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How to Get All the Traffic You Can Use?
by Kirsten Hawkins
Published on this site: January 31st, 2006 - See
more articles from this month
The best traffic-generation ideas combine the better sources
of free traffic with some paid advertising. I propose three
methods that will boost your traffic. If you remain dedicated
to these three methods of advertising, you will get all the
traffic you need.
- Writing and Distributing Articles
This is my favourite way of driving traffic to my sites.
Articles have the ability to become viral, and that can
be a huge plus for you, and a great reason to write articles.
Focus on creating a 300 word article related to the theme
of your site or business. Include a resource box at the
end of your article that features a link back to your site.
Then, distribute your article to article distribution sites
(like EzineArticles.com)
and email groups (like http://groups.yahoo.com/group/business_articles).
You will see traffic from this method.
- Contributing to Forums
The key word here is “contributing.” Recently,
too many good forums have been besieged by “marketers”
posting ads. This is considered to be forum spam, and is
not in good taste. Instead, visit forums, read posts, and
when you have a good, well-thought-out question or reply,
post it to the forum. This type of question or reply allows
you to build credibility in that forum, and will earn interest
in your business from other readers. Most forums allow you
to post a link at the end of your post, or in a signature
file, and you can promote your business there. As you build
credibility, you will build traffic.
- Buying Ezine Ads
This is a paid method of advertising, but it works, because
it is the most targeted of these approaches. Write a concise
ad for your business, then begin contacting ezines to place
your ad. (Do a search for “ezine directories,”
and you will find enough lists to keep you busy.) When you
contact an ezine, look for rates for both classified ads
and solo ads. The advantage to a solo ad is that your ad
goes out by itself in a separate email, but they can be more expensive. Because these ads
are targeted (you should not advertise in an unrelated ezine),
you will definitely see traffic, but you will need to track
your results to see which ezines bring you the most and
best traffic.
These three sources of traffic will keep you busy and will
bring you all the traffic you need.
Kirsten Hawkins is an online marketing specialist
from Nashville, TN. Visit http://www.pageranksite.com/
for more great online marketing tips and webmaster resources.
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