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10 Traffic Generation Ideas
By Michael Hansen

Traffic Idea # 1
Your strategy will not be just one activity, but several. Here is a quick and dirty way to get started. Sign up for a service called Traffic Swarm. It's FREE. I have written an article about Traffic Swarm. This article details how Traffic Swarm will bring targeted visitors to your site FREE.
Ok, Traffic Swarm will immediately begin to bring targeted visitors to your site. But you must do more.

Traffic Idea # 2
Jimmy D. Brown, a very successful internet marketer, created this wonderful product and I still can't believe how well it works! The product is such a simple idea but it is such a wonderful product, I think Mr. Brown must be a genius! The product is called Instant Boost. You need to read about the product yourself rather than have me tell you.

Traffic Idea # 3
I have received thousands of hits from message boards. But the important thing to remember about message boards is that you should not try to push or sell your product directly in your posts. Just answer people's questions and help them with their problems. Then when you sign your name, place your url under your name. I have posts on message boards which have been there since the beginning of the year or longer. I still get visitors who read those old posts and they click on my link and visit my site.
I recommend you spend one or two evenings a week to start and post two or three messages on as many boards as you can find. It doesn't matter the subject, but I try to find posts that are read the most. Just write an intelligent answer and people will be curious and click on your link. Don't criticize people of flame them. If you can't answer any posts because you don't know the answers, then create a new post and just ask a question. Your post will still get plenty of eyes and people will still click on your link and visit your site.
Your question will get plenty of attention. People love to be the expert and you will get many responses.

Traffic Generating Idea # 4
Have you ever received a joke in your email from a friend or relative ? What did you do with that email after you read it? I bet you either deleted it, or you forwarded it on to another friend. If your friend thought is was clever, they probably forwarded it to several emails in their address book. And on and on. This is called viral marketing and it is the most powerful tool in internet marketing.
To give you an example of how powerful this can be, about 9 years ago when I first started using the internet, I got an email called the Microsoft letter which was an email explaining that if you forwarded this email then Bill Gates would send you about a $ 1.50 every time you forwarded his email.
The fellow who wrote the letter claimed to have received thousands of dollars already. He urged the reader to forward the email to all of their friends. I didn't take it seriously and deleted it.
But, over the next 5 years, that email reappeared in my inbox at least a dozen times. How many times do you think that email got forwarded over those five years ? Millions of people read that email and I bet it is still being forwarded and read.
So take a good funny joke, and at or near the top put, "Brought to you by www.yourwebsite.com". Placing your url into the link.
Then send it out to everyone in your address book. This will get it started. Do that with a new joke once every month.

Traffic Generating Idea # 5
This one will take a little time and practice but it is very powerful and it will generate thousands, even tens of thousand of hits and it is FREE.
You've probably heard this one before. Write short articles and submit them to ezines. Also, submit them to ezine submission sites. I'm not going to go into the details here on how to write the article, how to format it or even how to submit them. There is an excellent ebook that tells you how to do this.
I bought it and read it and I believe it is the best one on the market on this subject. The author writes new articles every week and he has them all over the internet. I am having wonderful results doing this, too. The book is titled, " Turn Words Into Traffic", by Jim Edwards. Click on the link and read about this product.
The price of the book will be nothing compared to the skill and benefit you will receive reading it. I have read my copy several times and I constantly refer back to it for reference. This is a serious piece of writing in my traffic generating arsenal.

Traffic Generating Idea # 6
When I finally learned all of the traffic generating techniques on the internet, one thing I realized right away was that writing was the most powerful technique. So, here is another idea and it also involves writing.
As mentioned above, write short (one page) articles but instead of submitting them to ezines, you are going to post each of them on a separate html webpage. (like this article) Be sure you place a link at the bottom of the article that takes the reader to the product or service or webpage you are promoting.
Finally (and the most important part of this idea) you want to set the meta tags on this webpage so the Google search engine spider will index your article onto the search engine.
Example: I have a website that sells vitamins. To date, I have written seven short articles and linked all of them into an "Articles" link on my vitamin site. Each article is placed on a separate webpage and each article can be found on the Google search engine. The other search engines pick up what's on Google, so my articles are on those search engines too.

Traffic Generating Idea #7
Again, this idea is about writing. Look at this website. It is a simple idea. I wanted to share with others, how they can get traffic to their site either FREE or at little cost. Later in this article, I am going to list what NOT to do.

Traffic Generation Idea # 8
Find and read material on how to write a press release. One of the best press release sites to post to on the internet is www.prweb.com. I use www.publicityhound.com as a publicity resource.
My first press release was simply the first article I wrote for my vitamin site. As beginners luck would have it, a major health site liked the press release so they published my article on their site. That meant more traffic to my vitamin site!

Traffic Generation Idea # 9
This idea will cost a little money but it is worth it. Have your url placed in the back window of your car or on your bumper. Have your url placed on T-shirts or pens and pencils and give them away.
The T-shirts are a great idea if you have a large family. You can have your kids advertising your url on their T-shirt in the mall or grocery store. These items can be produced at www.cafepress.com.

Traffic Generating Idea # 10
Here is a website which uses a "passive viral marketing technique". All I do is promote this product somewhere and leave it alone. Over time, people sign up and I get more traffic. The best thing is its FREE. Click here, fill out a few lines of info and you will receive your own site. Send an email to your friends asking them to sign up. This will get your Free Viral site started. Place a link to it on your website and then forget about it, people will sign up through your site.

In Summary
I hope you realize that if you just continue to promote your websites with the traffic generating ideas I have listed here, several things will happen. One, you will continue to receive more and more traffic. Two, as your traffic increases, so will your sales.
Set goals each week. Make a list of what you'd like to get done. I spend one or two evenings a week writing short articles. I may spend another evening surfing for credits on Traffic Swarm.
I may spend another evening posting on message boards. But just keep working your plan. Don't get frustrated and don't give up. If you get frustrated, it means that your expectations are not meeting with reality. There is an old saying in India that to eat an elephant, you must do so one bite at a time.
Don't forget to read the article about Traffic Swarm and how it works.
As a Thank You for reading this article, I would like to give you a FREE eBook, titled, "How To Promote ANY Product or Service On A Zero-Budget No Matter Who You Are!"