Any method of making money online requires traffic. You need to have traffic. The more traffic that you have to your website, the larger will be your ability to make money online.

So, the question is: how do you get traffic?

And that is the age-old question. Several of the past days in this series have touched on various ways to do it. People are devising new, creative ways to attract new audience every day. There is no single right way to generate traffic to your site. It is as much an art as it is a science.

So, given that there is no magic pill for traffic, I will simply list out some ideas which we can then expand upon in the future.

1. Set up a blog and start posting regularly. Blogs work well with search engines, and the “pinging” helps promote your site when you post things with links to other sites.
2. Use Google Adwords. This will cost you some money, but you have full control over how much you spend. Adwords is essentially guaranteed traffic. It WILL send you new visitors. It is then up to you to create a site which converts a visitor into a potential sale.
3. Participate in social media. If you play an active role in social media when it comes to your niche, people who are interested will take note. Use your profiles to create links to your site. And, where appropriate, you can mention your site.
4. Post meaningful comments on relevant blogs, providing the URL to your website when asked.
5. Create videos and post them to sites like Youtube. Use TubeMogul to post your video to several video sites at once to gain maximum exposure. Do something buzz worthy and provide a link to your video along with the video as well as IN the video.
6. Write articles for your target market and post them on article hubs where they could be picked up for republishing by other sites. Sites like Isnare and are good places to post your article. Articehubs.com has more information on this.
7. Write a free report and use that as a way to attract people to your site. You might even offer to allow other sites in your market to also give away your report as a value-added benefit to their visitors.
8. Participate in relevant forums and use the forum signature to place a link to your website.
9. Approach bloggers in your market and make contact with them. Offer them material for a blog post – something that would be interesting to their audience. And perhaps you can get a link to your site along with it.
10. Offer to guest post on other websites.

Obviously, we’re only scratching the surface here.

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