Traffic is King, but this comes FIRST
January 27th, 2011
Let’s talk about some powerful ways to get free and automated traffic coming to your website.
But, first…
Keyword research is really the first step in getting traffic to your website. This is because you will building your traffic funnels around specific keywords. Which means you need to put some thought into the keywords you’re targeting.
A couple things to keep in mind when doing keyword 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? Some keywords will bring lots of traffic, but none of them will buy. You want to generate visitors ready to buy.
- Will these keywords bring affiliates? Generating your own customers is great – having other people do it for you is even better. 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. Experts are expensive and don’t guarantee results. And that’s why most people skip this step! 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.
Once you know your keywords…
Once you’ve done your properly keyword research, you’re now ready to start targeting these keywords to draw in visitors.
Here are a couple of clever ways to do this…
- Something you may not have ever considered is Surveys
- "Help" Websites
- Video
Surveys
People love filling in surveys. 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. This allows you to get free website traffic from other people’s sites! Most people think surveys are just for collecting data, but in this case you don’t even care about the answers. Just make the question interesting enough that people will want to share it with their own visitors.
"Traffic Traps"
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. What you want to do is use these sites to generate traffic and leads for your business. Now, you can do this all by hand – visit a classified ads or answers site and one by one copy and paste contact info. 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 Websites
Video is huge and sites like YouTube and Vimeo are extremely popular. These sites generate massive traffic and people watch over 2 billion videos a day on YouTube alone . If used properly, video sites can get you more website traffic than you know what to do with.
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. You can even get software that will automatically do this for you.
Summary
Figuring out how to get some visitors to your site is not hard at all. It just takes a little time and some ingenuity. Plus, there’s lots of great software out there to help you.
So, start right now and:
- Do your keyword research
- Set up some viral surveys
- Take advantage of the "help" sites
- And definitely include video sharing sites
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