Traffic, as the maxim goes, is the heart of every online enterprise.  Let us discuss half a dozen surefire techniques that will help you generate the traffic that your web endeavor will need:

1.    Search engine optimization (SEO).  that 80% of the traffic that you will be able to get for your homepage will brought in the search engines.  Therefore, it is extremely essential that your web pages will be properly built for easy classification by the big search engines in the web.  This can be done via proper keyword research and usage.  By seeking out profitable keywords related to the topic of your business, you can attract the attention of search engine spiders and effectively compete for a prominent position in search engine results pages.

2.    Article marketing.  Come up with articles related to the topic of your online business.  Include a resource box discussing yourself or your business, and least we forget, including a link to your website.  Submit this article and bio box to established article directories like eZinearticles.com and GoArticles.com.  Do this many times per week and soon enough you’d enjoy hundreds of back links pointing to your website.

3.    Yahoo Answers.  Yahoo Answers is one of the best avenues that will make your website get indexed by search engines within a day’s time.  Just search for open questions relevant to the topic of your website, provide real answers to the best of your abilities, and leave your URL when required to state your source.  Yahoo Answers will generate direct traffic and it will provide for you highly credible back links from what Google deems as an important resource site.

4.    Blogging.  Search engines absolutely adore blogs.  By creating a blog and regularly uploading posts that include your website’s URL, you will be able to garner more back links for your website and you’ll be able to make iteasy for search engines to find and display your web pages.

5.    YouTube marketing.  Transform your content into a simple video and distribute the same over at YouTube to quickly garner the attention of hundreds of thousands of internet users who regularly visit that popular website.  And don’t forget, Google loves YouTube videos!

6.    Press releases.  Countless web and offline publishers are constantly looking for noteworthy information to republish.  They scrutinize newswires where various people upload newsworthy content.  By writing a newsworthy item about your website and distributing the same to a big online PR service like prweb.com, you’d be able to position your online enterpriseto get a lot of visitors.