Posted on 25th February, 2012 | No Comment
Visitors to your site are critical – getting them there automatically is even better. So here’s how…
But, first…
Keyword research is really the first step in getting traffic to your website. Why? Because you have to target these keywords if you are to have any hope of actually generating traffic for them. This means it’s critical to select your keywords properly.
Here are the important considerations for your research:
- Are the keywords you’re interested in attainable? Take a look at the “strength” of others websites (and how many) are already targeting these keywords.
- Are these “buying” keywords? Some keywords will bring lots of traffic, but none of them will buy. What you want is buyers!
- Another thing to think about is affiliates. If you want to build a huge business, you’re going to need affiliates to help you. This means that some of your traffic focus should be on getting affiliates to your site.
This is critical to your business, but it takes a lot of time and effort. Hiring someone else to do it costs a lot of money. The upside is that these two factors keep most everyone from even doing their keyword research. If you’re smart you will use website traffic software to help you with this process. This way you get this critical step done fast and done well.
OK, now we can talk about traffic…
Once you’ve done your properly keyword research, you’re now ready to start targeting these keywords to draw in visitors.
Here’s a very interesting video that you should
watch if you are interested in getting free traffic
from Google:
The video explains some important basics about
getting traffic from Google and it comes with a
downloadable PDF guide (completely free) as well.
SECockpit video < click
I recommend you check this out, as the PDF
describes a method for optimizing your sites for
both the search engine bots AND your human visitos.
This can make a very big difference, especially
since Google is increasingly looking for “human
factors” when ranking websites (watch the video
and you’ll see what I mean):
It’s not often that you’ll see this kind of
quality info shared, so take advantage of it while it lasts!
Powerful Traffic Tactics:
- Most people overlook the power of Surveys!
- “Help” Websites
- Video Sharing Sites
Surveys
People love filling in surveys. And if you make it interesting, other people will post your survey on their website. It’s a win-win. They get a great perk on their site and you get a link back to yours. This allows you to get free website traffic from other people’s sites! This is a sneaky little idea that most people never even think of. Just make the question interesting enough that people will want to share it with their own visitors.
I like to use Survey Monkey. I recommend it!
“Help” Websites
These sites, like answers.yahoo.com are filled with people asking and answering questions for each other. But, like the surveys, that’s not why you’re going to pay attention to these sites. You are going to generate traffic, leads and sales from them. Of course, the process of digging through these sites and pulling out the content info of leads for your business is very time consuming. But a much smarter method is to use website traffic software to do it for you. These tools put the whole thing on auto-pilot and just deliver the leads to you each day.
Video Websites
Video is huge and sites like YouTube and Vimeo are extremely popular. In fact, YouTube has over 2 billion videos watched per day! If you’re not taking advantage of this rich source of website traffic then you are really missing out.
And don’t worry if you don’t have any idea of how to make a video. One super easy thing to do is take an article or website you’ve written. Then just do a screen capture of yourself going through it. And like anything else, there is software available that will turn articles into videos for you automatically. Or use Animoto. Very easy to use.
An example from one of my other niches.
Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
Summary
Figuring out how to get some visitors to your site is not hard at all. It just takes a little time and some ingenuity. Plus, there’s lots of great software out there to help you.
So, start right now and:
- Keyword research first is key - get Seocockpit
- Set up some viral surveys
- Survey Monkey
- Build your traffic traps
- Website Squeeze Pages
- And don’t forget about video
- Animoto
