How to get Targeted Traffic to Your Website!

by Dechen Lau

Everyone who has a website knows that to have sales you must havetraffic, but not just any traffic it has to be targeted traffic. What is Targeted traffic? It is simply visitors to your websitethat are interested in what your website is about. For example,people interested in buying jewellery will find jewellerywebsites interesting. How do I get targeted traffic I hear you ask? The following aretried and tested methods: Forums: Subscribe to forums that discuss your topic. Answerquestions and join in the debates there. Become an expert in thefield. Then with each article reply you write have a discreetlink to your website in the signature file. What can be placed inyour signature is often determined by the forum moderators. Donot spam the forum or you will be stopped from posting. This isone of the most productive ways of getting free traffic as thosewho click your link have already read and liked your style. Linking from/to other websites: Contact website owners that havesimilar but not competitive websites to yours, ask them for areciprocal link from their website to yours. Be sure to selectyour link partner to match closely your customer profile.Software programs such as Arelis are very helpful in thisprocess. E-Zines: Contact e-zine owners that have your target readershipand buy advertisements from them. Be sure to have a test run tosee that the return on investment is sufficient to cover thecosts involved. If you are buying an extended run ofadvertisements haggle with the e-zine owner over price. You maysave a considerable amount. Newsletters: When people visit your website offer them somethingof value for free if they sign up to your newsletter (like ane-Book). Your newsletter should be written tightly geared towardsyour topic. It should be published regularly at weeklyintervals. E-Books: Often used, these are usually free informational booksfor your clients and for others to give away free if they leaveyour links in the book itself. You can place links back to yourwebsite in the books you sell or give to your clients. Joint Ventures: Contact online marketers looking for new productsto sell. They often have large mailing lists with eager to buycustomers. Normally they are willing to email their list for acut of the sale price. This works particularly well withinformational products. It has several advantages. It can give avery sizeable boost to both your sales and mailing list within avery short period. Buy Traffic: This is probably the cheapest in terms of time andmost expensive money wise. It gives a traffic boost normallywithin 30 days. What are you buying? You are buying traffic fromexpired domain names which the company selling the traffic hasbought. They are domain names still registered on the searchengines which get a considerable amount of traffic. The previousdomain name owners have either lost interest in the name orsimply forgot to renew the registration. This means that thetraffic from the expired domain name is simply redirected to yourwebsite. This is usually high quality traffic as only websiteswith traffic such as you want is redirected to you. As always, atest run to see if this traffic is suitable should beundertaken. When you combine these techniques and apply them consistentlyover time you will find a rich source of targeted traffic comingto your website. This, combined with quality products will ensurethe success of your online business.

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