subject: Traffic Techniques: 3 Simple Ways To Get Solid And Steady Traffic [print this page] So you've built an awesome website and are now ready to rake in the dough. You might be thinking it's smooth sailing from here, but this is just the start.
Even the best website with the most attractive graphics and most persuasive copy will not get any sales or leads... unless you get some good traffic.
Some people think that they have to settle for whatever kind of automatic traffic they have (like that coming from the search engines), but they don't have to and neither do you.
Here are some proven ways to get you some solid and steady traffic.
Traffic Technique # 1: Article Marketing - Source Of Steady And Indefinite Traffic
This is possibly the oldest way of generating traffic; but it's been used so much because it has always worked. Seriously, even if you think you've heard it too much, use articles!
The more articles you have out on the web, the more your sites are going to be seen, and the more you can establish your credibility and expertise. And you may have heard that the more times people see you, the more they get to like you and be familiar with your business.
Article marketing also produces a steady and nearly permanent stream of traffic because once you've submitted them to the article directories, your article web pages would stay online indefinitely.
If you don't have the time, or simply don't want to write article after article, you can easily outsource this work for a small amount. Some writers from third world countries are charging rates for as low as $3 per short article. But beware! Many writers who write cheap also produce trash content; this doesn't apply to everyone though. You just have to do your due diligence in locating these cheap yet excellent freelancers. And once you've found these goldmine writers, do all you can to satisfy and keep them.
If you're in a tight budget, the cheapest way would be to write articles yourself; but if you're pressed for time, you could pay for some articles to get done while doing some yourself.
This way, you could easily end up with hundreds of articles in no time. Once your articles have been accepted in the article directories, you have the potential to generate lots of traffic and backlinks (using the resource box at the end of each article).
The resource box (or author bio) is the most important part of the article because it is the only part where you get to promote your sites or offer. When someone finds, reads and likes your article, it would be useless if they cannot click a link to see what else you have to say or offer.
Getting backlinks is one of the most important functions of article marketing. Backlinks are important because they work somewhat like a vote. These votes tell the search engines that this is a site endorsed by other sites and it should pay closer attention to it. The more backlinks you have, the more "votes" you register and the higher up on the results page your website will be for your chosen keywords.
However, that doesn't mean you should rush to write as much articles as you can (without looking after their quality) just for the sake of getting backlinks. The quality of your articles is still very important because your reputation is at stake. It is therefore important to maintain the right balance of quality and quantity.
Traffic Technique # 2: Bookmark Buttons, RSS Feeds And The Power Of Blogs
It is highly recommended to have bookmark buttons for visitors to put you in their favorite bookmarking sites. And make sure you have an RSS feed for visitors to subscribe to. You can search for a specific one on Google; a lot of people use Feed Burner.
An RSS feed gives your visitors a chance to subscribe to your blog. This means that every time you have a new blog post, subscribers will get a notification.
Setting up an RSS feed is pretty simple. Simply search for How to set up RSS feed in Google to find out how to do it.
You need to consistently give useful, entertaining or controversial information and update your blog often. This way, people would be willing to stay with you and even spread the word about your blog.
Traffic Technique # 3: Domain Name Misspellings
Now this doesn't mean you should try to take the misspelling of a big company and make it yours. It means you can check how your domain name has been misspelled in searches, and then buy those misspelled domains to redirect them to your actual domain name.
This works well because even if the person searching doesn't type in your address or search term perfectly, you can still show up in the results and get some decent sales and leads.
No one's perfect with their typing and everyone has had a few Google errors, so capitalize on this common mistake. Make sure that your misspelled domain names point back to a correctly spelled domain name.
Use these tips in your marketing efforts now to get some steady traffic coming in.
