By Ahmed Elnaggar
You cannot make sales or earn money without having customers visiting your store or paying for service you provide. Web sites are the same as real business you need traffic to generate sales or to earn money. You will take some time to determine your site niche and your site domain name but you should focus on how you will generate traffic to your site.
There are two main methods to generate traffic to your website. These methods are the paid traffic and the free traffic. In the paid traffic you are paying money to get traffic from search engines sponsor programs or another website that provides advertising space, while in the free traffic method you are getting traffic from free sources like search engines, blogs, forums and other websites that recommended your site as a good resource.
There are many sources for paid traffic including pay per click advertising programs, banner advertising and e-mail marketing. In PPC advertising you usually advertise your site in one of the major search engines like Google or Yahoo for specific phrases or keywords and you only pay when someone click on your ads. Banner advertising is much similar to PPC but you advertise your site in site that is related to your niche. In e-mail marketing you pay for companies that have e-mail list to send e-mail to their list containing your offer.
Most webmasters prefer the PPC advertising because it gives them the highest freedom on choosing their customers. You can choose your customer country and language. You can also specify which phrases you want your ad to show when someone searches for it, and which phrases that your ad should not appear on it. The only problem you may face that if you have poor website, because most PPC advertising programs prefer sites with high quality content.
The second method of generating traffic is the free methods and it includes search engine free traffic, free web 2.0 sites traffic and free traffic from similar blog or related forums that recommended your site as a good resource. Most internet marketers, affiliate marketers or webmasters seeking this method because it is totally free, but to get free traffic you must provide high quality and unique content in your site to make people linking to your sites. Also this method takes some time until it is results start to appear.
Search engines free traffic is the dream of every webmaster because once you started to rank you will get huge amount of free traffic but you must know the basic of SEO to rank in search engines. You may hire SEO expert or ask for advice from search engine companies but it will cost you a lot of money. You may search for free search engine optimization tips online and you will find a lot, but you should be careful of the unbiased information.
In summary, Generating traffic to your site must be your main concern because without it you will never make sales or generating profits. You should focus only on one method of the two methods of generating traffic and I recommended that you focus in the free method if you are expert in your niche or if you can provide something special in your site. - 23596 | 
