Here are 3 top ways to increase online traffic, whether it’s to a website or a blog or an affiliate product. 1. Good keywords. 2. Links from articles. 3. Pay per click ad campaigns.

Let’s look at each in more detail, along with the pros and cons of each.

Firstly, good keywords. This is a free way to increase traffic and is often overlooked by newcomers to internet marketing. By using a keyword tool, you can discover which keywords people are using when they are searching for the type of information or product you are selling/promoting. Some keyword tools can also tell you the level of competition for each keyword too.

As an example, imagine if the website or blog you want to increase online traffic to is on the subject of golf. Using a keyword tool, you will discover that the phrase ‘step by step golf swing’ is the most sought after golf related keyword phrase, at the time of writing this article (higher even than the word golf itself!).

So, this could be one superb keyword to focus on in your blog or website. You might have thought the keywords ‘golf swing’ would be better. But the traffic for that is only one fifteenth of the traffic for ‘step by step golf swing’. You would never have known this however without the use of a good keyword tool! I hope that demonstrates how important it is to use the right keywords. They can make the difference between an avalanche of traffic – or a trickle!

My second top way to increase online traffic is links from articles. Again this is a free method. If you write interesting and relevant articles which focus around the best keywords for your subject – and then you submit those articles to article directories, you create one-way back links to your website or blog.

The articles themselves will help to increase online traffic because other webmasters and bloggers can choose to publish your articles on their websites. So, all their visitors read your article and many will follow the link at the end of the article to your site. However it gets even better, because the search engines will appreciate the fact you have all these back links and you will gradually rank higher in the search engines. Want lots of free traffic? Write lots of good keyword focused articles!

My third way to increase online traffic is with pay per click advertising. As the name suggests, this is a paid method, and you do need a budget to make this work. Search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN among others, enable you to pay for adverts which will appear next to their search results and on websites who have opted to have ads appear. You pay each time someone clicks on your advert.

It’s not actually as simple as it sounds and I recommend you really learn all the ins and outs of this method before you start spending on ads – otherwise you may find your budget has vanished while you are busy making the mistakes that beginners typically make. You are better off investing in good information about this rather than trying to teach yourself and then wasting money on ads that don’t work. Google in particular is very competitive and the costs of clicks can be prohibitive if you don’t learn how to get those costs down fast.

The advantage of the pay per click method as a means to increase online traffic is that once you know what you are doing you can get very quick results. Once you have learned the ropes, you can create an affective full ad campaign in a matter of a few hours, and have sales coming in a short time later.

Also, it’s ideal if you want to drive traffic to an affiliate product and don’t have a website of your own. One top tip is to bid on keywords that are less popular. In other words the keywords that come up lower down the list when you use a keyword tool. The likelihood is you will pay less for these and there will be far less competition. In fact you may get lucky and find keyword gems that hardly anyone else is bidding on.

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