You may have a online business that sells other people’s products or your own products. Whatever your online business is, we need to generate a lot of traffic to our website. Of course, you want traffic that are interested with your product or services.

When I started studying internet marketing, I learned about many techniques on traffic generation. Not a lot of the software and services offered to me had good effects.

Listed below are the three traffic generation techniques that I found most effective: 

* Text Link Advertisements

Text links can either be paid or free. Adding links in e-zines or in other websites are some examples of paid linking methods. Since this method will cost you money, make sure to do your research first before leasing or purchasing link space. Make sure the traffic and ezine subscriber base is good enough for you.

One of the unpaid models is through article marketing . If you keep doing this, it will definitely make a good impact in your business. Make sure the content that you create add value to your target visitors.

* Pay Per Click (PPC)

If you have some advertising budget, it makes sense to put it in pay per click. In this advertising method, you create an advertisement like in the classified section of the newspaper and bid on the keywords that you would like to target. This takes time, energy, persistence and money  and research unless you know the google secret loophole by now. I would advise that you read your affiliate programs and pay per click rules before doing pay per click.

* SEO

This involves targeting a particular keyword and optimizing your website for that particular keyword. You may have to outsource the optimization of your website as this may be time consuming.

These are just some of the most effective ways for traffic generation.