Good morning. 

Are you looking to make money online with your own website or with one of the affiliate marketing programs that are available? 

If so, one of the most important things you’ll need to learn is how to increase website traffic to your offers. 

It’s essential that you create a marketing plan that outlines the key steps you will need to take to drive traffic to your website. 

Having a marketing plan will also help you to establish your advertising budget …which, in turn, will determine the traffic tools and methods you can use to promote your affiliate marketing blog or personal websites.

Following are the key steps that you must take to develop your marketing plan and build traffic to your website.

How To Increase Website Traffic

1.  Establish your objectives and targets.

After you have built your website or joined the affiliate marketing program, you must establish your goals in terms of how much money you want to earn from your online business.

Knowing how much money you want to make will help you to calculate the amount of traffic  (visitors)  needed for your website to produce the necessary number of sales.

Your objectives and goals will guide you in deciding the level of promotion you need to do to advertise your website and build traffic to it.

2.  Establish your advertising budget.

This is a very important step as there are many ways of driving traffic to your website.

Some are affordable while others are expensive.

There are ways for you to buy website traffic

…and ways for you to get free website traffic.

You need to decide what your budget is and, therefore, what tools you can use to drive traffic to your website.

3.  Invest in the necessary tools to promote your website.

Once you have your budget figured out, your next step is to invest in the necessary marketing tools that you’ll need for advertising your website.

For example, in order to capture leads and follow up with your prospects, it is necessary for your website to have an auto-responder.

An auto-responder or automated email system is a tool that will capture your visitor’s email address and automatically send them emails on a regular basis.

These emails will have a link to your website and will invite your subscribers to visit your website …which will give you repeat traffic.

Having the proper tools to advertise and promote your website will make your traffic generating efforts more effective.

4.  Decide what your short term and long term advertising strategies are.

The quickest and easiest way to generate traffic and leads for any business is to buy website traffic through pay per click (PPC) advertising because it can bring you immediate results.

PPC can also help you drive targeted website traffic to your affiliate marketing blog, programs, or offers.

Pay per click advertising can be a great way for you to get website traffic quickly.

However, you also need to have some marketing strategies that will generate traffic to your website in the long term.

Pay per click marketing is normally considered to be the short-term solution for generating targeted traffic and leads fast, but it is also considered to be one of the most expensive ways to advertise your business.

Therefore, it is important for you to have other affordable ways of generating traffic to your website which will drive traffic to your site in the long term.

Methods such as article marketing, blogging, and forum participation are some of the long-term ways for you to get less costly or even free website traffic for your online business.

Before you start spending money on any website traffic strategy, make sure you follow the steps outlined above as they’ll help you select the best marketing tools for driving traffic to your website.

Want to learn another great marketing and traffic tip to get targeted website traffic

…and how I use it to promote the affiliate marketing programs I’m involved with?

Check out my post HERE.

To your success,

Doug

P. S.   Just a reminder that this Sunday, June 9th, 2013 is National Kids Day.

Remember …one of the keys to raising successful children is to play with your kids.

Plan something fun for you to do on Sunday …

and enjoy your kids!

“ready …set …go get’em!’