponsor or solo ad and watch those visitors tripping over themselves in the rush to your site.

=> Issue a press release and you can open the door to a permanent flow of direct traffic.

The problem however, with paid traffic strategies, is that if you don't know what you're doing, you could end up spending much more money than you will ever make back!

Never, ever invest in paid Traffic generating strategies unless you have done the necessary background research and training in that particular method"

Which brings us to the Free Traffic methods. Personally, these are my favourite and done correctly can bring much more traffic to you than the paid variety. Plus, with a lot of the free methods, that traffic keeps on coming!

You pay for ppc campaign and as soon as you stop it, so does your traffic. Same with any form of paid advertising you have to keep paying if you want to keep getting the traffic.

But try blogging, article marketing, press releases, SEO and the traffic just keeps coming. Once started, you cannot stop it. So it's very important that you send it to the right place!

Because these are the best sources of getting traffic to your site, we'll deal with each of them in turn.

I'm going to talk about these two together because without a doubt when you first start out running a home business, these are the methods you will most likely use.

And the most effective way of using them is the same!

I know when I first started marketing online, I spent all of my time, surfing Traffic Exchanges and posting Safelist ads. But no matter how hard I tried I just wasn't having any success.

And the number of visitors to my site wasn't anywhere near enough to make any money. Now what usually happens here is that you think it is a waste of time so you go off looking for paid advertising.

Big mistake. These methods do work. But you have to know how to use them effectively.

The first thing you need to do is grab your referral url for each traffic exchange and safelist of which you are a member.

The second thing you need to do is add those referral urls to the other traffic exchanges and safelists.

The third thing you need to do is promote them like crazy.

Note don't promote traffic exchange A within traffic exchange A. Sounds simple, but you'd be amazed how many times I've seen this mistake made!

Now, you will pretty quickly build up a list of referrals within the different programmes. Why? Because everyone is looking for more ways to get traffic to their website. And the more opportunities you present to them, the more likely it is they will sign up to them.

As your list of referrals grows so does your number of credits. Because you recieve a percentage of all the credits they earn, you can quickly cut down on the number of hours you have to spend surfing and clicking.

Once you are earning enough credits from your referrals to be generating a significant amount of traffic, then you can start to promote your own website.

Making the sacrifice early on, will pay big dividends in the long term.

Article Marketing is a great way of getting traffic to your website. You would think every marketer would use this method since it brings such huge rewards, but the truth is it's very under used.

Writing and submitting articles not only gives you the chance to get traffic to your website, but it also positions you as an expert in your field, so the visitors who come to your site are already more inclined to buy from you.

There are a huge number of article sites out there. My personal favourite is EzineArticles.com but you can also use GoArticles.com another high traffic article site.

Simply write an article on a topic related to your product or service and submit it to any number of sites. Within the author resource box, you put a link back to your site. When anyone reads your article, they can click back to your site for more information.

The beauty of submitting articles is that often your article will be reprinted by someone else so it is quickly distributed all over the Internet. Your link can be seen by millions of people within a very short space of time.

Any time anyone publishes one of your articles, they have to include your link and give you the credit for the article. If you find one of your articles reprinted somewhere without the link, then you have the right to have it removed or have your link put in there.

Once submitted, a single article can continue to bring traffic to your site forever. You never have to touch it. It is there and will always be there.

Now, for a couple of tips on article writing.

=> Your article needs to be good quality information. Nobody will bother clicking back to your site if you have written a load of trash.

=> When you submit an article, set up a Google alert so that you get notified each time that article is published. This is really useful to help identify if someone republishes your article without including your author links.

=> Submit your article to the social bookmarking sites. This helps to get traffic to your article which, in turn, gets traffic to your website.

=> Repurpose your article. One article can easily be turned into a video, a PDF, a Podcast .... By doing this, you get even more backlinks to your site, and giving people a wider range of ways to access your content is never a bad thing. Also, check out the video below to see how you can use the power of RSS with your article marketing.

A word about 'duplicate content'. If you are going to submit your articles to multiple sites, then you need to change the content every time. Duplicate content will result in heavy penalties from the search engines.

Check out JetSubmitter by clicking the image below. If you don't like this particular service, then be sure to choose another. Do NOT submit the same article more than once!