Inevitably you will need to drive quality traffic to your website. You will need the traffic in order to make money with your affiliate site. How can you make money if no one is going to visit your site? To this end you will try to launch various marketing campaigns. One of the most common things you may do is to launch a PPC campaign. There are a lot of options to launch such a campaign. You may use the services of Google Adsense for example. There are also other companies which provide such marketing services.
While you may be thinking of launching a PPC campaign, the fact is that you need to pay some money in order to do so. Yes there is no free lunch in this world. In some cases, marketers will spend up to $300 a day in order to get quality traffic to their affiliate websites.
If you think $300 is too much for you, this article is certainly for you. There are indeed free ways to drive quality traffic to your site. However, you will not be able to get the traffic if you do not work on it.
One of the best ways to drive quality traffic to your affiliate site for free is to do search engine optimization (SEO) yourself. No one will challenge the importance of search engines such as Google and Yahoo! in the internet world. You will be able to get really good traffic from the search engine if your website rank well in the search results. And SEO is the way to make your site rank well in the results.
The first step in search engine optimization is to do keyword research. You will need to choose some main keywords for your website to optimize for. There can also be some secondary keywords for a web page or website. However, there is no way to get the first place for all the keywords. As a consequence you need to choose the most targeted keywords for your website.
Keyword research tools will be used to help you to determine the main keywords. There are quite a number of keyword research tools out there. WordTracker, Keyword Discovery and Niche Bot are some of the examples of the keyword research tools you can use. Although all this tools are paid tools and the monthly subscription fees vary from tool to tool, the amount you pay is certain worthy.
After you have done your keyword research, you will write articles which incorporate your main keywords. There can also be some secondary keywords in your articles. When writing the articles, you should always remember you should never spam your articles with the keywords. Otherwise it will only do you harm more than good.
Building back links is also an extremely essential task in search engine optimization. There are various ways of building back links. Article marketing can be one of the ways you adapt. You should also pay attention to the quality of the back links. Do not try to spam your links in forums or newsgroups. This will only harm the ranking of your site.