Traffic - Lifeblood of a website.

In order to succeed on the internet an internet business needs customers. Traffic or Hits are visits to your website. The more the better. Unfortunately there are billions of competing web pages so their are a number of things you need to do to get your share.

1) Article Writing.

Articles submitted to article directories act as a magnet for search engines and the directories themselves have regular visitors looking for information and links to good websites. By writing articles you create a content rich page with links back to your site. Although writing an article represents an investment of time the long term pay offs can be huge - a steady flow of traffic to your website over time. There is also another pay off - a increasing number of back links to your site. Thanks to RSS - really simple syndication your article and its links can be picked up and displayed on numerous other web pages, increasing the importance of the original site and giving you the chance for even more traffic.

2) Search Engine Optimisation.

This means you optimising your pages with the right keywords in the right places so that the search engines index your page as having great CONTENT in relation to key search words. The simple fact of the matter is that your chance of being on page one of the most popular search terms is next to nil. Pictures, banners, graphics, none of these help with SEO - words are the food of the internet spider so ensure your keywords are well placed and form the dominant content of your web page. This may mean having a page acting as a landing page and having a linked page as the one with all the fancy graphics, flash presentations and the like.

3) Paying for Traffic.

Another method of traffic generation is to buy it. Yahoo, Google, etc sell advertising space. In the case of Google adwords you can pay to have you site on the first page but this can be an expensive proposition, $1 or more a click, to mere pennies. Why do people choose this method. Firstly it brings targetted traffic to your site. The advantage of targeted traffic is these people are looking for your exact topic and thus more likely to stay on your site and it results in higher conversion rates. Advantage of this method is you are guaranteed traffic - disadvantage - its costs and takes time to tweek your ads so they work at maximum efficiency. The greater demand for the keyword, the greater the number of competitors there are. There is one way to can cut this disadvantage down though, choose to limit your target audience to a particular country, region or even city. Obviously the target audience is further limited by language. Not much point in advertising your english content site in Mongolia, firstly because not many mongols speak english, but secondly because not many have internet access either. If your paying money for advertising on the internet make sure you are reaching the right audience for your ad. Further take the time to regularly see how the ad is performing. With google you can try a number of ads and let it display the highest performing ads more often.

4) Surfing Programs.

Another way to generate hits to your site is to join numerous surfing programs, like traffic swarm, instantbuzz, fast freeway, traffic pods and many more. These will generate HITS to your site. In fact you can buy thousands of hits and get them in a very short space of time but although normally cheap e.g. $9 for 1000 hits, it has a myriad of disadvantages. Firstly you are only advertising to other surf members, many of them are competitors, already in the same programs as you, not really interest in your ad. I've found that you can build a downline and contact list from surfing programs, however keep the ad or website display very basic. With a 15-30 second counter on most programs people just aren't going to read a saga even if its mindly blowingly good, they are going to scan and then click the letter or number required. It that 15 seconds you've got to grab there interest. You can do this by free offers, appealing to their needs or wants, often in this case a single page with an e-mail enrollment form it the best bet for getting results.

Traffic is the life blood of your internet business. Mastering these four methods will ensure your business stays healthy.

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