Six Effective Tactics To Generate Traffic For Your Website

Traffic, they say, is the heart of every internet undertaking.  Here are half a dozen proven techniques that will help you get the traffic that your web endeavor will need:

1.    Search engine marketing (SEM.  It's a known fact that 80% of the traffic that you will be able to get for your homepage will come from the search engines.  That being said, it is extremely critical that your pages will be methodically arranged for easy classification by the major search engines on the internet.  This can be accomplished via proper keyword research and usage.  By finding profitable keywords related to the subject of your website, you can win the attention of search engine spiders and efficiently compete for a prominent position in search engine results pages.

2.    Article marketing.  Come up with articles related to the subject of your online business.  Include a bio box describing yourself or your business, and least we forget, including a link to your website.  Submit this article and resource box to popular article directories like eZinearticles.com and isnare.com.  Commit to this at least once every day and soon enough you'd enjoy hundreds of back links leading to your website.

3.    Yahoo Answers.  Yahoo Answers is one of the quickest techniques that will allow your website get classified by search engines within a day's time.  Just search for questions open for answers related to the topic of your business, provide real answers to the best of your abilities, and leave your URL as your source.  Yahoo Answers will bring direct traffic and it will give you highly credible back links from what Google deems as an authority website.

4.    Blogging.  Google, Yahoo, MSN and the big search engines absolutely adore blogs.  By maintaining a blog and regularly updating the same with posts that mention your website's link, you will be able to get more back links for your homepage and you'll be sure that it will beeasy for search engines to find and present your web pages.

5.    YouTube marketing.  Convert your text-based content into a simple video and publish the same over at YouTube to immediately garner the attention of a batallion of internet users who regularly visit that popular website.  Plus, Google has a love affair with YouTube videos!

6.    Press releases.  Several web and print publishers are always looking for noteworthy information to republish.  They scrutinize newswires where various people submit newsworthy articles.  By writing an objective piece about your website and submitting the same to a big online newswire like prweb.com, you'd be able to position your online enterpriseto garner a lot of visitors.