How to Get Website Traffic
How to promote your affiliate sites or websites? That can be a challenge. But here are a few tips to get you started…
First of all, you need to decide whether you’re interested in buying traffic or working for it, or whether you want to combine the two.
What about free traffic. There’s really no such thing. All traffic will require some work, at least initially. Once set up right, it can appear on autopilot for years to come.
But that’ still not free because initially, it did take work and maybe even money.
1) Buying Traffic
If you want to buy traffic or pay for traffic in some way, you have a number of options. The most common one is adwords, which is the classic PPC method.
Still, there are other places that offer PPC, from Bing to Yahoo to… well, there are plenty of options.
Next, you can pay for traffic by way of renting advertising space in form of placing banner ads on other people’s websites. Or you can purchase solo ads in ezines. Or ad space on classified ads sites such as USFreeAds.com
2) Working for Traffic
If you’d rather put in some sweat equity, you can work for your traffic too. Again, you have lots of options:
The most common and one you should definitely include in your lineup is article marketing, whether you pay for traffic or not.
Article marketing basically means that you write articles that are designed to lure your readers to your website, with a resource box at the bottom that closes the deal and contains relevant links. You place these articles in article directories, and yes, ideally, you promote them for extra bang for the buck. And then you wash, rinse, and repeat 
Forum marketing is a little different. You join relevant forums, set up a signature line that promotes your website, and then just participate in discussions and answer questions, especially questions that have to do with the subject matter of your website.
YouTube Marketing requires a bit more tech savvy. Instead of wriiting articles, you create videos and then upload them to YouTube. Make sure you include your link in the videos as well as in the descriptions, and then proceed as with articles.
There’s plenty more, but these should get you started. More in a future post, on social media marketing.
Meanwhile, you can get more information on how to get started with all that by requesting my free internet marketing step-by-step ecourse.
Or, if you’re ready to start blogging (another low cost way to promote your website), you can get a steal of a deal for my blogging course… IF you hurry.
Look for more tips next time.
