Top Five Ways to Drive Targeted Traffic

Here's 5 top ways
1. Social Media Marketing (facebook, twitter, etc..)
2. Video Marketing (youtube, metacafe, etc..)
3. Guest Blogging
4. Forum Posting
5. Niche Blog Commenting on low OBL posts.

You first of all, need great content. You then need to optimize those articles with backlinks to them. Backlinking is simple - take your link and put it where people will see it - preferably on dofollow websites. After a while, it will all start to come together, snowball effect. You get out of it what you put into it. Keep up the hard work. Are you targeting any keywords to rank for in Google?

This is my best 5:

1. Youtube Videos
2. Social Media Marketing (Pinterest is the best)
3. Guest Blogging
4. Article Marketing and submit article to article directories
5. Convert article into pdf and powerpoint, upload to Scribd, Docstoc, Slideshare, Authorstream, etc.

Top 5 ways to drive targeted traffic:

1) Web 2.0 articles.
2) Search engines
3) Videos
4) PPC
5) Email marketing

if we are talking about free traffic in particular order

forums
link bait
social media
seo
blog commenting
guest posting
articles
videos

top paid traffic methods

solo ads

paul

Hello everyone,

I don't have 5 strategies.
But I can share 3 free strategies that I have used
to drive traffic.

1) Forum Marketing
2) Blog Commenting
3) Classified Ads.

Although some classified ads arent really free.
You gotta pay like $9.95 per month to post
unlimited ads.

Hope that helps.

Great Content will do! I also prefer Video Marketing and MEME images. It insanely drives more traffic to a website! Well, still depends on a topic you wanted to write. Keep in touch to those people in your industry and share your ideas.

1. Article Directories
2. Web 2.0
3. Private Blog Network

1- SEO
2- Email marketing
3- Social Marketing
4- Video marketing

I think social media is the most powerful tool to bring traffic

i do articles (for branding and long term traffic purpose) Forum posting. I tried usfreeads, but it didn't work out (i suggest not to do classified ads because there are a lot of ads out there). I do soloads as well. This one works well

These ARE the top 5..
1) Youtube
2) Guest posting
3) Social (fb, twitter, pinterest)
4) Article Dir
5) Forums (high traffic)

does email marketing work well?

Buying solo ads for sure is the best way to drive targeted traffic.

Yes, top ways for targeted traffic.

1. SEO
2. Video Marketing
3. PPV
4. PPC
5. Media Buys

FREE:
1. Social Media
2. Article Marketing
3. Forums
4. Blogs

PAID:
1. PPC
2. Banner Ads

Write a high quality blog post. Then ask 7 other bloggers in your niche who have a big social media presence to share it

Pretty much what the others have said. One thing I will add though, is it's important to be diversified with your traffic sources. There's no point relying on just one, as you never know when it's going to get taken away.

In no particular order, try using:

Paid traffic (If you can afford it),
Guest Blogging,
Forum Marketing,
Twitter (Automate this, manual is long and you don't get a good ROI).

As well as gaining traffic, you need to learn how to retain that traffic. If people turn up on your site and bounce straight off, all your efforts will be for nothing. So make sure you offer something of value, and ensure you're getting traffic that matches your offer.

This is my best 5:

1. Youtube Videos
2. Social Media Marketing (Pinterest is the best)
3. Email marketing
4. Article Marketing and submit article to article directories
5. Convert article into pdf and powerpoint, upload to Scribd, Docstoc, Slideshare, Authorstream, etc.

Yes, I agree with a lot of these responses.

But it completely depends on what you are driving them to and why. Both untargeted and targeted traffic can mean nothing if you don't have a funnel in place to turn them into what you want (customers, subscribers, readers, etc).

Another way to look at some of these methods too is to think of which might be the best residual traffic source or sources. The ^^^ post mentions turning articles into pdf and powerpoint and the then uploading them to sharing sites for those mediums.

Yes, I agree, this is a good idea. But really, you can usually transform most content into other types of content. Repurposing content this way and sharing it can take one original piece and turn it into 5 or more. That's 5x the exposure and most of it will stay up online indefinitely so it's potentially residual.

Article becomes slideshow becomes video becomes powerpoint becomes podcast becomes ebook (pdf) becomes kindle book = lots o' traffic

Or bulk buy traffic via ad buys, newsletter buys, solo ads and more.

Just don't go spending too much money until after you have your funnel converting the way you want it too.

A lot of good posts here....I like seeing the social media platforms and YouTube at the top....good stuff

Solo ads are defiantly the best way......

SEO
Forum posting
Blog commenting
PPC
Solo ads
Video marketing (on Youtube, Vimeo, etc. - I would also suggest you check out services like Viddy for social media integration...)

We can give plenty of traffic method but you need to understand which traffic method is converting most..

Some traffic method FREE traffic does not convert but if you paid method, they convert very well so it depends which one doing good..

What I do is..

1) Blogging
2) Social Media
3) Forum
4) Blog Commenting

All this traffic method you can do if you have good time, but you can't give 24 hours on this traffic so you need to be consistently with one traffic for a week time or a month and than jump to other traffic method.

FREE traffic is all the time slowly but long term, paid traffic is fast and quick to see the results.... I hope this helps you..

6. For me... it's only one Media Buying/ PPC

If you have money, than AdWords PPC would be the best.

If you don't have money, then this is the best solution;

1. YouTube - video marketing
2. Related forum commenting
3. Social Networks (twitter, Facebook)
4. Related blog commenting
5. Email marketing

Google Adwords.

I think Articles are the best way to drive targeted traffic.

1) Affiliates
2) JV Partners
3) Your list of buyers
4) Rebrandable reports
5) JV Giveaways

I'm going to get flamed for this (probably) but PPC is still the best damn targeted traffic generator there is IMHO. 1-2 weeks of a huge broad keyword list, canning the crap and putting the money into the higher converting ones, then really beefing those up (i never do more than 1000% in a week, the population of the internet is large, not infinite, there IS a cieling)

This is from an Affiliate perspective of course...or a landing page, any page that will make a sale, not for adsense sites or anything like that.

Video marketing
Google content network
SEO
email marketing (JV's)
PPV

Try pop under traffic

cool good read, thanbks!

good stuff guys.

one of the best way to drive targeted traffic is Social Media Marketing using the top social networking sites - facebook, twitter, google+, linkedin, tumblr and pinterest...

Solo ads
RSS
Google
Forum
fiverr

1. Social Media Marketing
2. Article MArketing
3. Guest Blogging
4. Forums and onlline groups
5. Make a list of subscriber
But if you really want results right away you may try to optimize your website use SEO some of the SEO's offers different kinds of package depending on your budget.

youtube and bolg see my signature

Some really fantastic methods in this thread guys!

Perfect resource for anyone just starting out or needing more traffic....

Lewis