Maria Gudelis | As Seen on TV, Entrepreneur, Author, Marketing and Real Estate Expert

OK – Got Website…Now What?

The What is this – you need to drive traffic to it!  Let’s make sure you don’t have a fancy looking billboard sitting on an empty dirt “cyber highway”.

Be Careful of the Cons Out There…You would have no doubt come across all the websites that stated ‘Website Traffic Guaranteed’ or ‘the best strategy to increase traffic to your website’!

But have you thought about what is actually guaranteed and what you would benefit from that? Have you thought what guaranteed website traffic means?

Or what is it that you can expect from such guarantees? Well, I shall tell you what that means.

When websites state ‘website traffic guaranteed’ they mean to say that you can expect a particular quantity of web traffic to your website when you pay or sign up with them!

But will that traffic convert?  Where is that traffic coming from…??? Shoot, I can go hire a few folks in India to hit a website with a bunch of different IP addresses and VOILA – instant traffic that does SQUAT for YOUR Business!

The guaranteed website traffic service providers state that they will be able to generate a targeted amount of traffic to your website in a given duration. They also state that they would use the latest technology in generating traffic to your website.

If generating traffic to websites was so easy, then why will different websites have different ranks on the search engine listings?

Each webmaster can easily sign up with a web traffic generating service and get the maximum desired amount of traffic to their website! Does that put an end to the problem of increasing traffic to your website? Does getting thousands of website visitors or maximum number of clicks or more page views define increased traffic to your website?

Give this a thought… 100 website visitors per day with 3 successful sales and 1000 website visitors for the same period with no sales.

Which would you prefer?

I would definitely pick the former!

The only guaranteed website traffic is the traffic that guarantee sales. But no such service can guarantee you sales. They only lead people to your website. The sale that happens next is entirely dependent on your website and your sales strategy!

I strongly believe that a profitable sale can be made from targeted traffic that you have earned from your own efforts. This is because, once you set out to earn traffic to your website, you will know where to start and what category of audience to target.

You will be seeking targeted visitors. The online marketing strategy you use to increase the traffic to your website is completely dependent on the success of your online business that is a result of your experience in the field and your ongoing relationship with your customers.

The core principle of online business marketing is generating targeted website traffic. Converting website traffic into sales determines the profit you have made through your online business. If you concentrate only on generating untargeted traffic to your site, you will lose out on your business, and if you do not spend time in increasing targeted traffic to your website, you will lose out the opportunity to attract buyers. Hence it is very essential that devote much more time to getting targeted traffic.

That is you generate the right traffic to your website that will more than likely guarantee sales for your online business.

Get involved in forums where people discuss products and services.

Observe, learn and promote your company in these places, in a subtle manner though. Start sharing valuable information with internet users via blogs. The more you contribute to knowledge sharing, the more you are perceived to be a subject matter expert and the more faith they will have in your products or services.