It’s a common story. Someone builds a great site, populates it with lots of fantastic content and beautiful graphics. They spend weeks or month making sure everything is perfect before big launch day arrives. Then in hours, days and weeks after upload, a few people trickle in but nothing really explosive. What happened? How can such a great site not naturally take internet community by storm? Simple – marketing of site was not planned (and often not even thought about!).

If this is happening to you then don’t panic! There are a few ways to kick-start your traffic and get some meaningful visitors. Done in combination with a long term marketing strategy, they can help grow your list of visitors and more importantly keep them. Here are a few of immediate steps that can be taken:

Buy Traffic – This is probably easiest and a very cheap way to go. The way it works is that companies purchase expired domain names and redirect traffic straight to your site. Other companies operate pop-up or pop-under technology that displays website you want visited. Often you can start seeing results from this in 48 hours and many thousands of visitors can be had for only a few dollars outlay. Beware! This can really send your stats through roof and is very easy, but there are pitfalls. Untargeted traffic is quite low quality unless you have something truly great to show a general audience. In most case you are far better off purchasing targeted hits to your site’s area of interest. It is only logical that a travel site would want people looking for travel information! It is worth spending a few extra dollars.

Affiliate marketing is an extremely tricky subject and so is website advertising.

The reason is simple. Most of those who have mastered these subjects are keeping their mouths tightly shut. Some are releasing their valuable affiliate marketing secrets it in bits and pieces to try and make some quick cash before methods become completely obsolete. The rest are busy trying to guess secrets behind successful affiliate marketing that easily brings in five figure incomes on a monthly basis for scores of people all over world.

Today is your lucky day because you are about to move a step closer to successful affiliate marketing for whatever affiliate program you are involved with. You are about to read a previously closely guarded secret of affiliate marketing.

I clearly remember day I discovered this secret rather casually from an article I read online just like you are doing currently. Later I went on to discover other key elements that were critical for success of whole program. I have packed all those secrets in this single series of two articles.

Here is main secret that will multiply effectiveness of your articles and ultimately your affiliate marketing.

It is possible to multiply effectiveness of your articles in promoting your affiliate program by making a single step. And that is creating a blog and posting all your articles there.

Do not worry about getting traffic to your blog, it is easiest thing to do and I will deal with that in part II of this article available at my blog http://big-online-story.blogspot.com

There are 4 very important advantages you will gain by starting a blog and posting your articles there.

1) Blogs always boost search engine visibility tremendously thus making all your articles much more visible and easier to find and therefore much more effective.

Whatever your opinion about them, blogs are rapidly changing internet. Their popularity is rising by day and most important search engines love them. Not surprising when you consider that they are constantly being updated even if not by owner of blog, by his visitors. Blogs have literally swept web sites aside. Smart online marketers and many involved in affiliate marketing are using them very effectively for website advertising to drive traffic to their websites.