13 Simple Ways To Attract Ready Customers To Your Websites… Everyday

THE simple truth is that if you want to attract a load of cash in hand, ready to pay customers to your website, you don’t

follow a single traffic route. You use multiple strategies. Personally, I use a combination of 3, sometimes up to 10 of the Ttraffic techniques you are going to read about here, to get the kind of results I want.

1. Joining Forums, Sharing Your Opinions and Creating Your Own Communities: Anyhow you look at it, this is very effective and if you are not using it, I beg you to start immediately; today! You see, forums are online communities; a place where people come together to share ides, get help and just talk.

The great thing is that you will find millions of forums online relating to almost anything you can think about. If you love sports or have a sports website for instance, find and join sports forums. If you have a website about Internet marketing, join internet marketing related forums. There are four basic keys to getting traffic from forums.

First, join as many forums as possible relating to your website. Second, introduce yourself when you join the forum (if the forum has a place for this). Third, start making your own contributions. This is very important. The more contributions you make, the more you will get people to visit your websites. (Beware: don’t make junk or useless contributions or else people will come to regard you as a member who should not be reckoned with). Fourth, always make sure to add at the bottom of your posts (contributions you make that is) a link to your website. It is called your resource box.

Doing this alone, will send good traffic to your website daily. Forums you can try out immediately include www.sdlcnigeria.com/forum, www.cyberbreakthroughs.com, www.warriorforum.com, www.nairaland.com, etc.

Now, you can go a step higher. Build your own forum. Now, this can be some real hard work because growing a forum from scratch is a little cumbersome. However, if you can stick to it, you will find out that at some point, you are no longer the one growing the forum. It will just grow by itself as more and more people will start flocking in to be a part of the community. The most beautiful thing is that when this begins to happen, you will immediately begin to get some massive FREE but highly targeted paying traffic.

2. Article Writing: Don’t say I am biased but I love this one. You see, all you need to do to get people visiting your websites daily is simply to write quality articles relating to your websites and start sending out the articles. Now, at the bottom of the articles, you have to include your website and a little description of yourself. Before you start submitting articles, learn the rules of the websites and don’t negate them.

Places you can submit your articles to include www.ezinearticles.com, www.businesstoolchest.com, www.ideamarketers.com, www.goarticles.com, www.articlecentral.com, www.authorconnection.com, www.isnare.com, www.searchwarp.com, www.findbusinessarticles.com, www.amazines.com, www.addme.com.

The beauty of this method is that your articles get used up over and over again on the Internet so much that there won’t be a day you won’t get results from those articles after a short period of writing and submitting. Another method to explore is to write articles and send to newspapers and magazine publishers. The fact is that these set of people are always looking for stories to publish and they will be more than willing to publish your work if they are great. The result is a herd of traffic to your websites.

3. E-mail Marketing: People seem to be forgetting this technique but it still remains very effective. All you have to do is send an advert by email to thousands of people. I bet you will start getting results the same day. This is usually called ezine advertising and it works like magic. However, you have to be careful because there are loads of fake ezine publishers out there. Before you buy ezine advertisement, you should try and join that ezine and watch how it works. Also, try and see if the ezine truly has the size it claims to have.

For instance, some ezine publishers will tell you that your advert will go out to 200,000 people whereas they only have 2000 (it is difficult to know for sure anyway but try and find out). To get a huge list of ezine publishers, dates of publication, advert rates for both classified (this is a small ad at the top, bottom or middle of the e-mail) or solo ad (here your advert goes alone with nothing else), you can go to www.directoryofezines.com

3. Place an ad in a target market magazine: Although this can take some large gobs of your cash, they tend to be very effective and when you do it right, you will get good rewards. The key is to choose the right magazine. For instance, if your website is about dating and relationships, BusinessDay will be a lousy advertising platform. You should go for magazines related to that topic.
4. Create business cards: Have plenty of them and be ready to give them out to as many people as you meet everywhere you go. Church, seminars, parties etc. You never know, the next person you give might be your biggest website customer.
5. Create a Guru/Expert Status: This does not appear as an obvious way of getting visitors to your website but it works. You see, people prefer to associate with the experts. Therefore, no matter what your website is about, work hard at becoming an expert on that topic. To do this, go out and research deep into that area, uncover the myths, demystify the mysteries and always come out with angles that people fail to see.

When you do this consistently, and you make such information available consistently, your website will seem to have a life of its own and will start bringing to you a steady stream of daily visitors.

6. Yahoo Answers: Most people don’t know this yet but it works. Yahoo has a question and answer section where people from all over the world participate. All you have to do is participate and start helping people by answering their questions, especially questions related to your websites. Since your website will go with each question you answer, in time, you will start seeing a steady flow of good traffic to your website daily just from Yahoo answers alone.
7. PPC: PPC stands for Pay Per Click and it is a form of ingenious advertising where you only pay for the results of your advert. You can use such a programme to drive tons of traffic to your website. Examples of places where you can get pay per click advertising include Google Adwords, www.Google.com/adwords, Yahoo Publishing Network www.publisher.yahoo.com, www.FastClick.com, www.BidVertiser.com, www.Publisher.TargetPoint.com, www.kontera.com, www.chitika.cometc.
8. Videos: Put your video on YouTube and you can end up with millions of visitors to your website literally overnight. All you need is to do a video recording. You can even use your webcam to do it. The video might be a demonstration of how to do something, how to use a product, or something just hilarious and insert your website url on it. Overnight, you can get a stampede of visitors. I have seen this happen over and over on YouTube.com.

For instance, I recently saw a guy playing guitar on YouTube (the guy was very good of course) and on the video was his website which was selling an affiliate product about playing guitar. The amazing thing was that when I looked at how many times the video had been viewed, it ran into over 1million views, which means this guy has had 1million+ visitors and only God knows how many sales of the affiliate product.

9. Use Free Gifts: Any day, anytime, anywhere, free gifts work because people love free stuff. You will attend a free seminar if I organised one. You will download my free book once I say it is free. And guess what? People will flood to your website when you tell them you have something free for them.
10. Technorati: When it comes to blogs, technorati is the place. You can use this website to pull some dangerous traffic to your own website. www.Technorati.com
11. Search Engine Traffic: Search engines get a load of visitors daily. If you can get your website to show up on major search engines, you will get good traffic delivered to you automatically without any payment from you. Find out courses and materials on search engine traffic and implement it on your website projects.
12. Delicious: This site (www.delicious.com) is a kind of social bookmarking site where anyone can come and keep a link to something he or she likes. For instance, if you visit a website and like it, you can hop over to delicious and bookmark the site, giving you the ability to access these sites anytime you want from any other computer and anywhere in the world. The links also become available to other people using delicious. Therefore, if you have the links of your websites on delicious, you will get a steady stream of traffic quietly without anyone ever suspecting.
13. Blogging: Everyone seems to know about this. A blog is simply a website where you can post information; something like your personal diary. You can easily start one for free by using www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com. Once you have your blog running, you can then go over to www.blogrush.com and use the free tool available to get massive traffic on a daily basis.