Monday, December 5, 2011

How to Get More High Quality Traffic Than You Know What to Do With

By Phyllis Rocha


If you've been involved in Internet marketing for even a short time, you should know how important it is to get high quality traffic. Before we dive into the different methods of generating traffic for your website you need to understand that not all traffic is of equal value; one method is great for generating super targeted and relevant traffic but doesn't help you build your brand even a little bit while another method might be the best brand building method you've tried but not bring in much actually relevant traffic to your site. Now that we've established this, why don't we explore some of the methods that not only generate great traffic for your site but that also strengthen the brand and identity you want to build.

Article directories, once upon a time, were a fantastic way to send traffic to your site because it was relatively easy to get your articles published and well ranked in the search engines. These days, however, things are different. The Google Panda Update has been a major problem for sites like EzineArticles.com so the days when you could submit just about anything, get ranked for it and drive traffic are over. If you do some deeper digging, though, you'll see that this is a really fantastic thing because it's getting rid of all of the over hashed content and making room for the content that is actually valuable.

So if you want to be able to get traffic from the article directories you need to produce really great article content that, in addition to getting highly ranked, will be picked up and ranked and shared by the ezine publishers.

An underutilized method of generating traffic is by getting exposure to your website's URL in all of your offline literature such as your letter heads, business cards, flyers, etc. Some webmasters even paint the URL of their websites on their cars. The point is that there are lots of ways to gain exposure for your website or blog and you can use offline methods for this as well. Try to be creative and see if there are ways that you can adjust your approach to get even more targeted traffic for your website. For example, if you sell an eBook for "Weight Loss" you can work with the different Weight Loss studios in your area and ask them to send people to your site--you can even give them a commission based on the sales that they generate.

Engage with the social spheres of the web; whether you choose Twitter, Facebook or even Foursquare is not important; what's important is that the more active you become, the easier it becomes to steadily build a good reputation for yourself which, in turn, sends a consistent flow of high quality traffic to your website. But don't make the mistake of spamming any of the social sites, because that will not only get you banned, but it'll also spoil your brand image within your target market.

Your website will reward you so much more when you understand the best ways to increase your traffic flow. There are literally all sorts of ways to do this, but only some of them truly work and offer long term results. So if you are ready to have a consistent traffic flow to your website, use the tips in this article and see what sort of results they net you.




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