Bob Moran's Blog

Maybe it has slipped your attention, but the most often used approach to making money on the web is to have a website. Then… you have to “help” people find your fabulous website. The general term of your visitors is, traffic. It’s a numbers game, more traffic equals more sales – generally speaking. This is the goal for every internet marketer: to make as a high a profit as possible. Next on the agenda… talk about getting more traffic to your site – the rest is up to you.

Link directories can help increase your traffic if you submit your site to them. You want to find privately owned and actively moderated directories and submit your site to as many as you can. You can find many ways to do this for free. Getting links from many directories can help to raise your website’s page rank. Being listed with these directories also gives your site credibility, as they are moderated and people who see your site listed know that it’s been approved. So you can get traffic from people who see your site listed in a directory and click through to it.

Another tactic used by quite a few is to find sites and blogs where you can be a guest contributor. You’ll be able to gain exposure to other people’s readers if you publish your content on their blogs. You will get traffic if people read your content, like it, and it’s well done. But you’ll need to find authority sites to be willing to publish your content. With some simple relationship building techniques, this should not be a problem at all!

Join a few popular social networks and create profiles with them, leaving a link to your site of course. Having your profile on such high traffic sites as MySpace and Facebook can bring you a lot of publicity! You can build a large amount of traffic, which can lead to sales, but taking advantage of these sites, even if you don’t immediately see them as internet marketing tools. You can get some hints on how to use these sites by looking at some of the profiles created by other marketers in your niche. Work on networking with people who may want or need the kind of product or service you are marketing; many of them could be your customers for a long time!

There is no shortage of methods to attract website traffic; in fact, it can be difficult to know which ones you want to use. Try not to use more than one technique for building traffic in a day, or you may get confused. To properly test a traffic generating strategy, you have to give it a fair chance to work, at least a couple of months, before you decide to test a different strategy.

When you land upon a method that does work, scale it up so it brings you even more traffic. There really isn’t any such thing as having too much website traffic. Some of your visitors will buy something from you, so increasing your traffic will mean increasing your sales!

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