Traffic… The LifeBlood of Online Businesses

I find it incredible by the number of emails i get from people that are finding it real tough to get traffic to there website or online products and services. And i totally understand this, it’s not easy. We all know that traffic is the lifeblood of our online business, after all without traffic you do NOT have an online business, how else will you make sales?

Producing income from your online business boils down to this very simple formula.

Targeted Traffic + Converting offer = $$$$$

You need targeted traffic going to a converting offer for your product or service, or if you’re an affiliate some body’s offer or product which you make a commission from. When people start an online business they often seem to think if they put up a website, traffic will somehow magically get to it and people will buy there stuff or services.

The old *Build it and they will come* saying comes to mind here… but that’s NOT the case.

Fair enough, some people may get lucky with a finely tuned SEO optimized site that kills the competition and gets highly ranked in Google organic searches, but for 99% of people starting an online business, with virtually zero funding that cannot afford to pay a SEO guru to optimize there website… what do those people do ?

There are a number of things i ask people and give specific advice to each but here is a generalisation.

The first thing i ask is do they have any kind of funding to throw into traffic generation?

Obviously if you want to grow quickly then throwing money into traffic generation activities will help to achieve that. When you have a substantial amount of funding you can invest in growth by utilising paid methods of traffic generation such as CPA networks where you pay affiliates per lead to bring you traffic, and most of the CPA sites are filled with super affiliates, guys that can send enormous amounts of traffic to your offer or services.

The downside to this, is it can be costly, and you better make sure your offer converts well or else you’ll be wasting a ton of money and the affiliates time, and they’ll end up promoting somebody’s else converting offer if you’s is’nt cutting it for them.

Another way is to utilise the Google’s Adwords service, a Pay Per Click model where you pay for each prospect or lead that clicks on your website link. This area can be very competing, and what happens is that competitors for specific keywords will bid for that keyword, and the highest bidder will usually get a higher ranking in the paid search area of Google, normally the ads you see along the right hand side of Google’s search engine.

It can be a good way to generate traffic if you know what your doing. But you should never just jump into this area, because you may get eaten alive! I know people that have lost considerable amounts of money by jumping in the deep end before doing there due diligence. Learn everything you can about this advertising model first before jumping in!

OK, so these are examples of paid advertising you can utilise to grow faster, but not always necessarily the best. Now, like i said earlier, what about the little guys that have absolutely ZERO funding to generate website traffic. What do i tell these folks?

I usually tell them to use FREE forms of website traffic, and there are MANY of them which can also be effective. The first thing i tell them is to utilize the power of social media, sites like Facebook or Twitter are excellent starting places…

In fact i love TWITTER the best for social media marketing because of the really cool tools you can easily use to generate a massive amount of following fairly easily. If you do NOT have a Twitter account yet then you MUST go set one up right away… after all it’s free right ? www.Twitter.com

Anyway’s just in case you do NOT know what Twitter is about then here’s a brief explanation. It’s a platform where you can place updates on your life or business, and build up followers and friends that see your messages everyday. Using this model effectively can generate traffic to your product services.

Now i probably wont go to much into detail here about how to utilize this to maximum benefit because it would take a book on it’s own to educate you, but there are many products out there that can educate you on this subject.

Instead I’ll throw you a bone and tell you of some awesome tools you can use to get targeted traffic using Twitter. First i should mention that you should never use Twitter in the wrong way, blatantly using Twitter to spam your website links is the WRONG way to use Twitter.

The way you should use twitter is to post valuable comments on your updates, and interact with people. That way people will check out your profile and read what your about and then check out your website through the link on your profile.

So how do you attract the RIGHT kind of people to your offer using Twitter? After all, were after TARGETED website traffic/visitors to our product and service. That way they have a greater chance of becoming a customer.

Well… what if you could attract ALL the the targeted prospects you want with effortless ease? Would that be of interest to you ? attracting ALL the targeted Twitter users that would be classed as highly targeted leads for your product of service…?

Well… here’s a little secret of mine… (and a BONE for you) I’ve been secretly using a tool for the past few weeks since it’s new release, that has the ability to actually do this…

It will automatically find your most HIGHLY targeted leads and prospects (on Autopilot) and add them to your following… pretty cool huh ? I’ve been seeing some pretty incredible result from this simple tool!

There’s a video you can watch online RIGHT NOW… that shows you how to use this secret tool, and i highly recommend you go watch this, Here’s the link —> Click HERE To Watch the Secret tool Video

I hope you have enjoyed today’s post… keep an eye out for more cool Traffic posts coming soon!

Until next time…

Dan Briffa signing out

P.S. Here is the link again Click HERE To Watch the Secret tool Video , Go watch it right now, you’ll be impressed i assure you!

BEFORE i go… i would like to ask you a couple questions. 1. What do you struggle with in your online business? 2. What would you like to see more of from me?

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