You need to build website traffic if you have any intentions of being able to survive online. But before you build your website traffic, it’s important to remember a very important principle:

All traffic is not equal.

1000 people coming to your website from your Facebook profile, isn’t the same as 1000 people coming to your website having searched for a solution to a problem or desire they have, and choosing your website as the answer for their needs.

There are a lot of ways to build website traffic, and no strategy alone should be used in isolation. You have to test different techniques of building website traffic and determine which will bring you the biggest returns. In this article we’re going to discuss 2 ways to build traffic.

Article Marketing

This is perhaps the most common free traffic building technique that many people are taking advantage of because it’s very easy to start with article marketing. You basically have to write articles about different topics. If you have a web design company, you can write about web design related topics in order to get targeted traffic to your website.

Please note that there are specific keywords that you need to pay attention when writing your articles so it will be displayed in the search engines naturally. After your articles are listed in the search engines, you can drive targeted traffic to your website for free!

Pay-Per-Click

PPC advertising is one of the most common form of paid marketing. You only pay when someone clicks your ads. It’s the most fastest, most reliable traffic building strategy you can use if you want consistent results.

PPC is not advisable for beginners though. I’ve seen a lot of people burn hundreds of dollars in just a couple of days with PPC. The key to being successful in PPC is to make sure that your expenses are less than your revenue.

Want to earn six figure income and at the same time help other people solve their problems?

Think about the last products that you have purchased. Think really hard.

Likely most of these purchases were to solve a problem. How about some facial cream, how about some warmer blankets, what about some nicotine patch, how about a membership to an Internet marketing program, and you can’t forget those dieting pills you bought the other day.

All of these are ‘problem’ purchases, and regardless of our finances, we are willing to spend our last hard-earned money on solving our problems.

Having no money is a problem. Not having a partner is a problem. Not getting enough sleep is a problem. A skin allergy is a problem. Your dog urinating on your carpet is a problem. Your rising credit card debt is a problem. Your cheating spouse is a problem. Being overweight is a problem.

If you spent this year online searching for problems and helping people solve them, you would easily earn a six figure income online.

The problem of people may be that they cannot afford something offline, but if they could find it cheaper online, they are more than willing to buy it. You have no idea how many people are doing this, but a lot of these purchases are the result of something cheaper online than offline.

For example, someone is looking to buy a new microwave. They look for it offline and and it is $129. A bit too much for their budget. That same person is likely to go online to continue their research. If they can get the same microwave for $129 online with free shipping and a 2-year warranty, then there’s a good chance that they will buy it online.

Just imagine the immense size of the Internet, the massive size of problems out there, and the abundant size of people going online to make purchases (instead of offline), should be more than enough to get anyone excited on starting their Internet marketing business.

Want to hear some of the Internet marketing success stories over at the Wealthy Affiliate forum?

I didn’t get to read success stories from real people when I first started out and I guess that’s one of the reasons why I’m very skeptical and fearful of trying out Internet marketing.

There are only enticing headlines from so-called gurus telling me they earned thousands of dollars in just a few short weeks and that’s not my idea of a success story.

When I first joined Wealthy Affiliate, I quickly headed out to their forum inside the general success category.

It was more than I expected!

Of course there were a lot success stories from real people but the person behind each story reveals their personal techniques on how they’ve achieved their success. In this article I will share some of the success stories and hopefully you’d be motivated and inspired as you read through.

omgomgomg FIRST SALE!!

This is a post from a 16 year old! He got his first sale after a month of being inside WA and ever since that first sale his income is rising at a faster rate. Right now he’s averaging over $100 per day and he’s only using free methods to promote products.

What Are You Doing Tomorrow?

This is a post from Carson (one of the owners of WA). When he started, his daily budget was only $5 and sometimes he would go over that limit because of some losing campaigns. After 3 years, he now has multiple campaigns and a network of websites that earns him $50K or more in a single day on multiple occasions.

Success Can Be In The Little Things

Successes inside WA isn’t only measured in monetary sales. This is a post from a retired teacher who learned a lot of things like how to put an HTML link, got articles approved after 2 weeks, how to build a blog, learned marketing vocabularies, etc.

Do you want to know the key to making money online?

But first, let me ask you this… Do you have any idea how Internet marketing works and why does it work?

I read a lot of make money online forums, and there are many people who are giving up on Internet marketing.

Like most of them, I almost quit but after giving it some serious thought, I realized that Internet marketing is a serious business that is much similar to the offline way of business building.

The biggest reason why people fail to make money online is…

Because this industry makes it so hard to find and focus on the right information and persists with a single course of action until it results in a profit.

However, the one single most important factor that will determine your business’ success is: how to generate targeted traffic.

If you really think about it, building targeted buying traffic is the toughest part of Internet marketing and this is the part where most of the beginners will fall flat on their faces.

Sure it’s important to have a usable website, a relevant landing page, good sales copy, etc., however, if you don’t have enough targeted traffic, nothing will really happen.

They will be playing with their latest tools, setting up their flashy websites, reading tutorials, etc. but after a couple of weeks, you’ll learn that you’re only getting little or no traffic at all.

Let’s calculate, let’s say you promote a product ($50 commission) that converts 2 for every 100 visitors, and you generate a steady flow of targeted traffic of 200 visitors per day, you will earn around $200 per day.

But, if you only get a handful of visits per day, you’ll have a hard time seeing any conversions, no matter how awesome your website might be.

So, if you’re on the verge of quitting this business or you’re just starting out, I suggest you get back into it. Just make sure you put an extra effort in generating enough targeted traffic.

Always remember that failures are just opportunities for you to succeed.

How do you setup an online business? Where do you start? Is there a right or wrong way?

I only became interested in setting up an online business when I saw a fellow blogger who is earning 15K a month with Internet marketing.

As I continued promoting my web design services, I’ve been having a tough time dealing with clients who’s always looking for cheap web designs. Eventually I ran out of client leads because I didn’t want to lower my rates.

That’s when I decided to try making money online from Internet marketing.

Once I started working, I soon realized that Internet marketing is not easy. At first it may look like it’s a piece of cake because you don’t need a lot of stuff like a normal offline business would need, but it’s still not a walk in the park especially if you’re just starting out.

The first challenge was to find the best educational resource available because the system that I tried out didn’t really work for me. There were hundreds of guides that promised overnight riches. I bought some of them but I discovered that they were either garbage information that I can find for free or that they were too advanced.

I had to accept the fact that I have to try out some things and see if it will work out or not. I told myself that buying some guides would be an investment for my business. This caused me a lot of frustration because I’ve wasted a lot of money and a good amount of my time.

Can you really setup an online business?

First, Internet marketing is the best place if you want to start a profitable business because:

• You can start out with little or no budget at all.
• Your success depends on how hard and consistent you take action.

Second, you must accept the fact that there is no proven and effective way to setup an online business without quality education and training (try Wealthy Affiliate).

Being an Internet marketer will require you to have a different mindset towards being successful.

After you’ve put in the required effort (be honest with yourself), you will start seeing positive results. Forget about getting rich quick because there’s no such thing!

Do you want to know what are the most effective Internet marketing tools?

When you are getting started with Internet marketing business, you will definitely need some Internet marketing tools ready at your disposal. In this article, I will cover the 6 most effective Internet marketing tools that you should get for your business.

Web Hosting

A web host is like your hard drive on the Internet. It lets you upload and store your web pages so people can actually visit your website and buy whatever it is you’re selling. I’m currently paying $6/month on web hosting but Wealthy Affiliate offers FREE hosting!

Domain Name

After you have your hosting ready, you then buy a good domain name. You have 2 ways on how to pick a domain name:

• Keyword rich domain names – dogtrainingmanual.com, naturalweightloss.com, etc.
• Brand Name – Google.com, Yahoo.com, EzineArticles.com, Ebay.com, etc.

Website Builder

If you have any plans of starting an online business you will need a solid website builder (also known as HTML editor). Wealthy Affiliate has a website builder called Site Rubix which allows you to create your website in just minutes without having any HTML knowledge!

Keyword Tool

This tool is vital to your business because it allows you to find out the exact words and phrases that people type in search engines. But did you know the most powerful keyword tool is your brain?

Content

Content is still the king. You need lots of high quality content to bring in traffic. After you have some keywords, you can then start writing articles that targets your keywords so you can bring in targeted traffic to your website.

Mailing System

Also known as the auto responder. An auto responder allows you to collect emails of your visitors so you can further your relationship and build trust. Make sure to offer quality information to your subscribers and don’t bombard them with the products you’re promoting or selling.

Learn how to maximize the full potential of these tools by learning solid Internet marketing fundamentals and with the support of thousands of Internet marketers over at Wealthy Affiliate.

Do you want to earn residual income from home?

I totally understand where you’re coming from – making money for someone else isn’t really the path that I wanted to pursue and that’s why I needed to earn residual income and be my own boss once and for all.

Let me show you the steps on how you can earn residual income from home.

Steps On How to Earn Residual Income

Go to ClickBank

Go and check out the ClickBank Marketplace. Then select “Recurring Billing” under the Product Type drop-down menu. Let’s say you wanted to look under the Health and Fitness category and put in weight loss in the keywords text box.

After you press go, look under each product listing and look for something like this: Future $: $26.62. This basically means that if someone you refer to the merchant’s website takes advantage of this offer, you will receive $26.62 each and every month until they decide to cancel their membership with the merchant.

Write a Blog Post

The next step is that you need to write a blog post for the product that you’ve selected to sell. Your article doesn’t have to be written like a novel and most of the time your visitors would only scan your page and will not read every word on your article.

Put in some product images which you can usually get from the merchant’s website. Most of the time the merchant’s website will have an affiliate section where you can get product images of different sizes.

Important thing to remember when writing a promotional article is that your content must be unique. Don’t copy the text from the merchant’s website, provide genuine reviews and good information to your readers.

Drive Traffic

If you have no traffic then you have no sales – it’s really that simple. Important thing to remember is that your traffic must be of high quality and highly targeted.

Basically you can drive traffic by using 2 methods:

• Paid Advertising – also known as PPC. Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing are the more popular choices.
• Article Marketing – free method of driving targeted traffic to your website by writing articles and submitting them to article directories.

You can definitely earn residual income from home if you believe in yourself and just take action.

To earn residual income online is really easy but it will take you a considerable amount of time before you start making consistent sales. I’m fortunate because I saved a great amount of time by learning the solid fundamentals of selling products online by joining the Wealthy Affiliate program.

Are you still looking for another Affiliate Jump review?

Do you feel that you’re ready for some CPA affiliate marketing?

Affiliate Jump is brand new CPA (Cost per action) network created by Mike Filsaime and Joe Holland. The program has a one-click system to setup your websites and then you are supposed to pay for traffic using Google Adwords.

I haven’t ventured into CPA marketing yet, because right now I’m doing article marketing which is a great way to start affiliate marketing because it’s FREE! I got interested in Affiliate Jump because I saw a discussion over at the Wealthy Affiliate forum which is really interesting. Continue reading →

Interested in PPC and looking for some Adwords Killer review? Can you really be an adwords killer?

I lost a huge amount of money the last time I used PPC and I don’t want that happening to you. Ever since that huge blunder, I’ve been diligent enough to look for a PPC guide that will really provide me with the information I need to succeed.

Adwords Killer is a PPC guide created by Will Halliburton, a marketer who was involved with affiliate marketing since 2003. Adwords Killer is designed to teach people how to build an online business using Google Adwords as the main traffic source. The guide has a step-by-step guide that begins with finding products to promote and how to setup an effective Google Adwords campaign.

This is well and good but is it really worth it? Continue reading →

Simply put, the definition of Internet marketing is the process of promoting another company’s products for a commission. Internet marketing is very much similar to other forms of offline marketing in that you have to different elements: a consumer and a product.

Your job as an Internet marketer is to coordinate these two elements together in order to drive sales to either your own website or an affiliate website. You don’t need to have your own product to start because there are thousands of companies that are looking for affiliate marketers to promote their products online in exchange for a commission.

There are many different methods on how companies will pay you, but basically companies will either give you a percentage of the sale or a considerable amount of money for any sale or lead that you generate.

Understanding the basic definition of Internet marketing is very important and that’s one of the first things I’ve learned at the 8-week action plan of Wealthy Affiliate.