A great way to build traffic, and create viral traffic to your site, is to create a video that details what your site is about. There is no need to be alarmed, you won’t need to sit in front of a camera and feel embarrassed, not will you need to wave your arms about enthusiastically, telling people why they should visit your site. You can subtly attract visitors to your site by doing just one thing – and that is give away free information.

Everybody loves free information, and if you are reading this right now, then I have proven my point. All you need to do is think of some great information that you can pass on to an individual, that can be segmented into two parts. For example, if your site is about writing ebooks, then you should firstly make a video about how to structure an ebook, and the methods of finding resources for the content. Then, at the end of the video, you will tell the viewer that they can see the rest of the video at www.yourwebsite.com.

To create a simple video, all you really need is a freeware slideshow creator like Open Office or even the latest version of Microsoft Powerpoint. You can then convert the slideshow into a video, with tools like Magix Slideshow Creator. Tools like this also enable you to create the slideshow and then convert seamlessly.

Once your video goes online at Youtube, you need to pack as many keywords into the description etc. as possible. This will ensure that your video is picked up by the maximum number of syndication websites, each one giving you a backlink to your site, and each one delivering traffic to your site. Viral traffic can be almost instant, depending on the keywords you use, so be sure to are very thorough with your keyword list – this is key.