One thing that constantly bugs me about many of the products that get released is that they don’t tell you how to bring traffic to your site. You get a large e-book that tells you how to build an amazing site but not one chapter on traffic generation
When I was starting out I spent lots of money on site building tools and keyword tools and nothing on learning how to generate traffic. I now know how stupid that was. The tools might have been the best in the world but without traffic the end results were worthless.
If you go to Google or yahoo and look at the bottom of the search listings you will find some really great looking sites. But languishing down there they don’t earn any money or get visitors so there was no point in building them. If you go to any of the forums where you can buy sites you’ll see the most popular questions are how much money does it earn? and what is the traffic? You can make any site with good quality traffic earn money. So always look for site with traffic rather than income.
If you concentrate on learning how to generate traffic to your sites you’ll be able to launch sites in the certain knowledge of being able to make them profitable. I run a membership site and was creating some traffic videos only yesterday. I tried something I’d never done before and discovered that it got my site indexed in Google in 18 hours.
This was something I hadn’t even considered using before. Saying I was impressed was would be a bit of an understatement. But imagine my shock when I tried it on a new site this morning and had reference to my site showing up in Google 3 hours later.
It’s not surprising that the method I used isn’t listed in any manuals or e-books. Search engines constantly change the weighting they gives sites. it wasn’t long ago that Squidoo was the most important place to have a link to your site, that’s not the case anymore.
One great method of seeing what services and sites are worth putting your links on is by looking at Internet marketing niches. Internet marketers have never been slow in finding the best ways of getting indexed. Look at what sites are ranking for various search terms. If you find a web 2.0 site or a blog site test it on your sites and see how it performs. If it gives you results add it to your list of traffic generators.
By constantly monitoring whats working and what isn’t you’ll soon build up a list of good sites. When it comes to launch a site use these sites to generate traffic and to get your site ranking high for your chosen keywords.
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