If you are planning to monetize your website, there are three factors to consider.  They are traffic, traffic and traffic.  Why do you think it is important?  Traffic translates to visitors, and visitors are potential customers.  Assuming that your visitors remain fairly consistent and if you have that much traffic flowing to your site, your chances of making money goes up.

Traffic is the soul of your online business.  If you have lots of visitors to your website, your potential to have more ad clicks, more affiliate sales, more product sales, more people subscribing to your feeds and more people knowing your site (build a nice reputation) is already high.  And then there’s the tendency to make possible consulting leads, more donations and more advantages will come your way.

There are a lot of ways to drive traffic to your website.  To name a few, you can have sponsored reviews about your website, you can join in different communities who share the same interest (niche) as you do, or you can have forum postings for backlinks to your site.  Then there’s also the ever popular blogging.  Often you see different sites with a blog page prominently linked in their home page.  People are always interested with appealing and informative contents, and search engines love fresh content too.   And if you don’t have much time to blog, there are always those who can write effective content for you.

Bottomline is that the more traffic your site has, the more you attract customers.  There is an assurance to have a smooth sailing business if traffic is going well.

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