A well-laid out website with great sales copy is great. If you are the owner or webmasters of such a site, traffic just makes things better and better. If you have to choose between the two, which would you go with - great eye candy or a website that's over run by visitors? Of course, you'd take the latter, lots of visitors jamming your site. Well, now you can do that and here's how you can divert massive traffic to your website.

Free! It's the magic word!

Now, if you are selling a product, say coconut oil used in cook, and you want to give away a freebie that will give customers incentive to sign up for your email list. If your e-book or report talks about the best dishes to make with coconut oil, it will be well received on a site about coconut oil. The point of this example is this - freebies attract people, visitors who will arrive at your website because the freebie strikes a chord or fills a need. Along with the freebie, they will join your list to get it and then you can sell to them again in the future and stay in touch with them now.

Gee! It's not free!

What's that mean? Relax, we are talking about introducing PPC or pay per click into the mix. These are web advertisements that you can set up and release as your budget permits. If you budget $100 a month, PPC ads can be placed on search engines and will bring traffic to your website. If you take this route, you'll want to research your keywords thoroughly prior to planking down your deposit. Work on getting a killer ad developed, then watch the visitors arrive. Stick with Google if you're offering a service and go with Yahoo a product offering.

Getting Going With Link Building

When do you build links? It is quite simple. 1. You build links when some likes your website and puts a link on their website. 2. If you pay a design firm or web service for placing links on other sites. 3. When you exchange links with other credible websites. Credible websites is a key. If you build links with non-credible scammer sites, you will undo all of the hard work you've done because search engines will give you negative ratings. You want to always build links with reputable websites that you've researched.

Article submission

Write articles (only professional level, mind you!) on subject relevant to your website's content and hand them around to reprint directories (such as e-zine.com). At the end of each article, add a resource box that focuses on your website and carries its link. Other website owners who need content come looking to get some articles from reprint directories; if they like your article, they will publish it along with that resource box carrying your link. Result: your backlinks will increase and your visibility will increase manifold!

Affiliate marketing

Monetize your website by adding themed affiliate program services and products. Through places like CJ.com and Linkshare.com, you can build quite a nice set of products which your customers will want to buy. This works if you have a fast-moving product that needs a lot of publicity.

Sweepstakes

People always love to win stuff. Using services like Feedback and Response-O-Matic to put forms on your website. You ask visitors to fill in the forms to qualify for prizes. In this way, you build a significant database of signups who you can follow up with in the future.

The Power of Viral Marketing

Viral marketing can build you site traffic quickly. Sign up for social networking websites and plug in to the communities offering fun and engaging content that will get your credibility and advertise discreetly your website link. With this, your traffic will steadily increase. Viral marketing is known for giving a website a big boost in traffic.

These were some of the methods you can use for generating terrific traffic. You can do nice things offline too, such as giving away free tees, car stickers, etc. (with your website's name on it). No matter what you do, do it with panache!

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