Traffic Building For Your Home Businesses
Traffic = leads = profits.
But how exactly can we turn on the red lights on your website and get tons of people stuck in your site day after day? The most common way of drawing traffic is organic search - which means, getting your site found on search engines manually.
You have to be an expert at SEO in order to get your site up on the first page if you're in a competitive market.
You can use overture keyword selector tool (just search Google) to find suitable keywords to optimize your site.
Another way to boost traffic is by posting articles on article directories such as ezine and article dashboard.
Just Google up some good article directories and start posting articles in the niche you have chosen.
Anyway, if you look at all the articles here, you would see that every author has an author's resource box below where the author talks a bit about himself and his website.
If people like your post they would do 2 things: 1) Repost your article (on the condition they retain your resource box).
That way you can leverage on the power of viral marketing to get the word around about your blog.
2) Visit your blog.
Hence, you get traffic.
You have to utilize every single way you can draw traffic to your site.
Blog directories are good places to promote your site and to join communities of people in the same niche.
You can also make a good deal of contacts there for joint venture purposes.
A lot of people are leveraging on social media networking sites to increase following.
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace are good places to market your blog, but be careful not to overdo-it less it gets treated as spam and your account gets banned, Try different forms of media to market your blog or website.
Research shows that people tend to remember things they here and see more than what they read.
You can leverage (yeah, been using this word a lot) on videos sites like YouTube and do podcasts on audio sites to talk about your business.
Another similar method to article marketing, is by posting pages on web 2.
0 sites such as Squidoo, hubpages and wetpaint.
These sites normally have quite a high page ranking on Google, and if your article page is good you might just get on the top.
If you have contacts in the internet marketing world, all the better.
You can join free giveaways to add people to your subscribers list, do ad swaps with other affiliates and organize joint ventures.
That way you can leverage on the list of other web marketers and this will help you get a lot done in a short amount of time.