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Welcome back to Part II of How To Increase Targeted Web Site Traffic.

Make sure you have read Part I thoroughly before proceeding ahead.

OK one more thing. This article is for those who already have started with their online business. I mean you have some sort of online presence by way of a website or a blog.

For others, part I should be more then enough. You can conveniently skip part II since it requires action.

However if you consider starting your own internet marketing business, I would recommend that you download the 15K Challenge strategies to explore the facts about internet marketing and know for sure if it is right for you even without committing a single dollar from your pocket.

Fine…. now let’s begin.

Once you have a site, here’s what you can do to drive referred targeted traffic to your site…

1) Find some related blogs, read them, identify trends, and post comments (no stupid comments, no spam of course) with a link back to your site where you’re also discussing the topic. There’s excellent software called Blog Commentor that automates this entire process. You can download it free here.

2) Do the same with related forums. Use search engines to find relevant forums. Register and start being active on these forums. Use your signature to put a link back to your site.

3) Create a blog (if you don’t have one) and post on a regular basis on it. Use a service like feedburner to syndicate your content with other webmasters.

4) Submit your feeds, blogs, and site to niche directories

5) Find “authority” sites in your niche, analyze them and contact the webmasters to:
a) Propose a link exchange (you should first put a link to their site),
b) If you’re selling a report or an eBook, propose them to become an affiliate (give them a free copy of your eBook first), and make it easy for them to manage their promotion.
c) If they have a newsletter, read it, understand it, and then ask the webmaster if you can have a sponsored ad into it, or even better a solo ad where you could advertise your site, newsletter, eBook…
d) Propose content exchange with link back to each other’s website
e) Build a relation with them

6) The most effective: write articles and submit them to article directories (some with big traffic and some niche related ones)

7) Social bookmarking and social networking:
a) Build a Squidoo lens. You can find many sites like Squidoo and build pages about your niche on these ones too. You can link them to your main niche sites, you can link back to your blogs, or even to your other “squidoo” like pages, thus creating a “niche social net” all relevant to your niche.
b) Build a myspace account and create a profile around your niche, then build your “list” of friends around this profile.
c) Submit your site to social bookmarking services (digg, technorati, del.icio.us …)
d) You can also comment on the most popular entries with a link back to your site, blog, or squidoo lens.

8) Use videos and sites like youtube.com (and similar) to drive traffic to your niche site. Produce a short video (2-3 minutes) around your site, your niche and you. Link to your Videos from your “niche social net” (see 7)). Also, ask webmasters to put a link to this video (once you have build a relation with them) - Or they can upload it to their server and brand it with their affiliate ID, if you have an affiliate program

9) Make it viral: your best source of (new) traffic…is your (current) traffic!
Use some “Tell a friend” features on your site to have them promote your site. You can provide incentives (such as a free report, a coupon for your eBook…) If you would like to have loads of eBooks that you can use to have your own viral membership sites or just for anything, in as many as 18 plus high traffic niches, you need to checkout Part III of the 15K challenge.

All the above traffic generation techniques do not cost a penny… (Unless you pay for advertising on a partner’s site)

10) Paid Traffic: Yes…, you can pay to get targeted traffic: You can advertise through text link ads, banners that will appear on high traffic sites.

You should seriously consider paid traffic. Do not see it as a cost, but rather as an initial investment to boost your site. Also, if your site is correctly monetized, then paid traffic is the easiest way to get some quick metrics about this, and to make it profitable quickly.

As you see we could easily expand this list. But, those are, in my opinion, the most important sources of Referred Traffic.

Now, compare the above list with Search Engine traffic, and you will see why your approach should focus on generating Referred Traffic and not Search Engine Traffic. This type of traffic will come naturally anyway…

I hope I made Traffic Generation a bit clearer. I would like to thank my friend JP Schoefell for helping me put this article together for my readers. Please visit Niches-In-A-Box. There is a great wealth to be made through niche LSI sites.

If you don’t know what LSI is, you can download JP’s highly acclaimed free report called ‘Secrets to Niche Mastery, Beyond SILO Structure and LSI’. Yes those are the latest in traffic generation strategies that JP talks about and you could be one of the early starters to implement them.

More later.

Mark DMello