Now I have been asked by many people to reveal some of the greatest traffic generating, viral marketing techniques that I know of. Usually I am not to quick to reveal them because I know the majority doesn't even take action on them.

Why is that? Do they think that these techniques don't really work? Are they afraid of success? Who knows. All I know is that they work and you should know this too.

Let's get to them!

First of all you need to know this...you don't want raffic.

What? No you want targeted traffic. There is a huge difference! You want to get people that are interested in what you have to offer right? If I visit a site on womens shoes I would not buy a thing...but send me to an internet marketing site on viral marketing and I am sure to buy.

Now that you have that strait ;) My first and foremost form of traffic comes from the search engines...yeah I know SEO sucks. There is no getting around it. If you have to spend hours upon hours optimizing your website and getting link partners just to gain a few ranks, it is hard work.

So here is a little shortcut that I take. First of all I write articles just like this one. Not only do I write articles but I also do press releases. This method is a great form of viral marketing. Here is what will happen...you submit your articles to directories and within just a few weeks you will have hundreds of backlinks to your site!

How is that viral? Well, you need to write the kind of content that people will pick up. You see, people are always on the look out for good content right? There is no shortage of it out there but if you write really good content yours is likely to get noticed.

People will pick up your content, post it on their website, send it out in their newsletters, and bam...you have tons of targeted traffic. I just launched a site for the internet marketing and viral marketing crowd and used this very same technique. The result? The site went from a page rank 0 to a page rank 4 in less than 2 months!

What's really great about this is that I only submitted 1 press release and 2 articles! What if I did more? Yup, you guessed it...my page rank will keep going up along with my traffic and search engine rankings. All because of viral marketing.

So now you have 2 great things. Good seo and great exposure by doing something that takes maybe 2 hours.

My next favorite technique will take a bit more time but none the less, it works like crazy! Pick your subject, write a short 20 page e-book, package it in pdf format and allow people to give it away!

The real key to using this method is to write good content. Make it look nice. Viral marketing is about giving incentive to pass along your message. So allow the people giving your book away to insert their own affiliate links into it! Heck you can even write a press release to let people know you are letting everyone give away a free book!

These are just two of the many viral marketing techniques that I use to gain massive traffic to my websites. Of course there are hundreds more but if I gave them all to you here I would be out of business ;)