Sunday, April 24, 2016

Driving Free Targeted Website Traffic - Part 1

Free targeted website traffic is a powerful internet marketing method that can be used to get targeted visitors to visit your website, blog or landing page. These traffic generation strategies can help you build a powerful online business without having to invest any upfront capital.

How to get free targeted website traffic
Best Internet Marketing Strategies to drive free targeted website traffic
Today we will be discussing different ways you can drive free targeted website traffic to any of your money links. Whether you are promoting your own website, your own product or an affiliate product - these methods can be used to drive targeted traffic to almost any kind of link.

Free Targeted Website Traffic

Before we dig into how to drive free targeted website traffic to your links, it's important to understand the different types of website traffic that can be generated using free traffic generation strategies.

The different types of website traffic can be classified according to the following categories:

  1. Direct traffic
  2. Organic traffic
  3. Referred traffic
Let's start by taking a look at the 3 different types of website traffic.

1. Direct traffic

Direct traffic refers to any website visitors that comes to your website directly by typing in your website's URL in their browser. This traffic does count as traffic towards your website's analytics, but doesn't have a large impact on the search ranking of your website. 

Direct traffic can usually be obtained by promoting your link through non-hyperlinked text on the internet, or by distributing flyers, posters, business cards and brochures offline. Whenever someone sees your link and types it into their web browser to visit your website, it is called "direct traffic".



2. Organic traffic

Organic traffic refers to visitors landing on your website as a result of your website's search engine presence. When someone searches a phrase or keyword you are targeting on your website, and they click on your website in the search results, it's called organic traffic.

The more organic traffic your website receives, the higher it will skyrocket in different search engines.

Organic traffic can be increased by properly optimizing your website's on-page SEO and by building high quality, relevant links pointing back to your website, also known as backlinks.

3. Referred traffic

Referred traffic refers to any traffic that comes from a specific website such as Facebook or Quora. When someone clicks on your link, a "referred" variable is also sent through with your link so your website's analytics system can track where the visitor came from, or from where the visitor was referred to your website.

Final Words

Even though we didn't look at the exact strategies that will allow you to drive free targeted website traffic back to your links, we've taken a look at the different types of website traffic that can land on your website.

It is important to understand these terms first before starting to generate free targeted website traffic. This will also help you better understand your website's traffic statistics when you draw reports or take a look at your website's analytical data.

In Part 2 of "Driving Free Targeted Website Traffic", we will be looking at the different methods you can use to actually start generating targeted traffic to your website, blog, landing page or affiliate links.