Wednesday, November 22, 2006

GAIN TRAFFIC TO YOUR WEBSITE

GAIN TRAFFIC TO YOUR WEBSITE - PART 1

Did you realize that thousands of website operators use a simple technique to generate
targeted visitors to their websites without paying a dime in advertising? It's true.
In fact, the technique works so well that many of them don't want you to discover how
they get those thousands of website visitors and make so many sales on virtual
"auto-pilot."

Creating tightly focused articles other people publish in their ezine (online magazines
and email newsletters) and post on their websites. This method rates so powerful
that some even call it "the web's best kept traffic secret."

Over a 100,000 ezine and newsletters operate on the web (along with millions of
websites) covering everything from pets and cooking to investments and real estate.
Many of them need tightly focused content and they simply can't produce all of it
themselves. Look at it this way... it's the same reason newspapers use the Associated
Press. Individual newspapers often can't afford staff writers to cover every story, so
they accept articles from outside their organization.

You can do the exact same thing for various ezine and websites catering to your alcove
audience! You can get valuable publicity -- exposure you often couldn't even pay for if
you wanted to -- by providing valuable, content-rich articles in exchange for a byline
and a link to your website (called a "resource box")!

So if you operate a website selling virtually any type of product or service (whether
your own or as an affiliate), publishing and promoting with articles should rank high
on your list of traffic generation strategies. It is one of the simple, straightforward,
and cost- effective manner to gain traffic on your website. But there are other
techniques also.

Lots of Web development companies, in fact, make a big deal of the efforts they make to
get sites to show up high in search engine result lists. Though it's nice to show up
when someone goes hunting something on a search engine, I think lots of people spend
far too much time worrying about it.

For one thing, it's very time-consuming to try to make your pages show up on an engine.
You need to register the site with each engine on which you want to show up. That means
you have to figure out which engines you're interested in, and there's no way to tell
how many local users visit each particular search engine. You might try for days to get
listed on a site when nobody from our area has ever searched that site.

Many webmaster also spend so much time bidding and concentrating on the big PPC
engines for marketing. There are many options when starting to advertise
your site on the Internet to gain traffic. One of the largest areas and most competitive is
pay per click advertising. We all know of the large PPC engines that power the
big search engines. The bids at these sites are typically high for keywords you might
want, but in turn they will send you all the traffic you can handle.

These sites are mainly content sites and that is where the Webmaster spends most of
their time. The sites were most likely not started to make a profit, but to offer
information on a topic the Webmaster is passionate about. Due to this, the Webmaster
does not spend much time or effort marketing these services. So unlike many other
advertising venues, this is one where the advertiser will need to find the site to
advertise on.

Always remember there are many options available and you are not forced to stick with
one advertiser.
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GAIN TRAFFIC TO YOUR WEBSITE - PART 2

Did you realize that thousands of website operators use a simple technique to generate
targeted visitors to their websites without paying a dime in advertising? It's true.
In fact, the technique works so well that many of them don't want you to discover how
they get those thousands of website visitors and make so many sales on virtual
"auto-pilot."

Creating tightly focused articles other people publish in their ezine (online magazines
and email newsletters) and post on their websites. This method rates so
powerful that some even call it "the web's best kept traffic secret."

Over a 100,000 ezine and newsletters operate on the web (along with millions of
websites) covering everything from pets and cooking to investments and real estate.
Many of them need tightly focused content and they simply can't produce all of it
themselves. Look at it this way... it's the same reason newspapers use the Associated
Press. Individual newspapers often can't afford staff writers to cover every story, so
they accept articles from outside their organization.

You can do the exact same thing for various ezine and websites catering to your alcove
audience! You can get valuable publicity -- exposure you often couldn't even pay for if
you wanted to -- by providing valuable, content-rich articles in exchange for a byline
and a link to your website (called a "resource box")!

So if you operate a website selling virtually any type of product or service (whether
your own or as an affiliate), publishing and promoting with articles should rank high
on your list of traffic generation strategies. It is one of the simple, straightforward,
and cost- effective manner to gain traffic on your website. But there are other
techniques also.

Lots of Web development companies, in fact, make a big deal of the efforts they make to
get sites to show up high in search engine result lists. Though it's nice to show up
when someone goes hunting something on a search engine, I think lots of people spend
far too much time worrying about it.

For one thing, it's very time-consuming to try to make your pages show up on an engine.
You need to register the site with each engine on which you want to show up. That means
you have to figure out which engines you're interested in, and there's no way to tell
how many local users visit each particular search engine. You might try for days to get
listed on a site when nobody from our area has ever searched that site.

Many webmaster also spend so much time bidding and concentrating on the big PPC
engines for marketing. There are many options when starting to advertise your
site on the Internet to gain traffic. One of the largest areas and most competitive is
pay per click advertising. We all know of the large PPC engines that power
the big search engines. The bids at these sites are typically high for keywords
you might want, but in turn they will send you all the traffic you can handle.

These sites are mainly content sites and that is where the Webmaster spends most of
their time. The sites were most likely not started to make a profit, but to offer
information on a topic the Webmaster is passionate about. Due to this, the Webmaster
does not spend much time or effort marketing these services. So unlike many other
advertising venues, this is one where the advertiser will need to find the site to
advertise on.

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