Techniques to Increase Your Website Traffic

In recent years there has been so much written about website traffic generation techniques, especially Viral Marketing and why you should be using to drive traffic to your website. So what is Viral Marketing and why should you care ? Is this something which comes and goes for a short period of time ?

Viral Marketing involves getting other people to willingly spread your message for you. People who like what you have done tell other people, and message spreads from person to person like a virus which refers as message going 'Viral'.

Why should you use Viral Marketing ?

1. It is fast, effective way to drive traffic to your website.
2. It can be very inexpensive.
3. It can help you shield you from negative comments.
4. It can help you in reaching there where you have never tried or unreachable for you so far.

Remember "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." If you continue to market your website and continue to lay the groundwork for success, you greatly increase the odds that you will be Lucky. This is not true for all the sites as some sites do tends to take longer to become an overnight success.

By presenting your message in a useful, unique or entertaining way, it encourages people to spread the world. It requires creating a message with a wide appeal, and has a high potential of getting passed along. Once it begins, there is no telling where it will go, how far it will spread, or who will it reach.

21 Viral Marketing Techniques:

Below are 21 techniques that you can use to drive traffic to your website. Whether there is a flood or trickle really depends on your ability to give your visitor's something they can use or enjoy.

• Provide quality content, products or service
• Give something away
• Require a referral
• Create a Viral Video Clip
• Create a Brandable E-Book
• Blog
• Use Social Bookmark sites
• Use an RSS feed
• Provide free content for other blogs / websites
• Linkbait
• Run Contests
• Make it easy for visitors to refer others
• Make it easy for readers to email the page to a friend
• Offer digital tool or game that carries your message
• Offer an E-Comment or E-Card service
• Build a Community
• Write article for EzineArticles and other publishers
• Employee Evangelism
• Setup an affiliate program to let other people market your product or service
• Write Press Releases
• Take your Marketing offline

The key is to get your name and website address noticed as often as possible, and in as many different places as possible. Do not limit yourself to the items that were mentioned above. If you think it might be a good idea, try it and see. You might strike gold in areas where others have tried and only found limited success. It all depends on you, your product and your ability to watch people's attention.


By: Jimmy Colbert