The best way to get traffic , other than search engines

Everybody these days focuses on 99 % search engine marketing , which is very understandable . but do you know of any other good sources of getting genuine high traffic ?

Thanks tom

 

yeah, i agree with you. Everybody focuses on search engine marketing..but thats because it works for getting traffic. Another way to get traffic would be link building which can be done by blog commenting on high page rank blogs and forums. Many people already do it here in the top forums. But, another way is social bookmarking, but is only effective when done in volume. I use a little secret method by linking all of my blog post together, then bookmarking one blog post, which gets all of my blog post high page rank...but the results are temporary. You should also link to other high page rank sites within your webpages and blog post. I hope that helped

 

that's right you can build many backlinks from high PR site and the most important is update your site regularly

 

And look at how many of them who do that STILL have very slow, to dead sites.

You presented that question as to mean that search engines deliver "genuine high traffic."

It doesn't.

You want REAL genuine high traffic? Advertise.

Until you do that, you will never see it, other than in another webmaster's site, who does advertise.

Next is word of mouth.

Focus 99% of your time in those two areas, and 1% in seo.

 

I have focused about 40 percent on SEO and the rest just branding. When I think of websites I got to on a daily basis I never found them through a search engine and never go through a search engine to view them, I always go directly to the URL. Too many people focus on SEO and don't focus on branding which is probably the most important form of getting major traffic.

 

When you refer to branding, do you mean online or offline?

Any examples of how you expand your brand online, that is not SEO-related?

Thanks!

 

My favorite method is joint ventures. You can trade an endorsement with another website owner - they endorse you to their list and you endorse them to your list. Or you could pay them for an endorsed mailing to their list. Either way, you get highly-targeted traffic with a recommendation form someone your prospects trust.

 

I mean branding both online and off-line. For instance we do advertising buys online in related niches but for free we do a lot of work in social networks from myspace to digg to twitter and make sure our logo/website address is plastered everywhere. We also have gotten free advertisement for events, concerts, and conferences in our niches by just providing coverage of them without charging them for advertisement, kind of a barter system. When it comes down to it if you want to be a major player you are going to need to do something besides just ranking good in some search engines.

 

Offline advertising can be a huge help - if you can find the right print publication to advertise in. Nice thing is, with so many newspapers and magazines in trouble financially, ad prices are decreasing. So it's a good time to buy offline ads.

When you do purchase online ads, some good places to advertise are forums in your niche or e-newsletters being published in your niche. If you want to go the Adwords route use their site targeted ads feature and that way you can pick precisely which sites to test your ads on. So for instance if I find a forum that has Google ads in a nice placement (at the top of their site or prominently in the sidebar) and that discussion group talks a lot about a niche I'm in, I'll use site targeted Adwords ads to get my ads right in front of those targeted leads.

Dan

 

try youtube and article marketing

 

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If traffic is not from SE, I think It's only from Social network

 

Thanks for all the replies .

 

Viral marketing like videos , social bookmarks , twitter etc...

 

submit your site to social bookmarking sites, submit your articles to article directories, link your site with thousands of sites on the web from all over the places, send newsletters, make blogs and forum, submit your sites to important link directories.

 

se's are difficult to bypass - but the trick is creating a recall with visitors who come to your site such that they come again and this time directly. hence, branding def. is important - more so in the growth phase.

 

what do you mean precisely by that?

 

You can use twitter drive traffic. Social networks have taken over email in terms of popularity. Twitter is a very popular one, and continues to grow rapidly.

 

One thing about SEO is the same as life.. "Dont believe anything you hear and only half of what you see"

 

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