Increase Targeted Traffic

Increase Targeted Traffic: Remember Targeted!

You want visitors to your site who are already interested in your site's topic and who are more likely to benefit from your site's content or products. This is called targeted traffic and we want as much of it as we can get.

It's the first ingredient for a successful web site. Below are 5 sources of how to get targeted traffic to your site. You will also see a short explanation of how you can create or put the same practices to work for your own site.



1. Blogs and RSS Feed

One of most effective sources of traffic to my site would have to be my blogs and RSS feeds. I have created simple blogs and feeds for the major topics of my site. These blogs and feeds bring in a great number of targeted visitors to my site.

Get your own site ready and prepared for RSS to take advantage of all this traffic. Just use Google owned blogger.com to create your blog -- it has that all important blog search bar at the top!



2. Search Engine Optimization Strategies

SEO should be your goal! Still the main source of traffic to my site are the search engines. Mainly from Google, followed by MSN and Yahoo. You must optimize your site for the search engines. This includes off-site links and on-site tactics.



3. Article Marketing

This one works. Article marketing for me has been the major reason for the turn around in the amount of traffic my sites were receiving. It's one of the most effective ways to get targeted visitors to your site.

Getting your articles published in ezines and on sites such as addme.com or sitepronews.com will generate an enormous amount of increase targeted traffic to your site.

The trick is to write helpful how-to articles on current topics that other webmasters want on their sites, this will boost your link popularity with the search engines and increase your rankings. You must also very carefully choose the right keywords to target in your articles, matching the content on your site. You must target keywords that have high traffic, yet little competition from competing web sites.

My main sources of traffic from article sites include www.ezinearticles.com and www.articlebase.com.



4. Newsletters

Building a large opt-in list or subscribers for a newsletter is another method that brings in a lot of traffic to my site. You can use a newsletter to offer helpful tips to your subscribers. It is a very easy way to get repeat visitors to your site and build up a relationship with your visitors.

Your newsletter should relate to your site's theme and offer more information on the same. Whether you believe it not, if you operate a site on a particular subject for a couple of years, you will fast become an expert on that subject. People will regard you as such and this will also bring in visitors to your site.



5. Viral Marketing

Another way to attract targeted visitors is to offer a free product or service. I use free brand able reports that visitors can download and use. These reports and ebooks should have links back to your sites.

Similar to the one above, I use other free viral techniques to build targeted traffic to my site. These are products that can be branded with your links and passed around in forums and directories.

To increase targeted traffic to your site is an ongoing struggle for every webmaster. I hope you can try some of the techniques that have worked for me. I am sure they will also work for you.