Traffic is King, but this comes FIRST
Let’s talk about some powerful ways to get free and automated traffic coming to your website.
Traffic is useless . . . unless…
Keyword research is really the first step in getting traffic to your website. This is because you will building your traffic funnels around specific keywords. This means it’s critical to select your keywords properly.
A couple things to keep in mind when doing keyword research:
- How competitive are the keywords you’re going after? This involves doing some competitive analysis to determine the ease of entry for each keyword
- What kinds of visitors do these keywords bring? If you don’t do your research you’ll end up with a lot of traffic that doesn’t buy from you. You want to generate visitors ready to buy.
- Another thing to think about is affiliates. Nothing brings more buyers like an army of affiliates. This means that some of your traffic focus should be on getting affiliates to your site.
Of course, this all takes time if you plan to do it yourself. Hiring someone else to do it costs a lot of money. The upside is that these two factors keep most everyone from even doing their keyword research. The smartest marketers use website traffic software to automate this and other aspects of their business. This will not only speed it up. It will give you better results, as well.
OK, now we can talk about traffic…
Once you’ve done your properly keyword research, you’re now ready to start targeting these keywords to draw in visitors.
Powerful Traffic Tactics:
- Surveys
- “Answer” Sites
- Video Websites
Surveys
The truth is that people really enjoy taking surveys and finding out what other people think. And if you make it interesting, other people will post your survey on their website. They benefit by getting free content for their site and you get a link to your site under the survey. Think about that – you get website traffic for free just for making a survey! Most people think surveys are just for collecting data, but in this case you don’t even care about the answers. Just make the question interesting enough that people will want to share it with their own visitors.
“Traffic Traps”
These sites, like answers.yahoo.com are filled with people asking and answering questions for each other. But, like the surveys, that’s not why you’re going to pay attention to these sites. The other thing they can be used for is to get traffic to your site, leads for your business and sales! Now, you can do this all by hand – visit a classified ads or answers site and one by one copy and paste contact info. But a much smarter method is to use website traffic software to do it for you. These tools put the whole thing on auto-pilot and just deliver the leads to you each day.
Video Websites
No doubt you’re aware of YouTube and other video websites. YouTube is one of the most highly traffic and search websites on the entire internet! If used properly, video sites can get you more website traffic than you know what to do with.
And don’t worry if you don’t have any idea of how to make a video. One super easy thing to do is take an article or website you’ve written. Then just do a screen capture of yourself going through it. I’ve even seen software that will automatically convert an article to a video!
In Closing
Getting traffic is not that difficult. Just be a creative and think outside the box a bit. You can even use software to automate most of what we’ve talked about.
Don’t waste any more time:
- Do your keyword research
- Then create some surveys born to go viral
- Build your traffic traps
- Capitalize on video!
