How to Get Targeted Traffic to Your Website

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So now you've got yourself a website and you want traffic. There are a lot of methods to use, some free, some you pay for. Here are some methods.

Steps

1. The number one free way to get traffic to your site is to publish articles around your keywords on as many sites as possible. There are quite a few article sites that have articles you can use or edit for your needs. Then there are article submitters that will place your article on a bunch of sites at once for you.
   
2. There are also ezines,(online-magazines), that specialize in articles, and have large memberships that will possibly read your article and hopefully follow a link to your site that you place with the article. Using this method causes links to your site from the sites you've put it on and results in more traffic.
   
3. Another great way to get traffic is to join the social sites. They are popping up at an ever-increasing rate. By socializing with others on the net through these sites, everything you join or participate in gives you more people to see your site. And, if you're selling stuff from your site, you'll want to go to the places (interest groups) on the social site where people are interested in what you're selling.
   
4. Another free way to get traffic is to distribute an E-book all over the internet with your links in it. These can be made quite easily with software you can get by searching on Google or by checking at the bottom of this article for a link. These can also be put on social sites and ezines for them. Again, wherever you put them causes a link back to your site.
   
5. Set up a Blog. These are a very good method for getting traffic to your site and they are free. You can start one at one of many free blog sites. Then you set up a feed for content and then go to other blogs with the same topics or fields of interests and read and comment on their articles. As well alot allow you to post your article which gives you more traffic.
   
6. Another way is a Press Release. There are sites that will send a news type story about your new product or info on your site to alot of other sites. Some of these are pay sites though, so you have to watch out.
   
7. Google Adwords is the most popular method for traffic. Since they are the top search engine right now it make sense to advertise there if you can afford it. You bid on keywords to get your site at the top of the search when your keyword comes up. There is more involved but it's all laid out at Google. Ther are alot of other sites that use this advertising strategy called pay per click or PPC.
   
8. Another popular way of getting traffic is with a search engine submitter, where a site will send your link to many search engines at once for a price. The more search engines you want to be on, the higher the price. There are a few free programs you can use but they usually dont submit to too many at once.
   
9. You can buy leads from a lead selling site. These are supposed to be email addresses of people that have signed up to recieve offers. You just have to watch that they have good fresh "double optin" leads of people who requested more information about your particular field or you could be marked as a spammer. Some of these sites will email them for you with your own email or you can buy separate leads and use a separate email site for the mailing. There are email programs you can use but then you have a problem that Internet providers usually only allow up to 500 emails per day, and if you're doing it every day they might (rightfully) accuse you of spamming and shut down your connection.
   

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