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3 Ways to Get Targeted Traffic To Your Site...Now
by Shane Wilson
April 26th, 2007


One of the toughest things to do when first starting out in an online
business is to get traffic to your site. There are a lot of reasons
why; inexperience being the number one reason, web-site optimization
in the form of SEO or Search Engine Optimization, not having a list
of your own to drive traffic to your site, etc..

So how does someone who is new to the internet drive "Targeted"
traffic to there site. Notice I put targeted in quotes. The reason
you need targeted traffic is simple; you do not want to have someone
who is searching for gardening tips arrive at your site which is geared
toward bicycles. I bet you can guess what they will do when they
arrive, they'll leave almost immediately.

To find people who are interested in what you have to sell or offer
you need to find where they hang out first. There are many places
you can find people who are interested in the same things you are.
First, you can locate "groups" of people by going to Yahoo groups,
Google groups and MSN groups. There are literally thousands and
thousands of people at these sites in there own little groups.

These groups are broken down into categories so you can easily
target people who may be interested in your product or service. Be
sure to check them out.

Next, you can become a member at sites like Myspace and You Tube.
These two sites are among the top ten in traffic on the entire Internet.
You tube is probably easier to get free traffic from. In a matter of
minutes from uploading a video you can have thousands of people
hitting your site granted you show a link to your site in the video.

If you don't have onscreen video editing software you can get a decent
one for free here, camstudio.org.

Another way to get great targeted traffic is through the use of
article marketing. I could go on and on about it here but I have
found a great little course for free that tells you all about it and
how to generate some extra money as well. You can find more
information about it here, bummarketingmethod.com

Let's move on shall we. O.K., if you have your own product or service
then another great way to get targeted traffic to your site is through
viral marketing. This can be done very easily and here's how. Let's
take for instance that you have an ebook you are trying to sell on
home gardening. What you want to do is slim that ebook down to
a 10 to 15 page report. When you do this you want to give good
information but make it incomplete. What I mean by this is make
the person you are giving this report away to for free wanting more.

If you didn't catch what I said in the above sentence then let me
restate it here, you are going to give the report away for free. This
will drive a huge amount of traffic to your site if done correctly. To
make this technique work more effectively you will need to state in
the report that the report can be given away freely. Also, make
sure you have a small caption in the report with a call to action and
a link pointing to your site.

Finally, get people to link to your site. This can be done either
through link exchanges or one way direct links to your site. If you
are going to use link exchanges then linkmetro.com is the way to go.
It is free and they explain how to do everything.

Now, getting one way links is much better for SEO purposes. The
best way to do this is by submitting your link to directories online.
You can either do this yourself or have someone else do this for you.
If you have the time, do it yourself for free. If you don’t then
you can pay someone anywhere from 50 to 100 dollars to submit to
directories for you. Just do a Google search for directories to find
some to submit to. If you don't want to do it yourself then try a
service like inetzeal.com. They will also submit your articles to article
directories as well.

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