Hi Isyaias,
As an internet marketer, I've tried just about every known way to get traffic to my websites. And to be quite honest, most of what "marketing" is all about is getting people to see your offer.
Once they see it, your gears switch from marketing to sales. So when we think about internet marketing, it's really "how can we get more and more people to see our offer?" From there, our mindset should change from thinking as an internet marketer to thinking as an internet salesman.
I think that's why starting an online business is a lot harder than a lot of people make it out to be. Let's be honest... It's
tough to get people to your website. Traffic doesn't just happen
over night. Once the visitors start coming... well, then the sales part is a breeze. It's the "internet marketing" part that can be difficult and downright discouraging.
I've been doing this online thing full-time for over 4 years now, and I've literally tried just about every single traffic-generating strategy you can think of. Aside from joint ventures (and that is usually just a quick, short-term burst of traffic), the single best way to get long-term traffic is through the search engines.
http://www.articleapps.com/get-traffic/
There are several reasons why.
- the people visiting your sites from search engines are highly targeted. Think about it, they were essentially searching for YOUR site.
- It's free! You can't beat that, right?
- Everyone uses search engines to find what they're looking for.
So your market potential is HUGE!
- Did I mention that organic search engine traffic is free?
There are several ways to increase your site's rankings in the search engines, but what I've found to be the absolute best way is to get loads of ONE-WAY "backlinks" pointing to your site. This tells the search engines, like Google, that your site is important. The more links there are pointing to your site, the higher your search engine rankings will be. PERIOD!
From my own experience, I've found article marketing to be THE best way to get backlinks to your site.
More backlinks = higher search engine rankings = more traffic! It
doesn't get much simpler than that.
So how do you get these one-way backlinks? Easy... Article Marketing
=> http://www.articleapps.com/get-traffic/
The idea behind article marketing is that you write an article on a similar topic to your website, add a link inside the article that points to your website, submit that article to several of the biggest article directories online, and then sit back and watch how well-dispersed those links become across the internet.
The problem I used to have was spending my entire day writing article after article. It took way too long, and I hated writing to begin with. So the next thing I did was I hired a writer to do it for me. It took me a really long time to find a good, quality writer I could trust... and once I did, I was spending an arm and a leg.
So I thought, I'll just have my programmer create an article writing and spinning software program for me that would take my old, plr articles and write new ones. I tried all of the other "spinners" out there, and they were (in my honest opinion) total Crap!
After several months of programming, adding all of the features that I personally needed, and then doing fine-tune tweaking even further, I started using my own software to rewrite individual articles into literally hundreds of other UNIQUE articles.
The end result: I only had to spend a few minutes to produce loads of quality and unique content that I could submit to article directories.
=> http://www.articleapps.com/get-traffic/
After just a few months, I started seeing my sites in the top 5 positions for VERY competitive keywords. And this has continued for a very long time. This isn't like joint venture traffic that
is a single burst of visitors. This is LONG-TERM. Do you think
it's brought a lot of traffic my way?
Absolutely! Once the traffic started coming, "selling" was the easy part.
I originally created this software for my personal use, but then thought... what the heck, I've seen some great advances in my own business so why not share this with you.
So I had a graphic designer make the software interface look nice and pretty and I created a site so that you too can start building more long-term traffic to your sites.
=> http://www.articleapps.com/get-traffic/
Real online businesses think long-term. And this is, in my opinion, one of the single best ways to bring visitors to your site long-term.
Enjoy this one,
Matt Callen
P.S. If after you take a look at the software, let me know if you have any suggestions or feature requests. I've put everything I can think of into this software, but if you've got any ideas, don't hesitate to let me know.
