HOW TO GENERATE SERIOUS TRAFFIC TO YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE IN YOUR WEBSITES OR BLOGS

1. ONLINE ARTICLE MARKETING
 One of the easiest ways of promoting and attracting visitors to your website or blogsite is by writing articles in the subject area of your website. When you submit it online to some websites like www.articlecity.com , www.articlejoint.com , www.ezinearticles.com, search engine will spider them and they will become visible of search results. You can also distribute it to people for free on the internet and include the link to your website. 2. OFFLINE ARTICLE MARKETING Just like it is in online marketing, you can write sample articles in your area of expertise and then send it to several newspapers and magazine publishers requesting that they make you a guest writer on one of their If you get approved, you can include your website link, email address and phone number below your article or even at the top. This is also applicable to online newspapers. 3. USING AN AUTORESPONDER First of all, I would urge you to start using an autoresponder from day one after setting up your website. Like the saying goes, “the money is in the list” I’ll recommend few wonderful autoresponder/e-mail marketing software like www.awerber.com . There is also a good auto responder that you can use for free, go to www.mailchimp.com . You can sign up first for their free version before upgrading to a higher version so that you can know and understand how it works properly. The best of them all which I’ll recommend is to follow this link http://grsnip.com WHAT AN AUTO RESPONDER DOES FOR YOU With an auto responder, you can capture the details of every visitor that visits your website and keep the details for life. When you have a product or service to sell in future, all you need do is compose a sales message. With just a click on your mouse, you will have the message sent to all of them. You can even set the message to be automatically delivered to them at a given intervals up to two years in advance! 4. BUSINESS CARDS AND OFFICE STATIONARIES Apart from displaying your phone numbers and email address on your business cards and stationeries only, you can start including your website address. You will also be amazed at the results. 5. OFFLINE ADVERTISEMENT Ideal places to advertise includes, Newspapers, magazines, and on TV. Radio advertising is not really advisable because people might not really get the spelling of the website correctly except if your website name is as concise as shoes.com, tv.com, e.t.c. You can also advertise your websites through postal, handbills, and bulk sms. I would recommend the following newspaper magazines for your advert. ONLINE NEWSPAPERS www.vanguardngr.com www.sunnewsonline.com www.tribune.com.ng www.punchng.com www.businessdayonline.com www.nationalmirrornews.com www.ngrguardiannews.com www.newswatchngr.com www.thisdayonline.com www.financialstandardnews.com www.thetidenews.com www.championnewspapers.com OFFLINE MAGAZINES Tell magazine – for men Oak magazine- for youths Job express- for youths, graduates and unemployed Punch- for general public Business day National mirror Guardian Newspaper News watch This day The tide Champions newspapers 6. THROUGH FREE EBOOKS DISTRIBUTION Packaging information inform of e-books and distributing it for free online is another means of driving traffic to a website online. All you have to do is include your website address and ask them to give it out to their friends as well. Just make sure that the ebook has some real value to your prospective readers, because, if it does not, they would not even bother distributing it. 7. GOOGLE ADWORDS Google Adwords are the little text boxes displayed on the right of your search results on google. When you advertise on google Adwords, you are only billed when someone clicks on your advert. It is called PAY PER CLICK ADVERTIZING (PPC). Your adverts also gets to show on sites of people running google adsense on their website. It is a wonderful advertising program and signing up is easy. Just go to www.adwords.google.com but you will need a credit card to make the payments. 8. EMAIL SIGNATURES A signature is a small note you can designate to be assigned to all your outgoing email messages. You can include the link to your website in all your outgoing email messages. 9. SOCIAL NETWORKING MEDIA You can also drive traffic to your website through Facebook, Twitter pages. Go to www.facebook.com/pages/create.php. Create a facebook fan page or group for your customers, inform them about your products and tell them updates on your new services. You can also advertise on facebook cost per click advert. You may also advertise on facebook for free on www.advertise.com.ng Another wonderful means of increasing the number of your fans on facebook or twitter is through FIVERR. You will be amazed at the number of people who will be ready to advertise your facebook fan page to their friends for just $5. You can also go to www.fbfansupply.com/buy.facebook_fans.html to purchase targeted fans.