When you are just starting out trying to drive traffic to your website, it is important not to become too involved in too many traffic generation programs. Instead, it is better to focus your efforts on a few advertising strategies until you are producing a profit. To do this, we need a strategic plan. If you are just starting out, perhaps you don’t want to spend too much money on advertising and want to concentrate your efforts on free advertising. Here is a plan you can follow: Step 1) Write articles Articles are great traffic generators simply because of their viral capabilities. A single article can be published in many places because ezine publishers look to article directories for fresh content. Try to write a few articles every week. Step 2) Use forums to market your business By this, I do not mean spamming the forums. Rather, post some useful content, and have your website link in the forum signature. Whenever you make a new post, your forum signature goes with it. This means even more exposure for your website. Step 3) Swap links with other webmasters Contact other webmasters in your niche and ask them if they would like to exchange links. By having your links on each others’ site, you are essentially leveraging on each others’ traffic. It’s a win-win situation. Traffic generation doesn't have to be complicated as long you follow a proven plan. Many marketers have used the above strategy to drive traffic to their site without coming a dime out of their pocket.
Pretty basic, but I'm glad you didn't state free autosurf exchange sites because those are extremely useless. There's social bookmarking too.. it can lead to some free traffic.
I would recommend also that you keep track of your time spend driving traffic, how much is a visitor worth from different sites/advertising methods? how much time/money does it take to get your link posted on these sites using the ideal methods? It is easy to get wound up wasting time on futile trends. Many people hop from one trend to the next always arriving too late to be successfully. Currently I see everyone hopping on the YouTube and social bookmarking band wagon. What's next?
I'd just like to comment on "step 3" (link swapping) because the practice of reciprocal linking has gotten a bad rap due to the perception that recips yield less SEO benefits than one-way links. I think the best way to look at link swapping is to ignore the SEO considerations altogether. If you can find sites with related content to swap links with you, you'll get lots of direct and highly targeted traffic through your link partners. The best part is that you don't have to pay for the quality traffic. This has been my experience anyway.
Nice tips buddy, but it seems they are pretty basics But they are good for the beginners. cheers Jerry ================== PPC Search Engine Directory - Affiliates Make Money with Our PPC Search Engine! Data, Design, Databases, Website Content and more! Hosting From $2.99 a month!
Hi guys, They're basic because it's targeted for the newbies on this forum who need some direction. Cheers! Fabian