Affiliate Marketing – Online Affiliate Marketing Part 18 – Getting Traffic – An Overview

• Bringing Traffic to Your Site

So you have a solid idea on what you want to sell, who you want to sell it to and how to convince people to buy from you. Your blog or website is ready, and you are itching to start working on your affiliate marketing business. Alas, all that will be for nothing if nobody actually visits your website.

You need to find and bring people to your website if you want to even have an opportunity to convince them to buy your products. This is a basic dilemma for any site on the internet, and you are going to learn first-hand just how important this is to the success of your affiliate marketing dreams. This is why you have to bring traffic to your website.

• What is Traffic?

Most automobile users will loathe traffic, especially when they are rushing to work at nine in the morning. You, on the other hand, will learn to love it. Traffic (short for web traffic) simply means the flow of visitors into and out of your website. This also involves the activity of your visitors on the website, which is a very important factor to monitor since it will reveal how they move around in your website.

Your objective here is to bring people into your website, otherwise known as ‘generating traffic.’ The more people visit your website, the more likely they will be to click your links and buy a product. This is why you have to learn how to generate traffic in order to maximise your profits.

• Website Traffic

This the bulk data that it sends and receives. By finding the number of visitors that are coming to your site you are able to determine their browsing habits on your site. You have to keep track of all of the data sent and received because you need to analize the popularity of the traffic. By keeping this data will will be able spot any potential problem areas as well as areas that need improving on. Tracking these stat’s you will notice a particular pattern with the visited pages and you can then make important decisions on what should be or shouldn’t be done with these pages.

One record keeping way could be in the form of a graph. This method can be very useful as you only have to take a quick look at it to see its high and low points, which correspond with the frequency of visits for a particular period.

This data will be stored in the log file in your server. This log file will list all the pages that have had traffic on them.

Do remember, though, that there are a lot of tools at your disposal to help you do just that.