Traffic generation is the foremost component to building long-term income using the Internet. Without visitors to our websites/blogs there is no way we can make money online. There are lots of methods by which we can attract web traffic or targeted prospects to our website.

One of the best ways to direct traffic to our website is Article Marketing. This has become more  popular in recent years because many Internet marketers have realised the true potential of articles to drive traffic to websites.

"Content is king" on the Internet. Some articles generate thousands of views and all of this traffic is free. We have to provide quality content to bring in the masses. People use the Internet to find information and our goal should be to provide the best possible information so they can rely on us. It also helps us at the search engines.

Another way to drive traffic to our website is video marketing. Sites such as YouTube, Google Video Upload, Meta cafe,etc provide us the chance to upload videos to the web. As more and more people watch and share videos there has been a rise in the number of people who are using video marketing for their websites. Moreover, sites such as Youtube are regularly indexed by all the major search engines including Google. The idea behind video marketing is to build a brand or business recognition over the web, this will assist us in driving related web traffic to our site.

We can also use social networking to direct a lot of viral traffic to our website. Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites can be used as these sites get a lot of traffic.