The immensity of the internet as well as the affiliate marketing world has given birth to the fierce competition between affiliate marketers, each of whom has his own great product to offer.
With all the websites piling on top of each other, how would one be able to stand out?
The ten best ways to drive laser-targeted traffic to one’s own website would help those who are bent on sticking it out with this business wherever it is bound to take them.
The best way getting traffic to your website is by supplying good content that the search engines find. Having top search engine rankings is important in building popularity, and keywords are what get you there.
Oddly enough, you can’t always go for the most popular keywords; there are millions of pages with ‘weight loss’ but go for something that a person would type while looking for your site.
Using a longer full phrase, such as ‘how to lose 8 pounds in 4 days’, will get you a better response, if you use the words properly.
Once your website is in the top 10 on the search engine, people find you.
Next are articles. Article writing is a full subject on its own.
In a nutshell: you want to write an article that will be placed high on the search engines.
You can use these articles and then they can be re-used, or published, by others.
This will bring you traffic as long as you build one link to your site in the article and have a biography box, or resource box.
Third in the list is directly contacting other webmasters to exchange links, or articles.
Find websites similar to your own, but not in direct competition. Once you find the websites.
Find a phone number and make the call. Tell the webmaster you already have a link to their site, and let him know where it is. Ask for a link in exchange.
If you can, the next strategy is online audio or video. Design your website to take advantage of these options.
Don’t set your audios to start talking as soon as the reader lands on your webpage. Give visitors the option of listening to you. Audios are great for explaining. An easy replay of an article is also appreciated by many.
Here’s how you can create a traffic generating 7 minute article on audio.
Start off with a 30 second introduction to say there is a free offer at the end of the audio, 3 minutes of conversation on your subject, a 30 second sales pitch to tell people again about the free offer at the end, then the final three minutes on your subject and then the presentation of your freebie. Everyone listening hears about you 3 times in 7 minutes.
The fifth way is through joint venture marketing.
There are multiple JV opportunities for you to pick and choose from. This is a great way to promote your product or a service.
Having a joint venture partner doubles your reach. This lets you hit a wide customer base in a short amount of time.
The sixth is through creating an intern program. There have been more of these on the internet recently. This article covers enough points for each point to be a class in an intern program.
In an intern program the teacher gives tasks that the student completes for the teacher. As an example, the student would do the 5 steps already listed in this article for the instructor. The teacher gains from articles, JV’s, audio or video files, and the student learns how to do them. Then the student becomes a teacher.
Design your site to create a mailing list. This gives you a means of interaction with the people on your list.
Password protect some entries on your blog or website and only give the password to people on your mailing list.
Having a list of subscribers that you can refer to also helps when you are doing your JV or link exchange. Partners and webmasters will ask your numbers, so make sure you have them handy.
Design auto-responders into your website to increase your mailing list.
If you use pop-ups to get visitors to sign up to your mailing list respect them.
Set your pop-ups so that first time visitors get one on their first visit and then occasionally on visits afterwards. Too many pop-ups can be annoying.
Design and personalize a weekly or monthly newsletter. Never let it go more than a month or you will lose touch with your regulars.
Assume that you lose 10% of your regulars if you don’t reach out to them at least monthly.
The tenth is by knowing your market. Design your site so it hits the emotion points your market wants.
Know your market and don’t make your website for yourself, design it for your market.
It is important you target the people who have a special interest in the theme or topic of your website. This way, a solid customer base is going to be created.
Once a potential customer shows an interest in your website by paying you a visit, you must not waste time in showing him it’s worth it.
Design your website for your visitors and watch the traffic grow.
