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3 Fastest Ways To Get Traffic To Any Website

- by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved

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After all the debate over website design, shopping carts and credit

card processors, every website owner eventually comes to the

startling realization that they need one more thing to survive -

website traffic!

Without website traffic it's the same as building an expensive

billboard and, instead of placing it alongside a busy highway,

hiding it in your *basement* where nobody can see it.

Upon realizing they need traffic, most website owners run out and

start blowing chunks of money and time trying to get "hits," but

they fail to grasp that there are really only three (3) reliable

ways to get traffic to any website.

Method #1 - Buy Traffic Currently, the fastest way to get traffic to

any website involves using the little classified ads on the right

side of search giant Google's results pages.

Called Google AdWords, the system allows any advertiser to open an

account with a $5 activation fee and start seeing their ads appear

on Google within about 15 minutes.

Advertisers only pay when visitors actually click through from their

ad on Google to their website or affiliate link.

Overture.com also sells traffic by the click, but they make you wait

three to five days to go through their editorial review process

before allowing ads to appear on their network.

You can also buy advertising on dozens of other pay-per-click search

engines.

They all follow the same basic model of only charging advertisers

for targeted visitors who read an ad based on a keyword search and

decide to click through for more information.

Log on to www.payperclicksearchengines.com for a list of over 600

choices ranked by market penetration.

A word to the wise on pay-per-click advertising: Watch your costs

and track and measure everything. Even though you can get traffic

for as little as a penny, you should track your results by search

engine and by individual keyword if you want maximum success.

Many a company has lost its entire advertising budget paying only a

nickel or a dime per click, but not watching their conversion rates

and pouring money into keywords that don't convert... while

neglecting the keywords that do bring sales (mainly because they

don't know which is which!).

Method #2 - Borrow Traffic If you need traffic to a website, then

borrow it from people who already have it... especially people with

lists of loyal subscribers or traffic from search engines,

affiliates, or other steady sources.

"Endorsed Mailings" and "Reciprocal Linking" by other people

represent the two fastest ways to borrow someone else's traffic.

If they maintain a list of subscribers, convince them to send an

email out to their people telling them why they should check out

your site.

Also, negotiate a prominent link on their web pages to siphon off

targeted visitors who find their website.

Often the best way to persuade someone to do this involves paying

them a commission, agreeing to do a similar mailing, or providing a

link to them on your site (or a combination of all three).

Imagine how much traffic you could get if someone with a list of

10,000 loyal subscribers told their people to go look at your

website!

Method #3 Recycle Traffic The most economical way to get traffic

involves turning one-time visitors into regular, repeat visitors

that you direct to multiple sites over time.

You do this by pulling website visitors into your sphere of

influence by enticing them to sign up for your newsletter,

autoresponder sequence, or "mini-course."

Then you keep in contact with regular articles, special reports, and

recommendations enticing them to visit your own and other people's

websites.

Ultimately, every website owner should orient all of their marketing

efforts towards this end of developing a stream of recycled traffic,

because it costs the least and creates the best return on time and

money invested.

It doesn't matter if you promote your own product, promote only as

an affiliate, or some combination of the two... if you don't recycle

traffic and get more than one hit out of each visitor, you're making

one of the biggest mistakes anyone can make online.

-- Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-author

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