Quick Traffic Grabbing Methods for Brand New Sites
Here’s a common dilemma web marketers face, after spending some time and money your website is ready to go. However where is the traffic? You have already optimized your site with standard practise SEO checklist, but where is the traffic. Well if you just launched your site, you might need sometime for Google to index and rank your site before getting any kind of traffic. This wait could take awhile before reaching a huge critical mass where online marketers like yourself reach a breakeven point for your initial site’s investment.
Now as a marketer, you might want to try other means of traffic acquisition to increase the flow of traffic to your new site way before organic traffic kicks in. How you might ask? Let me share 3 methods I normally use for my own sites.
Method 1 – Buying Traffic
This is the fastest way to divert traffic to one’s site. However before jumping into this channel, you should set aside a budget and the maximum amount you would like to bid for per keyword. Failure to do so could potentially make you lose more than the benefits.
Platforms that I recommend for one to buy traffic would be Google Adwords, Yahoo Search/ Bing Search if your markets are targeted at the US. Facebook is also another up and coming platform to use.
These platforms all follow the same basic “Pay Per Click” model of charging advertisers for each click to their website.
Method 2 – Tapping into the Social Stream
These days, social networks and micro blogging platforms are the rage. Sites like facebook and twitter have huge communities of people which could be your potential traffic source. Therefore joining the social platforms and being involved in the conversation would help add another traffic channel to your mix.
One way to draw traffic from these sites to yours would be to find like minded people or your target audience and hang out around their space, either becoming fans or following them on their list. After getting them on your list, converse with them and start adding value to their hang out and they will come to your site in no time.
One of my favourite sites would be twitter as it is easy to join and finding my target audience is pretty simple.
Method 3 – Borrow Traffic
This method has a mixture of paid and free implementation. Let me explain the free implementation first. If you have friends with websites that already have traffic, you could ask them to help you out with maybe a promotional banner, a textlink or place a feature written by you on their site to help a friend out.
If you are in it alone, then you could try using article syndication services. These services allow you to syndicate your written articles to hundreds of webmasters who have similar sites or complementary websites to your business. What’s best these websites normally signed up to be alerted of new content so that they can place them on their site. Besides article networks, you could seek out sites with mailing lists and ask if they accept email endorsements where you provide content for their newsletter and they blast it out to their subscribers.
Now that you have 3 methods of generating short term traffic, here’s a tip on how not to let your efforts go to waste. Before running any traffic acquisition campaigns, make sure you have mechanism in place on your site to help capture all users that land on your site. So having an email capture or a call to action to get users to come back again is a good way of not letting your traffic acquisition go to waste as these users could become your repeat visitors.