When you’re involved in affiliate marketing or selling your own products online, easily one of the most major concerns you’ll have to face is driving targeted traffic to your website. Here are the top 10 proven ways for getting website traffic to your website and increase your income-generating potential:

1. E-mail campaigns

Used carefully, targeted e-mail campaigns is one effective way of getting website traffic. This can be done by providing highly relevant and valuable information on the body of the message and then offering a link that will bring the recipients into your site.

You can do this two ways: one is by providing the full content in the e-mail message and then offering a link inviting the recipient to view more similar write-ups on your site.  Another is by giving only a portion of the content and offering the rest on the affiliate site. A linked e-mail signature should also be included.

2. Articles

Informative and how-to articles, especially well-written ones, are proven traffic baits for websites. Include links to similar or additional information within the content body that can only be read from your site and provide additional links on your signature.

3. Newsletters and e-zines

People love information, particularly those about subjects they are curious about or are involved in – which explains why targeted methods to drive traffic to affiliate marketing sites work best.

Offer e-newsletter and e-zine subscriptions, making sure that links bring recipients to your site. Use a separate landing page to handle the subscription process for your visitors’ convenience.

4. Blogs

Other than your website, use a blog to get in touch with prospective customers and members. Blogs are considerably more personal and lighter in tone than most affiliate business sites and they can be a great source of information, news, advice and tips from you to your prospects. Include a link from your blog to your site.

5. Social bookmarking sites

These sites are a rich source of targeted traffic that you can drive to any site. Your market demographics are also easier to define so sending out invitations to potential leads and members is a lot easier.

6. Discussion forums and boards

By leaving useful and thought-provoking comments on discussion boards and forums, you encourage other members to react and send you a reply. You’ll be able to build a networking relationship from here. Make sure to sign with a link back to your website.

7. Guest blogging

You could drive another blog’s captured traffic to your site by becoming a guest blogger.  If you can write well and can offer unique and useful content, the site’s readership will find you interesting enough to follow you to your own site.

8. Allow bookmarks on your web pages

If you have content, you can drive traffic to your site by allowing your readers to bookmark certain pages. This will help promote those pages and your website to other people who might be interested in the same subjects.

9. Host a contest

Locate your target market and then promote a contest through ads or e-mails. All details must be found on your affiliate marketing website so you can drive traffic there.  Registration must also be performed on one of your landing pages. Just make sure to offer prizes that visitors who will be coming in will find useful.

10. Freebies!

There’s nothing like a nice gift to drive targeted traffic to your website. It’s easy to implement and can be relatively cheap. Furthermore, you offer these visitors an incentive to sign up for whatever campaign it is you’re promoting.

All in all, there are many traffic generating methods, but these strategies are cheap or free and proven to work in getting website traffic to your website for years to come.

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