If you have a legitimate work from home business, then you are familiar with the terms "internet" "business" and "profit" In order to integrate these into a successful project though you need to introduce "traffic." Surely you know that traffic is the core of your legitimate home based business actually turning a profit, assuming you have a good product to market and your internal organization is sound. Now is the time to investigate traffic and the best ways to generate it. If you already have a site and you believe it is not receiving the traffic it should, then its time to take a close look at your methods and techniques and perhaps change them up. You need to be a step ahead of your competition. To help you in generating more traffic for your legitimate work from home business, here are 7 tips for you to implement.

1- Invest in good advertising with search engines. Google has a program called Adwords and Yahoo has a program called Overture. You may have heard of these. They are typically referred to as "pay per click" This is the most surefire way for you to achieve highly targeted traffic for your legitimate work from home business. However, a word of caution here: You must have a foundation of understanding about how to use these services or you could easily exhaust your budget in a matter of hours. This is not meant to be a course on pay per click as there are many resources online for that, but do your homework before you jump in here. These methods have been highly successful for other legitimate work from home programs and they can be fore you too.

2- Linking or link exchanging with other sites. When you exchange links with another website, you sides benefit with increased traffic. The more links traded with more sites, the more traffic can be generated for your legitimate work from home business.

3- Utilize viral marketing. This is a low cost or free method of spreading the work about your legitimate work from home company. You can attach your link to another company’s product or link to a certain media such as humorous video, funny game or an interesting article or a gossip or buzz. This method, your company’s name and image could spread like wild fire as people get caught up in the creativity and entertainment of the medium and they will share it with other people. Get creative here and think out of the box.

4- Proper keywords and keyword phrases- Do your homework here as well. You need to select keywords and phrases that apply to the product you are selling. Research can be conducted easily with the Google free adwords tool. Having the right keywords and phrases is a high requirement in ranking high in organic search engine results.

5- Write articles to generate traffic to your site. Submitting articles about what you do can also be very beneficial in generating traffic for your legitimate work from home program. But relevant though. If you are a travel agency, than write articles about travel destinations etc. Attach your website description and services in the resource link at the end of the article so people can find you.

6- Be active in online communities and forums. When you can find a food foundation for your people, you can easily become an expert in your field and achieve great credibility. Traffic will increase because people know you can be relied on to provide them what you need. Post often and be helpful. You can usually include a link to your website in your signature file of the forum. Once again, make sure you are accessible and people can get to you.

7- Create a newsletter. Create a capture form the on the main page of your legitimate work from home website and write a newsletter to the emails that you capture. If people know what you are about they will share your existence with others. Do not bombard them with solicitations, be helpful and you will gain more traffic by recommendations