subject: Want To Get Free Traffic For Your Website? Here's An Honest Answer [print this page] Want To Get Free Traffic For Your Website? Here's An Honest Answer
Copyright (c) 2010 Sandy HallidayThere is always some debates going on among Internet Marketers about the best way to get free traffic for a website.Some marketers would have you believe that article marketing is dead and that video is the way to go now. Others say nonsense! Articles still work for them. And others prefer to stick to social network strategies such as bookmarking, Twitter, Facebook, etc.You've probably heard a lot of success stories about how some school boy is getting millions of visitors to his site every week just doing what he loves to do anyway.I don't say that isn't possible, but in my own experience, there are two ways that stand out from the crowd.These two ways will both be working to get free traffic to your website. Or one would be better than the other?Here are my two favorites:* Article marketing* Video marketingArticle MarketingArticle marketing is great, because the search engines love words. As you can imagine, it's almost impossible, at this point, for a search engine to dive into a video or a picture to see what it's all about. The written word is easy, though.Place your keywords in the article, and write an appealing resource box, and people will migrate to your website like salmons about to spawn.Believe me, article marketing is still working well enough for millions of marketers. Don't listen to the doom merchants. They are probably just saying that article marketing doesn't work because they are trying to sell you their new course.Video MarketingLet's face it! A lot of people prefer to watch a movie rather than to read the book. So in order for you to market to these people, you should create videos, and share them on video portals like YouTube, Viddler, and others.It's not that difficult to do. You don't really have to be an expert in film making or anything. It's easy enough to find a "how to" video on YouTube that will show you exactly how to create a simple video.Your video title should contain your best keyword and then it will be picked up at least by Google, the owners of YouTube.Many people prefer to use YouTube's own search facility instead of using traditional search engines.Huge AdvantageThose articles and videos stay online. They are a permanent fixture. So you see free traffic for your website will last much longer than paid.
