Three Monumental Ways in Which to Drive Traffic to Your Website for Free
Article by Rob Bright
Driving traffic to your website is a huge part of your ability to succeed with your online business, whether that is a product, service or opportunity. The more traffic that is visiting your site the more opportunity you have to showcase what it is you are promoting. Above all else when driving traffic you must ensure the traffic is targeted i.e. has an interest in what you are promoting.
The following are three time proven strategies that are guaranteed to bring you highly targeted visitors to your web pages, so long as you are consistent with your application of the marketing strategy.
1. Forum Marketing
Forum marketing is without doubt one of the most targeted ways to market online and drive traffic to your website. By using a forum to market in, you are mixing with people who could be interested in, or have a very direct need for your product or service. Online forums are extensive and fall into many different categories. You must be very precise with the forum you are working in e.g. if you are marketing golf products you will be networking in golf forums and not just sports forums. This will help you to be able to find the exact market who will be interested in what you are promoting. When you have signed up to a forum and have become a member you will then be allowed to comment on threads (conversations) that are happening within that forum. You are allowed a signature box where you can put a link back to your site. If you have given value by that I mean quality answers to peoples questions, those people who read your answers will be curious and click on your link, taking them through to your site.
Off course there is a right way and a wrong way in which to market in forums, unfortunately many marketers choose to take the wrong way and end up spamming their link all over the forum and end up getting banned. You absolutely should never do this, nor should you need to if you provide quality information.
2. Video Marketing
Video marketing is immensely powerful and popular these days, and will really help you drive traffic to your website. If you look at any top online income producer you will see that they all use video in which to create instant rapport with people and to help build their brand. If you look at the biggest video site on the internet and the third biggest website on the web YouTube, the statistics are phenomenal. The site has something like 2 billion views per day; there is an awful lot of traffic just hanging around that site anyway. You should be taking advantage of it. With video marketing you should be straight to the point and informative to the viewer, do not waste their time with rubbish; this will get you no traffic at all. Your video should be around 2 – 3 minutes long, definitely no longer than five minutes, people on the internet have short attention spans and you need to capture their attention quickly.
3. Article Marketing
One of the VERY BEST ways to market your product or service to the world is through article marketing. Many people are of the opinion that it is too difficult or too hard to write, some even think that article marketing is not “glitzy” enough compared to some of the other strategies that are out there on the internet. Article marketing is a tried and true method that is proven to work over time. When you are article marketing your success will really boil down to as does most marketing online your keyword research. When you have the proper words that are being used by your target market to fit their needs, compiling the article should not be a hard task. It is just a matter of compiling information about your topic that the end user will find genuinely useful. From there all you have to do is submit your content to the top online article directories and your content is then live on the web working for you every hour of every day.
The above three methods are proven to generate traffic to web pages, research the method a little more in depth, apply what you have learnt by taking regular and consistent action. Then you may sit back and watch your business grow.
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About the Author
Rob Bright is a founder member of the Six Figure Mentors. To recieve his free seven day internet marketing bootcamp go to http://www.robsbootcamp.com To find out more about Rob got to http://www.rob-bright.com