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…
Before you begin trying to get traffic to your site, you need to do your keyword research first. Why? Because you have to target these keywords if you are to have any hope of actually generating traffic for them. Which means you need to put some thought into the keywords you’re targeting.
While doing your keyword research, keep the following in mind:
- Are the keywords you’re interested in attainable? This involves doing some competitive analysis to determine the ease of entry for each keyword
- What kinds of visitors do these keywords bring? Certain keywords are good for generating a lot of visitors who don’t buy anything. What you want is buyers!
- Will these keywords bring affiliates? If you want to build a huge business, you’re going to need affiliates to help you. So, it’s important to also target affiliates in the keywords you go after.
Although this is an essential step, doing it all by hand can take a very long time. And hiring an expert is very expensive. The upside is that these two factors keep most everyone from even doing their keyword research. The smartest marketers use training from people they trust to learn how to do SEO it right the first time around. Using a tool like this speeds up the process and improve your results, too!
Only then can you start getting traffic
Now that you’ve completed your keyword research, you can begin using these keywords to get traffic to your website.
Here are a couple of clever ways to do this…
- Something you may not have ever considered is Surveys
- “Traffic Traps”
- Video Sharing Sites
Surveys
People love filling in surveys. 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. This allows you to get free website traffic from other people’s sites! Most people think surveys are just for collecting data, but in this case you don’t even care about the answers. So, get creative and make up a survey that’s wacky to get other people interested in putting it on their sites.
“Traffic Traps”
These sites, like answers.yahoo.com are filled with people asking and answering questions for each other. Once again, the main reason for this site is not the reason you’re interested. You are going to generate traffic, leads and sales from them. One thing you can do is to visit sites like Craigslist and Yahoo! Answers and manually extract contact info to contact other users. The good news is that it’s easy to find website traffic software that can do this automatically. This allows you to do the things in your business that can’t be automated and let the software just give you the leads.
Video Sharing Sites
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! So don’t miss out of this incredible source of free website traffic.
And don’t worry if you don’t have any idea of how to make a video. You can even take a webpage or article that 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
Figuring out how to get some visitors to your site is not hard at all. Just be a creative and think outside the box a bit. Plus, there’s lots of great software out there to help you and a lot of great free training.
So, start right now and:
- Keyword research first is key
- Set up some viral surveys
- Make sure to use the “answer” sites
- And definitely include video sharing sites
