Five Good Ways To Generate Targeted Traffic

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Here are five good ways to generate targeted traffic to your website that are consistently used by online marketers on a regular basis.

Web traffic is the most important requirement for any website, however not all web traffic is the same.

Beginners often get themselves involved with programs that offer thousands of hits to their website that yield little to nothing. For whatever reason, the hits simply do not convert.

After a time many newcomers erroneously begin to believe that their marketing skills aren't satisfactory and that they are doing something wrong.

Eventually, they give up and follow the path of least resistance; failure.

Those of us who have already learned from experience, know that thousands of hits aren't what you need to make your site a success.  You only need to use strategic online profit strategies that generate targeted traffic to achieve success.

It's much more productive and worth more to get a few genuinely interested visitors to your website, than it is tricking thousands of visitors to visit your site using various traffic generating schemes.

Targeted traffic is the name of the game, and here are five good ways to generate targeted traffic to your site that produce results.

  • Setting up Affiliate Programs
With affiliate programs, you give part of your profits to those who help you sell your product or service. This can be accomplished on and off line and is a great way to generate targeted traffic to your website or storefront business.

By amassing an army of willing affiliates to do your advertising for you, you can multiply your traffic gathering efforts and generate targeted traffic very quickly.
  • Adding quality content
Because the search engines provide the highest position to the most relevant site for a given content, adding quality content to your site is an excellent way to increase targeted traffic.

When you regularly provide lots of quality content that contains keywords or keyword phrases that are relevant to your product or service and which is also easy for your readers to digest, you are guaranteeing targeted traffic to your website that will also increase your ranking position in the search engine results page.
  • Creating content materials
You can also generate targeted traffic by creating content that includes the URL to your website and giving it away to your readers.

As you search for material to add to your website, other webmasters are searching for websites that publish content, to add to their websites.

When you create a quality article or newsletter with your URL included; you can incorporate it into your website or just give the content branded with your site's URL to others for dissemination.
  • Ezines publishing
Writing high quality articles about your market niche, using targeted keywords,  keyword phrases and your website's URL in the resource box, is a good way to generate targeted traffic.

Submit your article to the article directories and continue writing at least two articles each week for at least a couple of months, to achieve the best results.

This method allows you to increase your credibility and gain a serious amount of loyal targeted traffic.
  • Use Pay per Click Search Engines
If money is not much of a problem, a good way to generate targeted traffic very quickly, is by using PPC advertising.

This method allows you to choose and pay for targeted keywords that interested searchers could possibly use to find your product or service on your website.

By properly selecting carefully chosen keywords, you will only be paying the for targeted visitors who are actually interested in getting to your site.

These are the five good ways to generate targeted traffic that are time tested and proven to work by countless Internet marketers.

Submitting Your Blogger Sitemap To Ask.com

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Submitting Your Blogger Sitemap To Ask.com and the other "minor" search engines, is a great way to pull additional targeted traffic and backlinks to your website.

Savvy Internet marketers
understand that submitting an XML sitemap to the search engines will create additional traffic to their sites and increase their ranking in the SERPs.

Ask.com requires a sitemap submission in order for your site to be recognized by their search engine.

There is a great deal of information and tons of tools available online for Wordpress.org, Wordpress, and other sites, but if you happen to be running a Blogger site, you really have to dig deep to find the easiest way to create and submit an XML sitemap to Ask.com. 

If you delve into it, you will find that Blogger automatically creates a sitemap for every Blogger Blog.

Blogger even submits a Sitemap for you.  So, if you happening to be running a Blogger blog, you really don't have to do anything at all.

The exception is of course if you want to submit your XML sitemap to Ask.com or some other third party service.

The default Blogger sitemap URLs are:

    http://www.blogname.blogpost.com/atom.xml
    http://www.blogname.blogpost.com/rss.xml


The easiest method of submitting a Blogger sitemap to Ask.com, is to submit your sitemap through the ping URL below:

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.the URL of your sitemap here.xml


Submitting your Blogger sitemap to Ask.com
, and the other minor search engines is an excellent way to scrape additional traffic and backlinks from the "other search engines".
 
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