Generating Traffic on a Budget - Traffic-Building


by Gary Gross - Date: 2007-01-27 - Word Count: 560 Share This!

You may be surprised to find that generating traffic for your website does not have to be an expensive venture. In fact, many different actions you can take will place little to no stress on your wallet. It is true that there are many different traffic-generating practices, which can cost you a good deal of money, sometimes upward to $2,000. Not everyone has this kind of money to spend on getting traffic to his or her site; this is especially true for those that are just starting out. A good place to start is to go with methods that are free or cost very little money and analyze your traffic to learn more about what they are doing to find you.

There are certain things that every webmaster should do within their own website before considering other traffic options. First, you should create a website that is attractive and user friendly. Make sure that you have something to offer your visitors once they are there. Provide solid content within your own website as well; make sure that you have the proper keywords that pertain to your site. Finally, submit to search engines, this is still a very important step that all webmasters should take.

What is the most used form of Traffic Building?

Articles! More and more people are using article to generate traffic directly to their website and it works! You may be wondering, how can something as simple as an article drive traffic to my website? Well, the key is to provide something interesting and worthy of a read. The article should also be closely related to what your specific website has to offer. For example, if you are selling fish aquarium supplies, you could write an article such as "The proper care of your salt-water fish" or "How to choose the proper aquarium". Having a fish aquarium supply website, you will not want to write about "The best way to feed your dog".

Next, the article should be well written and free from grammatical and spelling errors. You see once the article is submitted, it is a total reflection on you and your website. Therefore, ensure that you have a well-written and informative article to appeal to the readers.

No matter who writes the article, rather it is you or a writer you have hired, you should provide links throughout the article that point to your website. This is not an absolute must; however, it is a good idea. At the very least, you will want to ensure that you create a positive and well-written resource box. A resource box gives you the opportunity to tell a little bit about yourself, your website, or your products and provide a direct link to your website.

Article Submission

Many different article submission websites will allow you to place your article within their website. Now you should be aware that when you submit your articles, generally, you are allowing others to make use of your articles. The provision with this is that they keep the resource box in tact at all times. What this means for you, is that not only will you receive a link back to your website from the article submission website, but whoever makes use of your article as well. This means DOUBLE the exposure, which means double the traffic. Now think of what many articles can mean for your website. Massive traffic!


Related Tags: list building, viral marketing, traffic generation, opt-in lists, viral list building

Gary Gross has been in Online Marketing since 2002. He runs a Weekly Newsletter, Marketer's Daily, which concentrates on List Building, Traffic Generation & Internet Marketing. He is also the Author of "List Building 101 - Building Your List from A to Z", which you can recieve for Free by visiting http://marketersdaily.com/gift.

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