Willie Crawford On More Traffic, More Subscribers, More Sales In Your Internet Marketing Business

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June 10, 2008

How To Get Massive Free Website Traffic

How To Get Massive Free Website Traffic
Copyright 2008 by Willie Crawford

There is only one real secret to getting a lot of
visitors to your website. That is merely figuring out
where lots of your ideal visitors are, and standing in
front of them.

When you think of it in those terms, it's really simple.

There are also only three real ways to get in front of
the traffic flow. You can buy traffic, borrow traffic, or
create traffic.

You buy traffic using pay-per-click search engines. It's
very dependable, and can give you a steady flow of
consistent traffic.

The big drawback with using pay-per-clicks to generate
traffic is that it can be very risky. Those who use
pay-per-clicks to generate 100% of their traffic, and
are considered the best of the best, will tell you that
as many as 7 out of 10 campaigns that they set up will
lose money. The professionals very quickly shut off the
losers, and their winners more than make up for the
losses, but it's really not a game for someone not
properly trained.

You can also buy traffic using an affiliate program. Since
you only pay for the traffic when a sale is made, it's a
very low-risk method. Since your affiliates are sending
you their best customers, you can also think of it as
borrowing traffic.

I love the affiliate program model, and have numerous
products sold via affiliate programs. I also sell a lot
of others’ affiliate products. It's win-win.

You can also create traffic by putting things on the
Internet that people are attracted to. You can create
content by writing articles or blogging for example. I
love content creation and have written over 1100
different articles. My articles teach people how to
solve pressing problems, and at the same time point them
to me (my sites) as a great resource.

When you create content your big challenge is to get it
noticed and indexed by the search engines, so that people
can follow links from there to your site. It's actually
fairly easy - but time and labor intensive.

If your content is "viral" it will be something that
others will happily share. Examples include in-depth
articles, essays that touch people on a deep emotional
level, or humorous videos that you post on YouTube.

Of the three methods of getting traffic (buying, borrowing,
and creating it) my favorite has to be borrowing it...
with creating it second. I generally only buy traffic
when I need a really quick surge to test my website's
conversion process.

The key to generating an absolute flood of free traffic
is getting noticed, getting backlinks, etc., from high
traffic websites such as Google, Craig's List,
Yahoo, YouTube, and the various bookmarking and
social networking sites.

This can be as simple is searching through Yahoo
Answers for questions on your area of expertise, and
then posting a great answer - along with an appropriate
link to your website or product.

It can be as simple as searching through YouTube for
videos on your area of expertise, and then leaving a
comment along with a link sharing that they can find
more information on the topic at your site.

It can be as simple as using the search engines to
locate dozens or even hundreds of blogs and forums
in your niche, and then interacting with these
communities.

There's only one problem with most of the methods that
I just mentioned. They can be time consuming and labor
intensive. Just locating active communities in your niche
can literally take hours.

I do have a secret. I use automated software to monitor
and notify me of active blogs, forums, and communities
in my niche. I use automated software to notify me when
they are discussing my area of expertise or there is
a new video posted pertaining to my area of expertise.

When I discover a new resource, I then analyze it, and
if appropriate, I interact with that high traffic site,
and leave a link back to my site, which is a perfectly
acceptable practice.

So there you have my secret for generating literally
hundreds of thousands of free hits to even my newest
sites. Of course, your site has to be about something
that people are interested it.

I do strongly advocate using software to automate many of
the mundane processes such as just finding these sites.

Many webmasters really struggle with website traffic
generation, and there is absolutely no need to. You
merely find the huge pools of traffic interested in
your topic, and then you stand underneath the waterfall,
and enjoy the cool, refreshing flow of new visitors.

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Willie Crawford has been marketing goods and services online
since 1996. With very busy websites in dozens of niches, he
teaches that the secret is automating the flow of traffic,
since without traffic you don't really have a web business.
His favorite traffic generation software is at Stealth
Traffic Tools: http://IncredibleWebsiteTraffic.com

Posted by Willie Crawford at June 10, 2008 02:40 PM

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