Get My Free Internet Marketing Tips Newsletter And Download Two FREE E-books! (Real $97 Value)Three Easy Ways To Get Free Website Traffic
Getting more traffic to a website or squeeze page is one of the biggest challenges for most internet marketers and affiliate marketers.
Read on to discover three easy and effective ways to get more free website traffic to your website and make more sales.
Traffic Method # 1 - SEO
If you are an established webmaster, you likely already know what SEO is. If not, you need to familiarize yourself with it right away. SEO, which is also known as search engine optimization, may have an important impact on the success of your website, even its failure.
The goal of search engine optimization (SEO) is to increase your search engine ranking. Having a high search engine ranking increases your chances of seeing traffic from search engines.
Search engine optimization encompasses a number of different methods, but one of the most important is content.
You need to have content on your website; it is what search engines and real people are looking for!
You will also want to do some keyword research to find out what people are looking for online - what keyword or phrase they are tyoping into the search engine.
There are many free tools to do keyword research online.
Try Google’s External Keyword tool. It will enable you to determine what keyword phrases internet users are searching with.
Using those keyword phrases on your website is needed to increase your website traffic from the search engines for those keywords.
Traffic Method # 2 - Article Submission
Have you heard of article directories before? Article directories are websites that act as hosts for collections of articles. One very popular article directory site is www.EzineArticles.com.
Article directories often contain a large collection of articles, sometimes even millions of articles. In exchange for you providing your content to their site for free, article directories will allow you to insert a link at the end of your article for free.
This link should direct readers to your online website, namely the page that outlines the affiliate products that you are selling. Not only
will it help to increase your website traffic, but your sales may also increase.
The more articles the better….more articles means more links going back to your site…and more readers you can attract. It all spells more traffic for you! You should set a goal for yourself, like submitting at five articles a week.
It is also important that you create content that is relevant to your website. If it is not, your readers might not click on your clink; thus defeating the purpose of submitting to article directories.
A lot of beginners and serious affiliate marketers use articles to market their websites. This is also known as Bum Marketing…because it’s free and anyone who can type can do it.
Traffic Method #3 - Blogging
Over the past few years, the popularity of blogging has skyrocketed. In addition to personal blogs, a large number of online businesses are now relying on blogs to help increase their website traffic and you can too. Blogs are nice because you are given choices.
You can create your own, free blog (www.wordpress.com or www.weebly.com) or you set a blog up on your own domain name and web server.
When creating a blog, you need to choose a tight topic to write about. You can create your own content, which may include articles, product reviews or recommendations. In fact, you don’t even have to write your own content.
You can use content from many free article directories; many will give you free usage rights (the piolicy is that you must keep the resource box in tact when you use it). Speaking of article directories, if you submitted your own articles, you can even use them for your blog.
The traffic you get to your blog can be monetized by places advertisements around the blog in the form of banners and text links. Blogs are very flexible these days so you can have just about anything you want on them.
But remember to update your blogs often with new content so people and search engines keep coming back to your blog.
Well, there you have three easy and effective ways to get free website traffic.
These three however, are a few of the easiest ways that you can go about increasing your website traffic. With a small amount of effort, you can easily see an increase in website traffic and in turn sales, in what seems like no time at all.
To your E-biz success!
Rich Affiliate Marketer Vs. Poor Affiliate Marketer
There are two types of affiliate marketers online. The Rich Affiliate and the Poor Affiliate.
The poor affiliate is poor because of a few reasons but this short article reveals an important reason why.
If you want your affiliate business to really fly, don’t treat it like a hobby.
I believe this is one of the primary differences between rich and poor affiliate marketers.
Lots of the poor affiliate marketers blame their lack of knowledge, most times technical knowledge, for the failure of their business.
They tinker with this and that, but never really get serious with one thing to make it their “business”. They just fluff around. 
The poor affiliate marketer has no strategy, no systems, no goals and no tracking.
In fact, there is very little about what they are doing that even suggests they are running a business.
I get to meet and chat with lots of different affiliate marketers. From folks who are yet to make a dollar, right through to Uber affiliates who are making 50k+ profit a day.
One of the striking differences in these two different types of people is the way that they treat their business.
There are some guys I know that are doing 7 figures a year and can barely write a line of HTML.
That doesn’t matter to them. They know that Donald Trump is a lousy tradesman. They know that they don’t need to be good at everything. They understand that they are just the captain of the team.
They orchestrate their business by leveraging their time to the maximum by using planned methods and systems to grow their businesses.
Think wisely about your affiliate business. Treat it like a business and not a hobby. The more serious you think about it and more effort you put into it, the better and more profitable it will become for you as an affiliate marketer.
For more affiliate marketing lessons and smart strategies for raking in the big commissions check out the great value Master Affiliate Secrets report.
Stuart Stirling
www.StartMyebiz.com
