Everyone is looking for a way to gain and increase traffic to their websites and you certainly can do it online and even offline. Here are 3 ways to increase website traffic starting today.

There’s a caveat though. You’ll need to take action and only then you will reap the benefits of the steps outlined.

Step 1 - Start A Pay-Per-Click Advertising Campaign

Well, I’m sure everyone knows that Google Adwords is the main Pay-Per-Click advertising platform to use but how about the other platforms such as Yahoo Search Marketing and MSN’s Adcentre? Have you thought of using those and others as well?

You can find some great Pay-Per-Click advertising sources at www.payperclicksearchengines.com

If you’d like to learn how to do well for your Pay-Per-Click advertising campaigns, I recommend reading Perry Marshall’s ebook - The Definitive Guide To Google Adwords. Investing in this ebook and learning from it can help you save money because if you are not careful when advertising by Pay-Per-Click, you could easily burn a big hole in your credit card.

Step 2 - Build Your List Via A Newsletter

When you have a newsletter, you are also building a list of subscribers whom you can then offer good content and direct them back to your website.

For example, if you subscribe to this blog’s newsletter, you are also part of our weekly ezine where I sent you snippets of the blog posts for the week and direct my subscribers back to the blog. If they are keen on certain topics they find interesting they will click on the link in the email and come back to the blog.

You can also do that for your blog or website and whenever you have some offers for your subscribers, you can also send a broadcast email via your newsletter. You’ll certainly need an autoresponder for that and I use and recommend Aweber.

Step 3 - Giveaway Business Cards

We don’t work online all the time and I assume you do meet people in your daily life or at least run into some along the way and what happens if they ask you what you do for a living?

Whether you still have a job full-time or you are already working from home, this gives you the chance to introduce your website or business to them.

Here’s a neat little trick. Make sure you utilize both sides of your business card and at the back of it; you can advertise an offer you have for example.