There are many ways to generate traffic to your website, but almost all traffic generation techniques can be grouped into the following 3 methods:
1. Build it – this method usually takes a bit of time and effort on your part, it builds up over time. It’s a good strategy for building solid and long term web traffic.
2. Buy it – this method will give you IMMEDIATE traffic to your site but you need to PAY for it. One example of this method is Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising.
3. Borrow it – this method involves using other people traffic, it can also give you immediate traffic. One example of this strategy is Joint Venture or JV with other marketers who have large subscriber list. These marketers will help promote your offer to their subscriber list. But of course, you must share your revenue with the marketers who are willing to share their list with you.
The ADVANTAGES of directory submissions:
o It helps boost your site PR (Google Page Rank). Many directories have PR from 1 to as high as 8, they are considered high authority sites. So getting back links from these sites will boost your site ranking.
o It improves the search engine position of your site. The higher your site PR is…. the better search engine position your site will get… the better your search engine position is… the more traffic you’ll get.
o It helps build up long term and sustainable traffic to your websites. Yes, it may start slow but it will gain momentum with time.
There are many ways to promote a blog. It will likely depend on what you found the most convenient way to use. Some ways will take you some time in front of the computer to do the promoting. But, there’s also a way to promote your blog in an automatic way, and that is by using directory submission.
Directory submission is one of the easiest ways to promote a blog and therefore getting many links to your site. This process is the listing of your blog by category in directories, hence, to enable the search engines to pick up your site then put it in the search results. When your site has been submitted to these directories, it will then get a descent amount of web traffic.
