Getting Free Traffic
You’ve published a website right? You realize that it’s a
meaningless endeavor unless you get some good traffic. You
have absolutely no money for expensive advertising
campaigns. In fact, your advertising budget is virtually
non-existent. Read on to discover some simple methods to
get good free traffic.
Good Seo
This cannot be emphasized enough. Good Seo is your starting
point to any free advertising campaign. Before you even
consider any other methods for free traffic, get your
website user and search engine friendly. Put on quality
content in line with the objective of your website. Make
your content interesting, fresh and unique for the user and
the search bots will come crawling. If word gets around
that your content is great, webmasters may voluntarily link
to your website. This one-way linking will increase your
link popularity, search engine rankings and get you good
free traffic. Ensure your site is well designed, your html
is clean and compliant, your pages load quick and there are
no dead links. Your users should be able to get what they
want within three to four clicks. Avoid excessive use of
graphics and animation unless absolutely necessary. I don’t
recommend you use pop-ups as most users get irritated by
them.
Articles
Writing articles is another great way to get free traffic.
Webmasters are constantly looking for fresh, quality
articles to put on their website. When you write an
article, you are allowed to describe a little about
yourself and your website in the resource or author bio
box. It is in this box that you are allowed to put a link
back to your site. Submit these articles to article
directory sites. If your article is relevant and exciting,
webmasters will put it on their websites. In this way, you
can improve link popularity by getting a one-way link back
to your site and free traffic from readers who read your
article. Write articles that relate to your website. For
example, if you have a website on growing roses, write an
article that has something to go with growing roses. Submit
your article to as many article directories and relevant
websites as possible.
Forums
Every niche on the internet has a plethora of forums. Do a
Google search and find relevant ones in your niche. Join
these forums as member and contribute to the community by
making useful and thoughtful posts. You are allowed to put
your link in your signature line. This also counts towards
your link popularity as search engines also index forum
posts. Fellow forum members may also click on your link to
visit your site. A word of caution - every forum has a
different set of rules, especially when it comes to links.
Make sure you read and obey them at all times. If you just
go in and put up links, you will be banned almost instantly.
Link Exchange
The great granddaddy of free traffic, link exchanges are
still very relevant and effective today. Make contact with
sites that are in a similar niche as your own. Offer to
exchange links with these sites. A word of caution - choose
the sites that you link to very carefully. Avoid linking to
spammy, black-hat sites with questionable content and
motives. Make sure that these sites are not banned by the
major search engines.
Newsletters
You not only need to get a continuous stream of new
visitors to your website, you need to make sure you keep
the old ones coming back all the time. The best way to do
this is by providing fresh valuable content and by way of a
newsletter system. Put in a newsletter subscription form on
your site and invite visitors to subscribe to a newsletter
that you can email to them either weekly or monthly. You
can put some content, some special offers, ads and a link
back to your site in your newsletter every time you email
out. Also provide them with an incentive or reason to click
on your link and visit your site. In this way, you remind
your visitors about your website.
Submit to directories
There are many directories available on the web that allow
ads or links free of charge. Some are general and some
specialize in a particular niche. Choose relevant ones and
submit your link or ad to them. Make sure you choose
quality directories that are indexed by search engines. In
this way you get a one-way link back to your site. You
benefit by getting free traffic and improved link
popularity.
Email this page
Another great, yet simple idea is to add an “Email this
page” feature to your website. It’s a simple form where a
visitor fills in the name and email address of another
person that he/she wishes to recommend your site to. You
set the form to automatically email a link to your website
to that person. That person will then receive an email with
a short message that says that so and so person had
recommended that he/she visit your site, etc.
If you follow these simple ideas, you should start to see
an increase in traffic to your site. Please note that
building traffic takes time and won’t happen overnight. All
the best!
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Anwar Ally operates http://www.super-clix.com This site
provides websites with free traffic by serving free text
ads to thousands of sites.
Written by SEO Tipster on September 7th, 2006 with
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