6 Big Steps I Used To Drive Traffic To My Website

Everything that I have learned in marketing online would be hopeless and ineffective if I simply do not know how to drive traffic to my website. I can have all the things I needed such as a professional website, essential tools, mind-blowing softwares etc in my business but nothing beats traffic to my website hands-down.

I realised that my business would fall to the depths and along will the money if I do not focus on this specific efforts.

Getting visitors to my website is indeed tough as there are many others like me who are doing exactly the same thing. Competition is brutal and everyone has a great offer to boot. How would I stand out from the rest? I finally made a stand and used these 6 big steps to drive traffic to my website.

Big Step 1

I decided to rely on search engines to do the job. Well, everyone knows that getting on the 1st page of the relevant search engines such as Google, Yahoo or MSN means for the right keywords means free targeted traffic at no cost! Thus I decided to build popularity links by using the right keywords to achieve this goal.

Big Step 2

I contacted fellow webmasters for potential link exchanges by searching for websites that are related to my website and asking them if it is possible to do a reciprocal link exchange between us.

Big Step 3

I write my own articles and submit them to article directories such as Ezinearticles and usually leave my website links in the resource box at the end. I find this a very efficient way to promote my website as long as I write high-quality content and will appeal to my readers and enable them to visit my website purely because they find it interesting enough.

Big Step 4

I initiated some joint ventures to promote my website; usually promoting a product. Sometimes, me and my partners do ad swapping or link exchanges as well and promote them to our lists.

Big Step 5

I launched an affiliate program for my website. I love having affiliate to do some promotion for me which then allowed me to receive more traffic to my website. This also helps to bring in more sales and I share a percentage of the sales with my affiliates this benefiting both of us.

Big Step 6

I learned that the list is king so I started to build my list of subscribers that I can refer to now and then using autoresponders. I give out great information in the form of newsletters and keep them updated of any changes to my website or recommend them to any others which I feel is useful for them.

Driving traffic to my website has indeed been my focus and I dare say that is the most important thing in your online businesses!