Six ways to get traffic to your new site or blog

I thought I would share some of the techniques I use to get traffic to my new sites and blogs, feel free to share your own!

• Find keywords which have a high search rate but low competition, target them, and boom Obviously it's not just as easy as that, but it can be done if you do your research
  
• Make a page on your site dedicated to the above keyword, but make it quality. Let's call this page our 'high quality high search high profit' page... Promote this page more than anything else on your site for a while, so that you get ranked very high in google for the term you are targeting. Submit this page to as many social bookmarking sites as you can with the anchor text being the keyword you are targeting. Do the same for a few directories.
  
• Use free classified sites like Craigslist to your advantage, these kind of sites have hundreds of thousands of visitors per day and they can be highly targeted if you do this properly!
  
• Find a forum related to your niche and make quality posts there. After you have made 10-15 posts that actually contribute to the community, add a link to your site in your signature. Most forums will be more than happy for you to link back to your site in your signature if you are contributing. Link to quality content on your site when relevant (and ONLY then), too.
  
• Use sites like WetPaint Wiki, HubPages, Squidoo and other user-generated content sites to promote your site. Do this in a subtle way - make your pages on these sites have information that is useful to the reader, but link back to some of your own articles and posts a few times.
  
• Comment on other related blogs (if you're running a blog that is) - many believe this is pointless due to the NoFollow tag but it lets other readers and site owners aware of your website, and can bring small leaks of traffic every now and then.

-KieranG

 

Thanks. Even though I'm already doing most of these there is one I'm going to try out tonight.

 

Very great tips dudes.. Thank you very much for that..

 

Also, consider submitting your RSS/XML feeds to the directories. I have a maintained list:

45 Working Sites to Quickly Submit Your RSS Feeds

Hope this helps!

 

Submitting your feeds is a good way to get indexed faster, yes!
And you're welcome!

 

Great Tips. Thanks for sharing

 

u forgot article submission

 

Article submission can be very good too if done properly, yes!

 

Offline Marketing & Promotion. The most underestimated way to get traffic.

 

Could you elaborate, DaMa?
Sometimes offline promotion may not be suitable, e.g. for Affiliate sites.
Unless you mean by advertising in 'for sale' section in news paper, etc?

 

oldies but goldies

 

old is gold .Basics are important

 

Great sharing buddy!

If somebody really apply them without doing any SPAM, Traffic is for sure. But beside it, Off-site is also very important. If you website has not that thing which your subject or submissions have told to visitor. Then, that traffic would be limited. What you think?

 

Thank you. These are some very good techniques and well worth keeping in mind.

donrock

 

Jason,

Would you mind elaborating on RSS a little bit. I read an article a while back about how great an idea it was for getting traffic. I'm just getting started on trying to figure out the best way to get traffic. Could you give me some reasons why RSS is good.

Thanks,
donrok

 

Hmm, perhaps sharing us what "properly" here means. Thanks

 

be smart and don't spam us.

 

thank you for sharing those!

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What a sharring, Follow up and keep working

 

thanks for the tip on widecircles..com. Looks like something worth using.