One of the most frequently asked question in these forums is how to drive traffic to a site. Personally, I have been a victim of insufficient traffic and as you know, no traffic mean no income. After series of testing and experimenting I was able to improve my traffic from 520 unique visitors to over 25, 000 unique visitors monthly in less than four months. Below are the 20 ways I use to drive traffic to my site and blog. Enjoy! 1. Article Marketing - Submit your well written articles to over 4 high ranking article directories. 2. Forums - Participate in forums & use your site as signature link 3. SEO - Optimize your site and building links can help your site to appear on the first page of the search engines. 4. Viral Marketing - Giveaways as well as Bonuses 5. Expired domains 6. Squidoo & Hubpages 7. Social Bookmaking - Onlywire or Socialmarker 8. Social media sites 9. BUM Marketing 10. Videos marketing using sites like Youtube 11. Press Releases 12. Submit your posts to social media sites 13. Submit your website to web directories. 14.Submit your blog RSS feeds to as many RSS Directories. 15.Submit your blog to Search Engines. 16. Blog commenting 17. Social networking like Facebook, Myspace & Twitter 18.Blogging 19. Submit your blog to blog directories 20. Ping your post to ping sites such as ping-o-matic each time you add a new content. I hope you find this marketing technique helpful. From John Benjamin
Perhaps not new to older timers but certainly the newbies will find this interesting as well as rewarding.
This is a really good list. I was wondering if you could talk a little more about expired domains? I have been wanting to look into this for quite some time but i just don't really know how to go about it.
This is my list: USFreeads affiliates Slide sharing (Slideshare.com) Link Directories traffic exchanges List Brokers Popups/Unders/Overs etc.. Software apps (facebook, toolbars, etc.) Software/scripts included in CPanel/Fantastico Pinging your pages and the pages on other sites which link to yours. Blogs XML sharing (PADs, Feeds, Sitemaps, RSS etc.) Wikis Article directories, and reprinted articles CPA PPV Tell-A-Friend scripts Twitter , myspace, youtube, facebook etc… PRs Sofware links (PAD) Datafeeds PPC Videos, audios RSS JVs - ezine, links, ty page, A/Rs offline (physical books, testimonials/forwards in other peoples books - word of mouth, seminars, networking, business cards, radio advertising, tradeshows, workshops, roadshows, mail, local sponserhips etc) Recommendations Viral Marketing (ezines, software, ebooks etc.) Ezine ads Testimonials REviews comments Knols webinar / teleseminar Online TV stations and radio stations Ebay Craigslist buying other websites with existing traffic and links buying expired domains with existing traffic Outsourcing sites - Elance etc. Traffic swaps Giveaways co-regs giving away templates Images (Flickr etc) service offline businesses Merhandise Banner Ads Craigslist and similar previous customers returning (emails, links in books, promotions etc.) forums message boards yahooanswers community sites google news - alerts Kunaki cafepress