Traffic Generation - Methods To Avoid

Traffic Generation - Methods To Avoid

There are many ways to get traffic to a site. You will most likely do research to find out about those traffic generation methods.

Methods such as article marketing, forum marketing, pay-per-click advertising, social networking, blogging, and social bookmarking all work very well.

But in the world of Internet Marketing, there are also traffic techniques that you should avoid, for various reasons.

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with traffic techniques you should avoid”

1.         First, do not ever pay for traffic from a site that promises you a great deal of traffic in a short amount of time. The traffic that you get will not be targeted, and will be of no use to you at all. The same applies to traffic exchange sites.

In fact, many of these sites are scam sites, and the traffic that you get will actually be automated traffic, not real traffic. Pay-per-click advertising, or PPC as it is known, is not the same as these sites that promise traffic for a fee.

Go to Google and do a search for “buy website traffic” and make sure NOT to buy from any of those, because this is useless traffic -  that in the end will get you banned!

2.        Do not spend hours, or even use automated software to submit your site to free classified ad sites or free for all link sites. This only results in lots of spam for you. It does not result in traffic.

3.         Don’t use pop ups. People hate these, and most people now have software installed that keeps pop ups from popping. Avoid other irritating elements on your site as well, such as blinking text and music, and colors that clash. Your visitors will hit the back button in one second flat! Besides – popups are against the Adsense TOS.

4.         Don’t use false statements or exaggerated statements in your advertising.

This may get you visitors, but it will irritate them, and they won’t click on links.

 

Instead, they will either close the browser, or hit the back button. You may not be selling anything, but this is false advertisement none-the-less, and

it makes people very angry.

There are two huge mistakes that many newcomers make:

1.        The biggest is doing nothing at all. You can build a site, but if you don’t advertise it in anyway, you are not going to get a drop of traffic. The old quote “Build It And They Will Come” does NOT apply here (Ref: the Kevin Costner movie “The Field of Dreams”)

2.        The second biggest mistake is not tracking your advertising. If you don’t know what works, and what doesn’t, you will be wasting time and possibly money.

Track all of your advertisements to see where your traffic comes from, and where it doesn’t come from. In the end, you will be happy that you did.

These other outdated methods simply do not work. They are not worth your time, effort, or money. You need to know where the traffic comes from, and you also need to know how well your ads are performing.

You may have a great amount of traffic, but very few clicks. It’s important to track the traffic and the ad performance, so you know what to fix!

Overall, that’s all that you need to avoid. Other than that, you need to make sure that you are using proven site promotion techniques, many of which are listed in the coming sections…

Traffic Generation - Article Marketing

Traffic Generation - Article Marketing

If you have an Adsense website, you need traffic to make money from that site! There are numerous ways to get traffic, but since we all have limited time, you want to cut right to the chase, and find out what works. Article marketing is one of the best traffic generation methods you can use.

Article marketing is a very successful and easy concept. It is used by all successful Internet Marketers, and when it comes to website promotion, you must look at things from an Internet Marketers point of view, even though, as an Adsense publisher, you aren’t exactly selling any product.

Again, the concept is easy. You write a short article, approximately 400 words long. At the bottom of the article, you write an ‘author’s resource box.’ This is just a simple paragraph of text that says who the author is, gives a little background info on the author, and most importantly - a link to the author’s website. It’s about five to seven sentences long.

Once the article is ready, you visit numerous article directories, which are also referred to as article banks and article repositories, and submit your article. That’s all there is to article marketing.

Now, many people use these article directories. They go there to find information, or to find content for their own websites, blogs, or newsletters. The article that

you submitted is free for them to use, as long as they publish it with the author’s resource box intact, and they don’t make any changes to the article.

Because so many other people can (and will) publish your article elsewhere, it becomes viral. This drives traffic to your site, on a continual basis. But one article submission is not going to be enough. You need to be submitting one article per week, to at least the top ten article directories.

Note that there are faster ways to get traffic, but article marketing is free, and again, the traffic that you will eventually get from the articles being published is fairly steady.

Here are five important tips for article marketing:

1.         Don’t use the same content that you have on your site. Your site could end up getting penalized for duplicate content, so you better spend an 20 minutes or so to rewrite it.

2.         Before you write your first article, visit one of the popular directories, such as Ezine Articles at http://www.ezinearticles.com/ to see what yourarticle should be like. You can also get ideas for your author’s resource box here.

 

 3.         Writers Block? Lack of time? Use PLR articles, or hire a ghostwriter to write and submit articles for you. Make sure that you are submitting one article per week! If you use private label rights (PLR) articles, make sure that you rewrite them prior to submitting them.

4.         Make sure that the topic of your article matches the topic of your site, and the topic of the ads that are being displayed through your Google Adsense ads. This will get you the best results.

5.         Use your keywords in your article. This is search engine fodder; it drives the article up in the search engine results, which in turn brings more traffic to your site.

Don’t expect immediate results. Sometimes, it takes the article directories several days, and in some cases, several weeks, to publish your article. You need to be using additional traffic generation techniques as well.

Even if you aren’t seeing results from your article marketing techniques, keep at it. Remember, it takes time for it to ‘kick in,’ but when it does, it is well worth the effort.