What To Do When You Don't Have Website Traffic? 21 Traffic Generation Ideas To Explode Sales

As an Internet infopreneur, your most powerful competitive advantage will come from being able to drive a high volume of targeted prospects to your sales webpage or otherwise get your marketing message in front of as many targeted eyeballs as possible.

In this article, we'll look at some of the best ways to drive website traffic - with brief descriptions of how you can implement the technique in your information marketing.

Blogging

If you don't have a blog (or 'web log') yet, set one up. WordPress and Movable Type are excellent blog programs. Blogger (at http://www.Blogger.com) is the quickest to get started without struggling with technical issues. Get one set up right away. This will become one of your most powerful traffic driving methods, so don't delay it.

Customize your blog so it is optimized for your best keywords. Then post to your blog regularly, choosing the best keywords that describe your product or service or niche, and including them in each post. Do this on a consistent basis and you will be rewarded by a flood of fresh visitors to your website very soon.

Technorati

Technorati (http://www.Technorati.com) 'tags' are a system to categorize your blog content by associating it with relevant keywords matching the content of your blog. It is a powerful marketing tactic for your blog, bringing you inbound links from an authority site as well as some targeted traffic.

Paste these tags to the end of every blog post you make, and then let Technorati know you've updated it.

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is all the rage today, because it brings a quick surge of website traffic. Go to ONLYWIRE - http://www.OnlyWire.com On the right side, you will see a series of bookmarking services. Register for accounts with each.

Then, drag the bookmarklet link to your web browser's status bar. This will make it easy to bookmark your blogs/sites at all these services.

When visitors to your blog find a post interesting, they too can bookmark your post to other social bookmarking sites, raising your blog's profile and attracting more visitors.

Squidoo

A social networking service with great long-term potential is SQUIDOO (http://Squidoo.com) After signing up for a free account, explore the guide to see how easy it is to set up your lens. Notice how you can get in links to various sections of your sites, blogs and forum posts.

At the very least, try and work links to these sections into your lens:

- Your blog
- Your website
- the specific forum sub-pages where your posts are published
- Your social bookmark homepages

MySpace

Join the millions of netizens who flock to the largest social networking site on the Internet, MySpace.com. Open your own account at MySpace. But make it specific to your niche site and business. Brand it with your business or website name. Include links to your site everywhere you can - legally.

You could extend this further and create multiple profiles, targeting different keywords or sections of your site/business.

Digg

Another highly popular social networking service which can drive a flood of traffic your way is Digg.com Like most other publicity oriented activities, you need to approach this one with a good 'hook' that will get your site a lot of popularity. Visitors to Digg vote on any link - and the more popular ones get higher visibility, which translates into more traffic.

Create 'Authority Sites'

Create your own authoritative resource. It could be a research report, a list of top 50 (or 100) tips, a definitive treatise on a specific subject, a huge compilation of the best resources - you get the idea.

Then spread the word. Tell everyone about it. Make it easy for them to tell others. Let it get 'viral' and spread by word of mouth alone - reaching far beyond the reach of your own voice!

Forum Marketing

Marketing and promoting your website on niche discussion forums is one of the best methods of attracting interested prospects to your website. After you get a feel for how discussions progress, you should try to participate actively and promote your website subliminally through your signature.

Write Articles

Creating informative, high quality articles on the topic of your niche and submitting them to article directories and other resources where they will get maximum exposure is a great way to attract targeted visitors to your website.

Write a short article on any topic related to your niche. It should be between 450 and 600 words, include your main keyword around 4 to 8 times, and maybe have your secondary keywords too. Choose topics likely to interest readers in your niche.

Repeat this on a regular basis and you will soon find a flood of new visitors arriving at your website through the articles you have written.

eHow

Ehow.com is an interesting site, with a high page rank and tons of traffic. It is a 'how to' style resource where you con contribute a short 'how to' article on your niche. Spend some time looking around. Brainstorm ideas for creating a 'how to' for your niche. See if someone else has written one. If not, compose and post it - with a link back to your site and blog.

Yahoo! Answers

Yahoo Answers and Google Answers are services where people can ask questions - and have experts answer them. Look for questions related to your niche - and answer them. The best answers will be featured prominently, giving your links more visibility, and getting your niche site more traffic.

These are just 11 out of the 30 techniques explained in my ebook, "30 Days To Web Traffic" that you can get from http://InternetInfopreneur.com/traffic/ and by putting these simple systems into action today, you could soon attract many targeted visitors to your website and start making sales of your information product easily.

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