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Generate Website Traffic that will Blow Away Your Online Internet Marketing
Competition by having a plan and putting it into action!

If You Build It Will They Come? Well, Yes, and NO!

The period of time between launching your Internet Marketing Venture and watching your traffic explode can be the most exciting time you have, provided you lay the groundwork properly.

Failure to provide for Traffic will torpedo every one of your early efforts!

With the overwhelming task of developing a site (or multiple sites), hosting, publishing, and testing, many newbie Internet Marketing entrepreneurs breathe a sigh of relief once their efforts are underway and then the light goes on: How am I going to get Visitors?

In the spirit of focus - which I have written about recently, I can’t say enough about planning your website traffic needs in advance. And again, just like all the other Internet Marketing options you have for building profitable programs, there are an equal number of means, methods and tactics for increasing your website traffic.

And once again, not all methods suit everyone and you must rise to the research challenge I’ve discussed in my maintaining focus chapter. But rest assured, there are methods and combinations of methods that will have massive amounts of traffic flowing to your website in no time and you don’t have to be an expert to succeed with most of them!

The best overall tip I can give you is Stay the Course and never let up.

Structure your days (or weeks) to spend a specified amount of time on building traffic and it will reap rewards ten-fold. Do a little, and then coast for awhile and you will never see the numbers you envision.

Remember, Slow and Steady Wins the Race, My Friend!

Stephanie Mulac is a Motivational Coach and owner of http://www.90PercentAttitude.com, a website dedicated to helping Marketing Professionals Make Money With Websites on the Internet by developing a positive, winning attitude and providing online encouragement to others who don’t have a support system in their lives.

Do not pay anyone or any service to submit your website to major search engines.

They will just enter your site using software designed to do this, which is something you can do for yourself. This type of software is rather inexpensive; in fact many hosting services include this service.

Better yet, exchange links with other websites. Search engines ‘rank’ your site according to the number of hits it gets. You can improve your ranking by having your website URL posted on others.

When another website that has your URL on it is ’spidered’ by a search engine, it will pick-up your site as well. If this other site has a high ranking, so will yours.

There are many methods to do this. One is reciprocal linking;

Go to a search engine and find websites that are similar to yours. Locate the email for the site’s webmaster and send them an email, asking them if they would be willing to exchange links.

Set-up a separate page on your website to post the links of those who have given you their permission to do so. Make a link from your front page to this page so visitors have the option of viewing these other links. You can do this on your front page, of course, but there might not be room and it might be a bit distracting.

You may also want to set-up a page with a link that will allow visitors to submit links to your site.

You may wish to check these other sites, from time to time, to be sure the link exchange is truly reciprocal.

Before you do any of this, be sure your website is ‘optimized’ for search engines.

Again, do not pay anyone to do this for you. There are plenty of places where you can get this information for free!

Brian Beshore has been involved with Internet Marketing for several years. He publishes his own Home Business Guide.
http://www.moondoggy.biz