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by Mark A Briody

Every website owner wants to believe that their site is unique, but for the most part there are hundreds of sites selling the same products or services with very little uniqueness between them. The key to uniqueness is in your internet marketing campaign. You must not only tell your potential customers what you have to offer that’s unique from others, you must also offer something they need to change a personal situation. All of this begins by first getting traffic to your website. Every website achieves this in their own way. Here are 15 ways to bring traffic to your website:

1. Submit to the search engines - There are many big search engines including Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask, AltaVista, Alexa, and more. You can either submit manually or you can use a paid service. Don’t multi-submit the same site in a short period of time, as this could get your site blocked.

2. Submit to Google Reader - Submit your site’s RSS to Google reader and it will quickly be crawled by the Google Blog Search.

3. Use My Yahoo Service - Here you can submit your website’s RSS feed on My Yahoo to assist your website in quickly getting indexed.

4. Submission to web directories - Submit to the top web directories like Yahoo Directory, or dmoz. There are other directories, so hunt them out.

5. Use pinging services - Use a pinging service such as ping-o-matic each time you add new content to your site. This will give you more visibility and extra links for your website.

6. RSS submission - Add your blog or website to the many RSS submission directories and search engines. You might not be able to submit to all, but you should be able to submit to plenty. Use one of the directories as a tool.

7. PPC programs - Pay per click is a form of advertising that can get great results for your site. When you use PPC, your site gets listed in the sponsored sections on the search engines. All of the search engines such as MSN, Yahoo, or Google offer this type of advertising.

8. Comments on blogs and forums - Making comments on the other blogs and websites of others is a nice niche that allows you get some very valuable one way links to your website. These comments need to be of value or you can expect webmasters to quickly remove them. Not only should your comments add value, they should be unique and not spam. In other words, don’t write something like “nice site.” Good comments bode well for your site, as other visitors will read these comments.

9. Article submission - this is one of the fastest grown components of bringing traffic to a website. It brings in one way links too. Articles are submitted to article banks and when others find the information informative, they are likely to use the link at the bottom leading to your website. Goarticles, findarticles, ezinearticles, and articlecity are just a few of the sites available.

10. Squidoo and Hubpages - You can go to these sites to create your hubs and lens. In under a half hour you can get this up and running.

11. E-mail signature - Linking back to your website using an email signature. You can use this signature on all your outgoing email. It’s a great way to create a traffic flow to your site and it’s completely free.

12. Social Media Marketing - This is one of the fastest growing forms of internet marketing. Sites like Digg, Facebook, Reddit, My Space, and Newsvine all offer great opportunities for your website.

13. Press Releases - Are free and a great tool for building traffic to your site and branding your name, as well as what you offer. If you think this has to be complex, you’d be wrong. You simply have to be able to write good copy that gets printed.

14. Traffic Exchange Programs - There are all kinds of traffic exchange programs on the net. All you have to do is a quick search on one of the search engines and you’ll have a long list. It’s a good way to get traffic to your site.

15. Yahoo Answer Services - Answerbag and Allexperts are question answer systems. You can go through the posted questions and when you provide an answer, you get a link. This is a terrific internet marketing tool.

There you have it - 15 ways to bring traffic to your website - an important part of your internet marketing.

If you’re consistently confused and need a little guidance with internet marketing. Take note: As a prominent internet marketer from Australia I’ve developed a totally free internet marketing course for struggling online marketers which can be found at The Free Internet Marketing Guide. This course was developed with the beginner in mind and as the author I am always contactable to help.

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Affiliate programs are marketing tools used by vendor sites such as amazon.com. Basically, you need to sign-up for the program and they will give you an affiliate ID number. You will receive instructions on how to create links to their website from your own website or written article. You can even create links to specific products on their website. When a person clicks on the link you made, the vendor site takes note of the reference number and your ID number. If the customer buys from the vendor, you are given a commission. In short, you promote their website and products. Once you have it set up, you just wait for the money to come in. Also, affiliates get discounts and bonuses based in the quantity of traffic that they are able to direct to the vendor site.Autoresponders are the answering machines of the internet. Say, you have a number of products on the internet up for sale. These products are technologically challenging to most people so you will need to provide detailed information on how to operate and maintain the devices. If you do this on your website, chances are you will have a design problem since this will require large amounts of space on the webpage. With autoresponders, you can place a link for all the nitty-gritty stuff and a pre-composed email message will be sent to the one who requested it. You can place a form where they can write down their email address and place the link below it. You will need to do the pre-composing of those automatic replies too.

Autoresponders can be used in many ways. Aside from answering queries for detailed information requests, autoresponders can also be used as correspondence trackers. Different websites offer autoresponders with different functions. Some of these sites offer autoresponder services for free.

If you happen to have an existing website, you can correspond with another website to have your banner placed on their site. In exchange, you will need to accommodate their banner on your site. The same is true for links. You can place a link to another site while the webmaster of that site can place a link to your site. If you don’t have a banner, you can search for free or paid banner maker utilities in the web.

Internet classified ads are an available option for promoting your website. Some classified ads websites give away their services for free.

If you want to become a big vendor site, the way to go about it is through e-commerce. This entails setting up shopping carts for your customers so they can note down their orders. You will also need to analyze your payment system. Of course, you will need to accept payments from major credit cards but you can allow or deny payments made by check, paypal or money order.

Electronic magazine or E-zines are newsletters that get sent regularly to a list of e-mail recipients. These recipients are subscribed to the E-zine so spamming is not an issue. You need to have an article about your product handy and several links embedded within it just in case the subscriber decides he wants your pocket knife.

With mailing lists, you send out a bunch of emails to a target audience. This is where spam usually comes from. One form of mailing list let’s the consumer decide whether he/she wants to be in your mailing list. This is called the opt-in mailing list. I like this list.

There are still a number of money making ideas and utilities that have not been covered here. To tell you frankly, there are just too many of them to mention. Why not browse around and take a look for yourself. Researching and reading material can be a tedious a process, but the knowledge that you gain it from it might be just what you need to set-up or improve your own internet business.

While there are many money makers out there, beware of those that claim to be able to teach you how to earn yourself thousands in a single week. For one thing, they charge you for it before you can even try.

Terry Detty, 42, enjoys all aspects of internet marketing and getting out for a breath of fresh air occasionally.  Online Internet marketing software, time and attendance and fix my credit.

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