Don’t have enough traffic? Then you won’t have enough opportunities for visitors to perform your most desired action. This action could range from getting your visitor to subscribe to your newsletter or to contact you for more information about your business.

So how do you get that increase in web site traffic you want? There are a variety of ways, both free and paid, to get more web site traffic. You could go about getting any type of traffic, but that wouldn’t help much unless it was targeted. Targeted visitors are more valuable. Targeted visitors come to your site with the right frame of mind. They are hoping that your site will provide them with the information they are looking for.

1. Search engines

Search engines can provide an enormous increase in web site traffic. Search engine spiders can find you through their daily travels on the web. However, it doesn’t hurt to manually submit your site to search engines. And if you want to increase the chances that you’ll be found in search engine rankings, read up on search engine optimization.

2. Link exchanging

When you exchange links with relevant, non-competing sites, you add value to your web site. If your visitors can’t find what they’re looking for on
your web site, your links may help them. And if you have only high-quality links, you’ll increase the chance that your visitors will come back to your web site.

3. Submit to directories

Submit to major directories like the Open Directory Project and Zeal so that your web site becomes more visible. Also submit to themed directories with topics relevant to your web site. Smaller directories may not be too beneficial in terms of web site traffic but they can give you more inbound links.

4. Pay-per-click advertising

Pay-per-click advertising can help you get more web site traffic. Pay-per-click advertising is a popular form of advertising where you pay for an ad to be included in specific search engine results pages. It’s easy to lose money with this type of advertising so get a guide. Pay-per-click advertising can deliver targeted traffic to your site as interested visitors click on your ad. Make your ad specific and bring them to a relevant page on your web site.

5. Submit articles

Write excellent articles about your web site’s topic. Articles can increase your reputation and establish you as an expert in your field. Or they can shine a negative light on you if you submit total garbage. If your articles keep readers interested, then they may want to visit your site for more information.

6. Word of mouth

Tell everyone you know about your web site. If your web site is excellent or stands out from the crowd, the word will spread as more and more people hear about it. If it works, the effect can be huge. So do whatever you can to mention your site in your daily contact. For example, add an email signature to promote your web site.

7. Traffic exchange

You have to be careful with traffic exchanges. Some programs tend to be very untargeted as they simply show pages to members. However, there are programs that can bring in more targeted visitors. Some programs let you show ads so only visitors who are interested will come to your web site.

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Then I began researching the internet for secret
strategies that will help fire up my traffics and sales.

I have the pleasure to offer you these 10 sizzling
secret phrases that will ignite your website traffics and
sales:

1. “Bookmark This Web Site Now”

Tell your visitors to bookmark your web site. They may
see your web site listed in their bookmarks and visit
again. You should also give then a good reason to
bookmark your site.

For example tell them you add new content everyday.

2. “Subscribe To Our Free E-zine”

Tell your visitors to subscribe to your e-zine.
When they subscribe you’ll capture their e-mail address.

Every time they read your e-zine, it will remind them
to return to your site.

3. “Participate On Our Discussion Board”

Ask your visitors to participate on your online
discussion board.

By participating they will meet other people. By
meeting other people, they will revisit your web site
on a regular basis to stay in contact with them.

4. “Sign Our Guestbook”

Ask your visitors to sign your guest book. When people
sign your guestbook you may get valuable feedback or
constructive criticism on how to improve your web site.
This may help you increase traffic to your web site.

5. “Use Our Free Content On Your Site Or In Your
E-zine”

Allow your visitors to use your articles on
their own web site or in their e-zine. Just ask them to
include your resource box. This will spread your
advertising all over the internet.

6. “Refer This Our Web Site To A Friend”

Ask your visitors to refer your web site to a friend(s).

They may know someone that would benefit from
visiting your web site.

7. “Fill Out Our Online Survey”

Ask visitors to fill out your online survey or questionnaire.
You could use it to get valuable feedback on ways to
improve your web site to increase traffic.

8. “Enter Our Contests”

Ask your visitors to enter your online contest or sweepstakes.

People love to win stuff, and they will visit your web site to try.

9. “Give Away Our Freebie To Your Visitors”

Allow your visitors to give away your online freebies to
People that visit your web site. Include your ad on the freebie
and those freebies will multiply your traffic.

10. “Join Our Affiliate Program”

Allow your visitors to make money selling your products
or services. This will increase your traffic because they will
link to your web site.

May these website traffics secrets help you to make a lot of money.

Warmly,

I-key Benney, CEO

I-key, a Millionaire CEO from New York City is the creator of “Mscsrrr: Millionaire Secret Cash System”,(investing online) program, which has helped thousands of ordinary people from all over the world to attain financial security and shining success during the past 2 yrs.

Mscsrrr Millionaire Cash System helps you to generate $1,500+/Week for life, from home or office, part time or full time. No large investment or hassles. Win $1000-$2000 free “cash”.

People make money on the internet each and every day from the comfort of their own home. What is there secret you ask? Simply put, successful web site operators generate vast amounts of web traffic. You can’t expect to make much money off an internet site if you don’t have anyone visiting your site. The top sites on the internet attract thousands even millions of unique visitors every month. Now for you web marketing beginners out there, don’t get discouraged if you’re not currently generating these types of numbers. Getting large amounts of traffic to your web site takes a little patience as well as some work. However, you can certainly get ahead of the crowd if you undertake web marketing strategies that go against the grain of what everyone else and there brother is doing to promote their websites.

The strategy

One successful strategy in particular is to search out web sites that are currently receiving growing amounts of internet traffic and then see whether you can advertise or place a reciprocal link on their site. Why would someone with a high traffic site want to help me out you ask? Well there a few reasons why, firstly money it’s no secret you might have to pay to have advertising presence but in many scenarios it is well worth it. Sometimes for as little as $100 a year you can get a click through banner advertisement on a high traffic website. Another reason why an owner of a high traffic site may want to give you presence on his/her website is specific to the reciprocal link option, links. Having multiple links to a website increase traffic and more importantly help a web site’s ranking in the search engines. Google in particular gauges the importance of a website by looking at the number of quality links to it.

How to get presence

So how do I get in contact with someone operating a high traffic generating website? It’s best to try the ‘contact us’ section of a website. If there is a form, try to make your message to the attention of the webmaster. High traffic websites usually have a webmaster whose responsibility is to manage the banner displays and reciprocal links for a web page. Some high traffic websites will even have an advertising section with rate information. For those that don’t have an advertising section, try negotiating a rate that is comfortable to you. Sometimes it’s best to enter agreements that are month by month or are flexible enough to let you exit the agreement. This way you can see how much traffic your ads or links are getting which will determine the overall effectiveness of the ad.

John O’Toole is a founder http://www.cyberlotexchange.com as well as an online marketing guru.

Then came the paid for surfing, for example you deposit 10$ compulsory surfing of 100 page a day and you would get %2 back each day but such site didn’t last very long as people figure out that owner of such site had to get money invested in their site in order to pay back the surfers, I lost $100 US in one of those program myself.

After that 1 year spawn, came the infamous autosurf, still very popular today, many net users are still doing/working with them tying up their computer for hours at the time in the hope that it will create traffic to their own website and in return will make sale or new affiliates, perhaps build a decent downline for once, in my opinion the major problem with these site is nobody is actually paying attention to them, their machine is doing the autosurf and the so called surfer are actually doing something else, they are doing anything but looking at your website.

With the venue of Window XP and its traditional Window’s quirk and quark IP to IP advertising came in, but this downright SPAM so the serious webmaster do refrain from using such technique, and if you are serious about your website I would recommend you don’t use this IP to IP, I can recommend it because I speak from experience, see I used to own the traffic exchange SailorsTraffic.com but I got shut down by my hosting company because of spam complaint, I was serious about this website, wanted it to become a great one and all, but didn’t have the patience to build it up the right way, thus I paid for it since I lost the site, time and money invested in it IP to IP advertising is not that great.

Thus it brings me back thinking that manual surf exchange are still the best for traffic generator as people actually have to look at your site when they are clicking to get their credit and go to the next site, but after the autosurfing era it seems to me that nobody is doing the manual surf thing anymore, I may be wrong, in fact I hope I am wrong, I just opened a second manual surf exchange www.traffic-renaissance.com and with this one I will use my experience to do better than last time. Yes I am starting from scratch again and hope surfers will come to my site and realize that I am serious about this one and spam is not a word in my web dictionary.

I wish I could offer everyone the perfect way to make money online, or generate free traffic to any website they wish, but I think there is no magic way to do it, this is why I am sticking to what I know work best and it is by owning a manual surf exchange, the best part is since I own it I don’t have to do the surfing.

Thank you for reading this
Sylvain Richard

Owner of Traffic-Renaissance.com

http://www.traffic-renaissance.com

Some of you may not know that dropping a counter onto each page of your website will not only show you the number of hits to that page, but also logs tidbits of important information too.

The following is a list of some of the data that is collected from a stat-counter.

Screen Resolution

Knowing the screen resolution tells you how the majority of visitors view your web pages. For example: If your design is based around 800 x 600 screen resolution, and the majority of you visitors use a 1024 x 768 resolution, you may want to redesign your layout.

Keyword

If a visitor was directed to your site by a search engine, then knowing the search term used will help in optimizing your page around important keywords relevant to you sites topic.

Length Of Visit

This is important that if everyone is showing up to your site, but doesn’t seem to stay, then check for slow loading of you page or some other reason that might turn away visitors.

Enter-Page/ Exit-Page

If your visitors are leaving from the same page they first come to, then you will need to figure out why they are not visiting other pages. Maybe the links to the other pages are hidden by too much clutter, are too small or non-descriptive.

Returning Visitors

This will help you determine which pages your visitors find important. You can then concentrate more effort on those topics.

There are many more tidbits of statistical data a stat-counter can provide, and best of all you can get them for free. Theses services are provided for the benefit of building back links, and in hopes to sell you upgrades.

If you think that a counter looks tacky, you have the option to make it invisible. This will still enable you to collect important statistical data without your visitors seeing the counter itself.

So if your serious about getting more traffic, you must first learn all you can from the traffic you already have, and a free stat-counter is one of the best places to start.

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John Reese stresses the need to track where all traffic comes from and at what cost. It is crucial to know exactly how many sales, newsletter sign-ups, or other leads your particular marketing campaigns generating. This enables you to work smarter and not harder. By tracking all traffic to your site you can make twice as much while working fifty percent less.

Content is King

On the internet, people are searching for one thing……. Content! Load your website with as much content as possible. Then, continuously add content. Search engines love information and they will love your site if you’ve got lots of it. There’s plenty of free content for the taking on the internet. You can load up your site with articles from article directories like ezinearticles.com. Or, you could be like John and use content from the public domain. Or, you can use content that is in the creative commons. This type is now easier than ever to find now that Yahoo and others have come out with a search engine designed specifically for content that is in the creative commons.

I have one site that has around 25,000 pages and receives about 2,500 visitors a day. The vast majority of this traffic comes from the search engines. Are you starting to see how powerful this can be?

An affiliate program is critical to maximum traffic and sales. Lots of internet marketers don’t take advantage of this powerful traffic-generating technique. An affiliate program allows you to have your own personal salesman spread all over the web. The best part about it is that there is absolutely no risk involved but tons of traffic and sales to gain. Your website simply cannot grow to its full potential without an effective affiliate program.

Banner Ads

John Reese advocates the use of banner ads during a time when they are largely an untapped marketing source. Banner ads are one of the most overlooked sources of targeted traffic online.

Also, banner ads are now one of the cheapest sources of targeted traffic. In the late 1990’s during the dot-com boom, people were selling banner ads for $40 and $50 CPM. Then the dot-com bubble hit and these rates hit the floor. You can now buy banner ads dirt cheap, at $1 to $1.50 CPM. This is $1 for 1,000 banner impressions. The key here is to find the perfect place to advertise that will send targeted, willing to buy customers to your site.

Create viral reports that can quickly spread around the internet. This method works best when you have an affiliate program. Allow others to brand your report in order to encourage its distribution.
A quality free report can be a powerful promoter when passed around the internet. This same phenomenon can occur when you submit your articles to article directories and popular newsletters.

Take advantage of your virtual real estate.

Take advantage of the different parts of your website. Don’t let any of your web pages go to waste. You can do this by adding a link to another one of your web sites or pages on your thank-you or sales confirmation pages. If you have articles on your site, place links to related articles on the bottom of the page. The longer you keep a visitor at your web site, the more valuable they become.

It is very important to funnel traffic from within the multiple sites you may have.

Continually seek out other web sites to link to you. Now, we’re not just talking about any kind of link here, but powerful, traffic-generating links from respected sites. Here are some quick suggestions:

Send a related web site an article that you have written and allow them to display it on their website with a resource box at the end. Offer to exchange articles and tell them about the benefits of doing so.

Allow multiple, related web sites to distribute your free e-book or report. All web masters are looking to add value to their web site, why not make it easy for them.

There are unlimited possibilities, be creative!

Online group participation can produce a no-cost stream of traffic and sales.

Get involved in email discussion lists, online groups and forums that are related to your target market. Becoming involved in discussions makes you very credible. Traffic from forums can produce a much higher sales conversion rate.

This method can produce quite a bit of sales for you just by helping others out. Not to mention, you’ll learn a lot along the way.

Alli Ross is the wacky marketing chick at StickyArticle.com , where you can submit your article for free exposure.She also publishes a blog packed with power-packed traffic tips at TrafficOverload .

Just last night, I was driving on Tennessee Ave towards the 10 freeway, and I’m stopped at the light at the Colton Street intersection. It was one o’ clock on a Monday morning and nobody was around. I was tired and waiting there for probably 8 minutes for the light to change to green. Which was probably about 6 minutes too long. But the problem in not simply that light. Many other lights around the city are equally as aggravating on a daily basis.

One stop light in particular, on San Bernardino Ave., has a sensor that changes the color of the light when seemingly a light breeze passes through. I always get stopped there. Even after the light has turned green, if a car is approaching from the intersecting street, it will immediately turn to yellow then red. There are several other lights just like this in the area. I don’t understand why this problem has not been addressed. It’s well-known that website design in Redlands is lacking, but does basic street light maintenance and upkeep have to be lacking as well?