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Traffic Building

o be successful in traffic building, you don't
need to be lucky or
rich. But you do need to know this:

You are what you do daily.
You first form you habits; then your habits form
you.
It is just as easy to form habits of success as
it is to form habits of failure.

Everyday you are online; you are in the process of
becoming.
Whether you are becoming better or worse depends
on what you give yourself to.


Attracting hits and website traffic

Generating Traffic and Attracting Hits

This article is a overview of some methods of
creating traffic and their advantages and
disadvantages. It is the goal of any website of
the internet to get traffic to the site, to be
seen.

One of the problems is the internet is so huge
that there are more pages on the internet than
people on the planet. How can you get hits and a
flow of traffic to your solitary page?

If your generating a page for general interest or
fun without traffic your goals are not met. In
the case of creating traffic for a business
website it is literally a case of have traffic or
have your business die.


The internet is not like field of dreams "if you
build it they will come", no they won't. Google
has about 8 billion pages indexed on the net and
its growing everyday. If you create a new site
your chance of having a visitor just stumble on
your site is about the same as winning the
lottery.

How then do we change the game so people can at
least appreciate the work put into a website, or
in the case of a business or affiliate website
visit to make a decision to buy? The following
are some of the most common methods that I use.

Search Engine Optimizing.

Basically this means you optimize 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. You will find thanks to the
American domination of the internet that the most
popular searched keywords tend to be American
personalities, like Oprah Winfrey, Paris Hilton,
Britney Spears, etc. (Wonder why there are so
many gossip magazines? The internet is no
different, gossip is one of the most popular
topics).


In summary one of the first methods of traffic
generation is to have a site geared to keywords
and content that will draw in search engine
traffic. Remember though the more competitive the
keywords the harder this will be to achieve. Some
companies specialize in generating rich content
and links from other like rich content sites
targeted to high rating keywords and charge big
money for 50,000, etc, why? because free traffic
to websites from search engines means lots of
free traffic and a big chance for profits.
A great Tool to use for selective key word
choosing is my favorite "Google Pagerank Checker"
.
Google Keyword Popularity Tool , Online keyword
search tool. You can use this tool to define your
keywords and combinations and viewing how many
times per month that keyword or combination has
been searched. What better way to find the money.

Adwords


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 your
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 targeted 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.

The problem is although Google says its rewards
content rich sites with lower click costs the
truth is the better ad wins, not necessarily the
better or most relevant site. To explain this
further, Google will lower your cost of your
clicks and even raise you in the list if more
people are clicking through - its says it is
rewarding you for having a relevant site - the
truth though is its rewarding you for having a
great ad that people want to click on.

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.

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 interested in your ad
I've found that you can build a down line and
contact list from surfing programs, however keep
the ad or website display very basic.

One distinct advantage of most of these programs
though is if you build a downline with them the
amount of free traffic you get increases. You can
surf for traffic at your leisure if you can't
afford to pay for it, you might even find a
program that perks your interest.

Also in this category can be included banners,
banner exchanges, etc which work on the same
principle of you scratch my back and I'll scratch
yours which in my opinion are a waste of time
because it is very low grade traffic. However a
trick that I learned from this is to join a load
of banner exchange networks.(just google "banner
program" for a list). Place all of your banner
code on one page of your website. Then go buy
some of the cheapest traffic you can buy, you
know one of those sites that claims to give you
10,000 targeted hits to your site from redirected
url's. Send this traffic to the link with your
banner exchanges that you created. Now, do you
see where we are going with this? Now, you will
be getting some pretty good targeted traffic
instead of that crappy popup or under traffic. A
50% markup on your traffic.

If you are interested in surfing programs then
they are plentiful . Just remember though that
they are very untargeted and time consuming.
Personally, I have never had too much luck with
these either unless you want a handful of free
traffic affiliates in your down line under your
belt.

Long Term Methods.

One of these is article writing. Articles
submitted to articles sites like goarticles,
article fever, etc act as a magnet for search
engines. Content rich and quality controlled if
you get an article listed in one of these forums/
libraries you have the ability to have a constant
stream of traffic through attached links.

Why do you think I've written this article. To
generate traffic. Yes I like helping and
educating others and I do create not for profit
websites and articles but most are to generate
traffic. Another long term method is to contact
and link to other similar sites.

You can do this by requesting other webmasters to
do this or create you own sites and link them to
one another.

Another long term method is to create an optin e
-mail list and encourage people from you list to
visit your 'great' site with your 'unbelievable'
offer.

One method that really surprised me was "adding a
signature with a short ad and the url to your
product or service".

Replying to all of those emails in your inbox and
especially replying to online ads will explode
your web site counter if used daily.

I

Creating a blog like this doesn't hurt either. In
summary I don't recommend any method over any
other. Each has advantages and disadvantages. It
can depend on what you are advertising.. If you
do over time your internet presence will increase
as will your total traffic.


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About the Author
I have several successful web sites and I enjoy
inventing new traffic strategies. It is more of a
hobby and a passion to me. Visit http://www
.myaffiliategold.com