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Newbie Needs Help

by winthco
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i have a website where we are selling a product, I am taking the PPC classroom course, but feel overwhelmed and confused. Any suggestions to what we should do first to drive traffic to the website. Thanks inadvance for your help.
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  • Profile picture of the author Easy Cash
    Avoid PPC unless you have a lot of money.

    Target your niche for generating free traffic. Try to get it organically and then do other things like join in forums (like you are doing) and post comments on blogs.

    There are a lot of ways to get free traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author Emailrevealer
      For traffic you need high SERP , so get backlinks.
      Article writing is great for links and traffic
      Social bookmarking
      Forum posts
      Blog Comments
      Press Releases
      Classified ads.
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  • Profile picture of the author moneymake
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    i think froums would be good place to promote and there are some free site where you can get free traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author surferman
    organic.. organic.. organic.. seo ..seo.. seo... focus on SEO, best traffic is organic traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author David McAnulty
      A lot of inviduals will tell you seo and organic traffic are the best, but truly it depends on what niche market you are in.

      If you are involved in a market that is saturated with competition then an organic SEO campaign may be a futile effort especially if you are first starting out and have limited funding.

      PPC campaigns are another beast altogether. While it is a great way to drive traffic and close deals it is a trial effort approach. To run a successful PPC campaign you will need a good amount of funds so that you can split test advertisements and landing pages to see which ones will work best for you.

      The best kind of traffic in my opinion for a start up business would be traffic you receive from backlinks. While not as targeted as SEO traffic you can rake in a pretty heavy amount of users in a short period of time using this method. There are countless ways to generate backlink traffic, but the easy and most cost efficient would be posting articles on your subject with you website in the sig, forum posting, and answers websites.

      These are good places to start generating some traffic and maybe even a few sales with very limited funds. After you are able generating a decent amount of traffic then you may want to focus on a multi-tier strategy to really boost your traffic levels.
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  • Profile picture of the author UcheO
    If you are just starting out, go with some free methods. Use the keywords you would use for PPC (you should be targetting low-competition keywords), and write articles with them. See what the response is to the articles.

    Once a little revenue starts to come in from article marketing, you have something to invest into your PPC campaign.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ryan Dodson
    Article marketing is the free pay-per-click with a shorter learning curve.

    Try it instead.
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