A is for Advertising

If you’ve been involved in internet marketing for a while you’ve no doubt heard that traffic generation is of the utmost importance. What few marketers realize is that getting visitors to your website isn’t enough. Your visitors need to be targeted to your message. They need to have a problem that your website is going to solve. How do you get your site in front of it’s intended audience?

We’ll start with three highly effective methods that have been proven to target traffic to my websites. Follow the guidelines and they’ll work for you too.

Forum Marketing

This is a proven technique for targeting traffic. It is extremely effective and can work very quickly if you follow the guidelines.

You have to build trust and relationships. You do this by contributing value to the threads (ongoing conversations). Members can then decide if they like and trust you and if they do they will be more inclined to do business with you and visit your website(s). With a few hundred posts, newbies will start to see you as an authority in the forum and they will be more apt to do business with you.

Article Marketing Method

Yes, while it will take some time and you’ll needs lots of articles, this is still a premier method of getting targeted traffic to your website. You’ll need a plan and you’ll need to stick to it.

Select the top 45-50 long tailed keywords that you want to rank for. Write one article for each of your keywords. Have each article rewritten a couple of times so that each article directory you have decided to submit to will get a different version. In your resource box you should be using the anchor text that you want to rank for and point to a deep page within your site. Your rewards will be targeted visitors, backlinks from article directories and publishers that are using your articles and a higher ranking in the search engines.

Video Marketing Method

This one works extremely fast. So be ready for the onslaught of traffic. Record a video no more than 3 minutes, preferably 2 minutes long. If you’re camera shy and don’t want anyone else in the video, do a powerpoint presentation with audio.

On the bottom part of the video, watermark your URL. Hopefully it’s your domain name and not some 65 character affiliate link. If you want to direct the viewer straight to the merchant sales page then get a domain name and redirect to your affiliate link.

Don’t know what to record? Heck read a free report that’s relevant to your niche… I’ve heard of a guy who read the sales page of the product he was promoting. Be creative but keep the video short.

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