Traffic Generation Tips http://bit.ly/nEdAV5 If you've got traffic coming to your site, you're 99% there. Of course you also need to have a valuable offer for your visitors - a reason for them to transact with you. After getting the traffic you just need to convert it into subscribers and customers . . . but that's the easy part. So, the critical step is to generate a steady flow of visitors. Here are some tips for generating website visitors: These are the best and fastest ways to get free visitors coming to your site: Web 2.0 Sites Article Marketing Video And here's how to use each method... Web 2.0 Sites Web 2.0 simply means the new family of websites that have user-generated content. These are great sites to work with because they allow you to participate in this content creation. The other interesting thing about these sites is that all the search engines (including Google) treat them as "authority sites". And that's important to you because it means that Google and the other search engines treat links from these sites as more meaningful than links from other sites. So, if you place links to your own site inside your content, you get a search engine ranking benefit from those links. That's the real benefit of adding content to this sites - search engine ranking means ongoing free traffic. There are many more web 2.0 traffic tactics we don't have time to get into here, but this will get you started. Articles Sites Article marketing really builds on the Web 2.0 concept. Article sites are in essence web 2.0 websites. Article directories are sites where users (including you) can upload articles they have written. Just as with the other web 2.0 sites, having your content included gives you immediate traffic and search engine ranking. And the hidden benefit here is that your reach grows as other people take your articles and put them on their blogs and sites. And in return for getting to use your content, these other users include links back to your website that gives you further search engine ranking and more free traffic. In order to get the most free traffic make sure you: Do your keyword research Write specifically to target these keywords Use anchor text links in the article and the "resource box" Video Sites Our discussion would not be complete without talking about video. Here to we're really looking at a web 2.0 sub-category. So, just like article marketing, video marketing enables you to add content to authority sites. And if all that wasn't enough, you also stand a much stronger chance of getting a high search engine ranking for the keywords you want with video than you do with text-based content. OK, so how do you do effective video marketing? Get a YouTube account Turn off all the modules in your account profile Put relevant "tags" in your profile Include a link to your main site in your profile Add 1 or more videos to your profile Include your keywords in the title, description and tags In closing... If you take action on the items listed here you'll have free traffic in no time. free traffic internet marketing traffic generation