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Thursday, December 06, 2007
I get disheartened when I read forum posts from new online home business owners who have purchased a large volume of guaranteed visitors only to be left very disappointed and feeling that they have just thrown good money down the drain because they received no sign-ups and no sales.
The temptation to immediately start driving traffic to your new online home business I know is very great, but building targeted ongoing traffic to a website is a process that takes time. Sure you can go ahead and start a pay-per-click campaign such as an Adwords campaign on Google, if you know what you are doing. If you are not sure what you are doing, you will only be lining the search engine’s coffers further.
The secret to generating targeted website traffic on an ongoing basis is by naturally building back-links (also known as incoming links or inbound links) to your website. Please note I said building back-links not buying back-links. Buying traffic is not going to add any one-way back-links to your website and buying back-links is certainly frowned upon by Google.
Once you start counting back-links to your website instead of dollars and only use internet marketing methods that naturally increase your back-links, then you will have truly understood what internet marketing is all about.
Buying so called guaranteed visitors is a once-off thing which you will never benefit again from. You will benefit far more by using internet marketing methods that will continue to attract visitors to your website well into the future. You are building an online home business and there is no limit to the building process.
Building takes time, perseverance, persistence and dedication. You can’t cut corners and expect to build your home business online in a week or month and generate massive targeted traffic and create online income in a short space of time.
The exciting part about traffic building is that the most highly effective methods can be totally free if you are prepared to put in the daily consistent work. Remember, that if you were building a brick and mortar business you would also have to work consistently on a daily basis.
Ideally you need to start driving targeted traffic to your online home business from different sources. By that I mean different search engines, ezines, blogs, web directories, forums and other websites.
You can do all this virtually for free.
Firstly, the most important thing is to own your own domain name so that you can optimize your website for your chosen keywords. If you are already promoting a number of affiliate links you could add them all to one website, even have a separate web page for each affiliate opportunity and optimize each web page with different keywords.
Having your own domain will enable you to continually build back-links and add fresh content to your website and these actions will see your website appear in the organic search engine results. In other words, your website will receive free targeted traffic.
Now that you own your own domain, the next step before you even start thinking about generating targeted traffic, is to learn html so that you can optimize your website with your chosen keywords. Search engine optimization is not difficult, it just takes some time and concentration and it is something you are going to be continually working on to keep up with your competitors.
Then start writing and submitting articles based on the theme of your website with your keywords hyperlinked to your website in the author’s resource box. This method of article marketing builds one-way back-links to your website, which are crucial in order for your website to gain good positions in the search engine results. Try and write and distribute at least two articles a week.
Your articles could end up in ezines that are distributed to hundreds of subscribers. All it takes is for an ezine editor to choose your article from one of the directories you have submitted to and include it in their weekly ezine to their entire optin list. Other websites may also select your article to publish on their website or blog to add content.
Once you have submitted a few articles and start to become recognized you could be invited to become a guest author on one of the authority sites, which will also attract targeted website traffic. Not that the authority sites endorse your website, but the sheer fact that you are featured will add credibility.
Article marketing can be totally free if you have the time, or you could use the services of a ghost writer to write unique articles for you and pay for an article submission service. I would recommend that you write your own articles and submit unique copies (change the original by at least 50% and target different keywords with each copy) of them yourself to high PR article directories so that you can ensure that your author’s resource box correctly reflects your targeted keywords.
Also by personally joining each Article Directory that you submit to gives you the opportunity to complete your profile where you can hyperlink your keywords to your website and build more back-links.
When joining a forum you have the opportunity to create a signature under the Profile section and here too is the opportunity to hyperlink your keywords to your website to build back-links.
By submitting your website details to quality, SEO friendly web directories is not only another way of building back-links but another way that targeted visitors can find your website.
These methods, although highly effective, take time to take effect. But you are using internet marketing methods that will build streams of targeted visitors for months if not years to come.
Remember – count back-links, not dollars. Strive to increase your back-links daily and automatically you will start generating targeted website traffic.
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Author: Cynthia Minnaar
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Cynthia Minnaar is the owner of www.cyns-home-biz.com, the online home business site for online home based business startup ideas, income opportunities and internet income training. You can start your own online home business with your own domain name and launch 6 automated streams of residual income today.
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Re: Online Home Business Traffic Generating Secrets - By Cynthia Minnar
hey I really like the youtube videos! thanks!
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