Best Way to Increase Traffic to Your Website

There are a number of ways to increase traffic to your website but the main ways are article marketing, SEO, PPC and email marketing.

So which one is the right for you?

Obviously that depends on your objectives and how much time you have to spend on traffic generation so let's look at each in a bit more detail.

Article marketing is when you write an article and submit it to a place like Ezinearticles.com and in return you can place links back to your website in the author resource box.

This is also a good way to increase the backlinks to your website through SEO as well - so the benefits are twofold - the direct traffic from those people reading your article and a secondary boost in rankings by having a link to your site.

If you want to further improve your SEO then instead of just placing a regular link to your website, that you create an anchored text link. That means using the keyword that you want to rank for as 'anchored' text back to your site.

Eg.

Regular link:

http://answerstraffic.com/

Anchored Link using Keywords:

Best Way to Increase Traffic to Your Website

If you have the cash you can also pay for traffic. PPC (Pay Per Click) services such as Google's Adwords allows you to place advertisements on the front page of Google and also the content network for various search terms that you specify. PPC can be difficult to master and isn't recommend for beginners.

Email marketing is where you get the email address of the potential customer and then you can send them to your website whenever you like (say when you write a new post or create a new ebook).

There are many other ways to increase the traffic to your website including forum marketing, adding your website link to places like Yahoo Answers, creating YouTube videos, social bookmarking and more.