Boost Traffic to Your Site While Making Money

This article is guested post by Nas.

Most webmasters and bloggers are searching for great traffic nowadays. It is because a great traffic means a bigger potential of sales and benefits from the visitors of their site. Webmasters offer a variety of products, while some bloggers need traffic to increase the potential of earning cash through advertising networks such as Adsense, Adbrite and Nuffang. Traffic is really important for those who are serious in making money online. Traffic will affect the Alexa, Technorati and Pagerank result and these results are important while applying for high-paying advertising campaigns and paid posts.

Traffic is also important for affiliate marketers where more traffic is needed to increase the potential of getting bigger sales. Some affiliate networks such as Commision Junction and Clickbank offer a great income by promoting the products from the advertisers.

Some webmasters and online marketers tend to do spamming which they believe an easier way to promote their links and products. However, this is not a good strategy as spamming is not a suitable way to approach your prospects and it will make them feel uncomfortable. There’s a lot of easy and unique ways, techniques and strategies to boost traffic to your site or links while making money.

Well, let me share some points with you.

SEO & Popular Keywords
Most of us know what Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is so I wouldn’t explain it any longer. SEO is really important to make sure that targeted visitors successfully dragged to your website. Search for the searching trends at Google Trends and search for popular keywords. You also can find the hottest topics through Yahoo! Buzz. Yahoo! Buzz is updated from time to time so take the opportunity to use the keywords related to the topics and watch more traffic to your site.

Viral Marketing
Maybe some of you know about this viral marketing. It’s not about marketing products; it’s a place where you grow traffic to your site just by following the steps! I found a good viral marketing website and it’s FREE to join. How it works? Just follow the steps and your traffic is ready to grow!

1) Click here to go to Free Viral Marketing

2) You can read the article if you want. The important part is scroll down until you find ‘SIGNUP INSTRUCTIONS’

3) Follow the simple and easy steps provided there.

4) After you get your viral link, put it in the sidebar of your website/blog. Done!

Get Backlinks From Commenting on Blog

This is a traditional way of getting the backlinks however it’s the most effective technique to gain more traffic to your site. How? It’s easy. Find a blog and give your comment related to the post. Don’t leave irrelevant comment or the author of the blog will regard your comment as meaningless or even spam. To make it more faster, find the blogs with high Pagerank. You can check a site’s Pagerank through PRChecker.info. The more comments you leave, the more backlinks you got. Also make sure to put also your name, email and URL with your comment or it’ll waste your time.

Social Bookmarking
There’s a lot of social bookmarking and it will be longer to list all of them here. Some of the popular social bookmarkings are MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog, Yahoo! Buzz and Digg.com. I personally suggest BlogCatalog because you could get more traffic from there but don’t forget to do these important things after you get your account:

1) Keep adding friends at least 5-10 per day and visit their blog. Leave your comment related to their posts. Make sure you keep in touch with them so you will get your frequent readers and increase unique visitors to your site.

2) Join the discussions as much as you can and give your personal opinions on the topic that is being discussed. The more opinions you give, the more people will know about you. Try to give your best opinions rationally; the users there will have interest to visit your site, again and again.

3) Put the ‘Recent Viewers’ widget in your website or blog. Most visitors love to leave their footprints at the site that they visit, even if it’s only 5 seconds. So don’t forget to put ‘Recent Viewers’ widget at your website or blog and the visitors will attracted to visit your site.

The Youtube Technique
Youtube is a popular video sharing site where users can view, upload and share video clips. Well, I think you already know that, right? So how we gonna grow traffic through Youtube? Let’s see the steps:

1) Go to Youtube

2) Signup for a new account

3) After you had setup your account, make a video with Movie Maker. Put texts, audio and the image of your product or website there.

4) Before uploading your video, search the popular keywords at Google Trends and Yahoo! Buzz.

5) Put the related keywords and good niche for the title, description and tags.

6) Put the URL of your website or blog at the beginning of your description. If the link is too long (affiliate link usually long), shorten it with TinyURL.

7) Upload your video. Done!

You can give a try by using paid advertising and campaigns such as Google Adwords and any blog that offers area for paid ads, but I think it’s better to try the free and no-risk ways first. Don’t lost hope and frustrated if you don’t success. Try again and again because you can’t assume you can achieve success by trying only once.

Have a nice day and good luck!

About Nas :
Nas is the owner of AloneInHome with the headline of “I am alone. Accompany me”.