By Sean Mize

Traffic generation of course is the lifeblood of any Internet marketing campaign. Without traffic generation, no matter what the conversion rate on your sales pages or the conversion rate on your landing page or your squeeze page, you simply don't have a business without traffic. You simply have to have effective methods of traffic generation in order to have in Internet marketing or a Web business.

I also believe that you must have multiple methods of traffic generation. I do not believe you can simply rely on one method of traffic generation no matter how good that method of traffic generation is. One of the worst things to happen is when you depend on one source of traffic, and that source of traffic falls apart. You have built your Internet marketing Web business on the back of that one source of traffic, and once it's gone. You have no business.

Therefore you need multiple methods of generating traffic. So what are my top five methods of traffic generation?

1. Article marketing is my number one method of traffic generation. What is article marketing? Article marketing involves writing articles and submitting them, with links to your website, to the online article directories.

2. Joint ventures are my number two method of traffic generation. What are joint ventures? Joint ventures involve any number of cross-promotional trading such as sending traffic to another website, in exchange for the other websites sending traffic to yours. One of my favorite ways to do cross promotional trading is to do an e-mailing swap. An e-mailing swap involves me e-mailing my list on behalf of another marketer in exchange for the other marketer e-mailing his list on my behalf.

3. E-zine advertising is my number three method of traffic generation. What is e-zine advertising? Using advertising involves purchasing a solo ad or other advertising in someone else's e-zine. E-zine advertising can be extremely effective, because people who actually respond to your ad in the evening are proven to open e-mails and click through those e-mails. One thing that is very important e-zine advertising is testing and tracking because some e-zines are frankly unresponsive.

4. Search engine optimization is my number four method of traffic generation. What is search engine optimization? Search engine optimization is the process of optimizing your own webpage in such a way that the search engines recognize your webpage for your given keywords and involves optimizing the inbound links to your website in such a way that the search engines recognize your website as having some importance in the search world.

5. Pay per click advertising is my number five method of traffic generation. What is pay per click advertising? Pay per click advertising is the process of dating on the search result keywords for sponsored search placing at the beginning of search engine results. Pay per click advertising can be extremely effective for targeted keyword traffic. However, you must be prepared to spend at least the equivalent in dollars that it will take to get 1000 clicks to your targeted set of keywords, analyze that data and fine tune your campaign. Pay per click advertising can be extremely effective and if you are not prepared to lose at least $1000 upfront do not even try it.

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About The Author:
Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 900 articles in print and 9 published ebooks.

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