How to Drive Targeted Traffic to Your Site

The task for every online marketer is increase the amount of traffic to their website. However, bringing targeted traffic can be very difficult for many people.
For example, let's say you were able to bring 1,000 targeted visitors to your site each week. If your sales conversion percentage is only 1%, then you will still be assured to get 10 new sign-ups within that single week!
Online affiliate marketer can use methods such as, viral marketing, article writing, publishing and social networks.
Viral marketing did not get its name because any virus is involved in the process but it adopted the pattern of marketing through word of mouth network. Viral marketing depends on a high rate of pass-along-the-advertisement from person to person. If a large percentage of recipients forward the advertisement to a large number of friends then the overall growth speeds up quite quickly. If the pass-along numbers are too low, the overall growth slows down too.
In order for an article to be useful to you in generating traffic and improving your website listings you must submit it to article directories. Submit it to as many as you can because you get a one-way link back to your website from each directory you get it published in. Search engines such as Google regard these links to your site as indicating the popularity of your site, and hence its importance and relevance to the keyword for which it is listed. This helps your page ranking, and also its position in the listings for that keyword.
Tap into social networks: The biggest advantage of tapping into social networks like myspace, squidoo, facebook, Linkedin, Asmallworld is that they are free and have a ton of visitors to their site. So ideally once you register to these sites, you would want to join the relevant communities depending on your topic or area of interest. Subscribing to the relevant blogs and forums are another great ways of improving traffic significantly to your website. Post comments with signatures leading to your website or blog is another way to get traffic. The biggest advantages you have in joining these networks are that you are aware of the current happenings in your field, the common problems that your community members face and also free advice on how to solve these problems. Rather than trying to spend hours and hours of time and effort to work on a problem that you are facing, post a question to a forum or blog and you will be surprised to see that they are a ton of people who are ready to help you.
The best way to build massive traffic is to create articles that appeal to your target market and then distribute them virally. I'm talking about regularly writing articles, ideally everyday, and using these same articles for different purposes in your MLM pipeline.