Many people believe that SEO is the only way to increase traffic to their site and nothing could be further from the truth. You can fine tune your site related keywords to the point that you are the only game in town and you still may not see the traffic that you desire to return sufficient revenues. For this reason, you need to take advantage of internet marketing techniques that reach the masses and drive traffic to your site. In the past, SEO was the primary focus, but with billions of sites created and dying daily, that is only a small part of having a successful business. You need to latch onto what many corporations are now doing and that is focusing on the tools available online to buiild their brands and business. Continue reading if you wish to learn more.
Use Internet media outlets to get the word out. In most cases we are referring to social media sites as these are visited by countless people each and every day. You can build fan pages, business pages and keep in constant contact with your audience. What is great about these sites is that by simply having friends and family like you, repost your comments, etc. you are now building a web that will not only expand to their followers but the followers of those as well and so on and so on. The key is to not be spammy, posting links non stop. Keep active and slip them in here and there. You should also strike up conversations with others to show that you are a real person and not just somebody pushing products and services. Even someone at Coke take time to respond to others on Twitter. If they can do it, so can you. Another great site is YouTube. You can post some professional sales content for free and as long as you don’t get crazy spamming links, and it can drive traffic to your site. Keep the content real and don’t just put up a ten minute video showing nothing but a link. Take advantage of the audience and pitch your offering.
Always submit your site to the relevant search engines. Don’t pay for this service as those people who claim to do this for a fee often submit you to worthless search engines you never knew even existed. You can do this yourself and save a few dollars in the process, If you don’t see your site in a few weeks, do it again. Their are billions of sites going up daily and even SE spiders need some time to get to you and crawl your site.
Offer an affiliate program to those sites or people with similar interests as you. Maybe this is simply a banner exchange or even a few cents for every so many click through’s driving traffic to your site. Whatever you choose it to be, it is a great way to reach a new audience and potential sales.
As you can see, there are some fantastic tools available online to increase traffic to your site by way of internet marketing. It’s not worth it to spend a fortune to when you can reach a larger audience for free. Take the time to review the potential of these suggestions and get an action plan in place. Within a short period of time you will notice interest and revenue generation you didn’t believe was possible.