Traffic is King, but this comes FIRST
// February 17th, 2011 // 1 Comment » // Uncategorized
Let's talk about some powerful ways to get free and automated traffic coming to your website.
Traffic is useless . . . unless...
Before you begin trying to get traffic to your site, you need to do your keyword research first. Why? Because you have to target these keywords if you are to have any hope of actually generating traffic for them. So you need to make sure the keywords you're targeting are worth targeting.
While doing your keyword research, keep the following in mind:
- How competitive are the keywords you're going after? This involves doing some competitive analysis to determine the ease of entry for each keyword
- Are these "buying" keywords? Some keywords will bring lots of traffic, but none of them will buy. This is not what you're looking for.
- Another thing to think about is affiliates. If you want to build a huge business, you're going to need affiliates to help you. So make sure you are also targeting keywords to attract affiliates.
Of course, this all takes time if you plan to do it yourself. And hiring an expert is very expensive. 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. Using tools like this speed up the process and improve your results, too!
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.
Powerful Traffic Tactics:
- Something you may not have ever considered is Surveys
- "Help" Websites
- Video
Surveys
People love filling in surveys. You can use this fact to provide "sticky" content for other website owners. It's a win-win. They get a great perk on their site and you get a link back to yours. The beauty of this is that it generates website visitors for you with no work on your part. Using just this one extra idea will put you ahead of your competition . . . who think surveys are for gathering information! The only thing you have to do is think of a novel question for your survey.
"Answer" Sites
These sites, like answers.yahoo.com are filled with people asking and answering questions for each other. But, like the surveys, that's not why you're going to pay attention to these sites. The other thing they can be used for is to get traffic to your site, leads for your business and sales! Of course, the process of digging through these sites and pulling out the content info of leads for your business is very time consuming. But a much smarter method is to use website traffic software to do it for you. Then you just get a daily batch of fresh leads delivered to your inbox.
Video Websites
Video is huge and sites like YouTube and Vimeo are extremely popular. In fact, YouTube has over 2 billion videos watched per day! If you're not taking advantage of this rich source of website traffic, then you are really missing out.
You don't have to be able to make awesome videos for this to work. You can even take a webpage or article that you've written. Then just do a screen capture of yourself going through it. 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. Just be a creative and think outside the box a bit. Plus, there's lots of great software out there to help you.
Get started right away:
- Keyword research first is key
- Set up some viral surveys
- Take advantage of the "help" sites
- And definitely include video sharing sites
