Effective Ways To Drive Laser Targeted Traffic To Your Website: Part 2 by Shishay Wubshet

In the first part of the article, I have discussed how to drive laser targeted traffic to your website through the search engine using search engine optimization and pay per click marketing strategies and techniques.

In this article, I will show you how to use article marketing, link exchange and affiliate marketing to promote your products or services:

Article Marketing

One-way of driving laser targeted traffic to your site is article marketing. As a web is a source of information, writing and distributing fresh, unique, and topical article will bring customers for your products or services.

Article Marketing helps your business in three ways:

i. Drive Continuous Traffic: Articles distributed across different networks bring continuous flow of traffic to your website;

ii. Build Credibility: Article marketing helps you to build your credibility, which brings trust in your customers making them to buy your products and services;

iii. Boost Search Engine Ranking: If you write and distribute fresh and useful content, they will be syndicated across the net by thousands of websites. This will bring, one way links to your website and boosts your search engine ranking. By boosting the search engine ranking, it indirectly brings you laser targeted traffic to your website through the search engine.

To effectively use article marketing, you have to distribute your articles to high traffic article directories, ezine lists and article announcement lists. Here are some tips to use in your article marketing:

a) Write topical and useful articles; b) Make killer head lines that grab attention; c) Make introduction part of your article, which supports and elaborates the killer headline; d) Make a content that is build around the main topic. Do not try to cheat readers by making content, which is not related to headlines of your article; e) Write a summary of your article making a reader to grab the idea of your article in few words; f) Write resource box that stimulates the readers to take action. You should place the URL of your web site, so that readers leave the article to your website. It is also important to use appropriate anchor text link in your article resource box that can help your website to boost its search engine ranking.

g) Distribute your article to high traffic article source, industry related ezine lists and article announcement lists; h) To get the most out of your article marketing campaign, it is important regularly write and distribute your articles.

Exchange Link with Industry Related Websites

As Visitors coming from industry related websites are important, it is important to exchange links with theme or industry related websites. But, you should be careful with link exchange. Exchange links even with industry related websites could harm your search engine ranking, if the websites you are linking are link farms (a website which exchange links with unrelated industry or exchanging links with FFA pages). Exchange links taking other factors into consideration. Exchange links, in addition to generating targeted traffic, boosts ranking in the search engine.

Affiliate Marketing

Running Affiliate programs from your website is one way of generating traffic to your website. If you have your own products you can create affiliate programs which make others to promoter your website. Using affiliate programs, you can make thousands of websites to promote your website.

If you have good affiliate programs, in addition to generating traffic, it increases link popularity and brand awareness of your website. Increasing, the brand awareness of your website helps your website to get laser targeted traffic thereby increasing customers and profits.

To properly use the concepts and benefits of affiliate programs, you have to implement the right type of affiliate program. The selection of each type of affiliate program depends on your objectives and type of product you have. The affiliate program could be either pay per sale or pay per lead.In Pay per sale affiliate programs, affiliates who promote your products are paid only if they generate sales. While in pay per lead affiliate programs, affiliates are paid if they generate leads.

In order to fully exploit the benefits of affiliate programs, you need proper management. You should regularly update your affiliates on every update of your products, special offers, etc. It also important to prepare attention grabbing banners, text ads, articles, etc. The other important issue to consider is selecting the right tracking software. You have to use tracking software that can track all activities that can help you manage effectively.

Summary

If you want to get more profit from your website you should be able to drive the required traffic to your website. It is, also, important to integrate all traffic generation ways to bring customers for your products and services. You should also note that generating traffic to your website is not a requirement to the success of your business; you should implement strategies and techniques that convert your visitors into buyer.
About the Author

Shishay Wubshet is the owner of Pay Per Click Marketing and has been working online for long time . Shishay has helped several Internet Marketers with proven marketing techniques and strategies. To learn more on how to build a successful online business visit : http://www.pay-per-clickz-marketing.com