2 Great Sources Of Traffice For Your Online Business
So, you have created a blog or website and now you want to see the money rolling in courtesy of your affiliate programs or Adsense advertising
. But it will not happen unless and until you are seeing significant numbers of visitors to your blog because essentially affiliate marketing is to a large extent a numbers game..the more visitors, the greater the income.
Three tremendously effective ways to generate traffic to your blog are through article marketing, social bookmarking and forum commenting.
1.Article Marketing
Article marketing is the single most effective to drive targeted, long term traffic to your site. It may take a little time and work on your behalf but if you are serious about your online business you will invest your time or money in article marketing which simply involves writing articles about your niche or market and publishing them on well know article directories.
This has the effect of creating traffic and back links for your site and the back links will in turn help your site to rank very well in the search engines and increase the chances of getting free traffic through being found in the search engine page results for particular searches.
2.Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking involves you engaging in some of the social networking sites such as Digg, Stumbleupon and Twitter which affords you the opportunity of leaving some strategically placed links back to your blog whilst interacting on these sites. Some of the comments or entries that you post on these sites can lead to a flood of traffic to your site and again the back link that Googles robot sees coming from these sites to your blog will increase the importance that Google places on your site which in turn will see your blog ranking highly in the search engine rankings.
In conclusion the use of article marketing and social bookmarking if used correctly and not abused will see a good, sustainable long term traffic source grow as if a stream becoming a river and will undoubtedly lead to the success of your blog provided you do not abuse either sources and engage in spam activity without providing any real value to the users of the directories or social bookmarking sites.