When marketing online, traffic is like blood to your body. Without traffic, your site will just be a deserted place and will die down eventually. So what are the ways to drive traffic and market your site on the world wide web? Here is a list of them:

1. Search engines. Search engines should be the fundamental of your traffic generation plan. It should be your largest source of traffic refferer. You can get traffic from search engines either through SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or PPC (pay-per-click advertising). Both of these methods can bring very targeted visitors to your website.

2. Article Directories. Article marketing is also a very effective way to drive traffic to your website. What you can do is to write articles about the topic that you are marketing and submit your articles to popular online article directories like EzineArticles.com. If your articles are interesting, you can get lots of click-throughs to your website through the link in the Author Resource Box of your articles.

3. Blogging. When you blog regularly (I am guilty about this… I should be blogging more often!), you can get more organic traffic from search engines due to unique content and long-tailed effect of SEO. Search engines like Google loves sites that update their content regularly. So with a blog, you can write blog posts with unique and useful content for your target readers to read. When the long-tailed SEO effect kicks in, you will get an increased organic traffic from search engines to your blog.

4. Forum posting. Participate in forums and contribute to the community. Include your website URL in your signature. As you submit posts to the forum, your signature will appear at the bottom of your post. If the people think that what you offer is good, they will check out your site through your forum signature.

5. Social bookmarking. Social bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit are popular sites where people are actively seeking for quality information to bookmark, share and discuss about. You can submit your site to these social bookmarking sites but remember - do not spam.

6. Social networking sites. Create your profile on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Friendster. Include your website URL in your profile and make more friends to expand your network.

7. Squidoo. One of my favourite technique is to use Squidoo to drive traffic. On Squidoo, you can create pages or also known as lens, and talk about any topic that you wish to share with people. Within your content, you can embed images and links that allow your lens readers to visit your sites. A good news for bum marketer is that Squidoo also allows direct affiliate links to be embedded within the content of your lens. So if you are a bum marketer, Squidoo is a channel that you MUST use.

Did I miss out any of your favorite way to drive traffic? Feel free to leave a comment and share with us.

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