Getting Traffic to your Website

Your website needs traffic if you hope to make any money.  You might have a great website - but no traffic means no one will see it, no one will click on anything or buy anything, and you will earn nothing.

How do you get traffic to your website?  Easy!  Pay a lot of money to Google for "Google Ads" and there you go. Done.   But many of people start in the business on a shoestring and there is a much less expensive way to do this - and to a large degree this is why you should develop a website related to your interests and experience. Do a Google search and find discussion groups related to your topic.  Register and participate in the groups. 

Try to find high traffic discussion groups where lots of people participate.  Use a "SIG" line or signature line at the bottom of your message.  These are usually set up in your "profile."  Put your website URL and a short accurate description of what your website is about in that signature line and you are on your way.  You will see other people doing this also - now you know why!

What you will find is that the many people who visit the discussion group will see your SIG line and at one time or another will click on it.  On high volume discussion groups this will begin to add up to a lot of visits.  And these tend to be high quality visits as these are people who already have an interest in your topic.

If you participate in several high volume discussion groups you will find your traffic start to build.

Next, go to Google and join up at the Google Webmasters site.  This site will show you how to increase your exposure to the Google search engine and increase your traffic from Google.

These things take time.  Don't expect your traffic to skyrocket quickly.  Be patient, persist, participate in the groups - and your traffic will come.  Some traffic is seasonal, certain times of year will bring you more traffic than others.  Give each website you develop at least six months to begin to build serious traffic.