There are so methods being promoted on the net these days to generate web traffic for your website. Some actualy work and some are total garbage.

After running an online business for five years, I’ve tried out just about all of these traffic getting systems. I’ll save you some time and mention a few that you’ll want to avoid and some that will actually bring you some good web traffic.

Useless Tactics:

Free for all web directories: Don’t waste your time. Everyone in only interested in promoting their own offer. They aren’t there to look at yours. The webmaster usually set up such a website for the sole purpose of sending ads to everyone who submits an ad or website to their directory. The ad comes in the acceptance email. No one probably reads those either.

Email Spamming: Don’t do it! You can get yourself in a lot of trouble. If someone reports you, your ISP or web host can shut your account down. It’s not only illegal, it’s annoying to others. No one is going to buy from people who send them junk mail. Most likely, the spam filters will just stop the message from ever being seen.

Junk Website Creating Software: Let’s face it. If it was as easy as clicking a button and having a great website that pulled in hordes of traffic, everyone would be doing it. Don’t waste your money.

Buying A Magic Money Making System. Money doesn’t just fall from the sky. It’s not as easy as some people pretend it is. Don’t buy every money making system that hits the market.

Tactics That Work:

Pay Per Click: This drives targeted traffic to your website. The only problem is that it’s too expensive for most. You might spend $500.00 on clicks and only make $300.00 in sales. Not for most people, especially those just starting out in online marketing.

Social Site Marketing: This method can work but takes a lot of time to implement. First you have to sign up to digg or reddit or another social network and then you have to post on a regular basis so as not to look like a spammer.

If you want to try your hand at social marketing, you may want to give Hubpages or Squiddo a try. Make a good page with lot’s of content and you’ll get some visitors from these high traffic websites.

The Best Tactic:

Article Marketing: This is the method I use to get quality backlinks and targeted traffic to my website. Why are these links so good? They are one-way links. Google gives these links the most weight. If you get enough one-way links, your website will rise in the search engines. Plus, you’ll get direct traffic from the article directories themselves.

Pick a topic related to your website and spend some time researching and writing a good quality article. Submit your article to at least the top 10 article directories. Many sites offer a list of the most popular article directories. Just search in Yahoo or Google for these.

Don’t just submit to only the major article directories. Try and find some related niche article directories. If you have a health website, then submit to some health article directories.

Make it a habit to write one or more articles per week and submit them to the directories. You’ll be amazed at the traffic you’ll get after only a short time.

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