Tips For Getting More Website Traffic

I'm sure you already know it, but getting traffic to your website is something that can be downright hard to do. Especially if you're in a highly competitive niche. To get alot of traffic, you have to implement internet marketing strategies that are proven to work, and that will help you to get the traffic that you're looking for on a daily basis.

Now honestly, I like getting traffic from free advertising instead of paid advertising. With paid advertising, you may have to lose money on each sale just to acquire a customer. But with free advertising, any sale that you get (with the exception of joint ventures and affiliate marketing), is 100% profits.

Now the more traffic you get to your website for free, the more people will buy, and the more of portion of the sale that you will get to keep. With paid advertising, if you're selling a product for $50, and it costs you $45 just to get a sale, you aren't going to have alot of profits on each initial sale. Plus there's a transaction fee from the merchant who is hosting your payment services.

Now sometimes, it can be a good thing to lose money with paid advertising. If you know what the average lifetime value of a customer, you may be happy with losing money on each sale and acquiring the customer. Why is that? Well it's simple really. Let me explain it to you real quick.

If you ever find out that the average customer pays over $1,000 during the lifetime of knowing you and being on your list... losing money to get these customers are insignificant. But if you're new to the online game, you have no idea of what your average lifetime value of a customer is. So you will have to play it by ear, and strive to earn a profit with paid advertising, or at least break even.

So with these things figured out, it's time to put your traffic strategy into motion. There are a ton of ways to get traffic to your website. One such strategy is search engine optimization (SEO). I'm not big on SEO, but I still do it in my business so that I can get the search engine rankings that I'm looking for.

Every week I update my website with more articles and content, because the search engines love new content. You should be doing the same if you want to get more search engine traffic for free. Are you not a prolific writer? Well, you don't have to be. If you can crank out 1-2 articles per day, you'll be on the right path to getting more unique visitors to your website, along with building up an article database that your email subscribers can visit and read.

This will definitely boost your credibility - along with the perceived value that you have in your niche. People will sign up and start interacting with you so that they can get more information from you, and continue to learn from you because you offer such good information.

These tips for marketing your business online are things that are truly valuable, and are things that you should put to use in your business today.

By Randall A Magwood