How To Get Website Traffic For Free
We know basically two ways to get website traffic. You can buy it, or you can get it for free. I have tried both methods, and although the easiest way to drive traffic to your site is to just buy it, I do not like it. There is no guarantee that buying website traffic you will get great results even though you spend a fortune.
I begin to look the other way, FREE traffic. Why spend money buying website traffic when you can get traffic for free? It is more time consuming but there is no risk involved in this method and the quality of the traffic can be better in many cases because you can generate targeted traffic.
Free traffic techniques that work:
- Submit your site to as many search engines you can, including the major search engines: Google, Yahoo, and MSN, but do not neglect the other ones.
- Write 2-3 articles each week and submit them to the free article directories. The link to your site must be in your bio box. The articles should be optimized for a keyword your site is targeting. If you want to review an affiliate product in atricles, find out which ezine accept affiliate links, for the ones which do not, use the URL of a page in your website and from there you can redirect to your affiliate links. To automate the tedious process of submit Articles, you can use a submission service like: http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/ArtM
- Submit those same articles to email newsletter publishers in your niche and add them in your site as well.
- If you are happy with a product or service you have used, write an unbiased testimonial and trade it for a backlink to your site.
- Find blogs related to your niche and leave useful comments with a backlink to your site. The blogs must have original content, affiliate links and monetize ads, they are an exceptional source for traffic.
- Answer questions related to your sites topic at http://www.answers.yahoo.com. Be sure to put a link to your site in each of your answers.
- Join the most popular forums that deal with your sites topic and become an active poster. Include a link to your site in your signature.
- Write a press release about your site and submit it to press release sites such as http://www.prweb.com. If you are not familiar with press releases, take some time to do a little research: a press release is not written like an article.
- Start a new blog on http://blogger.com and a new blog on http://wordpress.com, link them to your site and submit them to the hundreds of free blog directories. This will get you plenty of quality traffic as long as you keep your blogs updated.
- Post ads with a link to your site on all the free classified ad sites you can find (such as http://www.craigslist.org, http://www.usfreeads.com). The best ones will allow you to post a live link. But do not neglect the other ones. If your ad is well written, people will go out of their way and type your url in their browser.
- Write an interesting email signature that includes a link to your site, and use it with every outgoing business email you send. I use a signature when I respond to eBay messages as well because eBay has an incredible huge customer base and I want to uer the viral power of this base.
- Start a page on http://www.myspace.com and on any other high page rank social bookmarking site you can find and link them to your site. Create squidoo lenses http://www.squidoo.com, they are so easy to create and add your site URL in them.
- Submit a viral video to http://www.youtube.com. You do not really need any video producing know-how as a simple PowerPoint slideshow with some background music will do the job.
- Search your main keywords on Google and see if you can exchange reciprocal links with related websites that come up in the top results.
- Write an e-book or a short report (10 to 20 pages), or find a product with giveaway rights that you can brand with a link to your site. Then submit it to all the free e-book directories you can find online.
- Give the free e-book or short report to your list as well or add it to a giveaway event.
It is a lot of work, but you don’t have to use them all at once. Just pick one at a time, invest one hour today, pick other one tomorrow and so on, and in a month you will build your free traffic.
Copyright 2008 Michaela Cernescu
About the Author
Michaela Cernescu is an experienced eBayer, Education Specialist trained by eBay, Internet Marketer, Info Products Writer and Affiliate. Visit:
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