Traffic generation is critical to any website but especially with an affiliate website. The reason being, that you can’t earn anything if you aren’t getting any sales or you aren’t getting any leads. So if you never get any sales, how is that compensated? You don’t have to worry.
First, it’s important to setup a way to capture these potential customers so you can present future offers to your customers. After you capture email addresses from your website, you will have the opportunity to contact them again and again and send them promotional materials.
However, once you get people on your email list, Internet savvy people may delete your emails.days! So a way that you can keep your website topic in their mind and keep them coming back for information is to build an optin email list.
For instance, if you know about a 20 something CEO’s dad who recently lost his job, then you know you can write an article about this topic…
“Why this 20 something CEO is angry with his job and can’t afford the daily bases are the results of his poor job hunting.”
And go ahead a sales offer. You can even write a personal article, a classified ad, or even put a classified on your website.
So now 50% of your visitors will buy your recommendation!
3 Types of Traffic Generation:
Social Media
Content Marketing
Organic Search
Content Marketing has the benefit of being completely free and sure. Just by writing keyword rich content, you can generate Google traffic. The key, make sure that your content is valuable and useful to your targeted audience. You write content that is directed to a need instead of just a headline.
When you have Google ranking, then you can realize the power in the content. Instead of long non-specific content, you should put in more descriptive material with links to your website. Like above, your long content is going to be extremely hard to rank, so you’ll have to be more specific with your content. Now Google will look at your keywords and say “OUGH, this is focused information about this” – and rank you much higher. Now from that ranking, your website will move up in the search engines as a glossier and more PR could keyword rich. Remember, just a few minor adjustments to your content to rank well.
In the case of content marketing, you don’t really have the ability to judge exactly what type of content will work well. A few things you could know about performing well in the search engines are link building, blogging, article marketing, press releases and E-mail marketing.
Link building is important to generating Google traffic, as well as all the other search engines. You want the other search engines to get a pretty good idea of what your website is about, if it is related to them. So first you will want to conduct research on the keywords you would like to have search traffic come from. You also want to be able to link to sites that are related to yours and those that represent the same people in your niche market. For this you will want to find sites that are similar to yours. If you find a site that is not related to your subject, you could be seriously losing out. Also, on the flip side, you still need to make sure that the links you do place on those sites are related to your targeted markets. Search engines also look at the quality of the links and not just quantity.
Content marketing is much easier than content generation. You simply write articles and submit them to some of the more popular online article directors, most of which are free. The important thing here is not to get stuck on the article just yet. So you need to write a few hundreds of articles to see how the flow is.
Articles with good content and keywords attract more targeted traffic, but again the conversion rate is unclear. At this time, compare 100 articles of this and 100 articles of this and you should know the right formula. You are going to want to take all the results, say you get 50% of the traffic for a month, and then after that you can advertise.
Forum marketing is also very effective. First, you need to find top forums that are connected to the market that you are in, and then you need to develop a profile and post several times each day with a chat link you have built or you can however link to the site you want. Forums have a ton of targeted traffic, and also considered one of the easiest as you just need to answer a few questions to get the traffic.
So the entire idea is, you create useful content for the people in your niche market. Provide helpful information and facts that they would be willing to invest their time on.
