Increase Website Traffic - Some Useful Tips

Traffic is key if you are going to make any money from your niche marketing sites

Thought I'd let you in on the traffic generating methods I am currently focussed on

Search Engine Optimization
Obviously a must do. A little tricky with the ever changing algorithms though. Looking at the sites that dominate the really lucrative search phrases I have noticed a trend. It seems website age is becoming a really big factor in SEO. Yeah, we knew it was a factor but it seems to have great importance attached to it.

Backlinks
Probably should be under SEO but it's such a big deal it deserves a mention all of it's own. The only links worth getting are links that are likely to last the duration. There really is no point in getting backlinks that will be gone within a week or two. So by all means use your website address in your signature on the forums and in the articles you circulate. But also start writing content on you sites that people will want to link to naturally

Video Marketing
An underutilized resource. And very effective. Video marketing does not mean you standing in front of a camera speaking to your audience.There are so many easy ways to create videos these days its not a big ask. Distribute your videos to the video directories like Youtube and video mogul. If your video catches the imagination, it can go viral pretty quickly. Camtasia is a robust and easy to use video recording software.To use the video to get traffic to your site, you could either watermark it with the URL of your website or add your URL to the more info section of the video

Article marketing
One method I have always used with decent results. Article marketing involves writing good quality articles on some aspect of your business and submitting the article to a reputable article directory. I tend to use ezinearticles because it is well know and the articles there are vetted before publication, but you have a wide variety of options. Again the articles need to be of decent quality, original and share useful information. If the articles are of poor quality, it reflects badly on the reputation of your website. In the biobox or about the author section, you are allowed to include a link to your website. This is great for SEO if the links have the 'do follow' attribute, but also useful for direct traffic if the articles are of really good quality

Social Networking
I'll be honest with you on this one. You need to have spent some time building reputation at the social bookmarking sites before they will send you any traffic. by that I mean traffic that is interested in your content and significant consistent traffic. Make friends at these sites, give useful advice. post useful comments on other peoples profiles. Takes time but really a great way to gt traffic that converts. Again with the social networking sites, a niche focused one has the greatest chance of conversions but if not a popular site like twitter or facebook are decent options