The most important thing in all your web marketing efforts should really be to generate website traffic. If you don’t spend the majority of your effort and time doing this your business is doomed and you will not make money online. As simple as that.

Say we have 2 websites: Stacy spends s a lot of time making her homepage look pretty and she tries her utmost to make her website as user friendly as possible. Is Stacy going to generate website traffic? She will probably get some traffic on the long run and she might even get a few sales.

Next up we have Dave’s website. Dave used a simple template to set up his website and he also provides some interesting info to people. But Dave uses the most of his energy to generate website traffic. Dave is a smart guy. His chances of making it big and buying his dream car are much higher than our first competitor.

Maybe new internet marketers have to hear this before they really understand it. Traffic to your website hardly ever comes by itself. You have to put in some planning and work to generate website traffic. Leaving it up to chance or luck is going to get you nowhere. With a very new idea or product you might get enough traffic to sustain your business, but most people need to work at it.

What I recommend is that you study some traffic generation ideas and start incorporating them as soon as possible. There are many good courses and mentorship programs on the subject to get your going. Tough out the learning curve and try to concentrate on one specific thing and mastering it before moving on to the next. In no time at all you will have the skills to generate website traffic and get your online business of the ground.