How do I get more traffic?

[Princess]

How a newbie can learn to drive traffic to my sites? I'm new at affiliate marketing. Thanks.

[Larwee]

Princess here is a thread that should be very helpful to you Increase traffic to website

[Princess]

Hmm ok it sounds good but what is a targeted link back? What is article marketing? what does relevant niche mean? and what is pay per click? Thanks!!

[longroad]

Targeted links are when other sites link to yours. Other releveant/related sites that is, as those links are most valuable rather than links from unrelated sites.

Article marketing is when you write and submit articles to directories, websites, forums etc which contain a link back to your own site. This is a fantastic way to get traffic and one of the easiest.

Sounds like you need to learn the very basics in which case the Newbies forum will be a good read for you

[Portia2008]

Hello!
It is a learning process. Read and you will find the answers.

[Reynolds]

I suggest you do a google search for bum marketing method. It's a great explanation of article marketing and it is free. Several affiliate marketers (me included) made first sales following these methods. It's not the only way to drive traffic to your site, but I think it's great education.

[John Guanzon]

Here is an extensive list of traffic building methods I have created, feel free if anyone spots any that I may have missed to add it to the list:

1. PPC - AdWords marketingtraffic
2. Article submission
3. traffic exchanges - instantbuzz, trafficswarm
4. Press release
5. Safelists
6. Social Networks - myspace, facebook, apsense, directmatches
7. Blogging
8. Bookmarking - digg, reddit, stumplupon
9. Squidoo
10. Directory Submission
11. Video Submission
12. Forums
13. Craigslist
14. JV Partners
15. Text/banner exchanges
16. Purchase banner ads
17. Link exchanging
18. SEO

[MrCat]

Here are some other ways you could improve traffic to your sites, some oif which will also help in your site's SEO: (posted this months ago somewhere in this forum)

Directory Submissions - targeted links at high PR directories
Blog and Forum participation - to high PR and frequently crawled sites
Social Bookmarking
Press Releases
Classified Ads
Article Marketing - submit to high PR directories, could also serve as link baits
Link Exchange - with relevant and authority sites
Link Baits - for organic linking
Etc. etc.

[longroad]

I know of people who do nothing but article marketing and earn $xxxx per month!

[Daniel08]

article writing is a great way. Also posting ads on craigslist.com Its free to post and the post will get indexed in the search engines within a day