Everyone has heard that in order to sell any sort of internet income opportunity, you have to have a website or blog and you need to have traffic. Traffic, traffic, traffic. The fact is: building traffic to a website or blog takes time. It doesn't happen overnight. Even if you find the perfect keyword that has no competition so you're on the first page of Google for that keyword, chances are it only gets a few hundred hits per month, if that. So unless you have the resources of Fort Knox at your disposal, you can't buy clicks for keywords that get thousand and thousands of clicks per day.
Building traffic to any website or blog is a result of cumulative efforts. Traffic at first will be a trickle. The trick is to create a plan to exponentially expand your reach so that each effort builds on the next. Here are several proven traffic-building strategies that should be in the marketing mix of every internet marketer.
First of all, make sure your website URL is connected with websites that get lots and lots of traffic. If there are ways to have direct links on your site to site likes Amazon or eBay, do it. Even if the connection is tenuous at the beginning, it will help increase your visibility in the search engines.
Also, take advantage of the link and content opportunities available at sites like Squidoo or HubPages. Create a lens or a hub complementing your chosen internet income opportunity and make sure your URL is either in the text (conservatively, of course, no spam), and in your signature and profile. Then promote these sites. Theses sites are highly ranked by Google, so if you can rise to the top in these formats, you will increase your own site's relevance.
Write articles and submit to multiple directories, making sure your URL is in your author resource box. Many article directories frown on direct promotion of your internet income opportunity in the text of the article, but the author box is your area to promote. Different readers prefer different directories, so make sure you spread your work around. Go a step further and submit your articles to sites like Digg, Reddit, De.li.cious, Stumbleupon, and similar sites. Again, traffic is a result of exposure so do whatever you can to get your links in front of eyeballs.
Learn how to use some of the social bookmarking and networking sites, like Facebook and MySpace. Also, participate in forums, making sure you include your URL in your signature and profile. The more comments you make, the more the URL to your internet income opportunity site will be seen.
Make sure your site is listed in directories. There are thousands and thousands of directories. You can manually submit to several hundreds, or pay a service to submit for you. Just make sure you submit your sites to categories that make sense.
Never forget Google AdWords, as it can be very effective, though costly if you use the wrong keywords. But also consider advertising directly on Yahoo search marketing or even Microsoft AdCenter. These also provide a great deal of traffic and are typically less competitive and less expensive than Google.
Just keep working on each of these traffic-building strategies and traffic will begin to build to your website or blog, The more traffic, the more eyeballs, the more sales of your internet income opportunity. Success will come. Just keep at it and you will succeed.
Trina Johnson is a budding online entrepreneur and small business consultant. Find tips and strategies to explode your online traffic at. Months of research and trial and error narrowed down my choice of products to promote to Kimberley Hoffman's My Online Income System. Follow my trials and errors at Success Point Consulting.
I wish all of you much success.
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