Simple Ways To Increase Targeted Traffic To Your Website

Anyone with a website or blog has a valid need to increase traffic or visitors to their website. This is especially true if you're trying to build a list, make money from adsense or sell an affiliate product. If you're serious about making money online with your website then this article is for you as I reveal a few ways to dramatically increase the amount of traffic to your website without costing you a fortune.

One of the best ways to create a surge of free traffic to your website is to make use of a blog. You can create a free blog at Blogger.com or you can use a Word Press blog that is usually provided for free with your web host provider. The beauty behind a blog is its ability to attract search engine spiders every time you make a new post to the blog.

Another more recent and extremely popular method to generate traffic to your website is by leveraging the power of a Squidoo Lens. Without a doubt Squidoo is an Internet marketers dream come true. The Squidoo site allows you to quickly and easily create a content filled lens that can be used to funnel traffic back to your own money making website. Another plus is that you can create an unlimited number Squidoo lenses (just make sure to add quality content to them) and Squidoo lenses have been receiving favorable ranking from the king of all search engines ? Google.

Other methods that have been proven to generate traffic to websites include Myspace and to some extent Facebook. I've personally used Myspace to drive traffic to my websites but have noticed a dramatic decline in its ability to generate the amount of visitors it normally did unless you spend a good amount of time cultivating a good list of friends.

If you have the opportunity to spend some money to generate traffic then you can consider using pay-per-click sites such as Adwords. Keep in mind that although Adwords is generally recognized as the best PPC model to use there are several 2nd tier PPC engines that work just as well at driving targeted traffic to your website.

One method that I have found to be extremely effective is the use of a web address in your signature file when posing in a forum. The key to this method is to make sure your web address is on a similar theme as the forum and that your posting provides quality and value and isn't just some way to spam your website all over the place. For example if you have a website that sells rubber stamps then you should post frequently in stamping up forums or if you sell an internet marketing product then you probably want to spend your time posting in the Warrior Forum.

Other methods that cost but have been proven to drive traffic to websites include paying for links back to your site and for a press release. There's no question about the effectiveness of a quality press release. The difficulty actually lies in creating a press release that generates traffic.

My personal favorite free method of generating traffic to all of my websites (over 150) involves the use of article marketing. This technique works best by writing and submitting articles to the most popular web directories such as Ezinearticles.com and Goarticles.com. The key to using this method for maximum effectiveness is to construct a quality article with a killer title and a resource (authors) box that compels the reader of your article to visit your website. Trust me when I tell you that this method can single handedly exponentially grow the traffic to your website.

This article provides a few of the many methods and strategies that can be used to drive more traffic to your website and significantly increase your online earnings.