Proven Strategies to Increase Website Traffic and Generate Sales
Okay, here it is. This post is going to contain the simple yet effective techniques I have learned during my time online to generate targeted traffic and generate sales. These are strategies I’m using for my own online business and have found to be working well and improving over time.
If you’ve been following along with us, my last post was about a struggling internet marketer who is reaching out in a desperate attempt to generate sales with his affiliate marketing website.
One of the questions asked was, “How do I drive traffic to my site that can generate sales?”
This is going to be the topic of this post, and I’ll be going very in-depth, starting with the basics and moving towards the more advanced strategies.
I apologize in advance if this turns into a very lengthy post, but please bare with me as it will be well worth your time to read through everything.
So let’s begin, shall we?
The very first thing you must understand is that everything revolves around keywords. Keywords are the life-blood of websites and how they become seen by internet users using search engines.
SEO (search engine optimization) is the foundation of using keywords effectively, and this is how you’re going to target specific internet users to generate sales online.
Rather than going in-depth on the subject of SEO on this post, I have a few previous posts that should cover this subject thoroughly enough for you to understand. Please check them out, and if you have questions use the comment section:
Optimizing your web page for specific keywords is critical and is the foundation for which you’ll build the rest of your marketing efforts upon. Seriously, nothing else matters until you’ve done this. Don’t ignore it!
One thing I’ve learned is that backlinks are KING. Okay, so content is still KING, but backlinks are a very close second, and here’s why. Backlinks to your website or web pages are what helps to drive your site or pages higher in search engine results pages when someone searches for a specific keyword phrase. See how this is coming together?
Without building backlinks to your site, you won’t generate enough traffic to your site to generate sales. Now I know what you’re thinking here. There are other ways to generate traffic without building backlinks, and that’s true. However, the best traffic is free search engine traffic, and the only way to get it is to rank on the first page in Google, or Yahoo and Bing. I’d focus on Google as it produces over 70% of search traffic across the entire web.
Now that you understand the importance of building backlinks and getting your site or web pages to the top of search engines, you now need to start the backlink building process. There are numerous ways to go about this, and luckily for you, I’ve written many posts on the subject. Here they are:
- Improve Search Engine Rankings the Easy Way
- 80 High PR One Way Backlinks Each Month
- Build Long-Term Traffic to Your Work From Home Site with Article Marketing
- Build Your Online Business with Article Marketing
- Forum Signatures
- Free Traffic System
Remember when building backlinks that you want to use your keywords for the web page you’re linking to. This is the only way that your backlinks are going to be effective in boosting your search engine rankings.
Okay, so you now have a great start in getting backlinks; however, I’m not done just yet. 
Well… sorta. I have a post planned that will discuss another very effect backlink building strategy and will be posted soon, so stay tuned for that.
Hopefully right now you have a solid understanding of doing keyword research and web page optimization, and how it all ties in to building backlinks. This is all part of building targeted website traffic that will result in sales.
As always, if you have any questions about anything discussed here, post them in the comments section.
My next post will discuss the second question asked by a struggling internet marketer, but in the meantime, start applying the tips I mentioned today to your website, and you’ll soon see an increase in traffic and internet income.
Tags: Article Marketing, backlinks, forum signatures, free keyword research, free traffic system, improve search engine rankings, increase website traffic, keyword, one way backlink, one way backlinks, search engine rankings, search engine traffic, targeted traffic, web page optimization
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Nice collection of articles, thanks!
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Alan Mater
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@Ste, Thanks! Glad you found them useful.
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Lookin for a side job buddy? let me know here if you haven’t already…
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Alan Mater
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@Dennis Edell,
You mean… ANOTHER side job? LOL
Already ahead of ya on that post.
Just send me an email, and we’ll work out the details. Thanks!
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Dennis Edell
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@Alan Mater, I’ll be in touch.
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Alan Mater
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@Dennis Edell, Sounds good.
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Thanks for another great post Alan. I love reading your blog. All the tips you give really work when I put them to use.
Great job.
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Alan Mater
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@Trevor,
Glad you’re finding them useful, Trevor!
It’s great to have you as a reader also!
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Nice post, a little over my head but for sure something to think about. Thank you!
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Alan Mater
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@Joel P.,
If you have any questions about how to implement anything just let me know.
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Hi Alan,
you mention forum signatures as a way to get more backlinks, but what is your opinion about blog link building? I really think it is THE way to go nowadays.
I mean, we can both agree that there are TOO many web directories on the Internet and Google doesn’t pay attention to many of them. Therefore, blogs are a pretty good alternative.
What is your opinion?
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Alan Mater
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@Angela@Webdesign Roosendaal,
Hi Angela, that’s a good question. I do agree that blogs are great for building backlinks. I regularly comment on other blogs, which in doing so earns me backlinks and gains readers.
However, I still feel posting in forums and setting up a forum signature is very effective. You can also build up direct traffic this way as well. Google loves forums just as much and will crawl a forum multiple times a day as they’re constantly updated.
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I’ve been following a long and these tips were very useful. I’m looking to start marketing some of my websites, so I can’t wait to read more.
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Alan Mater
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@Robert, Glad you find them helpful. You’ll find many more tips on other posts, so feel free to stay awhile and browse through my blog.
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Keywords is one of the most important factor to increase organic traffic, but also there are lots of ways on how we could generate traffic like using social networking sites such as facebook and twitter or article marketing. We just need to know what works and what doesn’t.
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Alan Mater
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@diocelin@website design münchen,
Exactly, and what works for one person may not work the same or as good as another. It all comes down to doing what works for you, but there are always going to be some constants that work for everyone, and keywords and link building is one of them.
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I have used this kinds of techniques to increase my sites traffic like directory submissions and dofollow blog commenting and I’d say that it really is effective for the sites PR and for increasing its traffic which results to more income.
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Hi Alan, very helpful post. I enable dofollow, commentluv, and keywordluv in my blog. These plugins really increases traffic. I’ll be reading your other articles as well.. Thanks,
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Alan Mater
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@Andy@dedictated server, Hope you enjoy them, Andy!
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Nice to see someone coming out with the basics. Set a solid foundation!
Cheers,
Nestor
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Alan Mater
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@Nestor Hayden, First, welcome to my blog!
Glad you found these tips helpful.
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I’ve been trying to learn some methods for getting more traffic to my websites. This gets me started in the right direction, thank you!
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Alan Mater
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@Shelly, Welcome to my blog!
Glad this post has helped you. Hopefully you can drive more traffic and sales now.
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I agree. There are 3 general things really; Content, Social Media, and SEO. Get these right and you should be okay, but it’s not always that easy, and don’t expect overnight success.
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Alan Mater
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@Mici @ Click On Portal,
“…but it’s not always that easy, and don’t expect overnight success.”
Very well said.
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Thanks a lot for this article and the additional links to the other articles written by you. Have only just come across this site, but I’m looking forward to read other stuff coming up
And a additional thanks for the tip on forum signatures
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Alan Mater
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@Per H. Jørgensen,
Glad you found them helpful.
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You have really hit the nail on the head Alan. It all starts with keyword research. Getting this right is the key to everything. Of course you also must know how to optimize your posts and pages for your keywords. You have provided some excellent resources and content in your post that will provide some much needed help to many.
Thanks for sharing.
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Alan Mater
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@Underground Traffic Blueprints Review,
Thanks for the kind words. Optimizing is definitely essential. As long as you include the keyword in the Title and around 2% of the total content throughout (making sure it reads naturally), you’ll be good to go.
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Yeah backlinks would be really the key to making your site more popular to search engines. It would likely drive traffic to your website but its not easy to do rather that saying it you need patience and effort to make such backlinks to other websites.
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Alan Mater
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@Trina Colon @ homes foreclosed las vegas,
Yes, backlinks are the glue that holds a website together in terms of search engine rankings.
Making the backlinks actually aren’t all that time-consuming, but rather the process in which you take. For example, forum posting and blog commenting could take an hour or two for at least 10 backlinks with each method. Writing articles for article directories or web 2.0 sites would take a lot longer for the same amount of links. It all depends what links you want and the quality you’re aiming for.
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Thanks for sharing your techniques to all the readers. They are effective yet simple. I’m looking forward for more articles of yours. Keep up the nice job.
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Alan Mater
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@Lucy @ easy slow cooker recipes,
Thanks for the kind words, and glad you found my tips useful. Hope you’ll stick around.
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Many people don’t realise that individual pages of a website should be optimised for their own specific keywords because the search engines treat them on an individual basis.
Much the same applies to indexing, just because the home page is indexed in a website it does not necessarily mean a page where a link is placed will be indexed and without it, the link is useless.
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Alan Mater
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@Brian@Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives,
Exactly right! Targeting specific keywords for each page is important, and building backlinks to those inner pages is just as important.
Thanks for the input, Brian, and I hope you’ll stick around.
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