subject: Affiliate Marketing: Discover How You Can Generate Targeted Traffic to Your Websites [print this page] Affiliate Marketing: Discover How You Can Generate Targeted Traffic to Your Websites
Once you have set up your blog or website, it is time for you to generate traffic to your websites. There are several ways to generate traffic. However I will discuss a couple of the main ones.
First method is through social networking websites. Typically this is a way of promoting your blog or sites through places like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. There are a couple of ways to go about doing this, you can either create a personal account or you can create a Facebook group.
Both methods allow you to do similar things. The Facebook group method allows you to have an unlimited number of people following you. Whereas with the personal account method I am quite sure you can only have a maximum of 5000 friends, so ideally it is best that you probably want to create a Facebook group.
You can upload audio and video content to YouTube and then link it to your wall, or you can post articles, pictures directly to your wall. Basically the Facebook group has many similar functions and capabilities as your blog or websites. By inviting people to join your group, you have the opportunity to reach hundreds of millions of people all in one place and this is simply the beauty of the Facebook group.
The second way you can do is, you can also promote your blogs by writing related articles and submitting these SEO articles to websites like EzineArticles.com. SEO stands for search engine optimization. The articles that you have to write will be targeting a certain keywords that you want to rank for in the search engine. You will have to write the article using those keywords repeatedly throughout the text. But please do not spam your articles with all the chosen keywords otherwise the chances are your articles will not be approved by most article directories especially EzineArticles.com
What this means is that if your target niche is "Schwinn Health Bike" then you would want to write an article using that phrase as much as possible while still providing an informative article. Most SEO writers will use their keywords in their articles at the range of 3-5%. So for a 500 word article that you write, you would want to use the keyword phrase between 15-18 times roughly.
After writing several articles, you will have to submit them to the top articles directories on the internet. Please bear in mind that to save all the trouble please follow the terms and conditions of respective directories.Most important of all is to provide informational and valuable articles which will be useful to the directories' readers and not to blatantly spam all the article directories with useless contents.
