10 Tools To Create Traffic To A Website  E-mail
Written by Tisho A Richardson   
Tuesday, 30 June 2009 03:46

tools-to-create-traffic-to-a-websiteSo you've built yourself a website, found an awesome product(s) to sell and now you have a boat load of expectation, but the one key ingredient for a successful online business is the one you are missing. Traffic; with out it your online endeavors are doomed to failure. There are many methods for creating traffic. Seems everyone has a story or two with the old cliche "a sure fire secret for getting tons of traffic to your website".

Getting traffic to your website can be a difficult task, if you acquire the wrong information (and trust me there's lots of it out there). But with the right knowledge, it can be a quite pleasant experience. There are many free and paid methods for creating website traffic, all effective if used properly. But it all starts with a well optimized keyword strategy.

An optimized website will not only save you time in the Organic Search, it will also save you piles of money in the Paid Search arena. Before developing a website, it's a good idea to starts with keyword research and your implementation strategy.

With that said lets look at some traffic creating tools. Below are ten tools to create traffic to a website.

1. Google Keyword Tool: One of the best keyword research tools out there. The Google keyword tool provides up to date stats of keyword word search volume. What better way to get keyword data than from worlds leading search engine, than to get it straight from the horse's mouth. This tool also allows you to check keyword pricing within the Google paid inclusion database. Great that like most of the big g's suite of tools this one is also free.

2. SEO Book: A great resource for creating a foundation of understanding. Written by one of the few search engine optimization super powers Aaron Wall. The seobook.com website is a great resource to get you moving in the write right direction. You will definitely want to check out the tools tab, from keyword analysis to keyword search trends; there are tools for you to explore every facet of the game. Becoming a member of the community at seobook.com was an integral part of me becomes a better search engine marketer.

3. Submit Ease: semi-automated directory submission software that combines both web directory submission and article directory submission in an easy-to-use package. Great tool I've been Able to submit my website to over 1,000 (3,000 remaining) web directories with the all important human feel that the search engines love so much. Also article syndication is a breeze. You are able to submit your site to over 600 article directories.

4. Bookmarking Demon: This is one of those tools that every online marketer should have in their arsenal whether you like automated tools or not. This is a fully automated social bookmarking and pinging software that will result in unlimited amounts of back links. How else will you be able to create over one hundred Social Bookmarking accounts with just a few clicks of your mouse? It was totally worth what I paid for it back when it was new, it's a bit more now, with free upgrades and all the benefits, its well worth the price. (Thanks Edwin).

5. Google Insight Search and Trends: Want to know who is searching for a particular key term. Want to know what country, what region, what city is a keyword search most popular. Want to see which search terms are on the rise. These free tools from Google are a great source of inspiration. Works wonders for paid search campaigns, allows you to target keywords by frequently searched country, regions, and city for maximum ROI. Both tools are similar with insight adding a bit more in-depth features. With these tools and a well optimized landing page you can clean up with your paid search campaigns.

6. Fast Blog Finder: Over the past few years SEO has transitioned from who can optimize a web page to reach closest to a 3% keyword density to more of a popularity contest. Meaning the more back links you have to your website the better chance you stand of out ranking your opponent. Just the share number of links is not the say all in this equation, the rank of the pages linking to you also plays a huge role appearing on the first page of Google. What way to get high quality links pointing to your website than a popular web log (blog)? Not only are these site popular with surfers, they are also popular with the search engine and held in high regards. With Fast Blog Finder software you can find hundreds of themed blogs in minutes! Sure beats the alternative.

7. Animoto: So you need video for your website, but don't know how to use a video camera, so what! No excuse not to have video on the web, Animoto is an awesome tool that allows you to build movie style trailers videos with photos you upload from your computer. You can choose from a variety of music that is preloaded with the service or upload your own. The interface is quite simple, you upload the photos, write some text, select your music and they do the rest.

8. Tube Mogul: After you create your videos you want reach your target audience. Lets face it Video sharing is one of the top techniques to get targeted traffic to your website quickly and cost effectively. Tube Mogul is a free video syndication tool that allows you to distribute to multiple video sharing platforms (You Tube, Meta Cafe, etc...) How cool is that? For an alternative with more reach. Traffic Geyser includes features such as lead page generators, social bookmarking, pod casting and more.

9. Keyword Elite: Great keyword research tool that save a ton of time, this tool scours the internet for keywords using variety of source. Instead of spending hours research keywords, let KE do it for you. Build a list of up to 10,000 keywords (of course this will take some time and depends heavily on your PC) without all the time spent in front of the computer. The fun doesn't stop there, KE interfaces with Word Tracker and Keyword Discovery to bring you a whole lot of keyword researching power. Find out what keywords your Adwords competitors are buying, spy on your competition, see how optimized their websites are. Keyword Elite is like having your personal all-in-one keyword research tool.

10. Social Media: The social networks are great source of targeted traffic, look at Twitter for instance. Twitter's a media baby; everyone's doing it from celebs to ball players. Organize your message and tweet to your hearts content, just remember add value not take away from it. Facebook is also a valuable source of traffic. What are you waiting for? Create your profile, develop your fan page interacting with your audience is a great way to get targeted visitors.

 

Bonus: Link Referral and Traffic Swarm: Traffic exchanges, if you feel like killing an hour or two a day just surfing the web and discovering new web pages, blogs and forums, traffic exchanges might be for you. The concept is simple earn traffic credits for surfing other websites. In some case you will have to write a review for some of the sites you visit. The good things is you get a back link from each review and the site that you have reviewed sometime review your site thus resulting in valuable feed back and a back link to your website.

Other Great Tools that missed the list:

- Traffic Travis
- Web CEO
- SEO Elite
- Web links SEO


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