A business owner can not even hope for sustained success in his/her business if he/she can not draw more and more online web traffic. It is not a one-horse race that is run by the business owner.  Competitors are only a click away.

Did you realize that Xsitepro, a wysiwyg website builder, is one of the easiest ways to get free website traffic! The reason is that it has built in seo tweaking abilities….relating to the method it creates webpages, how it names the pages, where it puts the pages and much more. Xsitepro can be just as good for creating websites as wordpress, in fact, if you want static pages…… Xsitepro is the solution!

Hence all possible steps and electrifying ideas must be implemented to increase this traffic.  Just having a well-designed website will not suffice to get results.  A good traffic source should drive visitors to the website and the visitors should be ready to buy.

Though there are several techniques for increasing this traffic, as a  business owner, you must choose the best ones: the ones that are considered the most suitable for your business.  All the techniques can also be used but you should know when to use which technique because timing is very important for the success of these techniques and all the techniques will not give you good results all the time.

You should understand these techniques by spending your time and energy studying them so that you can implement them at the appropriate time.  The first important thing is to study the contents of your website.  You should put yourself into the shoes of the customer and view the contents with unbiased eyes so that you can know if the contents are up to the expectations of the customer.  The business world is continuously evolving and so many changes are taking place.  If you do not update the contents of your website with the latest innovations and information, your website will become stale and you can not have a good online web presence.

You can also make your website an interactive one so that the discerning customers who visit it will have a chance to air their opinions on it and also offer suggestions for improvement of your product, your services and your distribution and delivery processes.  This gives you ample scope for improving your business to take it to the next level.

It is wrong to assume that traffic will increase if the contents of the website are improved to a satisfactory level.  You should do all things you can to popularize the website.  Writing blogs and articles is one such technique with which you can drive more traffic to your website.  You can submit these blogs and articles to various free blogging sites and article directories.

But you should ensure that the contents on these blogs and articles follow the guidelines laid down by the directories.  If the contents are good, these directories will host these articles.  Some of the web masters will also post your articles on their websites.  You can link these blogs and articles to your website for increasing the traffic to your website.

You should take the help of various keyword tools and find out the most popular keywords that can be used effectively on your blogs and articles.  If your blogs and articles are good and if you have used the most popular and effective keywords, there is every possibility that your website will get the prime position on the search engines.

You can also find out the most popular sites that already have a very good website traffic and give link to your website.  This may cost you some investment but it is worth it.  Since these sites already have a good traffic, the traffic who visit these sites may be diverted to your website, eventually increasing your online web traffic.

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Traffic exchange programs are abundant on the internet and a good way to get exposure and clicks to your website. Traffic exchanges, also called TE, work like this. They are free to join. Once you’ve joined, you post a short (compelling) description and link of the site you want to promote. In order to get exposure to your site you need to earn credits. The more credits you have, the more exposure you will get. You can earn credits either by clicking on the other members’ sites or you can buy your credits or upgrade your membership. This article will give you a description of some of the top traffic exchanges.

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TrafficSwarm. This is one of the most popular traffic exchanges on the net. The quickest and easiest way to earn credits with Trafficswarm is to set your browser’s “start page” to your own personal ‘Surf URL’ on TrafficSwarm (there are step by step instructions on how to do this and it only takes a minute). This way, every time you open your web browser to surf the Internet, you’ll earn a credit. You’ll also earn 1 – 1000 credits every time you visit another member’s website through your start page. TrafficSwarm has the most users and visits of any other TE, and they also have an outstanding referral program.

Dragonsurf is another one of the best traffic exchange programs and one of its main benefits is that it allows you to build up credits fast. The traffic exchange is owned by Soren Jordansen who has a very good reputation in this business.

TrafficSplash has risen quickly to become one of the best traffic exchanges on the internet. TrafficSplash has an impressive design, the cheapest upgrades and credits you can find, and the extremley good customer service. This traffic exchange also offers many rewards that range from credits to splash points. Referal commissions for Traffic Splash are 50% which also places it in the excellent range. Included in the TrafficSplash promotion page are personalized splash pages, regular splash pages, a splash page generator, banners, rotators, sample emails and sample textlinks.

Soaring4Traffic is considered an extremely effective and innovative traffic exchange with lots of unique tools and friendly customer service. The only drawbacks of this traffic exchange are that the upgrades are over-priced and the referral commissions are only 40%

BlueSurf is one of the newer traffic exchanges and has actually surpassed DragonSurf in alexa rankings. This company is innovated in this respect: the home page always includes an “average surf” number. On the home page, it says “The number you see above is the average number of pages each surfer at blue-surf surfed yesterday.” To promote consistent surfing — and to reward the “average” surfer, all you have to do is surf more pages than the number above and you will get a 15 credit bonus at the end of the day. This ads up.

Start out with one or all of the above traffic exchange programs to boost traffic to your site.

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I responded to a forum post and mentioned using the RSS feed from your blog for driving traffic to your blog. I was talking about taking your feed and submitting it to the various rss aggregators and directories for backlinks. You can easily do this by hand or you can use software to submit your feed automatically to just about every rss directory on the net.

Here’s a few directories:

http://www.feedcat.net/
http://www.feednuts.com/
http://www.feeds4all.nl/
http://www.rss-spider.com/
http://www.rssmountain.com/rss_directory.php
http://www.bloglisting.net/
http://www.topblogging.com/
http://www.superblogdirectory.com/
http://www.millionrss.com/
http://www.feedage.com/
http://www.blog-directory.org/
http://www.blog-watch.com/
http://www.addurlblog.com/
http://feedshark.brainbliss.com/

http://chordata.info
http://www.jordomedia.com/
http://www.2rss.com/
http://www.findrss.net/
http://www.feedlisting.com/
http://freefeedsdirectory.com/
http://blog.directory-seek.com/
http://theblogresource.com/
http://blogville.us/
http://sarthak.net/blogz/add.php
http://www.submitblognow.info/
http://dir.blogflux.com/
http://www.lsblogs.com/
http://www.feedbees.com/
http://www.feedsee.com/
http://blogit.a1weblinks.net/
http://www.rsshugger.com/
http://www.blogsweet.com/
http://blogoriffic.com/
http://www.jordomedia.com/

I use an automatic submission service or software that is a membership. Some people would rather purchase the software than pay a monthly fee. However, when submitting to sites that change, sometimes, on a weekly basis it’s best to use a reliable monthly fee submission service. The thought being that they will keep their list of directories updated as much as possible. Sometimes you can buy the submission software thinking that you are getting a deal, but the truth is, the software may work for a couple of months, but as time goes on it becomes less and less effective.

Anyway….

The person from the forum wanted to know how to get more traffic to their blog.

I mentioned a very simple way by using the rss feed of the blog.

You can find your rss feed by clicking on that little orange button or if you have a wordpress blog you can take your url and add “feed” to the end and you should have your rss feed. For instance, my blog is located at www.Desktop-Wealth.com/blog and if I were to add “/feed” I would have my rss feed and it would look like www.Desktop-Wealth.com/blog/feed to confirm you have your rss feed, click on the link….go ahead and click on www.Desktop-Wealth.com/blog/feed after clicking on the link you should see the rss feed of my blog parsed out….that is you will see the latest 10 or 15 blog posts with snippets, if you click on any of the titles you will go to the actual post! If you want to see how to feed is coded, you’ll notice it uses very different tags than the standard html tags, depending on your internet browser, click on “View Source” and you’ll get an idea how rss feeds are coded.

Now, if I submit that rss feed to the rss directories and rss aggregators it will be available for anyone to use, the search engine spiders will go to each location of my rss feed and include it in the search engines for my specific keywords and articles. The result is more traffic! Others might use my feed in a news directory of some sort so my rss feed becomes content for their blog and in turn I get relevant backlinks.

You will want to submit your rss feed to these directories. Typically you will have to go to each of the rss directories and register before submitting your rss feed. The automated scripts and software will sometimes have you register for only a small number of rss directories and then submit to the rest automatically. Trust me this is a very powerful way to get a consistent surge of traffic to your website. I use a service with a funky name…..BadAssRss, go ahead and click on the link and give it a try.

There is so much you can do with RSS it would take a 600 page book to explain all that rss can do. One thing you might want to do is take several of your sites, let’s say you make a blogger.com and wordpress.com blog….each of those will have an rss feed. Take those 2 feeds and your original feed and merge them into one, you can find a site to do this easy enough, in fact, http://feedmingle.com/ is one such location online that you can merge your rss feeds. Now that you have a new rss feed, submit it to the directories. If you’re using a service like BadAssRss you can do it in a couple of minutes.

If you’re developing a niche market you will want to set up sites on all the free feeder sites such as:

• blogger
• wordpress
• hubpages
• youtube
• start another blog
• forums
• web 2.0 properties
• Twitter
• facebook
• tumblr
• friendfeed

Each of these sites have rss feeds and you can combine and use them for traffic to your blog. You can use all these to get links back to your site, and you can do various combinations of their rss feeds and submit each one separately.

I shouldn’t confuse you if you are an rss newbie, but there is another way to use rss feeds. There is a script called Slick Autoposter ….this is a script that can use rss feeds to create posts on your blog, it’s a way of automating your blog posts. There is another script called Article Stalker, this script builds a depository of reprint right articles which allows you to search for articles by keyword. For instance I could search for “RSS” and it would bring up all the reprint right articles containing RSS in the title and automatically create a “rss feed” out of those articles. Instead of just being snippets of articles these are entire articles and you can use Slick Autoposter to automatically drip the articles into your blog for your readers and the search engines.

There are so many ways to use rss feeds, I really suggest you spend a little time each week getting to understand rss feeds and what you can do with them!

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If you are reading this, then you’re just one of the many people looking to make some extra money online in today’s tough economy. I can tell you from experience that you are extremely lucky because of the many tools available and so many sources of internet marketing training, some free and some you must pay for. As more and more people are getting tuned into the idea of making money online, internet marketing trends are constantly and quickly evolving. Being able to identify the trends and tap into them with an up-to-date marketing plan can really set you ahead in your business.

Here are just a few of the current hot trends:

The Economy

Today’s rough economy is the subject of many business conversations. This goes for internet marketing as well. We will continue to see recession-proof internet businesses being marketed as well as various money-saving plans, tools, clubs and forums. If you aren’t already bringing up the state of the economy in your marketing, it’s time to start.

Less Hype Marketing

For a while, one of the biggest Internet marketing trends included lots of hype. So the web was made up of one big glaringly flashy advertisement after another, each competing for your attention. It finally seems to be hitting home that flash and hype is not the way to go. While it might initially capture some interest from your target audience, you’ll need to support it with great high-value content to keep them interested. Your customers are looking for solutions to their problems – make sure that you offer these in your marketing message.

Consider looking at an online membership designed to teach you the basic concepts of internet marketing. Earn1Kaday is one such membership and they basically teach the principles of several online business models and have a very active forum of experienced members. The content at Earn1KaDay is well worth the price, however, the help offered by the established members is priceless. As the name suggests, the purpose of the membership is to help you achieve a daily goal of making “X” amount of dollars a day! Many have accomplished $1000 a day, and some make much more.

The money is NOT in the list (exactly)

Most of you have heard the saying. . .”the money is in the list” or the leads that you can generate from your marketing. This is not exactly true. Building up a huge list really won’t do you much good unless you actually interact with the people on the list. The money is in the relationships that you develop with the people on your list. Learn how to develop relationships with people by using auto-responders, participating in forums, Facebook and Twitter, etc.

If you are new to Internet Marketing then you might not be familiar with the term “building a list”, however, it’s one of the first concepts you should become familiar with because it’s one of the most important processes in internet marketing. Building a list is usually accomplished by giving something away, an ebook or software, in exchange for their email address and name. Using a service like Aweber for building a list is one of the smartest first moves any internet marketer can make. Avoid cheap solutions or self hosted autoresponders because you’ll almost never get the type of email delivery that a professional autoresponder service like Aweber will give you.

Niche Marketing

Along With the economic downturn, businesses are focusing on more and more narrow niches. This is counter-intuitive but smaller, more targeted niches will bring you more traffic than large broad ones. See Niche Profit Classroom for 2 monthly niche products along with the necessary marketing packages….without sounding hypey, NPC has been one of the most impressive online memberships I’ve found in 8 years of learning about internet marketing.

Social marketing continues to dominate

And more and more businesses are tapping into this trend. It’s been proven that adding videos to your marketing mix increases traffic to your site as well as the amount of time a person spends on your page. Along with all of the other social media tools, the use of video is increasing dramatically. Some people are intimidated by the idea of doing videos. The important thing to remember is that your potential customers want to see other real people, not some sort of corporate actor, so just be yourself and you will draw more people to you and your business.

As internet marketers we do all these things in an effort to get website traffic. Without traffic to your website all your efforts will be in vain. You won’t sell your products or build your list….it doesn’t matter how pretty your website is or how good your offer is. One of the most effective methods of getting traffic to your website is with videos, otherwise known as video marketing. One of the most effective methods of creating a rush of traffic using videos is to use the tools at Traffic Geyser, in fact if you click on that link you can try it out for $1 for 30 days. This is a service that sends your videos to 100’s of video sites, turns your video to podcasts and a other services that you’re just gonna have to check out

Quick customer service

If you want to maintain relationships with your customers, you must respond to their needs immediately. If you can’t, they will turn to your competitor who can.

Knowing and understanding these general Internet marketing trends and then adapting your business to keep up with them can really put you at an advantage.

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Search engine marketing and optimization defines the process of using the internet for the promotion and advertising of your website and web pages. When done properly search engine marketing will guide traffic from the search engines to your website.  Basically if you practice successful search engine marketing and optimization, you have tapped a source of free relevant website traffic, that is, you have tapped into the natural search engine results of the internet.

How is marketing defined?

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Marketing in and of itself is simple yet complex and is defined in Wikipedia as: Marketing is an integrated communications-based process through which individuals and communities discover that existing and newly-identified needs and wants may be satisfied by the products and services of others.  In the early 1960’s out of the many factors that determine whether a person purchases a product called a “marketing mix” was reduced to the 4 P’s: Product, Price, Placement (distribution) and Promotion. Research into any market will always take these features into account.

Website Visitors Needed for a Successful Website

If you want to become successful in the field of Internet Marketing it is imperative that you learn how to get website visitors to your website. Many beautiful websites are built without giving any thought to developing successful search engine marketing and optimization strategies and when this happens the website traffic valve is left in the off position….result is no traffic equals no sales!

Can Search Engines Market Your Website?

Sooner or latter you will realize how important it is that your website is indexed by the search engines….which means something similar to the fact that your website is in the yellow pages, with some ads being more visible than others. One aspect of search engine marketing refers to the fact that your website becomes visible with paid per click search engine marketing. A variety of tactics are used when marketing your with PPC marketing but the ultimate purpose of any ppc campaign is to steer website visitors to your site and then convert those visitors into leads or buyers!

Defining SEO?

SEO is the process by which you create a website and the content which relates to a specific subject or content matter that can be found by the search engines.  When you perform search engine optimization on your web pages you will included certain keyword and or meta-tags with your keyword listings.  Although you can’t control what website surfers will search for, you can create pages and optimize you site for keywords and keyword phrases that have a history of being used on a monthly basis. Proper use of tracking software will allow you to began to understand what keywords are being using to find your website and specific website pages.

Hiring a SEO Expert!

Successful search engine marketing and optimization most often should be done by a qualified specialist, this can be a service that is employed to develop a SEO strategy for your blog or website.  A Search engine optimization specialist is a relatively new occupation and as with all occupations, you have to be careful who you hire since there are no exacting standards as of yet. Of times unscrupulous SEO consultants will fill your website content with spam, a blackhat method of seo and although you might find a sudden increase of page rank and find your site on page one of Google, this is only temporary and you will end up getting your business website penalized by the major search engines.  The only way to ensure hiring a qualified search engine marketing and optimization expert is by thoroughly interviewing the prospect and asking for referrals.

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Pay-per-click advertising

PPC is a subject all to it’s own. There are many facets to ppc and many ways to make money and just as many to lose your money. Pay-per-click advertising is when you receive advertising space upon a website. You only pay for your advertising when someone clicks on a particular link.  This brings traffic to your website and it’s important that the traffic goes to a page that requires a specific action by the website visitor, such as optin for a free offer….also you should make sure you investigate different manners of preventing click fraud so you don’t get ripped off.

Using PPC Adwords for Traffic Generation

“Google Adwords” is one of the easiest ways to just start traffic to your website, although, take caution because the clicks can cost anywhere from $.10 to $10 and more, so it’s advisable to invest in some training first….it will save you in the long run!   Google Adwords will give your website offer a broad audience with much control, people searching for items related to your website will often times see your Google adwords ad on the right side of the search results page….if your ad is enticing enough, they will click on it!

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Everyone wants traffic to their website. It is not always easy to get more people to visit your site. There are ways to generate the desired traffic. It takes being creative and innovative sometimes; yet here are several ideas that will help.

1. Use Flickr. Social photo sharing drives people to your website. Add good tags to the photos so they attract the members on the site. Write a post in your blog and add the link to the Flickr site. The two sites will work in unison to draw traffic to your site.

2. Join a social bookmarking site. Share your favorite sites with other people sharing the same interests. Include your website. The social sites are like a specific search engine for many people. Add the bookmarks to your blog site to increase your internet traffic. Add interesting links to relevant products that the users are searching for. The more interesting links you have bookmarked the larger your following will become.

3. Start blogging. Join several sites where you comment on the blog posts. Add your URL with posting. Keep in mind you are commenting on your posts so remain focused on the topic since you do not want your posting to be deleted or considered as spam. You want to appear knowledgeable and someone others can trust.

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4. Use forum signatures for promotion of your site with a live link. Use topics with great information and link them back to your sties. The more information you provide the readers the more they will rely on you for your new information. They will return repeatedly to read what you are posting.

5. Add widgets, themes, and extension to your site. There are many free additions that will enhance your site. Make your site interesting rather than the typical boring website. Make your site user friendly and exciting. Users want to see and experience new things, give it to them with your site.

6. Use your friends to know your business and have them help spread the word about your website. They can use their personal blogs, websites, and contacts to increase your website traffic.

7. Use industry specific sites to add links and networks with by contacting the websites. Many are willing to join the cause to help your build your website traffic.

8. Expand your exposure by adding podcasts to your site. Include audio and video that is interesting and intriguing.

9. Submit your feed to blog site directories. The feed will drive traffic from another site to your site.

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Last but not least:

10. Submit articles to article directories, using the resource box to drive traffic to your site and establish strong backlinks to your site; for the Search Engines.

When you do your traffic building, it is not really about the traffic but offering what the readers want. When you reach out to them with information and products you service a valuable purpose.

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