Do you have a brand new site, with great content and no traffic? Here are 20 Ways to Increase Your Traffic and Monetize.
1.
Start A Blog.
A blog enables you to start earning money online quickly.
As soon as you get your blog, you can start advertising your products or services or promote your affiliate programs on your blog.
You start can get started for FREE with Blogger or WordPress.
2.
Earn Money Using Search Engines.
Search engine traffic will bring you some most valuable visitors.
There are 3 major search engines; Google,Yahoo and MSN/Bing.
Which brings me to...
3.
Get your website listed with these 3 search engines.
Finding the right keywords will attract your targeted market to your site.
You can research keywords by going to Wordtracker.
com 4.
Write and submit articles.
Articles are an affordable way to drive traffic to your website.
You can write your own articles or you can hire an inexpensive ghostwriter.
Then you can submit to many directories such as EzineArticles or GoArticles.
5.
Create Backlinks: These links will increase your PageRank with Google and allow you to get to their search engine.
6.
Comment on popular blogs.
Just make sure you link back to your site at the bottom of your comment.
7.
Make sure you update your site or blog regularly.
At least once a week.
8.
Place links on your site.
A simple link can go along way.
Offer a free report or other valuable resources to induce traffic.
9.
Post on forums that's related to your niche.
Put your links in a signature.
Look for the most popular posts and post in them.
10.
Social Networking is you friend.
Digg, del.
cio.
us, Facebook and Myspace are goldmines.
There are a ton of other social networking sites just waiting to get tapped.
11.
Add your link in your email signature.
Free advertising.
12.
Create useful content.
All of the other techniques are worthless if you don't have useful, compelling content that your target audience wants to read.
13.
FREE.
Offer something for free to attract the visitors.
14.
Build a Subscriber List.
Email marketing can be profitable.
Make it easy for your reader to sign up.
Just make sure to publish a Privacy Policy.
15.
Give the readers the ability to comment on your site.
If they can participate they will come back for more.
16.
Digg.
Getting on the frontpage of Digg is money in the bank.
17.
Place Online Classified Ads.
This is great FREE traffic.
Maximize profits from classified ads by including your keywords (#3) and benefits into or ads.
Try Craigslists to boost your traffic.
18.
Video is a great way to generate traffic.
This is the age of YouTube, there's so many ways you can use this media.
A picture is worth a thousand words and what better way to market your site and/or product than through video.
19.
Press Releases.
Sites like PRwebcan be great for generating traffic.
Automated the process if you can.
20.
Review other websites that are similar to yours.
Alexa is a great place to stat.
Make sure you add your link in the review.
This article has given you 20 ideas to build traffic to your site.
It may take some time, but with a little effort and patience you'll eventually see results.