Some Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Website

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Hi Warriors,

I know many of you struggle with getting traffic and to be honest, I do as well. But, I have a few ideas of how to drive traffic and you can add to this list if you'd like for those that are new and just starting out.

Driving traffic is work and it takes time, I don't believe in making money an "auto pilot" without a lot of work FIRST! You have to put some time and effort into getting the traffic you want.

First, keywords are the most important! If you are going after keywords that have a ton of competition you will NOT get the traffic you want quickly. I posted an article on Ezine and the day after it went live I it was on the first page of Google! Now, it wasn't at the top BUT it was on the first page! Those are the kinds of keywords you want to go after.

Here is how I find my keywords. Let's say your niche is "Time Management" First I would use Google Keyword Tool and type in "Time Management" to see what keywords come up. I found one that looks good, "time management exercises". This keyword gets 1,600 hits every month and why I would choose this keyword is because of my next step.

I use Firefox and I use the plugin SEOQuake and then I put my keyword phrase into Google with the quotes around it like this, "time management exercises" and then I see what the page ranks are of every site that comes up on the first page. I like mostly 0's but 1's and 2's are okay but I don't like messing with a lot of 3', 4's and above.

For the keyword phrase, "time management exercises" the page ranks on the first page look like this: 2-2-1-2-0-0-0-0-0-0 Excellent! You can write some articles and put them in the top 5 directories and you will be on the first page of Google within 24 hours! Do this with about 20 keywords and you have some good traffic coming your way!

Okay, so once you have your keyword phrases that pass the above test (I would try and have 20 or more) then you will go about doing the following:

1. Write as many articles as possible and put them in the top directories
Ezine Articles
Articles Base
Buzzle
Search Warp
Article Alley
Go Articles
Web Source
Article Set
Web Pro News
Amazines


2. Make videos out of every article and put them in the top video directories
YouTube
Metacafe
Break
Google Video
Dailymotion
Yahoo! Video
Revver
Vimeo
VidiLife
Sticka

3. Make a Squidoo page using every keyword phrase that you can without hypens but if you have to then use hyphens.

4. Social bookmark your site and if you have a blog then at least 10 of your posts. You can do this or you can have others do it for you. The best way to do this is with Socialmarker dot com.

5. Make Google Knols for all your keyword phrases that you found.

6. Comment on other peoples blogs that are in the same niche as you and actually offer real advice that is useful. These days it seems most blogs are no follow but if you can make some relationships with others in your niche you can both do a blog post for each other as guest bloggers and gain some links that way.

7. I used to go to Yahoo Answers and answer questions there and you can leave your source link in your answer and this would gain some links and a bit of traffic.

8. Make podcasts and then do the following with them:



Record the podcast.
Have the pocast transcribed
Have the pocast posted in your blog
Post the transcription to your blog and link to it from the podcast post
Add a photo on top of the audio to turn it into a video file or turn it into a powerpoint and then make the video
Upload each video file (of 10 minute lengths) to your YouTube channel with a good title and description
Add annotations over each video. Put them at the beginning of the video file linking to the previous video and one at the end of the video linking to the next in episode series.
Syndicate the video(s) to the top video directories
Submit the blog post as well as the first video in the podcast series on YouTube, to social bookmarking sites to build some links pointing to them.
Post a link to the blog post on Twitter
Post a link to the blog post to Facebook
E-mail your list to let them know about new podcasts.
Make sure the new podcast shows on your iTunes page correctly.
Give the transcription to a writer. Have them turn it into an article (or a couple articles) that are about 500 words each.
Submit these articles to the top article directories.


Well, that is what I have, what do you all do that works to drive traffic to your sites?

Marsha
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  • Profile picture of the author kaytav
    thanks for this nice sharing . I learned a lot from this and also try it
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  • Profile picture of the author rcritchett
    Incredibly valuable, I especially like the podcast part! That is silently starting to own in terms of a great way to drive traffic. People love to hear who you are! Thanks again for sharing!
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  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    Roz3377,

    I am agreed with you!

    No "autopilot button" can helps you to earn money instant.... "hard work" is required to success any online business!

    Can you tell the results which you got? e.g: Earning or Traffic. I glad to hear any success story.
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  • great info. thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Originally Posted by Roz3377 View Post

    Driving traffic is work and it takes time, I don't believe in making money an "auto pilot" without a lot of work FIRST! You have to put some time and effort into getting the traffic you want.

    First, keywords are the most important!

    I had to re-emphasize your first point.

    You can spend your time or money to get traffic for your websites.

    If you spend your time or money developing organic traffic channels, those channels should serve you into the long-term as well.

    Paid traffic is temporary by design.

    While keywords are important, better converting traffic requires you to place your advertising in front of the people most likely to buy from you. This is one element of traffic generation that many people overlook.
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  • Profile picture of the author leopi
    Thanks for your sharing!
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  • Profile picture of the author MasonRamm
    Hi Marsha,

    Thanks also for sharing this method and I too agree
    that inorder to get traffic to ones website takes
    work and effort.

    I have also a few other ideas which is in my
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  • Profile picture of the author chinedu86
    that was really helpful,i like the info on podcasts and transcription.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sheryl Polomka
    Wow Martha, thanks for sharing. I have to admit, driving traffic and building backlinks isn't my strongest skill. There is certainly a lot of work involved, but how would one go without doing the podcast and videos? I ask because this is an area that I (and I'm sure many others) don't know much about.

    Also, what is Google Knol? I haven't heard of that before. I might go and Google it and have a look.

    Thanks for sharing your traffic methods though, it is very extensive and very good.

    Take care
    Sheryl
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    • Profile picture of the author Ted_B
      Roz, thanks so much. These are great ideas. I too struggle with traffic, but your suggestions are excellent and I will certainly put some to use.
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  • Profile picture of the author TedTheodore
    Excellent Marsha.
    Well put together...easy to follow.
    Ideal Blueprint for anyone to follow.

    Cheers...Ted
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  • Profile picture of the author WarriorGal
    Thank you for sharing! Very helpful. Some I knew, some I didn't. And I'll ask the question someone else did: What is a Google knot?
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    thanks for the great info was just what i was looking for when i logged in today
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  • Hi Marsha! Thanks for starting this thread...

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  • Profile picture of the author Roz3377
    Google Knol is an article submission site run by Google. You can see more here: Knol Help - a knol by Knol Help

    If you don't podcast or do videos then you better be writing articles and lots of them on all your keywords to drive traffic to your website. I get a LOT of traffic from Ezine!

    Marsha
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    Some of the articles you've mentioned that I never knew.

    Anyway, great article and thanks for sharing!

    Creative minds for internet marketers.
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    Nice thread with bunch of valuable information. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Fitzwise
    Thanks for the post. this is some great information to use. i have never thought of podcasting but am going to give it a try thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Hammad
    I read the whole post and found it very interesting. It is brilliant effort and i really appreciate it because i learned a lot from this. As i am new in this field so it was really useful for me.

    Thanks a lot for sharing it.
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      Nice post,
      Its really a great read for me. So many thanks for sharing this. Keep this awesome work.
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    Great advice and tips.I will try that out even though right now I don't understand everything in there very well I guess I will just bookmark this page and come here from time to time for the lesson and follow up as I progress.
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    Great list... Now it's all about taking action!
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