Businesses can take advantage of the internet to get more sales and provide services. Never before has a tool like the internet been available to businesses. You can get more sales, get more customers and ultimately make more money. The following are just a few of the things you can do to get traffic to your website.
Article marketing is a great way to get traffic. I'm practicing what I'm preaching here by using articles to promote my own websites and services. There are a lot of benefits to using articles, not the least of which is that you'll be able to brand yourself as an expert in your niche or field. This generates credibility and ultimately more sales for your products or services if you leverage this resource in the right way. I find that for every 100 people that view my article, about 7-8 of them will click through to my website that is linked at the bottom of each article.
If you have a retail business, you can get your business details listed in local directories including both Google and Yahoo which have "local" listings and based on the search will generate a listing usually at the very top of the search engines. For instance, if you search for "Salt Lake City plumber", you'll get a list of plumbers, their contact information. You can submit your own business information so that you have local traffic to your site or store.
Google has yet another service that is very friendly to merchants which is their database of events, products, services, and just about anything else you can think of. This database is a huge source of product listings that merchants and use to submit their products, services and pricing along with relevant links back to product pages of their websites or appropriate contact information.
Craigslist and other online classified ad websites can help also with generating traffic to your business or your physical location. These classified ad websites can get some significant traffic and I've used them many times to both list items for sale as well as purchase services. Coupon codes work very well on these sites because people are more likely to visit a site knowing that they have some "secret" coupon code for a certain percent off, or free shipping, or a flat dollar off coupon.
Social networking is best described as communicating and "networking" with other like-minded people on the internet. There's a lot more than I can even pretend to get into with only a few sentences. Spending time on sites like youtube.com, digg.com, facebook.com and several sites like this represent probably the most frequently visited social networking sites on the internet. Sites that facilitate the interaction between individuals through commenting, blogging, posting, instant messaging, etc. would be considered "Web 2.0" sites.
Part of social networking is blogging and one of the central ideas around blogging is to initiate a "conversation" which is why blogs have commenting options. Individuals can comment on blogs and usually with a link back to their own website. Finding blogs related to the topics where your business can be promoted is as easy as searching for them on the search engines. In fact, Google has their own blog search engine at blogsearch.google.com
There are several things you can do to get traffic to your website and if you're wiling to spend the time, you can get a lot of traffic for free. These are only a few of the methods that I use. - 15246
Article marketing is a great way to get traffic. I'm practicing what I'm preaching here by using articles to promote my own websites and services. There are a lot of benefits to using articles, not the least of which is that you'll be able to brand yourself as an expert in your niche or field. This generates credibility and ultimately more sales for your products or services if you leverage this resource in the right way. I find that for every 100 people that view my article, about 7-8 of them will click through to my website that is linked at the bottom of each article.
If you have a retail business, you can get your business details listed in local directories including both Google and Yahoo which have "local" listings and based on the search will generate a listing usually at the very top of the search engines. For instance, if you search for "Salt Lake City plumber", you'll get a list of plumbers, their contact information. You can submit your own business information so that you have local traffic to your site or store.
Google has yet another service that is very friendly to merchants which is their database of events, products, services, and just about anything else you can think of. This database is a huge source of product listings that merchants and use to submit their products, services and pricing along with relevant links back to product pages of their websites or appropriate contact information.
Craigslist and other online classified ad websites can help also with generating traffic to your business or your physical location. These classified ad websites can get some significant traffic and I've used them many times to both list items for sale as well as purchase services. Coupon codes work very well on these sites because people are more likely to visit a site knowing that they have some "secret" coupon code for a certain percent off, or free shipping, or a flat dollar off coupon.
Social networking is best described as communicating and "networking" with other like-minded people on the internet. There's a lot more than I can even pretend to get into with only a few sentences. Spending time on sites like youtube.com, digg.com, facebook.com and several sites like this represent probably the most frequently visited social networking sites on the internet. Sites that facilitate the interaction between individuals through commenting, blogging, posting, instant messaging, etc. would be considered "Web 2.0" sites.
Part of social networking is blogging and one of the central ideas around blogging is to initiate a "conversation" which is why blogs have commenting options. Individuals can comment on blogs and usually with a link back to their own website. Finding blogs related to the topics where your business can be promoted is as easy as searching for them on the search engines. In fact, Google has their own blog search engine at blogsearch.google.com
There are several things you can do to get traffic to your website and if you're wiling to spend the time, you can get a lot of traffic for free. These are only a few of the methods that I use. - 15246
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If you're serious about using the internet to promote your business, the easiest way is usually to tap into an existing system that works. You can also spend some money and time to buy traffic. The main thing is to make sure you're making more money than you're spending (obviously). Good luck with your efforts. You can also get Google Ads free.
