The single biggest secret to making more profit from your website is to generate more targeted traffic.
Targeted traffic means the people who visit your site are interested in what you are offering and ideally already pre-disposed to buy.
Unfortunately you can’t just put up a website and hope that people will find it. You have to go through a series of steps to attract the attention of people who are interested in what you have to offer.
Some people want you to believe this process is time-consuming, expensive and complicated.
But there are a few steps you can quickly put in place to turn on a stream of traffic almost instantly.
Here’s a 12-step process you can follow to start generating targeted traffic to your site now.
Step 1: Choose a relevant targeted, buyer keyword phrase
The first step is that you need to identify a suitable keyword relevant to what you are promoting.
The term ‘keyword’ usually means a short phrase rather than a single word. Think about what someone might type into a search engine when looking for information about your product or service.
For example, if you are a chiropractor in Tulsa, your keyword might be ‘Tulsa chiropractor’ or if you are selling diet tools it might be ‘weight loss diet’.
The Google AdWords keyword tool will help you identify the best keywords.
It will give you some suggestions of suitable keywords and will show you which get most traffic. So choose a keyword with good levels of traffic.
Remember you can implement this process as many times as you like for the same website using different focused keyword phrases.
Step 2: Use social bookmarking sites
Social bookmarking sites are set up to help people share websites they think will be interesting and useful to others.
Being featured on these sites helps you get traffic and helps you improve your search engine ranking.
Sites such as onlywire and socialmarking help you automate and speed up the process of letting people know about your sites and other sites you like.
You’ll need to incorporate your keyword phrases in the description. First time you do this it will take some time to set up accounts but it will be easier and faster after that.
Bear in mind that these sites are designed to share valuable information and you shouldn’t use them only to try and sell products.
Step 3: Ping your website using Pingomatic
Pingomatic.com is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated. so you should enter your URL to notify an update to your site.
This can help get your website noticed and ranked more quickly. If you’re using a WordPress blog, it should ping automatically so you can skip this step.
Step 4: Create a blogger.com blog
Next you should go to blogger.com and create a blog using your keyword in the name and in the title.
Then link to your website in your first blog post. This will help get your site ranked and noticed more quickly.
Step 5: Promote Your Blogger Blog
Once you have set up your blogger blog, use the links provided to submit your RSS feeds to sites such as FeedAgg and FeedBase
Then ping your blogger.com blog to Pingomatic.
Step 6: Create And Submit a press release
Create a press release to announce something newsworthy. It needs to have news value but it doesn’t need to be earth-shattering. Then submit it to press release distribution sites such as Free-Press-Release.com and PRLog.org and Press Release Spider.com and I-Newswire.com
Step 7: Submit a short article to zimbio and squidoo
Next thing you can do is go to sites such as Zimbio and Squidoo and create short articles using your keyword.
The sites give you a process to follow to create articles that meet their rules.
Step 8: Create and Submit a video
A video should be a mixture of pictures and audio but it doesn’t need to be a professional production.
You can easily grab some royalty-free images from sites such as sxc.hu – though check the usage rights for each picture.
You can then use software such as Audacity to record an audio and Windows Movie Maker to merge the photos and audio into a video.
When you have created your video, upload it to popular video-sharing sites such as YouTube, Revver and RealPeopleRealStuff.
Step 9: Submit Classified Ads
Submit one or two short classified ads to sites such as US Free Ads and Oodle. You should encourage people to take some action such as going to your site for a free report.
Step 10: Join a forum or discussion group in your market or niche
Join a forum or discussion group on your topic and create a signature with a link to your website. Then go and introduce yourself in the welcome area of the site and add comments and contributions to the discussions. These comments will help you generate traffic and improve your search engine ranking. Focus on being helpful and contributing valuable content rather than promoting yourself.
Step 11: Create a radio show
Next go to Blog Talk Radio and discover how easy it is to create your own radio show.
Step 12: Create a Twitter account
The last step is to create your own Twitter account using your main keyword phrase in the name or profile. Then post relevant tweets and follow people in your niche.
Each of these steps will help you create links and traffic as well as improving your site’s ranking in the search engines.
You don’t need to do them all – and you don’t need to do them all at once.
But each step you take will help you get better results.
For a step-by-step guide where we show you exactly how to implement these actions to get a flood of traffic to your site, check out my Traffic Generation Power online video program.
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