Sep 2 2008

My Top 10 Proven Ways To Get Targeted Traffic

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Once you’re involved with affiliate marketing, one of the major concerns you’ll have to face is driving traffic to your website.  And not just any kind of traffic – you’ll need targeted traffic.  Here are the top 10 proven ways you can drive quality traffic to your affiliate marketing site and thus increase your income-generating potential:

E-mail campaigns

Used carefully without spamming !! E-mail campaigns can easily drive targeted traffic to your affiliate marketing site. This can be accomplished by offering highly relevant and valuable information on the body of the message and then offering a link that will bring the recipients into your affiliate site.

You can do this in two ways: the first is by providing the full content in the e-mail message and then offering a link inviting the recipient to view 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 in the message.

Articles

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

Newsletters and e-zines

People love relevant information, particularly about subjects they are curious about or are involved in – which explains why targeted methods to drive traffic to affiliate marketing sites is what works 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.

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Blogs

Besides your affiliate marketing site, use a blog to get in touch with possible 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 relevant information, news, advice and tips from you to your visitors.  Include a link from your blog to your affiliate marketing site.

Social bookmarking sites

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

Discussion forums and boards

Try leaving useful and thought-provoking comments on discussion boards and forums, you will 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 affiliate site.

Guest blogging

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

Allow bookmarks on your web pages

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

Host a contest

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

Freebies!

There’s nothing like a gift to increase targeted traffic to your affiliate marketing site. It’s easy to implement and can be relatively cheap considering the results. By doing this you also offer your visitors an incentive to sign up for whatever campaign it is you’re promoting.

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