Discover the force that keeps traffic and sales coming your way.

How do you get lot's of good website traffic? First, I'll give you my opinion which has been tailored (of course) by my experience of having a few websites on the Internet.

Every online merchant knows very well that, if you don't have traffic, then you don't sell. That's why on the Internet Superhighway, "traffic is like gold". It is precious.

You can get it for free if you know how to appease the search engine spiders - like the googlebot. You can buy lots of it as well from pay-per-click search engines and "traffic mills." But whatever you do, youwant to make sure that your traffic is targeted.

What is targeted traffic?

Targeted traffic means getting visitors who find exactly what they are looking for when they click to you website.

Simply, the information, product or service they find when they clicked the link that led to your page was what they targeted.

You could also think of it as getting people whom you target to visit your website, but I prefer the previous description. Targeted traffic should not mean "a captive audience."

It should be that the visitor has a need or an interest, you anticipate that need and provide the resource that is easily found by the visitor. But getting targeted traffic to your website can be tricky. I have listed some resources below that I have found to be very helpful in showing me how to turn traffic into sales.

More Information on Website Traffic

Here is a short list of some of my favorite places where you can find valuable information about generating excellent website traffic (and hence, more sales).

"Get to the Alexa Point Test" - If you already have a website you shouldn't miss this point (excuse the pun). However, let this statistic change you. Click here for more information on how to get more than normal share of the web traffic for free.

Spider food - This is a website about search engine optimization. I like it mainly because of the discussion forums. You can see the posts on many interesting topics related to traffic and the search engines. Here is the link to the Spider food website.

The 1stSearchRanking website - Usually I maintain that there are really no search engine optimization experts. Everybody is learning this SEO game right now because the engines are changing their algorithms all the time. However, Sumantra Roy is an expert in his own right. If you don't get anything else from him, pay attention to his advice on how to choose the right keywords for optimizing your pages.

You can funnel TARGETED traffic to any Primary E-commerce or Corporate Site. Do you already have an online store? A sales site? Well, most small businesses who do are in supreme pain... no traffic. But it's really quite simple to get a flood of traffic to your website as is explained here.

Jim Edwards is a good illustrator of how to write your web content so that the search engines will love to serve up your pages when people make web searches. Of course, this means finding the right search terms and using them the right way. This is the link to Edwards' description of his material. Click here.

A simple 2-page website that netted $51,351.94 in just over six months wasn't just good luck. There was a constant flow of targeted traffic and a solid marketing strategy behind it.