It is generally known and accepted that using banners and advertisements of that kind are not very effective ways of generating traffic, especially if that is the only method being used. The first suggestion would be not to use banners as the singular option, but rather as a part of a general strategy that demands that you use several ways of advertising and marketing in order to get some more traffic, and convert that traffic to sales and profit. However even as a part of a marketing campaign, the usage of banners needs to follow some standards, and it has its share of secrets and tips.

First of all you need to create some banners that stand out from all the other ones that exist and as you know they exist in abundance. You have to find something catchy and maybe even funny, something that will trigger the curiosity of those who see it and will make them want to click on it. You can decide if that would suit the purpose or you may want to pick a weird and bizarre phrase or something similar that will draw attention. It’s up to you to choose depending on your niche and needs, as well as taste. Whatever you do don’t come up with something conventional because it will be a waste of money and time.

Secondly, you need to create something that is relevant to your website. If your business is about medical equipment then obviously you need to inform the

readers and viewers what it is about. Be careful and do not try to mislead them because even if they click on your banner, they will close the web page in no time if they figure out that they were tricked. If the banner is contextually connected with the website then you have good chances that they will be interested in browsing through a little more.

As in all marketing and traffic generation methods, having quality content in your website helps the conversion of the traffic to sales. Even if the users click on the website, they won’t stay for long if they do not find it useful or professional enough. Let them know from the banner that they will be visiting something of true value and make sure you keep up the promise.

Putting up banners is relatively easy, as most forums allow that for free. Do not forget to add a banner in your email signature or member signature, if you participate in forums, because you can achieve some great visibility for a long time with no investment whatsoever.

Web Traffic From Article Marketing

Article marketing can prove to be one of the lowest budget marketing techniques that one can employ to promote their company or products. There have been different mediums used to publish the articles to the mass public. Newspapers can be counted as a primary source in past times from which many companies took advantage in promoting their businesses while at the same time the newspaper groups got a free article to be put on their page.

Since the time of the computer revolution, newspapers may not have been given as much importance as a source for article publishing at it was before. Newspapers and magazines received a bigger blow after the internet gained mass popularity and almost everyone wished access to the internet. Internet is basically a whole world compressed and fitted into the small screen where almost every category of subjects can be found and the numbers continue to grow each day.

According to an estimate, there were well over 5 billion web pages on the internet as of 2007. There are millions more added everyday and more people are switching over to the internet as their main source of information. Because of this, article marketing has found a way to flourish in such environments where potentially millions of users can view any page they want. But to attract someone to a page, there should be a good strategy. Websites that may not necessarily have to do something with articles also tend to adapt the article way of writing to provide detailed information. Articles can provide a good way to get decent traffic.

There is a technique known as SEO writing which anybody who is familiar with the internet would have heard of by now. SEO stands for search engine optimization. If an article is written in such a manner which a certain search engine likes and may feel happy in showing that page at a higher level and ranking, then an article can help a lot to increase the traffic. Another way is to make the website link visible and tell the people what can be found there. Article writing and publishing with links provided to the concerned websites has been found to be extremely effective in driving traffic. People need information and businesses need people to come to them, so they use the information that is required to draw these people to their websites. That’s how article marketing works and both parties tend to benefit from this interaction.