Website Traffic Report
We need to keep an eye on our website traffic report in our analytics tracking software and monitor it regularly to optimize it in our favor. We know to make money in this game we all need traffic and plenty of it please. Yes send me some traffic and I can become a millionaire ( that wasn’t a joke, really send me some traffic, please). Now you would not think it was that difficult to get some traffic, but this is what most would be Internet entrepreneurs find the most frustrating part of their online business, traffic generation.
It takes time and effort to get it, but once you start getting traffic in the thousands you can order that new BMW. You can start living that Internet Marketer lifestyle that you see these online Guru’s enjoying. So is there a big secret that these Guru’s are holding back from us, do they just give us the little morsels of traffic generation ideas and are they keeping back the real killer technique that they guard with their life and keep amongst themselves.
Well no they have no real secret, just persistence in their methods, and this is why they become so successful online and make so much money. A lot stumble upon something that works for them in a certain niche and then because of their success enter the make money online niche to share their successful system with the world and of course make some more money in doing so, which there is nothing wrong with, but success always boils down to traffic and the more you get the more you can earn.
Most Guru’s say the money is in the list and that is true, but you will not get any subscribers to your list if you have not got the traffic in the first place for people to opt in to your list. So it always comes back to volume of traffic that determines how much you can earn online.
Should we implement all the traffic building strategies that are brought to our attention or should we just concentrate on one or two of these strategies. We have commenting on other related blogs as a traffic strategy or answering questions on related topics at yahoo answers. We have article marketing, social bookmarking and many SEO techniques on and off site. But will doing all of them help our goal at getting the traffic we strive. There are many more ways than the few I have just mentioned at generating traffic and they all work to some extent.
To get the traffic we strive, first off we need to keep original quality content flowing on our sites, the search engines love it and over time will get the favor of good search engine rankings which will send a good amount of traffic. But as for all the traffic generation methods that we learn, they are up to us to try out, some work better than others and in my experience they all work at different levels in different niches. One niche I am in, responds very well to social bookmarking where as another niche has got very minimal traffic from the same effort of social bookmarking. I have one niche that seems to favor YouTube videos as its main contributor to traffic. But my most successful overall traffic generation method seems to be article marketing, this can be time consuming as you have to write a lot of material, but once written, each article gives your site a couple more back-links which are in favor with the search engines plus they expose your site to many potential readers.
The way to find out what is working best for your site or sites and this can mean different methods that work better for different sites, is to keep a check of your analytics, track and check and check again and again where the best results are coming from, it is an easy thing to check and can be such an important resource to your online efforts. When you see a good amount of traffic coming from a certain source as a result of your efforts then pounce on it and do more of it and see that traffic grow.
So to conclude, when you launch a site to the Internet try all the different traffic generation techniques and track their results, if you see one or two different methods bringing in the bulk of your traffic, then pounce on those techniques and multiply your efforts in those techniques and you might just start to see the traffic quickly multiply and that means as long as you have got your site well monetized your earnings will also multiply.
Traffic generation is not difficult, it is not rocket science, it is just time consuming finding out what works for your sites niche and also frustrating when you can’t find the traffic trigger, but keep at it, be persistent in your efforts and you will eventually reap the rewards. Hey you might even end up as a GURU.
