You've put in a huge amount of time building a Website
Now you need to get visitors

Paid traffic - paid Advertising

One way you can get more visitorsis to advertise for Website traffic. Google Adwords is far and away the best known service to do this. It is increasingly using the same criteria for pricing ads as Search Engines - you'll need to create a Website with quality, unique content to get the best rates. Yahoo, Microsoft and a number of smaller playersare also in this -; and are playing catch-up.

Free traffic - Traffic fromSearch Engines

Search Engines are the bestsource of Website traffic. You submit your site using a site map, the search engines’ bots visit your site and, hey presto!, soon enough you start getting visitors for free. That’s the theory. In practice, there's a bit more that you need to know.

There are a great number of search engines out there but the lessons from Google are applicable to most of the others and, today, Google is ahead of them.

Why?

Because Google’s business rests on giving its customers the best possible search experience and results so they keep coming back. That’s how they overtook everybody else. To do this, Google looks carefully at the Sites in its search results to make sure they are the most
* Relevant
* Informative
* Unique (i.e. not duplicate information)
* That the whole site is a great experience for the searcher
* Popular

You can find the information and tips that you nned to give Google the quality content it needs at the The New Era Affiliate Marketing Information Website.

There, this free downloadable e-book will get you on your way, and it is equally useful whether your business is in affiliate marketing or another area of online business.

Google calculates a PageRank for each site. You can improve yours. 99% of website owners aren’t doing this – or are using out-of-date techniques that amount to the same thing. so you have an instant competitive advantage

Other sources of traffic

Apart from Search Engine and Advertising, there are a number of other sources of traffic .

More Free Traffic - New content - your newsletter, E-zines Articles and Blogs

The keys to improvingsearch engine rankings are
* unique content and
* backlinks

So your first job is to keep creating new content for your website. As the bots visit, they will notice this
Each item of content can, however be recycled several times:-
* Put it on your blog
* Post it to other blogs with high PageRank
* Put it in your ezine
* post it to article sites such as ezinearticles.com

Posting to other blogs and article sites achieves both your objectives - extra traffic from your links and, also, back links to your site from high-PageRank sites; and this will improve your ranking

Yes, each and every [spin] time you post your content, you'll need to rewrite it a bit to make it unique but a single piece of creative content can go a long way

Free Traffic from links

Building links brings you both traffic and improved PageRank.
Check out the SBI! Value Exchange page - it gives you more information about the
Best Link Exchange program on the net
AND
a Free e-book - Make Your Links Work - (about halfway down) in far more detail that I can provide here

Forums

Another great way of finding answers and material for your site is to join and participate in forums. Post on them when you can - it’s your opportunity to advertise your websiteto qualified visitors for free.

Email lists

Finally, another great way of getting in front of qualified visitors for free is mailing lists such as those on Yahoo Groups. You'll need to evaluate each list for spam, relevance and usefulness of content - or you could start your own

Questions

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