There is only one real secret to getting a lot of visitors
to your website. That is merely figuring out where lots of
your ideal visitors are, and standing in front of them.
When you think of it in those terms, it's really simple.
There are also only three real ways to get in front of the
traffic flow. You can buy traffic, borrow traffic, or create
traffic.
You buy traffic using pay-per-click search engines. It's
very dependable, and can give you a steady flow of
consistent traffic.
The big drawback with using pay-per-clicks to generate
traffic is that it can be very risky. Those who use pay-per-
clicks to generate 100% of their traffic, and are considered
the best of the best, will tell you that as many as 7 out of
10 campaigns that they set up will lose money. The
professionals very quickly shut off the losers, and their
winners more than make up for the losses, but it's really
not a game for someone not properly trained.
You can also buy traffic using an affiliate program. Since
you only pay for the traffic when a sale is made, it's a
very low-risk method. Since your affiliates are sending you
their best customers, you can also think of it as borrowing
traffic.
I love the affiliate program model, and have numerous
products sold via affiliate programs. I also sell a lot of
others' affiliate products. It's win-win.
You can also create traffic by putting things on the
Internet that people are attracted to. You can create
content by writing articles or blogging for example. I love
content creation and have written over 1100 different
articles. My articles teach people how to solve pressing
problems, and at the same time point them to me (my sites)
as a great resource.
When you create content your big challenge is to get it
noticed and indexed by the search engines, so that people
can follow links from there to your site. It's actually
fairly easy - but time and labor intensive.
If your content is "viral" it will be something that others
will happily share. Examples include in-depth articles,
essays that touch people on a deep emotional level, or
humorous videos that you post on YouTube.
Of the three methods of getting traffic (buying, borrowing,
and creating it) my favorite has to be borrowing it... with
creating it second. I generally only buy traffic when I need
a really quick surge to test my website's conversion
process.
The key to generating an absolute flood of free traffic is
getting noticed, getting backlinks, etc., from high traffic
websites such as Google, Craig's List, Yahoo, YouTube, and
the various bookmarking and social networking sites.
This can be as simple as searching through Yahoo Answers for
questions on your area of expertise, and then posting a
great answer - along with an appropriate link to your
website or product.
It can be as simple as searching through YouTube for videos
on your area of expertise, and then leaving a comment along
with a link sharing that they can find more information on
the topic at your site.
It can be as simple as using the search engines to locate
dozens or even hundreds of blogs and forums in your niche,
and then interacting with these communities.
There's only one problem with most of the methods that I
just mentioned. They can be time consuming and labor
intensive. Just locating active communities in your niche
can literally take hours.
I do have a secret. I use automated software to monitor and
notify me of active blogs, forums, and communities in my
niche. I use automated software to notify me when they are
discussing my area of expertise or there is a new video
posted pertaining to my area of expertise.
When I discover a new resource, I then analyze it, and if
appropriate, I interact with that high traffic site, and
leave a link back to my site, which is a perfectly
acceptable practice.
So there you have my secret for generating literally
hundreds of thousands of free hits to even my newest sites.
Of course, your site has to be about something that people
are interested it.
I do strongly advocate using software to automate many of
the mundane processes such as just finding these sites.
Many webmasters really struggle with website traffic
generation, and there is absolutely no need to. You merely
find the huge pools of traffic interested in your topic, and
then you stand underneath the waterfall, and enjoy the cool,
refreshing flow of new visitors.
About The Author
Willie Crawford has been marketing goods and services online since 1996. With very busy websites in dozens of
niches, he teaches that the secret is automating the flow of traffic, using the tools at:
IncredibleWebsiteTraffic.com
