5 Cost Effective Ways to Get Targeted Traffic to Your Site

There are many ways to get traffic to your site but the key to success is to get visitors that are specific to your particular market. Here are 5 cost effective ways to get targeted traffic to your site.

• Article marketing: this is very easy to do and does not need to cost you a cent. The only cost you may have to incur is if you get the articles written by a professional writer. You can distribute your articles for free at these 3 major article directories. EzineArticles.com GoArticles.com SearchWarp. These 3 directories alone will get you plenty of exposure. You can also use an article distribution service.
• Search engines: Submit all your content pages to the search engines. Try to find good keywords and phrases and write your informative articles around them. When you optimize your articles you will get indexed by the search engines more quickly. Optimize our site with the right Meta tags and use anchor links to guide the search engine spiders.
• Blogging: Blogging goes hand in hand with website promotions. You can blog for free at blogger.com this is Google's blog site which means that their Googlebots spider the new blogs on a regular basis. This will allow you to get indexed in the Google search engine within a couple of days. You can also blog at WordPress.com but you will need to drive traffic to your blog for this to be effective. You can also build your own blog site with word press and get a lot of bells and whistles. Remember to have a link at the end of your blog leading to your website.
• Social Bookmarking: join onlywire.com and sign up for all the social bookmarking sites there. Put the only wire submission icon on your Google toolbar and you can submit any of your content web pages at one click of a button. This does bring traffic because I use this method. You will be surprised at how many people will go to your blog and website and leave comments at your blog when you use this method to gain traffic.
• Joint ventures: find joint venture partners and make deals with them to sell your product. This is a powerful way to sell and bring potential buyers to your website.

All these ways of bringing targeted visitors to your site are free and so every sale you make from these methods will be 100% profit.

Cathy Q is the publisher of the free newsletter A-Y-B. Full of tips and information on how to start and grow your business. To sign up for a free subscription visit http://advertise-your-business.com