How To Get Traffic To Your Site Online

Aloha to my readers,

I would like to talk about marketing online today. More and more, with living expenses high, unemployment high and job wages not keeping up with the cost of living, people are looking for ways to make more money. If you are married and have kids, there is a great possibility that both Mom and Dad work full time to meet the bills. Then what do you have left over, to put away for your children's education, or for your own retirement? Do you believe that Social Security will still be even here when you are ready to retire?

--> Multitudes of people have looked to working from home on their computers to make that extra amount of income that will allow them some breathing space. It is not fun to lie awake in bed at night wondering how are you going to make ends meet! All it takes is one thing to go wrong, an injury, a job loss, and the emergency fund you had that gave you a sense of security is gone.


Marketing online takes some know how! There are many ways to earn money from home. Affiliate Marketing is one of these. That is when you market somebody else's procuct and get a percentage (commission) from the sale. This can add up very quickly to a nice amount of income for you. There are several companies online that are looking for affiliates all the time. Here are a few: Clickbank, Commission Junction, Rakuten Link Share are just a few that are out there. You can choose from a variety of products for different niches. A niche is simply your field of expertise, such as Health and Beauty, Gardening, Golfing.....what are you an expert at? It is good to pick a niche for yourself and market in that area, because you already have the expert knowledge of that particular field.


If you already have an existing business or service, so much easier! The main thing you need, what ever it is you are marketing, is traffic. Traffic is visitors to your site. There are so many methods of doing this! There are plenty of sites online to advertise on. If you can afford to invest for traffic, you can buy visitors, or pay a company to mail out solo ad campaign for you, word of mouth, social site networking, traffic exchanges, even Safelists, though how effective all the free advertising is just depends on how consistent you are with doing it on a daily basis. What is your budget for your business?


What you want to do is when somebody does visit your site, ideally, is to get their name and email address so that you can let them know when you are giving a deal, adding a new product or giving a bonus item away. This is what marketers call "list building". When you have a large list of people, Internet marketing is a numbers game, the bigger the number of visitors, the greater your sales and commissions! The best way to grow your list is with an autoresponder, which is software that programs e-mails to go out to your list when you want them to. I use Aweber, and they have a special $1 for your first month, as well as great customer support and how to.

This is a very general overview of making money online. You can have this blog emailed to you by filling in the form below. Thank you for reading! See you soon!