Getting traffic to your site is just not enough to generate sales. The traffic should be a targeted one unless all your time, energy and monies spent on it will go in vain. Here, 'targeted' means the promotions that point towards your niche market.

A few methods to get well targeted:

1. Give away free gifts, gift samples, e-books to your visitors or readers. Through e-books, you can even promote your business through web links to your site and to its target pages. To be affective, make your e-book appeal to your niche market. Otherwise, it is of no use.
2. If you are a vendor, offer an affiliate program with some attractive commission. If possible give some training to these affiliate marketers on your program.
3. To bring the targeted web traffic to your site, you can even try for some blogging submissions and distribution of articles. This will work get your targeted traffic very affectively.
4. You can even try placing some small ads on few relevant business websites.

We have often seen that some marketers decide to purchase traffic to their sites which is not at all recommendable to anybody. There is no certainty that the traffic you have purchased in a fair one and you are not cheated. There is wide scope of fraud and you may get victimized for it. Hence, a bit of self help is highly suggested. However, if you can come across any reliable company or individual who can take care of it and manage your site development and can get the real targeted traffic to your website, you may try it step by step.

Now you can think of getting targeted traffic that can generate some real business for you. Mere visitors are of no use unless you can convert them to a potential buyer. Internet business is all about getting this targeted traffic only. Your success depends on how better you understand and implement this concept.