If you have an internet business and a website, the thing you need most is obviously traffic. Most small internet businesses and one-man operations generate traffic through common well known methods such as article marketing, blog commenting, posting on forums, posting to social bookmarking sites, doing SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and so on. But if you look at really successful businesses that make 7 figures or more, you will find that they don’t spend their time doing things like this – rather, they are focused on more powerful forms of traffic, such as affiliates and JV’s, together with word of mouth and viral marketing. Affiliates and word of mouth are far more powerful than anything else if you have an interesting site or quality product.
If you are interested in SEO, I would recommend you go to forums like SEO Chat and just read for ages before anything else. You need to know that there is tons of bad advice about SEO, and many people on forums just don’t make much, so be careful. The most important thing is to do what works for you and listen to your own results.
If you are interested in getting traffic through affiliates, then a few things will help you out – a quality product, offering a high commission to affiliates, and having a high price for your product. Internet marketing and B2B products are able to recruit affiliates from buyers, too. Otherwise, you can just advertise your affiliate program on forums and on other places.
