Jul 20 2011
Getting Visitors to your Affiliate Site
Getting traffic to your websites is probably one of the most popular topics in internet marketing. Not just for affiiate sites but for any type of website. It’s a bif topic of its own and we can only just scratching the surface here, but still let’s us look at a few strategies for generating traffic to the Affiliate Marketing sites.
There are only two types of traffic – paid and free. The sources for paid traffic are Google Adwords, banner ads, ezine ads and so on, free traffic is usually comes from Search Engines.
Both sources of traffic have their pros and cons. Free traffic does not cost you any money to get visitors but it takes some work and time to see results. Paid traffic is fast, requires less effort, but it will cost you money. so you need to make sure that your efforts convert and you are making money.
- There are quite of few methods of generating free traffic:
- Article Marketing
- Forum Marketing
- Blog Commenting
- Linkweels
- Guest Blogging
The two critical components to getting traffic to your site are the content on your site and number and quality of backlinks to your site from other websites. By creating high quality original content and building links from reputable sites your search engine rankings will increase over time and you’ll start generating more traffic.
- Paid traffic also has plenty of sources:
- Pay Per Click
- Banner ads
- Cost Per View
- Media Buying
- Ezine ads
The key to success to paid traffic is to start small and test your ads and conversions before you start spending a lot of money. You can look at you profitable ad campaigns as free because you are earning as much or more than you spend.
Another type of traffic, which is really the best type of all is one that you generate yourself by building an email list. If you collect opt-ins on your site and building a list, you can contact people over and over and direct traffic to a new article or offer whenever you want.