Internet visitors, as the maxim goes, is the heart of every online business.  Here are 6 proven ways that will help you generate the traffic that your web endeavor will need:

1.    Search engine marketing (SEM.  It’s a known fact that eighty percent of the number of visitors that you will be able to attain for your website will brought in the search engines.  Hence, it is highly important that your pages will be formatted for easy indexing by the big search engines in the World Wide Web.  This can be achieved via proper keyword research and usage.  By discovering profitable keywords relevant to the subject of your website, you can get the attention of search engine spiders and strongly compete for a prominent position in SERPs.

2.    Article marketing.  Write articles relevant to the topic of your website.  Include a resource box discussing yourself or your enterprise, and least we forget, containing a URL leading to your website.  Upload this article and bio box to established article directories like eZinearticles.com and ideamarketers.com.  Commit to this many times per week and soon enough you’d enjoy hundreds of back links leading to your website.

3.    Yahoo Answers.  Yahoo Answers is one of the fastest techniques that will allow your website get indexed by search engines within a day’s time.  Just search for questions open for answers about the topic of your website, answer them to the best of your abilities, and leave your link as your source.  Yahoo Answers will generate direct traffic and it will give you premium back links from what Google will consider as an authority website.

4.    Blogging.  Google, Yahoo, MSN and the big search engines love blogs.  By building a blog and regularly uploading posts that contain your website’s URL, you will be able to garner more back links for your homepage and you’ll be sure that it will beeasy for search engines to categorize and present your web pages.

5.    YouTube marketing.  Convert your text-based content into a simple video and distribute the same over at YouTube to immediately win the attention of hundreds of thousands of internet users who regularly visit that popular website.  And don’t forget, Google has a love affair with YouTube videos!

6.    Press releases.  Countless internet and print publications are constantly looking for noteworthy information to republish.  They check out newswires where a variety of parties distribute newsworthy articles.  By writing a factual and interesting piece about your website and submitting the same to a highly credible internet newswire like prweb.com, you’d be able to position your online businessto garner a lot of visitors.