7 Best Ways To Get Lots Of Traffic

A. Ezines

METHOD #1: place paid ads in relevant opt-in ezines

Advantage: Quick results (but track them to know which produce results)

Disadvantage: Costs Money, can give a burst of traffic when you ad runs - but it's usually a short term burst.

METHOD #2: write articles for other people's ezines.

Advantage: Reasonably quick results (but a slow burner if you simply place articles in directories and wait for them to be picked up), doesn't cost money

Disadvantage: You need to write articles that people want to publish (study your market!), can give a burst of traffic when you article runs, but it's usually a short term burst, doesn't cost money (but does cost time)

METHOD #3: joint venture (basically you pay ezine owners a percentage of sales they generate for you).

Advantage: No upfront cost, reasonably quick results

Disadvantage: You need your own product, you need some method to track which ezine owner generated how many sales, only strongly amenable to certain types of products, can give a burst of traffic when you JV runs - but it's usually a short term burst, tough for a new marketer to get JV partners.

METHOD #4: pay per click search engine listings.

Advantage: Quick results

Disadvantage: Costs money

I recommend FindWhat, Overture and Kanoodle as the best of the bunch.

METHOD #5: search engine optimization (get a good position in free listings in Google and elsewhere)

Advantage: Free, and keeps on going

Disadvantage: Takes a long time.

Hint: Three most important things are (i) Your page title, (ii) The other content of your page, and (iii) Having lots of relevant sites link to you. For the last one, you need to come up with some reason/strategy to build up lots of links to your site and for other webmasters to link.

METHOD #6: Get your name in the news (not necessarily national news, could be local press or specialist press dealing with your topic). press releases, publicity, that sort of thing.

METHOD #7: Local marketing (to your local area). This could overlap with #6.

I don't have any experience of doing this one myself, and obviously it works better for some products/services than others.

For example, if you have a niche product that only say 100,000 people in the world have a use for, and you have 1,000,000 people in your local area, there's only going to be a maximum of about 167 potential customers in your local area. Whether in this example, the 167 is worth pursuing directly, obviously depends on your profit margin per customer (for example, if you were only making $10 per customer, and you're in such a niche market, local advertising is probably never going to cut it).