Generating Traffic To Your Website

Posted By Mike Paetzold on December 14, 2009

Hi let me take a minute to introduce myself. I am Mike Paetzold, and for the last 5 weeks I have been traveling across the blogoisphere taking up residence as a guest blogger each week on a different blog. This is part of The Old Bald Guy’s Blog Tour.

Doug was gracious enough to invite me here and I hope you find it beneficial too. This week I am going to discuss 4 ways to generate traffic.

Now there are many more than just 4 ways to generate traffic but as I am only going to be here for a short stay that was as many as I can fit in unless I write a book everyday instead of a blog post.

By the way Doug did a 3+ hoiur call with Willie Crawford that covers these and many more if you are looking for more at Top Traffic Tips.

Here are the 4 ways I will be discussing this week.

Blogs
Articles
Videos
Podcasts

Tomorrow I will start with blogs but there is a topic that most ignore when discussing traffic that is necessary to understand first. Traffic is absolutely worthless if you do not have a system to convert it.

Always make sure that you set up that first before you worry about getting traffic.

For example – If you want traffic to build your list you need a squeeze page up and the rest of your system. That includes a thank you page and a download page. Until you have those the traffic can’t do anything for you.

Sending traffic to an offer that does not convert is again a waste. It might be necessary to test and tweak the offer but if you do not have an effective offer work on improving that first before you waste a lot of time and/or money generating traffic.

One other thing that is important to uinderstand and why this part is important is that all traffic has a cost. It can be money or it can be time but you will pay with one or the other to generate traffic so you may as well get as much as you can back from it.

The 4 ways I am going to be discussing this week can continue to send traffic after the initial effort but there is still an initial cost.

I’ll be back tomorrow and start talking about generating traffic with blogs.

About the author

Mike Paetzold has been online since 2000 and runs numerous blogs and you can find out what he is up to at Mike Paetzold Recommends.

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6 Comments so far

Andre Arnett
Twitter: learningaffil
on December 14th, 2009

Hey Mike, I find you again traveling around on your blog tour. Looks like you have a real good topic picked out this week so I will be paying close attention. Have a good week.
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Earl Netwal on December 14th, 2009

First things First, eh Mike. Excellent point. Of course you need to get a fair amount of traffic before you can judge how well your squeeze page is working so you have to do some traffic promotion to make a judgment, but once you do, it clearly makes a lot of sense to focus first and foremost on the mechanics of your system, and then on driving traffic to it.
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Joel Osborne
Twitter: JoelOsborne
on December 14th, 2009

You’re right, I see it all too often where people are just worried about getting traffic to their site, without thinking that it has to be targeted traffic. Nothing happens unless someone takes action on your site, and that won’t happen with general untargeted traffic.
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Lonnie Minton
Twitter: AffiliateBus
on December 14th, 2009

Mike, I like your topic for this blog tour stop. Building a list is a key part of internet marketing success and you are right that a squeeze page and all of its parts must be a part of you traffic strategy.

Looking forward to your discussion on a system to convert traffic. As you say getting traffic is not the end; converting it to the desired result is.
Lonnie Minton´s last blog ..Adding Integration Into Your Affiliate Marketing
Luca Di Nicola
Twitter: rsonline
on December 16th, 2009

Generating traffic is a must in any online business but as you pointed out you need something set up to send the traffic to – then get targeted traffic. I’m looking forward to the rest of your series
Luca Di Nicola´s last blog ..Niche Site Club $1 Trial Ends December 31st 2009
Brett McEllhiney
Twitter: bmcellhiney
on December 17th, 2009

Looking forward to the weeks posts Mike,

Traffic is the lifeblood of any site and without it you certainly won’t get very far.

Can’t wait to see what you have up your sleeve.
Brett McEllhiney´s last blog ..Creating a Paypal Button for Your Niche Site Sales Page

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