Traffic is King, but this comes FIRST

Visitors to your site are critical - getting them there automatically is even better. Here's how...

But, first...

Before you begin trying to get traffic to your site, you need to do your keyword research first. The reason this is so important is that you are going to be building content and traffic sources for specific keywords. So you need to make sure the keywords you're targeting are worth targeting.
While doing your keyword research, keep the following in mind:

• How competitive are the keywords you're going after? This involves doing some competitive analysis to determine the ease of entry for each keyword
• Will the keywords you're targeting bring buyers? Certain keywords are good for generating a lot of visitors who don't buy anything. What you want is buyers!
• Another thing to think about is affiliates. If you want to build a huge business, you're going to need affiliates to help you. So make sure you are also targeting keywords to attract affiliates.

Although this is an essential step, doing it all by hand can take a very long time. Experts are expensive and don't guarantee results. Which is why practically none of your competitors will do this! If you're smart you will use website traffic software to help you with this process. This will not only speed it up. It will give you better results, as well.

Only then can you start getting traffic

Now that you've completed your keyword research, you can begin using these keywords to get traffic to your website.
Powerful Traffic Tactics:

• Most people overlook the power of Surveys!
• "Traffic Traps"
• Video Websites

Surveys

The truth is that people really enjoy taking surveys and finding out what other people think. And smart website owners know this, so they will include your survey on their site if you make a good one. They benefit by getting free content for their site and you get a link to your site under the survey. Think about that - you get website traffic for free just for making a survey! Using just this one extra idea will put you ahead of your competition . . . who think surveys are for gathering information! So, get creative and make up a survey that's wacky to get other people interested in putting it on their sites.

"Answer" Sites

Sites like Yahoo! Answers allow users to ask and answer each others' questions. However, you're interest in these sites is not to ask and answer questions. You are going to generate traffic, leads and sales from them. Now, you can do this all by hand - visit a classified ads or answers site and one by one copy and paste contact info. But a much smarter method is to use website traffic software to do it for you. These tools put the whole thing on auto-pilot and just deliver the leads to you each day.

Video Sharing Sites

Video is huge and sites like YouTube and Vimeo are extremely popular. YouTube is one of the most highly traffic and search websites on the entire internet! If you're not taking advantage of this rich source of website traffic, then you are really missing out.
And don't worry if you don't have any idea of how to make a video. One super easy thing to do is take an article or website you've written. And use free screen capture software to record yourself reading it. I've even seen software that will automatically convert an article to a video!

In Closing

Figuring out how to get some visitors to your site is not hard at all. It just takes a little time and some ingenuity. You can even use software to automate most of what we've talked about.
Don't waste any more time:

• Do your keyword research
• Next, set up a survey or two with viral appeal
• Make sure to use the "answer" sites
• And don't forget about video