There's No "Silver Bullet" to Drive Traffic to Your Website

We all know that when it comes down to it, traffic equals money. You can sell the a product that cures cancer while balancing your check book; but if no one is coming to your site to see your pitch page then you certainly won't be getting any sales. On top of that, you can't just settle for just plain old traffic. If you just needed visitors to your site, you could just go sign up for 10 auto surfs and leave them running over night. I'm pretty sure we all know how well that works.

What you need is targeted traffic to your site. You want people to navigate to your site with the expectation that you will help them solve a problem. You also have to know how to find these people. That is the crux of the matter here: getting targeted leads to your website so they buy your product.

Now unfortunately, there's no "easy button" that will get you those leads without some work. But fear not, over the next couple of days I shall give you my top five ways to start generating leads to your website. These are in no particular order as they all have to be used in conjunction to maximize your results.

I might as well start this off right and give you one good way to start generating some leads to your website. The first is article marketing/blogging. I lump these two together because if you're going to do one, you might as well just do the other. Already have a blog? Great, compile some of your posts together and you have yourself an article. Already wrote a couple of articles...ok you get the point. This is a double sided favorite of mine because it's free and with some practice, it can be fun. There's only a small catch. You actually have to write. What an awful thought, I know. It's not really that hard however. Once you knock out your first few, you'll be able to bang out three or four an hour, if that's what you really want to do.

For the first month in a business, you really want to try and write at least one a day, preferably more. After that first month, you can step it down and write one every other day. What this does is two fold. Number one, you get your name out there across the internet. Most e-zine websites have a bio box where you might give a brief description of yourself and a link to your product. People might be intrigued or like your ideas and might want to join your newsletter or buy your product. What might also start to happen is people may take your article(s) and just copy and paste them somewhere, including your bio information. This gets your name all across the internet and starts getting you back links and helps increase page rankings.

The second reason why I like article marketing so much is it really puts you into the correct mind frame. This is actually a business and you are going to have to work at it. Like I said, pretty soon you'll be able to write up a nice article in about 15 minutes. Just imagine how much better you'd become at writing if you wrote just one article every other day. This is the kind of skill that can translate into good ads that get great returns, or you could even just use the articles in your own auto-responder. There are really no negatives to this and you have everything to gain. Just have fun with it and you'll be submitting in no time.

Trying is achieving!
Felix