3 Powerful Traffic Generation Strategies

If you've got traffic coming to your site, you're 99% there. Obviously, this assumes you actually have a reason for wanting this traffic. What you do with the traffic when it gets to your site could be any number of things. So, the critical step is to generate a steady flow of visitors.

Some Tips for Generating Website Visitors

Here are a few of the most popular way to get traffic to your site - for free:

• Web 2.0 Methods
• Article Marketing
• Video Marketing

And here's how to use each method...

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is the name given to websites that get their content from their users. What this means for you is that you can join into the community and add your own content. The other interesting thing about these sites is that all the search engines (including Google) treat them as "authority sites". And that's important to you because it means that Google and the other search engines treat links from these sites as more meaningful than links from other sites. By placing links to your websites in this content you've created, you get traffic from the site and search engine ranking for the keywords you choose. That's the real benefit of adding content to these sites - search engine ranking means ongoing free traffic. Getting free web 2.0 traffic is a big topic that we'll discuss more later. This is good overview of the reason to get into it, though.

Article Marketing

Article marketing really builds on the Web 2.0 concept. This is because article websites are really web 2.0 site. Article directories are sites where users (including you) can upload articles they have written. Just as with the other web 2.0 sites, having your content included gives you immediate traffic and search engine ranking. And the hidden benefit here is that your reach grows as other people take your articles and put them on their blogs and sites. And in return for getting to use your content, these other users include links back to your website that gives you further search engine ranking and more free traffic. Here are a couple article marketing traffic tips:

• Figure out what keywords you want to go after
• Tailor the content of your article for the keywords
• Use anchor text links in the article and the "resource box"

Video Marketing

The last of this group is video marketing. Here we're really looking at a web 2.0 sub-category. And just as article directories give you great SEO benefits and allow others to redistribute your content on their sites. video sharing sites give you all these same benefits. And if all that wasn't enough, you also stand a much stronger chance of getting a high search engine ranking for the keywords you want with video than you do with text-based content. Here's how to get free traffic using video...

• Set up your YouTube account
• Make your profile uncluttered by turning off all the modules
• Use the tags in your profile to enter the keywords you want to rank for
• Make sure to include a link to your site in your profile
• Add at least one video to your profile
• In the title, the description and the tags for each video, include your main keywords

In Closing... If you take action on the items listed here you'll have free traffic in no time.

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