Targeted website traffic

Dec 7
10:05

2008

Michael John Arnold

Michael John Arnold

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Driving traffic to your website will not get you sales unless it is targeted. Many new marketers make this mistake. They spend a lot of time and money on promotions that simply attract a general market and not necessarily their own niche market. They lose sales, money and valuable time in these useless efforts.

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What do we mean by the word targeted? It means promotions that point to your special market. When you do this your visitors will only be from your own niche market and will be more responsive to your selling efforts. In this way you will get the maximum profits from your promotions.

Here are some methods to get targeted website traffic:

Viral marketing: give away a free gift,Targeted website traffic Articles like an e-book or report and allow your readers to give it away. You will have links in the e-book that will lead to your website. As more and more people read and give away the e-book you will see a steady increase in traffic to your website. The trick of this is to make sure you have an e-book or report that will appeal to your niche market.

Offer an affiliate program to your visitors. When you do this you are in effect hiring many salespeople to drive targeted traffic to your website. The best way to make the most of this is to be sure you offer a good training program to your affiliates. Also give them a two tiered affiliate program that offers good commissions. If you take care of your affiliates they will work harder for you and bring in more visitors and sales.

There are the usual standard ways like; blogging search engine submission and article distribution. All of these methods will work and bring targeted website traffic. Another method is placing small classified ads on related business websites. You can also place them on information sites. This is because visitors to these sites are searching for information and are often interested in new products. Information sites are well trafficked and you can get a number of targeted visitors from here.

Some marketers buy traffic for their websites. This is not always a good idea. As there is a fair amount of cheating that goes on with this service. Firstly you may not get targeted traffic and secondly sometimes the traffic is not even real. You need to look into the company offering the traffic deal to you very carefully. Try to test them out with the smallest package and if possible see if there is any sort of guarantee.

There are a number of companies who will manage your website development and drive targeted traffic to your site. Be careful which ones you select and be sure to research them well. They will save you time and you will get back your initial investment with increased sales.

Building a website to make all this possible is not as hard as you think. You can make it very easy and quick by building mini sites. These are small sites specializing in one product or service. You can get valuable, free, tutorial videos here www.minisitepayoff.com