Todays blog post is about creating some traffic to your website with only some basic computer skills. The famous saying is you can have the best product in the world for the best price but if you do not have any visitors going to your site you will not make any sales.Here are a few simple techniques you can and should do straight away. If you do these few basic steps you will have a few hundred names visiting your site straight away.

1. Tell a friend
As mentioned above you surely have a few friends that may be interested. You obviously have a friendship so you may not want to do a hard sell but why don’t you just say, I have just joined this program online, it is a way I am looking at making a bit of extra cash if you want to have a look here is the address. Then they can make there mind up yourself. You will probably already have a few people in mind that would most likely jump at the concept.

2. E-Mail
You can send out a group e-mail to all your friends, if they are not interested kindly just ask them to send it on to people that may be interested. If you are advanced you could look into setting up an auto responder. Personally, when I compiled every e-mail address I had in my address book instantly had 300 names . In my e-mail I kindly asked those 300 people if they do not mind would it be possible to send my email to people in their list. I am sure you can see how quickly this viral system could become quite big for traffic to your site.

3. Social Networking Groups
Groups such as Myspace, Facebook, Youtube are great ways you can sell your product. There are groups on social networking sites that you can join yourself; you can set up a page and just network with people. I joined Facebook and had a number of people I had not spoken to in years find me, some of them were actually people that are interested in what I am doing now and have invested money into some business mentoring, and purchased products. You will be surprised at the power of these mediums to generate traffic to your site.

4. Buy a Baby Name Book
This is out there thinking but by going through the names in the book it my spark a thought of someone you know with that name that you can contact and direct them to your site. While not a traditional method, it is cost effective and certainly a way to spark your memory on someone’s name and then contact them and try to get them to look at your site.

As you can see these few methods are easy, low cost and should be completed automatically when ever you are launching a new product. I will continue to provide you with some tips on traffic, internet business and other business success tips.

Til next time