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The best traffic-generation ideas combine the better sources of free traffic with some paid advertising. I propose three methods that will boost your traffic. If you remain dedicated to these three methods of advertising, you will get all the traffic you need.

1. Writing and distributing articles

This is my favourite way of driving traffic to my sites. Articles have the ability to become viral, and that can be a huge plus for you, and a great reason to write articles. Focus on creating a 300 word article related to the theme of your site or business. Include a resource box at the end of your article that features a link back to your site. Then, distribute your article to article distribution sites (like EzineArticles.com) and email groups (like http://groups.yahoo.com/group/business_articles). You will see traffic from this method.

2. Contributing to forums

The key word here is “contributing.” Recently, too many good forums have been besieged by “marketers” posting ads. This is considered to be forum spam, and is not in good taste. Instead, visit forums, read posts, and when you have a good, well-thought-out question or reply, post it to the forum. This type of question or reply allows you to build credibility in that forum, and will earn interest in your business from other readers. Most forums allow you to post a link at the end of your post, or in a signature file, and you can promote your business there. As you build credibility, you will build traffic.

3. Buying ezine ads

This is a paid method of advertising, but it works, because it is the most targeted of these approaches. Write a concise ad for your business, then begin contacting ezines to place your ad. (Do a search for “ezine directories,” and you will find enough lists to keep you busy.) When you contact an ezine, look for rates for both classified ads and solo ads. The advantage to a solo ad is that your ad goes out by itself in a separate email, but they can be more expensive. Because these ads are targeted (you should NOT advertise in an unrelated ezine), you will definitely see traffic, but you will need to track your results to see which ezines bring you the most and best traffic.

These three sources of traffic will keep you busy and will bring you all the traffic you need.

Kirsten Hawkins is an online marketing specialist from Nashville, TN. Visit www.pageranksite.com/ for more great online marketing tips and webmaster resources.

The results of the social bookmarking experiment I have been carrying out are materialising. There have been some surprising results and some results that have restored my faith in the browsing public. I have been pondering whether or not to release the results as I do not want the spammers to tarnish something that is still relatively pure. But as you can see I finally decided to go ahead and publish.

I have mentioned before that I have been looking at social bookmarking as a way to drive traffic to websites. The idea behind social bookmarking is that you share your favourite bookmarks with others, the idea being that if you found these links useful then others might too. Some social bookmarking sites also allow visitors to rate the usefulness of your bookmarks, this allows the truly useful bookmarks to become the most popular. So in theory spam should be removed by natural selection.
To carry out my experiment I created three articles. Two of these articles were good well researched pieces, whilst the third was self promotional spam, but not too obvious. I posted these articles to twelve social bookmarking sites and then waited for the results. The results were to be measurable traffic to one of my sites.

It was a week ago I started posting the articles so I am still measuring the results but I am able to give you the results as they all point to one conclusion. That conclusion is that social bookmarking to generate traffic does work as long as you are providing genuine, useful, good quality material. If you post self promotional spam no one will read it and it will disappear into the ether where all spam belongs.

Of the twelve sites I posted to the best performing in terms of traffic was Digg. Over a period of several days my site received hundreds of visitors from the good articles and less than a handful for the spam article I posted. Of the other social bookmarking sites the traffic was minimal, even the famous del.icio.us only managed to send a dozen visitors which I was quite surprised at.

The results seem to conclude that Digg is the out and out performer followed a long way behind by del.icio.us and squik. As yet I have had no traffic from the others, that’s not to say that they are not worthwhile as some of the sites were very new. I am going to continue to experiment and will bring you more results as they come in.

Finally I would like to say a big thank you to the guys at Digg for producing such a great site. Not only for the traffic that it produces but for also providing lots of really useful bookmarks. My only criticism is the lack of categories which means that some suggestions are not always well matched although there is a search facility.

Allan is the webmaster at http://www.blogtonomy.com/ where I will show you how to gain traffic to your site.

After having experienced almost all of the traffic analysis
services available on the internet, Statcounter.com is
undeniably the best traffic analysis service. One of the best
things about Statcounter.com is that they offer a free service
package. No strings, it really is free. Another great thing is
the amount of detail that the counter produces about a website
visitor. The only possible down side of the free service is the
log size. All in all, Statcounter.com is a must have for any
website.

Statcounter.com’s free service is amazing. No ads on your site,
your visitors do not ever see anything from Statcounter.com.
Another rare thing about this free service is that they do not
send SPAM. I know that is hard to believe, but it is true. Other
than requested email from them I can not remember receiving any
emails from them. The reason for this is their high traffic
rank. Alexa (www.alexa.com) gives them a rank of 241, which
means that they are the 241st most popular site on the Internet.
With traffic like that they never have to SPAM or place ads on
your site.

The amount of detail that a webmaster receives is astonishing.
The counter tracks everything that a webmaster could ever need.
The stats include:

• Popular Pages
• Entry
  Pages
• Exit Pages
• Came From
• Keyword
  Analysis
• Recent Keyword Activity
• Search Engine
  Wars(What search engines users come from)
• Visitor
  Paths
• Visit Length
• Returning Visit
• Recent Pageload Activity
• Country/State/City/ISP
• Brower
• System
  Stats

All of those are available on the free service. They are all
very specific and very detailed. Statcounter.com is the most
detailed free service available.

If any negative can be said, it must be said with a light touch.
The problem is that I can not fault a free service for anything
because they are giving it away for free. I very much dislike
people who criticize a company’s free service for any reason.
Given all that, the log size of the free service is limited to
100 page loads. They offer two tiers of subscription service
that can take the log size to 10,000 page loads, but the free
service is 100. I would like to see the service with a little
bigger size because it is very difficult to track trends and
long periods of time with the small log size. Again, I must
repeat, that is not criticism, just a little wishful thinking.

I do not work for Statcounter.com; in fact, I am the president
of MVP Internet Solutions. I am writing this article because I
feel that all webmaster should use this service. Please do not
take my word for it. Check them out, you will see.

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1__MESSAGE BOARDS

Introduce yourself smoothly, by posting informations and be available
to answer questions. The more active the better,because you’ll become
known as an expert…..FREE

2__ NEWSPAPERS FREE ADS

Stroll along the search engines and you’ll find papers that are offering
FREE classifieds. This is great because you can reach people that have
other habits and they can become your customers……FREE

3__ARTICLES WITH FREE REPRINT RIGHTS

Find these ‘Special Articles ‘ by looking true search engine directories.
Once in a while you can find real treasures in those articles. But remember
to ask the writer’s permission before using his article….FREE

4__EMAIL SIGNATURE

Email signature is very useful to get people coming back to your site,
because the signature reminds them that your website exists.

Here is an example:

Your name
Your website title.
Http ://www.yourwebsite.com
A one line description………………….FREE

5__DIRECT MAILING

Flyers distribution could be a very rewarding avenue. Maybe you can get
help while having a good exercise around the block………Almost FREE

6__LINKS EXCHANGE

You can send E-Mails to site owners or even better, give them a phone call.
Make your links page easy to access from the rest of the site. Because if
your links page is hard to find or not linked from the balance of your
website,you will decrease your chances of persuading the other sites
owners to exchange links……………………… FREE

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Most car accidents are caused by impulsive teenage drivers who treat the road as their own race tracks. The simple logical reason for this is that teenagers have lesser driving experience and therefore are most likely to commit traffic violations which often times lead to vehicular accidents. In order to guide teenagers as well as adult drivers in avoiding future car accidents, this article will tackle some easy to follow steps of avoiding car accidents.

To start with, it is always practical and sensible to check for incoming cars twice before pulling into an intersection at a stop sign. Following this simple rule may actually save lives since there are cases wherein accidents happen simply because the driver neglected to look in both ways of the intersection and then bang- ACCIDENT!

Backing out in a parking area to some may be a simple matter however did you know that accident may also occur while you’re backing out your car? The most common car accident involved in this kind of situation is the rear-end collision since it is very common in parking areas wherein two cars opposite of each other leaving or pulling out of the area at the same time and then COLLISION!- that is why it is of great importance to look behind you before backing out of the parking place to avoid accidents.

The next avoiding car accident rule is to watch out for rushing cars through intersections especially at the end of a red light. And also, beware of those cars that try to beat the red light and also those cars that try to make it through the intersection on the yellow light since such cars are likely to meet accident once caught in the intersection the moment the traffic light turns green. These kinds of scenarios are the most common and happen all the time.

The next rule can be considered a basic rule in driving and which is to look left and right before making a right-hand turn. One of the common mistakes committed by drivers when making a right-hand turn especially in an intersection is the habit of looking left until the traffic is clear before entering the intersection, well there is nothing wrong with this since the traffic is from the left. However, the right side of the intersection will also have various things going on which you as a driver must also be aware of such as a fast incoming car who tries to beat you in entering the intersection and then hit your car as you right-hand turn on the intersection.

Another, thing to remember is to watch out for cars that are pulling trailers especially in an intersection. There are some instances especially when you’re in a hurry that you neglect to look at the entirety of the vehicle crossing and then realizing too late that there is a trailer behind after crashing into it. And also, in switching lanes on a highway always check for a clear lane before switching lanes. Moreover, be very careful when you are driving close to trucks and never overtake on the right side of the truck since the driver won’t be able to see you passing. This is probably one of the dumbest things however if your reason for doing such is to commit suicide that’s another thing. And lastly, try to limit your speed especially when you’re in a neighborhood full of children, remember little kids have this habit of playing in the street so please be very careful and always be alert when driving.

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Traffic should be your number one concern when establishing your website. Success to building and promoting your website is the effectiveness and the amount of traffic your tool (traffic virus) does to your system.

In any case, your site content, products relevance to the visitors, and website formatting are just some of the reason why people would even need to stay in your site, browse it and action something.

However, some products are just as effective in driving traffic no matter what type of topic genre and your place in the online community is, as other highly expensive online traffic virus around.

While it is important to know the features of an effective traffic generator, we will need to understand the very basics and the common qualities of this fantastic piece of software.

What is a Traffic Virus?

A traffic virus, commonly know as traffic generator, is a great new tool for the generation of the number of online users visiting your site.

Unlike other pesky virus programs around, a traffic virus does not harm your personal computer but actually helps it in its performance in search engine hits and matches.

You will be able to accommodate a considerable number of people visiting your site with the use of this powerful program which helps search engines perform website searches that specifically targets your site and include in the top list in any search suggestion.

What are the Features of an Effective Traffic Generator?

The ability to generate hits Obviously, as mentioned above, the first and foremost functionality of a traffic generator is its ability to generate extra hits to your website without you doing anything.

Frees You From Advertising Fees Advertising is a number one pain in your pocket. Marketing your website through advertising promotion costs you so much money than your website software, and maintenance combined.

With a traffic generator, you will only need to install the software program, run it freely into your PC system, and it will do its job alone without you having to do a whole lot of maintenance.

Starting Traffic Virus

There are a lot of ways on how you can create traffic to your site. But no matter how good your website content is, without proper machineries, you will not be able to generate as much as 2 million site hits just like Yahoo does.

One way to doing it is by using software that will help you generate hits, maintain them and increase them exponentially. That is the very work of a traffic virus.

While we consider the above as the number one consideration in driving traffic to your site, there are also a lot of things that needs equal consideration in maintaining the initial traffic created during the initial trial in applying viral marketing in your website.

Creating your Own Killer Site Creating a website which everybody finds enjoyment for or will find valuable information from will create traffic to your site.

Word of mouth has been on of the most effective ways in creating website traffic. Satisfied users/visitors will more or less inform others of the quality of your site and in turn creates such desired traffic.

Apart from installing your traffic virus, a good website content is also a must. Connect with your target audience. Provide them with the most updated topics and research on your field of interest and create excitement and enthusiasm on every subject you state in your site.

Fave Place In identifying the effectiveness and the value of viral marketing, you will need to point out which part of your site your viewers usually visits and from there, you will be able to tailor your next action in improving your sites quality and quantity.

Search Engine and Links Search engines performance and effective linkages is the very core of increasing traffic to your site. Traffic virus helps your website in delivering a traffic to your site through effective searches and helping you create links to other site without you expending energy and money.

Viral marketing works on linking your site to other sites that are already manifesting a satisfactory traffic. This link will propagate across the net and will be advertised to websites for free.