Sunday, January 11, 2009

Traffic Building for Newbies

By MLMAbsolute

After creating and setting up your website, the next most important thing you should do is to generate sales. Sales can only be obtained from people visiting your website. To have more sales, you need to generate more traffic.

If you want to have 10 sales every month, you can derive the amount of traffic needed by looking at your conversion rate.

There are many methods to direct traffic into your website;

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

The process of making your website listed on search engines by making the website relevant for search engines to capture.

Social Networking

It is a very popular way to get traffic through social media now. You can network on social media platforms like FaceBook or MySpace to know more like minded people from all over the world.

Article Submission

You can get traffic to your site by attracting them through article writing. If your article is good and informative, you can get targeted traffic into your website, and people will view you as an expert.

Pay-Per-Click (PPC)

You can advertise your website to get traffic. One good and highly effective avenue is through PPC advertising. Your advertisements will appear on search engines. It is a very cost effective solution, as you only pay when people visit your website.

Forum

Forums marketing is another way you can advertise yourself and your website to gain traffic and ultimately sales. Establish your presence by answering questions or participate in discussions.

Video Submission

You can also use videos to attract traffic into your website. Similar to article writing, you create videos and post them in video sharing sites to increase your exposure. Make sure you add a link to your website in your video.

Classifieds Marketing

This method allows you to advertise your products or services as classified advertisements. There are free classifieds and paid classified sites available. You should choose the avenue based on the traffic and the target group of traffic.

Once you have visitors going into your website, you need to capture their email information to allow future updates and create selling opportunities. You can use an opt-in form to capture the data.

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