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Drive Target Traffic To Your Sites |
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Written by Ahmed Elnaggar
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Thursday, 17 June 2010 07:33 |
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However you are building your website to provide services or to sell products you must have visitors to generate profits. You must know that without traffic to your site you will lose your online business. There are many methods to generate traffic but you must choose among them wisely, because you do not just need traffic you need targeted traffic. It is better to have 10 visitors visiting your site and 50% will purchase your product or service than 1000 visitor that only 1% of them will purchase your product or service.
by AhmedElnaggar
However you are building your website to provide services or to sell products you must have visitors to generate profits. You must know that without traffic to your site you will lose your online business. There are many methods to generate traffic but you must choose among them wisely, because you do not just need traffic you need targeted traffic. It is better to have 10 visitors visiting your site and 50% will purchase your product or service than 1000 visitor that only 1% of them will purchase your product or service.
To generate traffic to your site you have to choose between two main methods. The first one is the paid method and the second one is the free method. You should know that you will provide two things in both methods time and money. In the paid method you will provide more money but you will save time while in the free method you will provide more time but you will save money. The paid methods contain email marketing, PPC advertising and banner ads while the free methods contain search engines free traffic, forum recommendations and blog links.
There are many sources for paid traffic including pay per click advertising programs, banner advertising and e-mail marketing. In PPC advertising you usually advertise your site in one of the major search engines like Google or Yahoo for specific phrases or keywords and you only pay when someone click on your ads. Banner advertising is much similar to PPC but you advertise your site in site that is related to your niche. In e-mail marketing you pay for companies that have e-mail list to send e-mail to their list containing your offer.
Pay per click advertising is the best method if you want to use the paid method. Generally you ask a webmaster that has site similar to your niche to display your link or your ad and when customer clicks on it you pay for that click. The better way is to use search engine advertising program because you can target specific keywords in your niche but the problem in PPC programs that you must have a high quality landing page and you must know how to write your ads right.
In free methods you do not pay money to get traffic but you put huge amount of time and effort to get it. You must write high quality content in your site and you must have something different and special in your site to make people link to you and recommended you. The search engine is the best method to get free traffic but you should know the basics of search engine optimization to make your site rank on it. There are two other ways to get free traffic likes writing articles on the major article directories which will drive traffic to your site and start interesting blog that attract people to your website.
Most webmaster prefers the free traffic from search engines if possible because it generates huge amount of targeted traffic. It can be easy to rank if you are targeting the product level but if you are targeting competitive phrases then it will take long time until you start to rank. The main and most important factor that should make your site rank for any phrases you want is the back-links. You should have both high quality back-links as well as mass volume of back-links.
Finally, you have to drive traffic to your site to earn money and there are two main methods to generate traffic paid method and free method. Choose your method carefully and you should know every method pros and cons.
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