5 Simple Ways to Increase Website Traffic

Let’s be honest. You simply must increase website traffic. You may have the best looking website with the most relevant and informative content in your niche, but if no one sees it who’s to know it exists?
This article introduces you to five simple ways to increase website traffic.
Safelist Email Marketing:
Our first way to increase website traffic is with safelist email marketing. A safelist is a list of members who agree to receive commercial emails from the other list members. In exchange for receiving those emails, you are able to send an email to the other members. This is a great and often over looked way to expose your website to a large number of people quickly and build your list of emails.
Many marketers make the mistake of trying to make a sale with their email. The successful marketer draws attention to their site with a captivating headline and a valuable freebie.
JV Giveaway Events:
A JV giveaway event is set up by a sponsor who invites marketers to contribute freebies to the online event. The sponsors and contributing members then invite people to come to the event to get these freebies. The visitor gets a good informative report, piece of software, or an Ebook for free. The marketer gets a new potential customer to their site and sign up on their list of emails.
Two keys to the most success with a JV Giveaway event are; one find an event that is either sponsored by a well known name in the industry or has well known contributors. Two is to have a good freebie that is not over used by other marketers.
List Swaps:
ListSwaps are a good way to find targeted website traffic. Two marketers agree to send an email, introducing the other marketer, to their list of followers. Many marketers have very large lists that they will introduce your website to. If your list is smaller, negotiate sending a repeat email to your list or they send to only a portion of their list.
The key to making ListSwaps work is by capturing the new visitors email address so you can continue to contact them.
Blog Commenting:
There are blogs devoted to every niche. Blogs are designed to be more social than conventional websites and visitors usually can add their comments. Bloggers need and want people to interact and have conversations to increase the popularity of their blogs. For you commenting on blogs that are related to your website gives your site exposure.
The key for success with blog commenting is to make your comments valuable. The traffic generated will come to your site because it is interested in learning more from you.
Article Marketing:
Posting articles to directories and other websites are a long term method of increasing website traffic. With article marketing you write and informative article on a topic within your niche and post it to article directories or give it to other marketers to post on their website. At the end of your article you give a little information about your site. People will come to your site to learn more.
Any one of these or a combination will increase website traffic to your site. The key to all of these methods is to do them. Then take time to learn the intricacies of each to maximize your success.

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How To Make Money With Squidoo

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Critical to most users is their ability to make money using Squidoo.com. You can do this many ways. Here are a few common ways users make money-using Squidoo:

-You can use Squidoo.com to gain backlinks to your website.
-You can increase your search engine rankings and send more traffic and hence gain more customers using Squidoo.
-You can use Squidoo.com to build a list you can send promotions to.
-You can promote your affiliate programs using Squidoo.com.
-You can promote your own products and services using Squidoo.
-You can use AdSense and other programs to make money through a simple lens page at Squidoo.

So how do you DO this? It's easy.

It's called Squidoo Marketing 101.

The key to making money and using Squidoo.com to promote your sites is simply setting it up properly.

500,000+ users currently use Squidoo, and this number grows every day.

The simple act of creating a powerful lens on Squidoo can increase your page rank so that your site is ranked in the top 100 on Google and other major search engines.

Squidoo is easy to use because you can use content and advertisements you already have to create a simple and effective lens.

Now remember, your lens is nothing more than an informational webpage. Most lens pages provide expertise on the subject they promote.

You can use lens pages to promote, create top lists of your favorite items or sites if you affiliate market and more. You can review other sites on your lens page and drive traffic to them.

When you create pages on Squidoo you become an official "lensmaster" instead of a "webmaster."

Many people view lensmasters as credible experts in their field.

While some other promotional sites ding people for trying to promote their products or affiliate products on their pages, Squidoo does just the opposite; in fact, it encourages users to promote quality products, including their own (or those they affiliate market).

Of course, you cannot simply set up a lens on any topic and hope for the best page rankings.

As with anything you will need to do some research to make sure you are using popular keywords and marketing in a niche category that is of interest to people.

There are many reasons people do not get sales; their product may not be very popular for example, or their advertising may be poor. They may not have enough traffic to promote enough sales.

So, before setting up a lens page to promote your products, make sure you have a hot niche, one that people are interested in finding more information about, and one people may have an interest in paying for. (Meaning, they will pay for content provided in this niche area).

Some of the best niches to promote include:

- Internet marketing, including anything involving niche marketing, building lists or selling information products on the Web.
- Electronics, including information on MP3 players or other popular music and audio electronic products.
- Diet and fitness, as people are constantly searching for information about losing weight and maintaining a healthy diet.
- Baby or parenting, as many women and moms-to-be actively comprise some of the largest communities on the Web.

If you want ideas about topics that are popular, simply take some time to view the top 100 lenses on Squidoo to find out what people are looking for.

After you do this, and select which of your products or websites are most likely to do well, you have to make sure you have great keywords to use on your lens page, keywords that will draw people to your site and link them to your other websites and affiliate sites.

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