For any online marketer, traffic is the lifeblood of their business
. In the same way a stock trader needs money as their main inventory to continue trading, an individual running an online business needs high quality targeted traffic to their website in order to make money and achieve conversions. Whatever action you want your visitor to perform, you need traffic to get them there in the first place. In this article I am going to give you 5 steps to generating a lot of traffic to your site.
1) Join the most popular forums in your niche. Contribute to all the relevant posts where you can provide the answer. Do not under any circumstances spam the forum. This method of generating traffic relies on including a signature with a link to your website. Once you begin providing quality information people will click that link and you'll be getting traffic directly from the forums you regularly contribute to.
2) If you have an advertising budget, consider creating pay-per-click campaigns which you can allocate more funds to over time. In the beginning start small and keep tweaking your campaign until it is in profit. You can then ramp things up and increase your advertising budget. Be very careful when using this pay-per-click method as you can certainly lose money if you get it wrong.
3) If you enjoy writing, submit good articles about topics in your niche. The more relevant, the better, so try to align your articles with whatever you are offering on your website. You need to get into a habit and write at least a few articles a day until you reach the desired level of traffic. Don't stop writing articles at that point though as fresh and quality content will always drive more traffic to your web properties.
4) Connect with other people in your niche that can send you traffic. Negotiate deals which result in a win-win between you and your potential partner. You can trade traffic by mailing to your list about your partners offer. You can also get creative and offer to put a banner on your site in return for traffic sent to you.
5) Reward your current subscribers by giving them something free which they are going to get value from. Ask them to tell their friends about it if they like it. Make sure that whatever you give away also has a link back to your website.