Top 5 Traffic Generation Methods Used By Internet Marketing Experts

There is only one thing that matters for your internet marketing business, at least at the very beginning – generating a steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it has zero chance of generating any income. Many internet marketing newbies have often missed this fact and went right into all the technical details of designing a site with all the whistles and bells but no sales!

Ever wonder how does big-hit sites drive massive traffic to themselves? Most of them are spending tons of money investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmicks. This may well be worth the cause as they are what they are now – high-earning and big-hitting websites. But what happens if you do not have that kind of resources for your internet marketing business.

There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to burn a huge hole in your pockets. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.
Here’s 5 top methods used by the shrewd internet marketing experts.

Swap Links
This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in from other sites.
A major pre-requisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as your partner site. There should be a common subject so that there is synergy in the provision of service and information to your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines rank high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the usual costs.

Write and Submit Articles
There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provide free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can write the articles yourself. Otherwise there are many freelance writers whom you are outsource to for a small fee.

Write articles with themes specific to your chosen. And write something that you have expertise on so people will appreciate the value of your content. You are also helping yourself as the expert authority in that niche – branding which is what will set you apart from your competition. Include a resource box at the end of your article with a link back to your site. This is how article writing will help to generate traffic to your site. Instead of simply profiling yourself, try to give an incentive to visit your site like a free report or free trial.

Create a Newsletter
It may sound like hard work because of all the articles you need to create for this newsletter. That is if you have to create them yourself. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name mentioned somewhere in your newsletter, for obvious reasons. This is the reverse of article-writing.

As your newsletter gets circulated around, you raise public awareness of your business and build an opt-in list from the many people who will now visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums
This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with the many online communities and market your website succinctly. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site – targeted traffic!

This is your chance to impress people about your knowledge in the topic of interest – people who are most inclined to purchase from you. As you build your reputation, you are also building trust and rapport and are on your way to widespread word-of-mouth something such communities and forums are known for.

Joint Ventures
This last method will be slightly more advanced as you need to have already established a certain stature in your business or built up a list of a certain size before any one would do a joint venture with you.
What it entails is you talking to potential partners out there serving the same niche market but with complementary products and services to do an email broadcast for you to their mailing list. And have you do the same for them.


Overnight you could literally explode your sales if you are able to convince a good internet marketing partner to come into a joint venture with you, especially one with a quality (and not just quantity) base.