Before you get started:

If you truly believe that an internet marketing strategy will yield great results, you will not hesitate to get into action and to consistently apply this winning formula.

We know that the lifeblood of any online business is a constant stream of new targeted visitors to your website. As humans, we often allow the promise of swarms of traffic or hits to our websites to cloud our judgment. You do not need thousands of hits to your website to be in business, you only need a high number of visitors who are specifically looking for what you have to offer. What do you market and what is your target market looking for?

What do you market?

Can you list a few keywords or key phrases that would describe the products and services on your website? If you wanted your target audience to search for your website and your products or services, which keywords or key phrases do you think they would use?

If you do not know where to begin, then it would be a good idea to have a look at the free online Google keyword tool which can be found on the Google Adwords website. You can use this keyword tool to generate keywords for your website.  For now, take those keywords that most closely resemble the objectives of your website.

Popular Keywords

Is anybody looking for your products or services and how would you know that? You normally ask this question before you start a business, but let us just look at how the Google Keyword Tool can help us. You can select to show more columns - Select Show Search Volume. This is a new feature which allows you to show the actual number of searches for that keyword or key phrase made in a month. Choose to market keywords with a high search volume, with less search results on Google.com but which are still relevant to what you are marketing. It is recommended to use longer tail keywords.

Do you appear on any targeted searches?

You can find out using one of two excellent and free Guaranteed Targeted Traffic tools. These tools allow you to monitor your website (or that of your competition) to see how you are doing on your keywords, either on the pay per click search engines or the organic search listings.

One secret to targeted traffic

Use those traffic sources that focus on using relevant keywords to link back to your website and that is linked to some form of direct response marketing. If traffic is not the result of someone searching for something very specific, then you get loads of hits, but few actual targeted visitors. Pay per click, better known as PPC traffic sources can deliver highly qualified traffic to your website instantly. Another is Article Marketing which is an excellent source of free, residual, guaranteed targeted traffic to your website. Provided you follow basic guidelines, search engines such as Google can index your website and then rank it in the organic (free) searches for your keywords.