How To Generate More Website Traffic One Day At A Time!
If you are struggling to generate some traffic online, maybe you should re-evaluate where your time should be spent and setup a schedule to be more consistent.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that new software program that comes out every single month that promises to solve all of your traffic problems isn’t going to work. It never has and probably never will.
Traffic is about consistency. If you set up a specific schedule and remain consistent with your traffic generation strategy, then you will start seeing some traffic.
It won’t be big at first. You are not going to get 10,000 unique visitors tomorrow, and probably not even next week. But if you do a little everyday (it doesn’t have to take hours) then you will start to build traffic, and grow it.
Pretty soon, you will be generating big traffic.
I think the main problem with generating traffic isn’t that you don’t know how, it is actually doing the work required to generate that traffic.
Think about it, you already know plenty of ways to generate traffic, there’s:
-Paying for clicks at Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
-Writing and submitting articles to all of the article directories like EzineArticles.com.
-Running an affiliate program or getting joint venture partners to promote for you.
-Getting listed in the major search engines.
-Viral marketing campaigns.
-Going to places like Big-Boards.com and join in on discussions, use your sig file to promote your site.
-Social media avenues like Twitter.com and Facebook.com
-Video marketing and submissions to places like Youtube.com or Viddler.com.
-All of the different sorts of banner advertising.
Getting traffic isn’t the hard part, it is the constant work involved. So what you really need is a strategy to follow so that you are always driving traffic to your site, with as little work as possible..
Almost everything about making money online is a one time job, except for generating traffic. You have to do that constantly to make money. The autopilot traffic concept rarely works as well as the people selling it will have you believe.
Generating traffic involves working everyday, even if it’s just a little bit, to build big traffic.
It is a good idea to set specific days to do certain tasks that will build traffic.
For instance:
-On Mondays and Thursdays, check all PPC advertising and tweak the campaigns to make them profitable.
-Hunt for joint venture partners every Wednesday for all of your sites.
-Go to the discussion forums that are in your market at the end of everyday (after everything else for that day is completed) and make relevant post about the topic and leave your link to your blog in your sig file (don’t spend too much time at the forums, just get in and get out).
Pick a day each week to brainstorm new ideas to generate traffic (I don’t work on Fridays or the weekend, so my brainstorm day is Thursday so that the ideas are in my head all weekend. I find this helps to come up with new ideas while I’m out and about enjoying life.)
Whenever you find something that works well, outsource it. If you have found that it works, and are done with all of your testing or experimenting with that concept, then you can outsource it and move on to finding other traffic generation methods that work well for your business.
So write down the days that you have available to work on your Internet business and how much time you have each day.
Then schedule in traffic generation methods that you will do each day to build big traffic to your web site.
Then, all you have to do is follow your schedule!
It doesn’t have to be some complex brain map that’ll confuse the hell out of you. Just write down what days you will work on the different types of traffic generation methods that you want to employ.
Post a comment below and let me know what you think 
See you at the bank,
Wes Blaylock
I think we’re all guilty of not generating traffic consistently. It’s the “work” part of the business. I’d rather create a couple of products than work on traffic. But I agree – it’s the traffic that makes everything else work. Without traffic there is no list and no sales.
So keep reminding us, Wes!
Hi Wes
Great post and you are right it is difficult to make the time to spend on traffic and that is what makes our business work.
It is a brilliant idea to set aside days to do different tasks. I find that sometimes, especially when you are first learning Internet Marketing you can get bogged down doing things that you are not quite sure of and spend ages going round in circles. This makes a mess of any shedule.
This post is certainly good food for thought.
Regards
Katherine
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Wes has always seemed a bit reclusive – but for 7 or 8 years now I’ve been paying attention to what he does say and reveal. This blog is a good thing. Keep watching.
I like your post. I have several web sites so I have to get traffic for all of them amongst other things like updating, etc. so I recently started a folder for each with to do lists for each of them, including the traffice getting, link building section, so I never go too long without getting some kind of link. It really does help writing stuff down. I can remember a lot, but with so much going on in my biz and my life, I do forget some stuff, especially some cool ideas I have when I’m not working. That’s when it seems like I’m relaxed enough for the juices to start flowing. It’s seems like a tedious thing to do, writing it all down, but after you’ve tried it for a while you will feel more organized and not like you are forgetting something.
Sandra
Hi Wes & everybody! The hardest thing is sitting down and sending email or submissions to different blogs, ad blasters, groups that you have joined, double opt-ins and etc. This takes a lot of time and sometimes you spend some money on what you think is the bargain of the day or night. To add people to your list is not easy, I don’t care how many list builder programs you have. But you have to keep trying every day or night. Good Luck! Carlos G Grant www.goformoretraffic.com By the way! Thanks!
Wes I noticed that this weeks comment was about getting traffic through doing something every day. That is what I do. I do more than one web site however. I have lots but I work on my main money sites most usually. I suppose when I first started it took me an hour and a half to do it. Now I can get it done in 12 minutes. I got a lot of tools to speed things up, including a key word program and an article writer. In the end I think it is worth doing because my pages are steadily moving up the charts (a lot). – Bob
I agree, the process of generating traffic has to be consistent and it’s easy to lose focus if you don’t structure your day or week. You could add blog commenting to the list. It can get you traffic but it pays to be amongst the first 3 to post a comment so it’s essential to pick your blogs and subscribe to the posts.
Thanks for providing this great info on generating traffic. Like others have commented, I agree that getting traffic requires consistent work. I have several products that I promote which makes for a complex marketing strategy. I used to send traffic to a different site each day, but I have realized greater success from only sending traffic to one site – the one at the top of my sales funnel.
Wes has always seemed a bit reclusive – but for 7 or 8 years now I’ve been paying attention to what he does say and reveal. This blog is a good thing. Keep watching.