How to Drive Traffic to your Website

For internet marketers traffic to their website is everything they require in order to have a successful business. But, with so much competition in the field, it is not very easy or rather say simple to drive targeted traffic to your website.

 I have listed three methods which if followed properly and with a bit of patience, you can drive quality targeted traffic to your website. Please make a note we are talking about targeted traffic here and not any old school traffic which make no sense and is not profitable.

1. Social Presence – The best method but not nearly the fastest is obtaining a social presence of your website, if you want your website to receive quality traffic you need to build a reputable online presence. You must have a presence on facebook, twitter and youtube at the very least. Make a complete, dedicated and spam free account named after your website on these social sites. Your goal should be get as much as possible likes, +1's and subscribers. People feel that the site is authentic if you have a good online presence and also at the same time the word of mouth is spread more easily.

2. Niche relevant forums – Visit niche relevant forums and build a presence there. Post links to your site on questions that you think may be relevant to your site. Also, to make it legit and not spammy, you must make sure that your answers have real quality information about whatever is being asked. Secondly, try to spend some time on the forums and add friends before you start posting any links. This makes your site more believable.

3. Guest Blogging - This is certainly the most under used method on the list. Try guest blogging on sites that you feel are niche relevant and are established authorities on your keywords or similar. This helps in two ways it brings you a lot of juice which increases your search engine ranking positions( serps ). Also, people who visit the authority regularly may visit your site by following the link.

Make Money Blogging

A Blog can be described as a specific kind of website that is often created and maintained by someone who regularly updates the blog page by adding commentary, graphics, and description of events or videos on to the page. Most of the blogs those that are found in the web are interactive in their form and allow visitors on the sites to leave behind their comments and messages. These comments and messages are uploaded through the use of various kinds of widgets and this is what distinguishes a blog page from any other static sites found on the internet. A typical profession blogs always combines text and images, links to other web pages, links to other blog sites and any other media those that are related to that specific blog. The idea that blogging makes money is highly possible and can be done easily through the following steps mentioned below: If you want to make money blogging always plan to write your blog page in the tone that is appropriate for the topic of your blog. It has been observed that readers of blog pages always returns back to read the new blogs on the page if they find the subject on which you are writing matches the style of the content of your blog. Always ensure that you blogs are personable, so that others can interact with you though blog comments and also let other bloggers see and like what you write.

 If you are setting up a blog to see how blogging can make money you need to blog in a profitable niche, where from you can generate a lot of business. Now let us suppose selling designer watches is a profitable and potential niche and the most common search term for searching such watches would be “best designer watches”. So choosing a likewise domain name “designerwatches.com” would naturally attract more traffic on to your blog website. You can search for all such available domain name in Hostgator.com where you can always purchase the domains of your choice.

Next there are several numbers of popular blogging software widely available in the internet which can assist you to make money blogging. The most common among them are Wordpress and Blogger. All these software’s includes many plug-ins and several web template systems those that uses template processors in creating and hosting your desired blog. It is really important that you must always create a design of your blogging page that reflects the image and content of your blog. Be judicious while choosing the right font and color that you want to use for your blog page so that it remains consistent with the image that you want to portray about yourself in your blog.

Taking help of social marketing sites like Facebook, Twitter, Stumble Upon, Digg, LinkedIn, Reddit also helps in driving more traffic to your blog.

Signing up for “Pay Per Click” and Affiliated marketing programs with different sites in the internet where you get paid when visitors on your sites click on other peoples ‘ ads’ in order to get the traffic redirected to their webpage is a easy way you can make money blogging. This can also be done with Google Adsense a Program where Google selects and provides suitable ads for your blogging sites and displays them next to or within the content of your articles, so that these relevant ads can benefit both the blogger and the readers who visit the blog site. Now once you start writing quality content on your blog site you can feel for real that indeed blogging can make money. Building a continuous flow of new followers for your blog where you can always charge a nominal membership fee for readers to communicate with each other via forum, messaging or Q & A facility which can offer a direct access to you for all live event appraisals.