How to Build and Maintain Traffic Momentum For Your Website

**josiah** · 10-12-2011 11:37 AM

Hello everyone, I was reading through this thread and am both motivated and overwhelmed! My wife and I are about six weeks from launching our e-commerce bath and body product website and we have great products. How can I use social media like facebook to drive traffic to mywebsite to sell to consumers and potential wholesale customers? I do not want to come off as just a salesman, is there some type of social media marketing training I can get? Please give me the knowledge!!

**Ekmack** · 11-02-2011 02:55 AM

This is great advice I've spent my time recently on linkedin, twitter, and Facebook, but to maintain the traffic I need to keep posting on those sites. But I've started to comment on blogs, and forums, and write articles all of which have slightly increased traffic.

**williams_john** · 11-11-2011 04:51 AM

Originally Posted by Dale King

Momentum is defined as "the perceived strength behind a forward shift or positive action or movement." The problem with momentum is that it can be both elusive and fleeting. So what does any of this have to do with traffic? Everything. Let me explain. If you know what you're doing, you can not only create traffic momentum for your website, you can maintain it as well.

However, the key is knowing what you're doing. That's why constantly analyzing your raw data logs is so important. They will tell you exactly what your visitors are most interested in. For example, my log files indicate copywriting, internet marketing and article marketing are the three most popular destinations on my website. It's uncanny how that hasn't varied in nearly two years. So every day before I do anything else, I add fresh, relevant content to those three areas of my website.

So how can you gain traffic momentum by analyzing your logs? By doing the same thing I do. If you continually refresh your website with the kind of relevant information your visitors are searching for, they will return to your website again and again. More importantly, they will bring their friends with them which is an added bonus.

It's sort of like positive reinforcement. Positive reinforcement means rewarding your visitors for doing something you want them to do. In this case, visiting your website. You reward their actions by giving them more relevant content, because that reward makes your visitors more likely to repeat that same behavior in the future. Animals have long been trained in this manner. But instead of information, animals are rewarded with edible treats. Positive reinforcement is a powerful method for influencing your visitors behavior and building and maintaining traffic momentum.

In order to build and maintain traffic momentum for your website, it's important to think long-term as opposed to short-term. For example, running a classified ad that expires after a few days is a short-term solution that will not create any permanent links back to your site. Pay-per-click advertising is another short-term method that will not provide you with any long-term benefits.

Now I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't use pay-per-click advertising or classified ads to promote your website. That's not what I'm saying at all. What I'm saying is the best way to build and maintain traffic momentum is to do things that will create long-lasting and permanent links back to you site.

For example, I write articles and publish them on my website. I also distribute my articles and allow them to be published on other websites as well. Why? Because writing articles is a dependable method of generating traffic to your website and creating those all important inbound links. I know that for a fact, because I do it every single day.

In addition, I post on various internet marketing forums, and I've attracted tens of thousands of visitors to my website as a direct result of my forum postings. Posting on forums also creates inbound links to your website.

Building traffic momentum essentially means hard work and patience. It means taking the time, and making a consistent effort to build and maintain your traffic. You must take consistent action every single day by writing articles, adding fresh, relevant content to your website or blog, post in forums and on blogs, and get as many quality, relevant links pointing back to your website as possible.

In closing, use the long-term traffic-building techniques I suggest in this article, and you will eventually reap the rewards of more traffic.

Dale King

Hello,
Great post here by you side,...
Me really need this type of information..
Thanks for sharing....

**carlenesky** · 11-16-2011 10:04 PM

Google created Google Panda to classify websites today. May I know if writing articles and promoting it to article sites is an effective way to create backlinks for this moment?

**1goodidea** · 11-28-2011 05:17 AM

Dale thanks for the geta advice and kicking off a great thread.

Cheers

**kashimier** · 12-02-2011 03:02 AM

seems that it goes good

**olivia2011ferell** · 12-13-2011 04:34 AM

One steady way to maintain constant - quality - traffic to a website is through quality, informative and easy-to-read content. This can come in very handy in building your authority in your niche will in effect attract visitors for the website.

**james90** · 12-14-2011 02:14 AM

How long does it take to do this process....

**james90** · 12-15-2011 08:00 AM

Search engine marketing and SEO....

**jesterx** · 01-01-2012 01:46 AM

nice list here. Thanks.

**cbhattarai** · 01-17-2012 03:23 AM

If suppose you are getting natural traffic by Google Search and want more, then you can spread your link on Facebook, Twitter and many other site to get more traffic.....

**AndrewPallett** · 02-05-2012 12:41 PM

A lot of great advice in this thread. There is a lot you can learn from books, online blogs (I am fond of getelastic.com) and most importantly from other business owners! I would suggest contacting someone in a similar industry that might be able to give you a few tips.

If you go down the social media / content creation route - remember that the key is to persevere. It always takes a while for things to pick up, but when they do - keep going!

Best,

Andrew

**roblcd** · 02-15-2012 12:05 PM

Good post!

**DickGomes** · 03-06-2012 11:26 PM

I prefer Press Release over article submitting. Press release generates some good results in generating traffic to the website.

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