Five Most Effective Traffic Generation Techniques

1. Guest Blogging

It was only after a few months of my starting blog that I heard about guest blogging. The concept of guest blogging was still new then, and I was awed by the kind of traffic other bloggers are getting just by writing a guest post for another blog. I started guest blogging after that, and the result has always been great.

My first guest post on another blog sent me around 50 visitors the week it went live, and after a few months of learning how guest blogging works I submitted a guest post to an A-list blog, and that guest post resulted in over 1,000 visitors the day it went live. Ever since then, I have decided that guest blogging will be an integral part of my marketing approach.

2. Email Marketing

If you’ve been in the internet marketing space for anything more than a few days now you will have heard several times over that the money is in the list. If you haven’t taken that saying serious before, then I’d also like to tell you that the traffic is in the list. Yes, you heard that right. For several months over my email list has been one of the top traffic sources to my blog. Whenever I publish new content the first thing I do is send a link to it to my list, and in a matter of minutes the article will have gotten enough traction to make it go viral. Building an email list can be a great way to get in touch with your readers repeatedly, while at the same time creating an opportunity for your blog to be successful

3. Search Engine Traffic

I’ve always been a fan of optimizing a website to take advantage of search engine traffic, and I have good reasons for this. As far as traffic generation is concerned, guest blogging on a top blog will only send you a spike in traffic for a limited time, sending an email to your list will only send you a spike in traffic for a limited time, and both of these tasks have to be done repeatedly for maximum results. This isn’t the case with search engine traffic, and you can easily optimize your blog for the search engines once and reap the rewards later. Google currently sends around 15,000 visitors to my blog every month, and this has been the only source of traffic that is constant without me doing anything.

4. Interviewing Top Experts

This is another tactic I love and have used to great advantage on my blog. You can easily get more traffic and readers to your blog by interviewing experts on related subjects and asking them to share the interview on their favorite social media site. Most of these bloggers already have an impressive following, and if you can ask them interesting questions they will want to tell their readers about it.

Another approach you can follow is to ask a group of bloggers a single question, and then compile all their answers on one page and ask them to share it. Most of the bloggers will be honored to see their name included alongside their blogging heroes, and as a result, they will want their followers to see it.

5. Social Media

People have been saying it for years now that social media is the future of the web, and I can see social media starting to have more influence in the lives of individuals. Facebook is currently the 5th top traffic source to my blog ever, and is always one of the top 10 traffic sources to my blog every month. Twitter is also the number 10th top traffic source to my blog ever, and it also sends quality traffic to my blog every month.

Social media is becoming increasingly important, and as marketers and bloggers we shouldn’t ignore its importance. If you can learn and master how to use social media for your business, you will start noticing significant difference in how much traffic you’re getting.

5 Reasons Your Business Should Use Social Bookmarking

Author: Rumal Choudhury

 Have you ever sent a friend or colleague a link to a website that you thought was interesting or useful? Perhaps something in the news, or an article you’ve read that you wanted to pass on. That’s social bookmarking and it’s a great tool to use to promote your business on the Internet. But how?
There are many social bookmarking websites across the Internet. These allow users to create connections with other users through the content they produce. Say that you write a blog post or article for your business, you can give the option for other people to share it using one of the main social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon. Those articles/blogs/content that are quickly bookmarked by lots of people, rise to the top of the Social Bookmarking sites and suddenly you have lots of interested traffic going to your website.
1)Instant Traffic
Articles that get more than 25 votes within the first 15 minutes of being on a site will quickly rise through the ranks of the social bookmarking website. If the articles or blogs that you write for your business end up on the first page of one of the main social bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon, you’ll get a vast amount of traffic instantly. That’s got to be good for business!
2)Referrals and Recommendations
Social Bookmarking is a great way to get attention from a diverse audience of potential customers or clients. Users can look at each other’s bookmarks and this creates a sort of social referral system. Users can also recommend content to each other and the more recommendations that your content receives, the higher it ranks. Again, all this referring and recommending brings more traffic to your website.
3)Backlinks
Google and the other Search Engines love quality backlinks from popular websites and backlinks that come from the top Social Bookmarking websites. Social Bookmarking encourages people to spread the word about your content and spread links to your website along with it!
4)Discussion and Feedback
Discussion of your article promotes the contribution of content to your website. It allows you to hear what people think about your thoughts and ideas too and that encourages further discussion. All of this interaction creates SEO-friendly content that will help you to attract more visitors to your site!
5)Free Promotion
Social Bookmarking really helps to promote your business. But best of all, it’s completely free. All you need to do is add content and you can add as much or as little as you want. Your only limitation is the amount of time that you have. People talking about your articles, blogs, videos or podcasts is good for bringing other people to you, and again, that’s free and it’s great for business.
Social Bookmarking is a free way to create tons of instant traffic and gain great SEO value through the content that you create. When you create high quality relevant content, you get high quality relevant traffic.
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About the Author

Rumal Choudhury, Internet Marketing Mentor, Success Chief. Helping people make all their dreams come true, and making vast sums of money online. For more information, check out http://www.xtremewealthmaker.com