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Below is a question Dr Smiley received and answered. Hope it helps you!
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Is blogging and article marketing the only way to get traffic to my website? What do you think about those companies that charge you (x$ for xclicks) to send people to your site?

There are lots of different ways to get traffic to your website, and blogging and article marketing are just some. Make sure you are optimizing your website for the search engines as well so you can get indexed with the search engines. Make sure you are leaving valuable and helpful comments on forums, and other blogs that are related to your market.

Paying anyone to send visitors to your website is not good! You don’t know for sure the quality of visitors they are sending or whether they are targeted to your market. It is always best to stay away from companies like this, get your traffic yourself.

Some other ways to get traffic is by social media, using places like Twitter, Squidoo, and Facebook these are just a few places to get started.

There is one good place to learn more about how to get traffic to any website - The Faster Traffic Master

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Many are realizing that article marketing is a great way to not only get visitors to their websites, but it also will provide you with a backlink. This is important if you are into SEO (Search Engine Optimization) stuff.

So how does it all work?

It’s pretty easy once you get the hang of it. Write up a small article about your niche/market. This doesn’t have to be real long, usually most directories will take an article that is around 400 words, and if you are passionate about your niche then it shouldn’t be difficult to do.

The problem most seem to experience is what to write about, this can be a stumbling block. Suggest that you do some research on your niche, discover some problems within that niche you can fix through writing an article. If your niche is a bit broad or big, drill down, find a niche within your niche to write about.

You don’t have to stick with your main niche, you might be surprised how many sub niches there are to a niche.

The power of article marketing doesn’t always come in just writing the article, of course you need to be unique, it needs to be your writing, but the real power is within your resource box. You are allowed, in most cases, to add your website link within your resource box. This will give people a chance to visit your website after they read your article.

If you link a specific keyword to your website then you get added benefit within the search engines. When you link your keywords, and then someone types that keyword into their browser, the chances of your article coming up is high, and once they click on your article, they then can click through to your website, a win-win situation for any marketer.

You don’t have to write thousands of articles, just set yourself a goal when starting out to around 2 articles a week.

Once you are comfortable with this, you can increase how many articles you write.

The other good thing with article marketing, is others are usually allowed to copy your work and use it on their website/blog, but they have to leave the article as is with your resource box intact. Another link for your website!

There is no limit on how many people can copy your article, so just think of the power behind this!

The best way to get started is to just do it. Take a keyword that is around your niche and start writing, you might be surprised just how much you actually do know.

Oh the most asked question online nowadays!

When it comes to getting traffic to any website, it is crucial that you take certain steps first!

There are also a number of different types of traffic you can try to obtain, SEO (or organic traffic), referral traffic, PPC, and much more.

The first type of traffic Dr Smiley recommends you focus on, is SEO traffic. Why? Because it will get you going. When you put your web pages together you should always use -

1. Good keyword Title for your page.
2. You should give a good description of what your page is about.
3. You should use your keywords for your website in your meta tag keywords area. Now some say this isn’t important any more, but it still is. Search engines do look at this, but it isn’t as important as your Title tag and your page description.
4. Use your keyword throughout your web page, but DO NOT stuff it, make it look and read naturally. Keep your webpage to one keyword or keyword phrase, don’t try to rank for several keywords on one webpage.

Let’s discuss the ways to get traffic to any website, either free or low cost.

Still used by almost all marketers today, is Article Marketing.

This is the cheapest and easiest way to start generating traffic to any website you have. Pick a keyword that is popular with your market, do a bit of research on that keyword and find out some problems people are facing with it.

Write up a short article around 400 words, use your keyword especially at the beginning of your article and at the end. Write a short 2 or 3 line resource box, this box is to encourage others that read your article, to learn more about you or your product/service to click through to your website. This will definitely get you traffic! Just submit your article to no more than 2 or 3 article directories, you do not need to blast it out there.

When someone goes to one of these directories and likes your article, they have the option to copy it and paste it on to their website or blog, when they do this they Must include your resource box with your link. This makes your article(s) go viral very quickly. You can also take your article(s) and put them on your own blog, especially if your blog and website have 2 different domain names, this is not duplicate content.

Another good way to start generating traffic is to use social bookmarketing places like, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. It’s not recommended you start with all of them, pick just one to start out with and get use to it, then once you have it down, you can add another one. Social Networking is very hot right now and it works!

If you have your own product or service you are trying to promote, you might consider using places like ClickBank and/or PayDotCom.com. Put your product up on their site and let others promote it for you. Read through these places carefully and make sure you understand their Terms of Service. If done properly you can definitely get a lot of traffic to your website in little time.

There is also PPC (Pay Per Click) such as Google Adwords and Kontari. Both are very good and will bring you traffic, but be warned right Now! This is a dangerous area to tread if you do not know what you are doing. You can easily lose a lot of money in the learning process. Read everything you can about this, and do it slowly. The big key to this being successful is your keyword research, so make sure you do it. Start out pricing your clicks low, see how it goes, if you are getting traffic then you can increase it slightly. Do not try to get greedy here, this one method takes time and effort but if done properly you can really get a lot of traffic rather quickly.

Okay you have now learned a few different ways to go out there and start generating traffic to any website. Another important factor here is, consistency. Whatever method you chose to use, you must do it everyday. Getting traffic to any website takes time and some money, but if you are serious about this, you will do the work. Just keep in mind things don’t happen without some work involved by you.

Dr Smiley