Generating traffic to your website is the lifeblood of your online business. Fresh, targeted, regular traffic puts your business in front of a motivated audience, and builds credibility and authority for you in your niche. In short it establishes a presence in your industry.

Traffic drives sales and sales drive profit, but only if it is targeted, relevant traffic. Non targeted traffic may be an ego boost, but doesn’t put any more money in your pocket.

A problem many new marketers and entrepreneurs face is limited time and/or money. Sometimes it seems as if just getting their business off the ground will use up all available resources, before the first sale is made. They struggle to develop effective marketing campaigns because of the time or money required to develop and maintain the momentum that ongoing traffic funnels bring.

The good news is there are several ways of generating prime traffic to your websites without having to spend a lot of time and money in the process. As a bonus, many of these techniques will continue to work automatically, pulling new the traffic to your site, as you move on to other things!

There are five powerful, free or inexpensive strategies for generating mass traffic to your websites.

Article Marketing

Video Marketing

Free Download Sites

Press Releases

Link wheels

Article Marketing. With article marketing, you simply create keyword-rich content, submit it into the popular article directories and wait for traffic to start flooding your site. Article marketing is one of the more time intensive strategies, but the long term benefits are powerful. I have articles I placed for other businesses that are still driving traffic five and six years later.

For a successful article marketing campaign make sure your Author\’s Resource Box, which is a short author bio attached to all of your articles, has a call to action. The largest of these sites is http://www.ezinearticles.com

Video Marketing. Nothing beats the power of an interactive video to convey your message, get your audience excited about your offer, and leave an everlasting impression with your target customer base. Think about it. When you go to a web site do you want to read it or have played for you? This does not have to be a Hollywood production. Your written articles with some graphics and voice over will do.

Free Download Sites. One of the easiest ways to keep your targeted, fresh traffic funnel filled is by uploading a free (or low cost) product to popular download sites. The products can be eBooks, software, graphics and images, music or a variety of other things. What products do you offer that can be used here?

One of the biggest of these sites is http://www.TradeBit.com.

Using Press Releases. Press releases can spread your marketing message, very quickly, deep within your niche. Best of all you can develop a press release campaign absolutely free. You can choose to pay for premium service once you\’ve tested the effectiveness of a free campaign.

The objective of a press release is to submit \”newsworthy\” content. You must write your release as if you are introducing a new service, submitting important news relevant to your market or making an announcement involving your website. It is not a sales letter.

One press release site is http://www.PRFree.com.

Creating Link Wheels. Link wheels are one of the easiest methods used in order to create massive amounts of back links, as well as solidify a higher ranking based on your keywords in the search engine rankings. In a link wheel site a connects to site b, which connects to site c and so on. Your links should all flow in one direction to the site you want to get the highest page rank and most traffic.

These techniques work, if you\’re willing to trade high quality content for traffic. When implemented properly these traffic strategies can propel your promotional campaigns, and ultimately, flood your website with qualified motivated visitors.

You can either choose to focus on single technique campaigns, or implement a variety of these strategies for maximum exposure, but the key is to do something. And do it now.

Bruce Anthony is a serial entrepreneur …online and offline. For a popular complete FREE report on how to start profiting with any brand new website in just 45 days go to: => http://45dayonlinetrafficplan.com/

Bruce Anthony is a serial entrepreneur…online and offline. For a popular complete FREE report on how to start profiting with any brand new website in just 45 days go to: => http://45dayonlinetrafficplan.com/

Author Bio: Bruce Anthony is a serial entrepreneur …online and offline. For a popular complete FREE report on how to start profiting with any brand new website in just 45 days go to: => http://45dayonlinetrafficplan.com/

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