Now that you have you blog or site set up now it’s time to start focusing on website traffic promotion. To make money online you have to have traffic. The more traffic visiting your site the more money you can make.

7 Simple Methods of Website Traffic Promotion

1. Forums

A great way of driving traffic to your blog is by posting in forums. You want to ask questions, answer other peoples questions, interact and engage with people. You don’t want to sell anything, just try to be a resource to others. The more value you provide to others the more likely they will become interested in you and visit your website. There are a ton of forums online, just search for your keyword with the word forum in Google.

2. Articles

Writing articles is an effective method of website traffic promotion. Many articles directories rank high in the search engines, so if you do your keyword research right you can generate a flood of traffic to your site. Another method would be to have your articles point to a squeeze page for them to opt into your email list.

3. BlogCatalog

Register at BlogCatalog. This is a great place to locate other people and sites in your niche. You can visit their blogs, leave comments and tap into their traffic. Find out who your competition is and even find contacts to do business with and JV partners.

4.  Press Releases

Press releases can also be a huge method of website traffic promotion. They can generate a ton of traffic if done right. You don’t want to be salesy in your press release. Write it in third person as if someone else was doing a write up on your site. Press releases can get you into Yahoo News. This will make you look like an authority figure to your readers.

5. Giveaways

You can drive traffic to your site and build your subscriber list by joining JV Giveaway Events. All you need is a short report that is about 5 to 15 pages. Either write your own short report or find a PLR ebook you can use. Usually unique ebooks will bring in more subscribers, but either way works.

6. Video Marketing

Did you know that about 52% of traffic comes from video? Create a video based on one keyword or multiple keywords. Then sign up for TrafficGeyser.com. When you upload it to TrafficGeyser you can submit your video 14 different video websites.

7. Blog Commenting

Drive traffic to your website through blog commenting. This is quite similar to forum posting because you want to provide value to the blogger. You don’t want to just post “Nice website” or “great tips” on hundreds of blogs. By adding value and making the time to write a good comment you can attract the attention of their other blog readers causing them to click through your link and visit your website.

Money starts with traffic. If you start following these website traffic promotion methods you will see your visitors increase. The more time you spend on these methods the better results you will see.

One of the first methods of driving traffic I have learned is commenting on other peoples blogs.  I had always thought of blog commenting as a way to build backlinks to your website, which is a benefit, however if done right it can really help drive more visitors to your blog.

Here is the theory Alex Jeffreys teaches behind it.

Oil Rig Hopping

The internet is like the ocean.

If you were go tuna fishing where would you go? Would you go straight for the shallow waters or the deep part of the sea? Where would you get the most fish?

Some of the best tuna fishing in the world is located around man made oil rigs. An oil rig turns into a man made reef.

Algae grows beneath these man made oil structures. Because of the algae, clams start to build up all around it.  Little fish are then attracted because they eat clams. Then larger fish come to eat on the little fish. Then even larger fish come to eat on the bigger fish and then eventually you have sharks coming to eat on the even bigger fish.

By leaving comments on other blogs you are attracting all of those fish back to your blog.

If you are in the internet marketing niche, a great resource to finding great blogs is http://www.winningtheweb.com. You can get a list of the top internet marketing blogs from this website. These are sites that have LOADS of fish just waiting to swim over to your blog. You can also just do a simple google search for blogs in your niche.

Please remember that the key is not necessarily to post on as many blogs as you can, but to leave thought out, quality comments. The better your comments are the more likely it will attract visitors.

I struggled with this at first, just because I have hard time figuring out what to say. The more blog comments I have left though, the easier it gets.

Be sure to read the bloggers post. Don’t just leave a canned comment that you would leave on a hundred different blogs. Many people do this. I know this because most of them go straight to my spam filter. Some of these comments amaze me too, especially the ones that have absolutely nothing to do with what my blog is about.

If you find it difficult, take a couple quick notes while you are reading the blogger’s post. Find something that you can relate to. Maybe they mentioned something you have had experience with. Maybe you agree or disagree with something they have said. It’s ok if you disagree, just be sure you leave your opinion in a respectful manner.

The more blog comments you leave the faster you will get at it. Then yes, you do want to leave as many comments as you can to get more and more traffic. Just make sure they are always quality.

I know this works! I have left comments on some of the blogs I found in Winning the Web. My Google Analytics shows that I have had some visitors from these blogs, so they would have had to have found me through my blog comment.