http://www.meonit.com/internet-business/traffic-generation/powerful-traffic-secrets-for-achieving-more-traffic-and/ When it comes to making money online, quality targeted traffic is the most important thing you will need. Whether your trying to make money blogging, selling your own product or making money with affiliate marketing, you need traffic, targeted traffic to be exact. Driving targeted traffic to your site is not easy. It takes time, hard work and dedication. To be [...]]]> Tue, 04 May 2010 22:14:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When it comes to making money online, quality targetedtraffic is the most important thing you will need. Whetheryour trying to make money blogging, selling your own productor making money with affiliate marketing, you need traffic,targeted traffic to be exact. Driving targeted traffic toyour site is not easy. It takes time, hard work anddedication. To be successful in driving highly targetedtraffic to your site, you have to be able to apply thecombine power of different traffic generation methods. Ifyour wondering how to drive targeted traffic to yoursiteblog, here are two powerful methods my favorites,Internet marketers have been using for a long time tosuccessfully send targeted traffic to their sites.Article marketingWriting articles and distributing them on the internetarticle marketing is a powerful way to drive qualitytargeted traffic to your site. What makes article marketinggreat is the fact that you dont have to spend any money toachieve success with it, and it benefits you in many ways.First and foremost, it establishes you as an authoritativefigure. And if you are article marketing as an affiliatemarketer, since the page the attached link in the resourcesbox links to is intimately related to the content of thearticle, half of your job which is selling products, isdone! 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You could get less or more visitors fromdifferent article directories depending on their status andpopularity and the quality of your articles, but you get thepoint. The more articles you write and distribute, the moretraffic you get. Simple as that. Although not any article isgoing to generate traffic. You need to write useful andinformative articles. One well written article is muchbetter than 100 poorly written articles. So, while you dowant to have more articles out there, you dont want tosacrifice the quality for quantity.Automated article submissionWhile article marketing is a powerful and totally cost freeway to increase both your sales and traffic volume, its avery time consuming task, specially if your planing tosubmit more than just a couple of articles. Luckily thereare article submission softwares that automate thesubmission process, giving you more time to research andwrite better quality articles. Article submission softwarescan be costly, but they are well worth the price. There arealso some free article submission softwars as well. One ofthe best free article submission softwarse that I use myselfsometimes is the AticleSubmissionHelper. It does more thanwhat some very high priced article submitters do.Participating in forumsAnother easy way to establish yourself in the field is byparticipating actively in forums. Quite obviously because itgives you an unlimited number of backlinks, as well ascredibility amongst the community. Genuinely contributingand having intelligent discussion and helping other forumsmembers, will paint an authoritative figure picture of you,which is an important part of any internet marketingcampaign. You want tobe recognized. You want to be known as an expert in yourniche, so people will trust you, and any product you create.One of the best and most trusted forums related to internetmarketing that can also be a great way to establish yourselfas an expert is the wellknown WarriorForum. WF is also agreat forum for learning everything related to internetmarketing.Making the most out of forum signaturesMost forums allow you to have links displayed as yoursignature. Although many people over look this simple buteffective point, make sure you take advantage of thisopportunity to create a attractive and attention grabbingsignature, that will entice people to click on it. You willbe surprised by the amount of traffic you can get from asimple forum signature. You will be specially surprised whenyou receive traffic from a signature link in a forum posthat you have posted years ago and forgot all about it.Of course, there are many other ways to drive targetedtraffic to your site, such as social bookmarking, socialnetworking, guest writing and etc. But, what I like aboutarticle marketing and forums is the long term effects ofthem. You submit an article once to an article directory,but it will continue to bring traffic to your site for yearsto come. Same thing with forums. Your contributions andlinks in forums will be there for a long time for everybodyto see, as long as you comply with their terms and policies.When it comes to generating quality traffic, articlemarketing and forum participation have shown to be some ofthe most powerful and effective ways of driving targetedtraffic to a website or blog.Satrap is the founder and author of controversial blog,blogstash.com. A blog full of great howtos and informationabout making money online. 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