All good businesses, storefront or Internet, must have a great product or service and a well-situated building or a dramatic website in order to succeed.
But without customer traffic, they lack the one thing that will make them successful-profit..
In the brick and mortar world, generating traffic is a matter of location and advertising, of taking advantage of the neighborhood and making it work for you.
In the Internet world, creating traffic to your website uses essentially the same idea, but because the neighborhood is slippery, invisible, and highly competitive, the strategies are targeted and the work of generating traffic is on-going.
There are a variety of tried and true methods to generate traffic to your website.
Today, we'll talk about three.
1) Know your product and the population you are targeting.
Write articles that will interest that population and submit them to websites that have similar interests.
Each article should have a link that will lead the reader to your website.
By writing and researching the articles you become more familiar with your targeted population.
With greater knowledge comes a greater ability to mold your marketing strategy to its greatest advantage.
2) Exchanging links with other websites is the epitome of networking.
Work out exchanges with websites in the same field of interest as your product or service.
Exchanging links is mutually beneficial, as each website owner is seeking more traffic to their site.
3) Offer a newsletter that will allow other marketers with a similar audience to advertise.
Newsletters build a strong readership and loyalty to your site, and encourages the spread of word of mouth traffic to your website.
In addition you can earn a little money from the advertising you sell.
Generating traffic to your website requires constant attention.
Successful Internet websites are continually adapting, improving, and creating new ways to generate traffic.
There are many other ways to generate traffic to your website, most involve some serious hard work from you, and others require investments of money.
By writing and placing articles, exchanging links, and writing a newsletter, you can lay a strong foundation for a successful website.
But without customer traffic, they lack the one thing that will make them successful-profit..
In the brick and mortar world, generating traffic is a matter of location and advertising, of taking advantage of the neighborhood and making it work for you.
In the Internet world, creating traffic to your website uses essentially the same idea, but because the neighborhood is slippery, invisible, and highly competitive, the strategies are targeted and the work of generating traffic is on-going.
There are a variety of tried and true methods to generate traffic to your website.
Today, we'll talk about three.
1) Know your product and the population you are targeting.
Write articles that will interest that population and submit them to websites that have similar interests.
Each article should have a link that will lead the reader to your website.
By writing and researching the articles you become more familiar with your targeted population.
With greater knowledge comes a greater ability to mold your marketing strategy to its greatest advantage.
2) Exchanging links with other websites is the epitome of networking.
Work out exchanges with websites in the same field of interest as your product or service.
Exchanging links is mutually beneficial, as each website owner is seeking more traffic to their site.
3) Offer a newsletter that will allow other marketers with a similar audience to advertise.
Newsletters build a strong readership and loyalty to your site, and encourages the spread of word of mouth traffic to your website.
In addition you can earn a little money from the advertising you sell.
Generating traffic to your website requires constant attention.
Successful Internet websites are continually adapting, improving, and creating new ways to generate traffic.
There are many other ways to generate traffic to your website, most involve some serious hard work from you, and others require investments of money.
By writing and placing articles, exchanging links, and writing a newsletter, you can lay a strong foundation for a successful website.
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