By Sally Sneiderman

What is the most important to your online business? Bottom line is your profit. But the way you get to the profit is by building website traffic. You need people to come to your website just as a brick and motor store needs people to come in and shop and buy. Without traffic you will soon hang an out of business sign up.

You need to get the word out that you have a website. You can start the old fashioned way. You can place an ad in your local print media newspaper. If you have a shopper or some sort of weekly print classified ad, run an ad relating to your business. Remember you have to be compelling. People have to take the website link from the print medium and place it into their internet browser.

You will want to announce your website to your friends and relatives and business associates. Send them an email with your website link in your message so all they have to do is click the link to visit your site.

Ask your everyone you send your message to if they would forward your message to their email list. If you have one hundred people on your email address list and each of those people have one hundred people on their list and everyone forwards your email you can see how quickly traffic to your website can grow.

You can also take out an in a print newsletter. This is an old fashioned way of advertising but shoppers popular even in the age of the internet. You can also advertise your website on an online classified website. You need compelling ad to make sure people will take the time and make the effort of visit your website.

Google adwords is a paid advertising way of promoting your website. If you have done a Google search you will see at the right hand side of the search results sponsored listings. Online marketers pay for this search engine results page placement. The higher your bid the higher you are ranked in the search engine results. You want to know the specifics about Google adwords advertising however because you can spend money quickly and not necessarily get the results you want.

You might even consider the old fashioned way of advertising your website. Run an ad in a print media classified. The ad needs to be related to your website and you need to compel people to copy the website link they read in print and place it their internet browser.

There are many ways to building website traffic. Once you build your website the easy part is over. Now you need to bring people to it. But with determination and creativity you will be on your way to a successful online business.

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