Other traffic ideas

There are literally hundreds of ways that you can generate incoming visitors to your site, including writing keyword focused articles as highlighted in the previous section.
Traffic generation is in and of itself a massive topic on which hundreds of e-books and special report have been written. To go into detail about traffic generation is therefore beyond the scope of this particular guide.
Fortunately however, there are plenty of online resources we can find all the information you could ever need to kickstart your online marketing efforts.
For example, if you want detailed information about how to market using articles, the excellent Bum Marketing method will teach you everything you could ever need to know.
You can create simple, short videos and by uploading them to all of the major video networking sites like YouTube using the free up load resource of TubeMogul, you can literally drive thousands of visitors to your site from some of the most popular website in the world.
Create a free press release using the press release 'format' from the excellent Publicity Insider website before getting one of the free best release distribution services like PRLog to send it out on your behalf to the major news sites like Google News, Yahoo News etc.
To make this work, all you need to come up with is a newsworthy idea, and if you can't immediately think of something, how about staging the competition online or setting up a local publicity stunt? Your news doesn't have to be something that is world shattering, just newsworthy.
Every time you publish new content, whether it is on your site or published externally on an article directory or video network site, make sure that you submit information about that content to the major social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Propeller and Digg. When you do so, make life easy for yourself by using a mass submitter like OnlyWire instead of submitting information to each individual social site manually.
Submit free classified advertising to major online advertising resources like Craigslist and USFreeAds. Whilst you ad may not appear on these sites are very long, whilst it is visible it will drive targeted traffic to your site. And given that both sites are completely free, there is absolutely nothing to stop you submitting adverts two or three times every week.
Be under no illusions about it. Targeted visitors are the lifeblood of your business, the difference between making thousands and making nothing. Once you have your site up and running, you must therefore ensure that it becomes an integral part of your daily routine to learn everything you can about how to generate massive amounts of visitors for your site, because by doing so, you have taken a very significant step towards ensuring that your business becomes a long-term success story.