When it comes to the world of Internet Marketing the key to making money online is to generate sales for your product or service on offer. Now there is only one way that you can do this which is from knowing how to drive traffic to your website. Depending on your budget you may have to choose from one of two traffic options.

The first strategy to be considered is Paid Traffic.

When it comes to using paid traffic methods you will have to be prepared to purchase traffic and in some cases you will start to recieve traffic to your website immediately. A good method of getting traffic immediately to your website is to use Pay Per Click search engines such as Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing.

With Pay Per Click advertising you will be involved in setting up advertising campaigns. A large part of this process involves bidding on keywords which can either be really in expensive or it can become very expensive. The cost of bidding on the keywords will depend massively on how well you have researched them and how competitive they are.

When it comes to researching keywords with your Pay Per Click advertising there are certain tools that can be used such as the Google Adwords external keyword tool. These tools allow you to check the level of monthly searches, competitiveness and will also offer alternative keyword suggestions.

Many people like to test out their website, products or services when they have only just launched and for this paid traffic methods are the very best way. One of the main reasons why this is the best way to test out your website is because traffic will be delivered almost immediately therefore you will not have to wait long to find out the average conversion of your product or service.

The main things to look out for with Pay Per Click advertising is first of all how much you are bidding per keyword and cost per click. Some keywords start of as little as $0.04 per click however this does depend on various factors including the quality score of your advert and website.

If the cost per click starts to rise suddenly then I suggest you look at how targetted your Pay Per Click advert is along with how targetted your website is also.

The other traffic strategy is Free Traffic.

When it comes to Free Traffic you must never place all of your hopes and dreams into just one traffic generation source. The reason for this is because you will require as many traffic generation sources as possible to ensure you get as much traffic as possible along with not getting heavily impacted by growing competition.

Search engine optimization is a great way to get Free Traffic from the search engines which starts from hiring a professional to perform your SEO services on your website. Thios will improve your rankings for various keywords within the search engines. If your SEO is performed correctly then when someone searches for the keywords your website may come on up on page 1 of the search engines.

When it comes to converting your traffic into sales and paying customers it becomes much easier with organic search engine traffic. The reason being these website visitors are highly targetted due to the fact they have searched using a particular keyword search related to your product or service which means they have an interest in what you have to sell.

However the other side or Search Engine Optimization / SEO is quitekly simply that sometimes it can take quite sometime for your website to start gaining high search engine rankings. Unless your website is ranking in the first three pages of the search engine results there will never been much organic search engine traffic to your website. This process has been known to take over 4 months on occasion.

When the search engines start to deliver long term free traffic onto your website you will always be very happy that you waited for your website to gain high search engine rankings. Obviously the more sales you recieve will be dependant on how much traffic you recieve which will then determine how much money you earn. As your website continues to gain higher search engine rankings your traffic will increase also.

The question still remains would a paid traffic generation method be best or a free traffic strategy?

I highly suggest that you use both paid and traffic in order to boost your income with your online internet based business. Where possible it is a great suggestion to use free and paid traffic strategies that way you will get as much traffic to your website as possible.

Regards Always

Mark McCulloch

http://www.OneMillionIncome.com – mark@markmcculloch.com

Internet Marketer and Entrepreneur, Committed to creating success

(UK) 07875 647 867 (Call Me Anytime), Skype – mark.mcculloch1