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One of the biggest problems internet marketers face is getting traffic. So many people believe the myth ‘if you build it they will come’. Believe me, that’s far from the truth!

Here are three tips to help bring traffic to your site:

1. Article marketing. This is one of the easiest ways to generate traffic to your site. Not only will you genearte traffic writing articles is a great way to distinguish yourself as an expert in your niche.

If you aren’t a great writer, don’t have the time to write or just simply don’t want to do it you can hire a ghost writer to do it for you. And of course there is always PLR (private label rights) as well.

2. Forum Marketing: Also known as message boards. This is another useful tactic in generating traffic to your site. Make sure you are joining forums that are relevant to your niche and where your target market is likely to be hanging out.

Don’t join a forum and immediately post a ‘sales pitch’. In fact before you even post a link sharing about your services or product you should become ‘known’ around the forum. It’s all about building relationships first!

3. Video Traffic: The idea of creating a video can be a bit scary but you need to step out of your comfort zone and create a compelling video that will be beneficial to your target audience. Make something that is going to grab people’s attention and keep them interested and end with a call to action. Don’t forget to put a link to your website in the video where people can see it clearly.

Those are only three tips to get you started on bringing more traffic to your site. If you would like 98 more tips and a deeper explanation of the tips listed above pick up your copy of  Moms Talk Biz Guide to Traffic Tips – 101 Smart and Easy Web Traffic Strategies.

Did you know that you’re an expert? No, really, it’s true. You may not be a neurophysiologist or a curator of a museum on fine art, but there is probably something out there that you can go on for hours about, something that you know better than anyone else. Maybe you’re a a writer, or a championship juggler, or you know all the ins and outs of applying hair dye to stubborn hair. You probably can’t stop talking about and all your friends wish you would!

The answer for you is Squidoo! Launched in 2005, Squidoo.com is a free website that anyone can sign up for. This nifty site is composed of pages and pages of “lenses,” which are pages created by members choosing to focus on whatever they feel is important. On any given lens, you can find links, Google maps, pictures, lists of books and movies, and much more. You can find a lens on just about anything… and will!

If you feel you have something to share with the world, all you need to do is sign up, free of charge on the Squidoo website. Once you sign up, you automatically become a “lensmaster” and you have a page devoted to the topic of your choice, whether that’s how to tie a fly-fishing lure, or how to go from a sheep to a sweater. If you have a website pertaining to your interest already, your Squidoo site can link it and you’ll increase your web traffic.

You don’t have to be website-whiz to get your lens looking good, either. Anywhere on the site, you can click “build a lens” and you’ll be taken to a wizard that will guide you through setting up your lens, step by step. If you want to get fancier than that, there’s always SquidU.com, which is a website run by dedicated volunteers and expert lensmasters who can answer just about any question on the process that you care to ask.

You can also earn money from your lens! As the site is free, a certain amount of advertising occurs along the top and side bars. The advertising is usually specific to your lens’ content, like if your lens is focused on the wonders of the ostrich, you’ll get advertisements that link to ostrich books and ostrich burgers. If your lens generates a lot of traffic to one of the advertised sites, you’ll get a small cut of the profits!

If you look around the site and find that someone else has a lens on the same topic that you want to talk about, go ahead and build your own anyway. There are thousands of different viewpoints out there and it looks like Squidoo is trying to capture them all!

Can you really deny the world your expertise any longer? Go check out Squidoo.com and start sharing!