BEST WAYS TO GENERATE TRAFFIC ON YOUR SITE

am going to talk about creating traffic, hunting for traffic, schmoozing for traffic, funneling traffic, and begging for traffic. Things near and dear to my heart. I've never wanted traffic more in my life!

Mea culpa! Internet marketing has become an obsession for me. It's so much fun, don't you agree? I don't think I could ever stop doing this.

Stop pimping ourselves. And as far as internet marketers go, we're a bunch of enthusiastic experimenters, but do concentrate and focus on the plan we set up.

In a nutshell, including creating traffic, do the following

- focus on creating good content for the blog to attract the fish

- keep on positioning ourselves as an authority figure

- stop chasing the money

- stop pimping ourselves on the social media networks like Twitter; and to

- stick to the plan we set for ourselves

The plan is the most crucial part of this system. Now, I might slip now and then, but if I didn't have a good plan, I wouldn't know how bad it was!

Traffic Generation Methods

There were several methods we could use to create traffic. Each have their own strengths but if used in conjunction with the other methods, they help increase visibility to any lowly blog.

To name a few methods:

- Blogging - Your essential oil rig platform. The repository of all knowledge of your theme. When you blog, you create unique content of which some people may be interested in leaving comments, linking you back to their blogs, referring you to friends, etc.

- Forum Marketing - A place where you meet people of the same interest. You target forums after you have identified the important keywords your fish congregate. Forums are not places where you leave inane remarks that make you sound like a robot so don't do it!

- Article Submissions - Spread the net far and wide, the article submission methods is known to be slow, but it lasts forever. Once done, you can submit your articles to the myriad article directories online, such as EzineArticles.

- Press Releases - write your own feature article and send it to a press release site such as PRWeb. It's bound to create a lot of traffic if you do it right.

- Giveaways - Join giveaway events and watch your sign ups spike.

Through in a free product of your own to an ever-growing pot of free products in a joint venture with other internet marketers to attract a wider audience of targeted consumers. It works because the accumulative nature of all the lists of participating internet marketers combined with a common voice.

- eBay - If you are not aware of it, eBay has a section for marketing "Information Products" under its ubiquitous "Everything Else" category. You can use this to sell your ebooks and other info products you are planning to practically give away so you can generate some traffic.

- Social Media - Social media is about relationships. The point behind social media is mainly to drive relationships first and to drive massive traffic once people decide you're cool and human.

Unless you lived under a rock for the past 10 years, you've heard of these online portals for social media: Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, Squidoo, Hubpages, and more.

Social media is more about community and sharing information. Be careful about where to pimp, if you intend to pimp.

Depending on the social media site, you could sell, but you have to know which site to do that. Blatantly selling your product on the wrong site will get you flamed, unfollowed, ignored, and blocked by its denizens. So do your homework.

- Video Traffic - Video is positively one of the best ways to get you traffic! Just ask Her Royal Highness, the Video Marketing Queen: Mario Andros about it, and she will, in no uncertain terms tell you why now is the perfect time to get into video marketing!

Google absolutely loves YouTube and puts videos on the top ten results all the time in its search results.

- Twitter - Now, I've known Twitter since forever, but it's only recently that I discovered the TRUE POWER of Twitter! Where else can you send a message to up thousands of your followers online, REAL TIME and for FREE!

Here is where pimping is most prevalent. And the experts all agree that Twitter isn't for MEGA pimping, it's for building better relationships! You can find most of the experts on Twitter tweeting away with no hangups.