Friday, March 6, 2009

Tips For Getting Web Traffic

At first glance the Internet looks to be an easy way to advertise to millions of people but anyone who has worked in the Internet advertising sector knows that it is very difficult to do. The competition on the Internet is fierce to say the least. This article looks at different things you can do to compete and get some good results from your ads.

First I would like to warn you that there are people out there ready to take your cash in promise of thousands of visitors to your site. When you see an ad that says "10,000 hits to your site for just $20.00" ask yourself this question: "if this traffic is so great why would they sell those valuable visitors to me? Why don't they simply get a hold of those people and sell them their own goods or services?" The answer is that the visits are simply fake or non-responsive making them totallyworthless. Avoid these traps like the plague especially the so-called "email blasters". Most if not all of these types of offers are total scams. Are there real email service companies on the Internet? Sure but the real companies are very high priced and are hard to distinguish from some expensive scam websites so I still say stay away from them.

There are lots of advertising sites that are free and you can get some traffic that way. I will give you a link to a detailed website that lists some free methods at the end of this article but just know that getting paying customers that can be slow.

So how should you go about advertising in a way that actually works? To learn which advertising type works best, you can usually simply
look at your own behavior. Most likely, you found this article you are reading by searching the Internet. So you can be pretty sure that many other people will do just what you did. So you can assume that you need your website listed in the search engines too. And you would be right. Search traffic is a lot more responsive than any advertising service because the customers are searching for exactly what you are offering.

But how can you get listed in the search engines and get high enough placement to get a flood of traffic? I will show you a website that explains all about how to do it at the end of this article but it suffices to say that it requires a bit of learning. However, don't be scared off by that because it is no more difficult to accomplish than any other difficult thing you've ever done.

One of the main things I advise to new people who {{{want|need} to get the word out about anything is a website called Squidoo. There you can get a free website on the Internet and get listed in the search engines in only a {couple of|few}}} days and the website has plenty of articles that can show you almost anything ever need to know about advertising or anything else for that matter. It is totally free and is the best first move toward getting massive traffic from the search engines.

Thanks for checking out my article and feel free to go to my Squidoo site in my author bio below. Good luck!

Author : Robert
http://www.articleclick.com/Article/Tips-For-Getting-Web-Traffic/1057148

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