50+ Different Ways to Generate Website Traffic
Getting traffic to your website is the single one most important duty that you must master if you are trying to make money online.
You could have the best website on the internet, but if nobody knows its there, then its not worth jack.
Here are some proven methods you can use to generate traffic to your site and build a thriving online business.
1. Write articles and submit them to article directories. This is definitely one of the best traffic generation strategies. There are a number of great, high traffic article directorys you can post to. Do a google search for the best article directorys and start posting. Add a link to your articles with anchor text and this will help with SEO to your website aswell as click through traffic.
2. Write a Press Release and submit it to PRWeb (make sure it is newsworthy). This works great for SEO with a large number of backlinks produced. If your website is newsworthy, you will recieve a large traffic boost in a very short period of time.
3. Use PayPerClick Traffic (e.g Adwords, MSN Adcenter, YSM). This is by far the fastest way to boost your website traffic.
4. Add an RSS subscribe button/link in a high profile spot on your site.
5. Add a mailing list subscribe form in a high profile spot on your site. Building a list is very important when growing your internet business.
6. Add a bookmark this site link in a high profile spot on your site.
7. Use a Tell A Friend Script on your site so people can email their friend about an article on your website. This type of traffic generation is still in its developmental stages but will be huge in the very near future. There has recently been some great scripts released that show how facebook and myspace implimented the tell a friend script and made them rank in the top 5 most trifficed websites on earth.
8. Submit a blog to a blog directory.
9. Submit you RSS feed to RSS feed directories.
10. Mention your website in a post on Craigslist (don't spam).
11. Optimize the titles of your pages for keywords people will search for in search engines. The title tag is one of the most important onpage factors when it comes to ranking well in search engines.
12. Build links to your site. This is the most important factors when trying to rank well in google for your chosen keywords. Your link will also build traffic through clicks.
13. Buy reviews about your site on other people's site.
14. Buy banner space on other websites if you can get a good ROI.
15. Send articles to ezine publishers with a link back to your website.
16. Do a big viral push for a piece of link bait, post it in forums, social bookmarking sites like digg, email bloggers, and get a few people to vote for you on social bookmarking sites - this little push could start a viral chain reaction!
17. Have a link to your site on community sites like MySpace and FaceBook. Social networking sites like facebook and myspace are huge at the moment and are a great way to build your website traffic.
18. Use a traffic trading system like BlogRush or Traffic Bunnies.
19. Purchase misspellings of competitors domains and redirect your site (be careful of trademark infringement).
20. Create a freebie product to give away (ebook, software, whitepaper etc.). Everybody loves free stuff, especially if its of great value. If you think writing an ebook and giving it away for free is silly then you are wrong. A free ebook is very viral, if you add you affiliate link or your own website link to products you recommend inside the book, you may see a traffic increase thats out of this world.
21. Create an Amazon profile and start submitting reviews
22. Create profiles on MySpace and start networking in groups that are interested in your site's niche.
23. Conduct a survey and publish the results - make sure you let people know about it.
24. Get your hand on a load of PLR content for your niche. Add a commentary to the top, create a unique title, and post them all to your site - lots of new content and lots of new traffic.
25. Create a cartoon mascot for your site - then hold a competition for someone to create the best game for it - pay the winner a decent amount.
26. Make sure you have a memorable domain name that is short and catchy.
27. Use a well-searched for keyword within your domain name to help rank for that keyword.
28. If you sell a product ask someone else who sells a product to list your product with theirs, and you'll do the same for them - split commissions on sales.
29. When you write a new article on your site - link to as many blogs as possible - they will likely see your site in their pingbacks, website stats, or Technorati. They will visit your site and possibly subscribe to it and link back at a later date.
30. Get your RSS feed syndicated to different sites like Zimbio and hubpages and Topix.
31. If your site is popular and has quality unique content then apply to get listed in Google's News search.
32. Create a sitemap and submit it to Google (not great but might help)
33. Use your robots.txt file to stop Google indexing certain directories and pages on your blog (such as archives) to avoid duplicate content issues).
34. Create a couple of small 10 page sites related to your main site. Offer links on these smaller sites in return for links to your main site (this is triangular reciprocal linking).
35. Get yourself known as an expert and get featured in offline magazines, TV and radio stations.
36. Use an auto-translator service to translate your site into other languages - put it in a subdirectory and watch foreign traffic come in.
37. Make posts about sex (don't have to post anything rude) - and watch the porn surfers find their way to your site through Google.
38. Post about celebrities current events if it relates to your niche - there's always a lot of people looking up celebrity stuff.
39. Write good headlines/titles - good titles get more clicks.
40. Get some stickers with your domain name on. Go out and stick them on strangers and say "My Website Yeah, Check it out."
41. Submit your site to the hundreds of free directories - use the viles-silencer list
42. Do a group feature where you get other website owners in your niche to participate - maybe asking them all an opinion on something.
43. Hold a competition for the Top 50 in your niche - 1 month later post the results and let everyone know who featured - watch them link back to say what there position was.
44. Pass out business cards when you go to industry events in your niche
45. If you have a product start an affiliate program and start approaching affiliates
46. Submit videos to video sharing sites like YouTube and Metacafe. Include a link in the description and within the actual video.
47. If you have a product send it to website owners to get reviewed.
48. Look at a big website within your niche and ask to write some guest posts for them
49. Create pages with links to your site on places like Squidoo and Hubpages
50. Place classified Ads on eBay with a link to your website
51. Use an autoresponder on your mailing list to keep people coming back to your site
52. Exchange links with a few related sites in your niche
53. Network! Email other site owners, phone them up, go to industry events and get yourself known. If they know your face they will likely talk about you on their site if you do something interesting.
54. Many forums have a place for you to advertise your site once - find them and do it.
55. Purchase advertising in other people's mailing lists and newsletters
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