Friday, 04 December 2009 08:59 | Author: Christopher Stigson |
A majority of marketers start their business fine at first. They get their website up and running or hire somebody to get it up, but when it comes to marketing the website they are kept totally in the dark. The #1 problem experienced today in online business is traffic.
by ChristopherStigson
A majority of marketers start their business fine at first. They get their website up and running or hire somebody to get it up, but when it comes to marketing the website they are kept totally in the dark. The #1 problem experienced today in online business is traffic.
In this article you are going to hear about five of my favorite methods for attracting massive amounts of free traffic without any investment... You will not be using PPC, Banners or buy any more links from unrelated websites!
#1 - Articles - One of the top ways that you'll ever hear about is article marketing for the simple reason that it still works. Article marketing will help you gain more backlinks, credibility and boost your site up in the search engine results.
#2 - Video Submission - Another method I use all the time is creating and submitting short videos to video sharing sites in order to attract the attention of my target market. A good short, valuable video can do wonders when you then tell them to go visit your website for more information.
#3 - Forums - Another great resource to utilize is the power of forum marketing. If a forum has 100,000 people and is targeted to golf for example, odds are that if you are marketing golf it might be a good idea to hang around those forums. Makes sense? Great!
#4 - Search Engine Optimization - In order to get a butt-ton of free visitors you absolutely MUST search engine optimize your website. I can't begin to count the amount of visitors I get from search engines each day. If your site is optimized in the right way you can drive hundreds of thousands of visitors for free each year and I'm sure you'd like that a lot!
#5 - Social Media - Get active in what is known as social media and keep being interesting and fun. When you are, you'll gain the attention of the crowd and you can start to connect with people and siphoon them to your website.
These are some great examples of what you can do to attract free targeted traffic to your websites, but if you look around the internet for more information you'll find that there is a lot more to the puzzle.