Traffic Generation For Beginners

Traffic generation refers to the process of generating and driving traffic to your website. A website without any traffic is not going to make you any money and which is no wonder why all webmasters are always trying their hardest to drive traffic to their websites. It is not just any traffic but targeted traffic which is the key to making money or not.

As a newbie, it is important for you to understand that even though traffic is important, if you do not have any idea how to monetize them, you are leaving a lot of money on the table. Therefore, besides knowing how to drive traffic to your site, you also need to learn how to monetize your traffic which will be discussed in another post.

Here are some tips and free methods which will help you to generate and drive traffic to your website.

Article submission
Submitting articles to article directories is a good way to drive targeted and quality traffic to your website. The key is to write articles with enticing titles and a good author bio to boot. These two points will help to increase CTR (click through rate) to your website.

Blog Comments
Be the first or first few people to comment on high traffic blogs in your niche. This ensures a high degree of visibility for your comments and if your comments are well written, you can be sure that more people will find their way to you through your blog comments.

Forum Signatures
Forums are a great way to drive large volume of targeted traffic. Similar to commenting on blogs, you can also make suitable postings to hot threads to drive traffic to your website.

Quality Content
It is important to retain existing visitors rather than keep on driving new visitors to your website. Therefore, quality content is the single most important element in making sure people keep coming back to your website.

Regular Updates
It is especially important for bloggers to keep their blogs updated regularly. A blog or website without regular updates is definitely not going to have any repeat visitors much less new visitors. Stick to a regular updating of your sites to keep people coming back. This comes hand in hand with having quality content.

Social Bookmarking
Submitting articles and content to social bookmarking sites is another good and effective way to drive targeted traffic to your website. There are probably hundreds of social bookmarking sites around but you do not need to go to the extent of submitting to all of them. Just choose a few such as Digg, Propeller and StumpleUpon to focus on will do.

Social Networking
Many marketers and webmasters are leveraging on social networking sites such as FaceBook, Friendster and MySpace to build large networks of friends and market their products, services and websites to their networks. This is a highly effective method to generate and drive traffic and one which you should adopt as soon as possible.

There are more ways to generate and drive traffic to your website but these tips and methods will go a long way to helping you score your first visitors. Some of the methods such as PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising requires a certain amount of investment and is more suitable for experienced webmasters than newbies. Therefore, it is better to go for the free route first before venturing into paid methods. For more information on generating and driving traffic to your website, you can check out my section on “Traffic Generation”.