Targeted web traffic is the most important factor to the success of internet business. If you want to successfully make money online, you need to learn the effective ways to drive targeted web traffic to your website or the destination page where sale is being made. There are many ways to drive these traffics, either free or paid. Free method of driving targeted web traffic requires more works, patience and time while the paid method delivery instant result, but you need to invest some cost. Here are three proven ways to drive targeted web traffic to your website:

1. Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising

There are millions of thousands of internet surfers searching for products or services on the internet. If you are selling a product at your website (either our own product or other people product through affiliate marketing), you need to let those internet surfers who are interested with your product know where to find it. Pay-per-click advertising is the fastest way to exposure your product to the online market. Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing are among the most reliable resources for your PPC advertising, but Google AdWords has some advantages over Yahoo Search Marketing, one of these advantages is Google Ads can be lived almost instantly while Yahoo Ads requires a few days of review for approval. But, both will deliver good targeted web traffic to your website provided you have targeted the right keywords.

2. Article Submission

Article marketing is the number one free and effective way to drive targeted web traffic to any website. Submitting articles to various article directories not only drive targeted web traffic to your website, it does more than that. As you know, search engines is the best source for free traffic, but to get good ranking position for your targeted keywords, your website need to be optimized for search engines while getting good incoming links and anchor text links from the websites that have good ranking will help in your SEO efforts. Article submission to high pagerank article directories such as EzineArticles.com and goarticles.com help generate more incoming links. These article directories allow you to place your author bio at the bottom with website URL and anchor text link to link back to your website which contributes to your website incoming links and help in getting ranking position at search engines.

3. RSS Feed Submission

If your website has RSS feed, don't waste the opportunity to get more exposure through RSS feed submission to various RSS feed directories. You could burn your feeds using the popular burner, FeedBurner.com so that you have better manage of your feeds and your feed subscribers. Then, submit it to the top RSS feed directories that you can find online. The more RSS feed submissions you have done, the more exposure you will get for website, and drive more targeted web traffic when your website get visited from those feeds subscribers. Beside the traffic, RSS feed submission is an awesome tactic to increase back-links to your website as well.

Summary

The ability of your website getting targeted web traffic will determine the success of your internet business. You could use the free or paid marketing methods to generate the traffic to your website.