Many people have asked me how they can get more traffic to their blogs. Obviously some will bring more than others, but the key is to get many different traffic streams going and leverage them all.

So below I’ve listed the different ways that I get traffic to this blog:

Direct hits – These come from sending emails to my different lists

Forum Traffic – I’m a member of quite a few forums, so a good amount of traffic comes from those.

Search Engine Rankings – This is traffic I get from being ranked in different places for keywords.  This is always cool traffic to see because it’s very targeted.

Articles - I have various articles on many of the different article directories and that brings in some decent traffic each month

Rss Feeds – Each post I put up is pinged and I submit the rss feed to the different rss aggregators. This doesn’t bring much, but it does bring some

Videos – Again, I put up a few video’s pointing back to this blog and that brings in some traffic as well.

Blog Comments – I regularly leave blog comments on other people’s blogs and that brings in some decent targeted traffic

Twitter – This is a easy way to get traffic to anywhere you want it if you have a big enough following.

Paid Advertisements – I use different things like banner adds and services like List Auction that sends some decent traffic here as well.

Put them all together and they equal some decent traffic.  It’s all about getting it in different ways and having your eggs in more than one basket. The more you do each one of these, the more traffic you get. The key is to not expect to see crazy results in the first few weeks. These things build over time, just like your business will

Get to work, I wonder how many people have actually thought about the power of those three words. Sure, most of us have probably heard them come from either our parents or from a boss who was not happy with our performance, but how many of you have actually said those three words to yourself.

So many people when trying to build a business online, do nothing more than search out information that is going to give them $100,000 overnight that so many programs claim to be able to do. Usually this winds up hindering people so badly that they never even start. And if they do actually start, they’re so confused with all information they have downloaded into their brain, that they can’t put the proper pieces together to find any success.

There are so many different methods for trying to make a dollar online and that very well may be the problem that most people face. How do you know which one to do? It’s not really a matter of which one you should choose, it’s more of a pick a method and give it 100% of your effort. Instead of spending all your time reading in forums, downloading free e-books or searching for the next million dollar program, why not just get to work on what you already know how to do.

The majority of people who have ever researched making money online already know at least 75% of what needs to be done. The problem lies in the fact that they just do it. It’s human nature to want to try out the latest flashy program. I mean come on, who doesn’t want to make $10,000 overnight? But the fact is you’re not going to make that kind of money unless you take the time to actually build the business. And I can’t think of one business that is constantly changing up the methods that uses.

Businesses will usually be founded upon a method or a marketing tactic and drain that method for every last dime it can get. Only once they have become profitable did they begin to branch out into various other forms of income. Now obviously there are exceptions to every rule, but most people who are successful online have a core method that built the foundation for their business. And if you actually take the time to sit down and talk to one of these people, they will almost 100% of time tell you that they busted their asses get there. They didn’t spend a ton of time in forums or downloading books, they created a plan and they got to work.

So the next time you look up and realize that you’ve wasted two hours reading an interesting thread on your favorite forum or just finished reading the 5th e- book you downloaded this week, remember that that is two hours that you’re never going to be able to get back that you could have been working on building your business.

GET TO WORK! Take those three words tape them somewhere that you can see them. Read them every time you sit down at your computer and you will be surprised how much more productive and successful you can become. Squeeze every last opportunity out of the business model you choose and get to work making it successful. It’s your business and nobody else is going to do the work for you.