What are the 3 most effective ways of driving traffic?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by urber, Nov 21, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hey guys,

    I'm kinda weak in driving traffic to my sites... So started this thread to see how you guys drive traffic to your site in 3 most effective ways, maybe I can learn something from it.

    So.. What are the 3 most effective ways of driving traffic to your site?

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    urber, Nov 21, 2007 IP
  2. Lever

    Lever Deep Thought

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    #2
    For me:
    1. Good SEO (lots of pages, lots of links and good rankings)
    2. Regular Email Newsletter with links
    3. PPC programmes
     
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  3. Goran

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    #3
    -Make a video with your wbesite URL at the beginning of the video, end, and in the description! Upload it to all the major directories
    -Submit website to directories using free submission tools
    -Swap links/banners with other webmasters
    -Signature with your website on forums
    -Adwords
     
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  4. Pixelrage

    Pixelrage Peon

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    #4
    would email newsletters really be considered one of the best ways? Personally I either block or unsubscribe from all newsletters, even from the sites I visit on a regular basis.
     
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  5. Perry Rose

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    1. Advertise.
    2. Advertise.
    3. Advertise.

    Oh, wait...are those the same?
     
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  6. markab10

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    #6
    My favourite methods of traffic generation are all free.

    What I do is the following and each method works:

    1) Article Marketing
    2) Forum Posting
    3) Search engine optimization(from my article marketing I get lots of one way links)
    I also add a blog to my website and update it frequently.
     
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  7. 60minuteaffiliate

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    #7
    submitting articles on ezine articles created with seo in mind, forum posts, social bookmarking.

    colleen
     
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  8. linkmanager

    linkmanager Well-Known Member

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    1. Good SEO :D
    2. PPC
    3. Banner exchanges with relevant sites !!
     
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  9. jobic

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    1. word of mouth
    2. advertising
    3. SEO

    greetz,
    jobic
     
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  10. EasyPokerBonuses

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    If you have a gambling realated site, what 3 ways would be the best to drive traffic to the site then? I guess PPC is out of the question on Adwords and so on.
     
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  11. jobic

    jobic Peon

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    to the above poster:
    Articles, ads on related sites, you could also give away something for free on your site; this would allow you to post your site on freebiessites etc.

    greetz,
    jobic
     
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    Jobic

    What freebiesites would you recommend?
     
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  13. WharfeValley Systems

    WharfeValley Systems Active Member

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    #13
    write reviews about top online casinos and publish them on article sites (with links back to your site)

    write tutorials/tips about the type of gambling associated with your site - then post it to article directories.

    *hint* if you use the words tips,top tips etc you get A LOT more traffic from articles.

    also do the usual stuff of submitting to free directories, get links on other related gambling sites concentrate on a few keywords and try build up good serps for them keywords. The best traffic is always the free search engine results.
     
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    What article directories would you recommend?
     
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    #15
    ezinearticles is always my first choice and i get the most traffic from them.

    then
    articleblast or goarticles.

    But i mainly use ezine as it gives a nice admin area that you can see article views and times people have clicked on your links and stuff. Can take up to a week for the article to get accepted so make sure you abide by there terms.
     
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  16. jobic

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    I don't know any freebie sites from the top of my head, just type "freebie site" in google
    or "freebie" you get the idea, just use every one of them. They should be free to post your stuff on, if not, move on to the next one. Or consider buying a spot on their site.

    greetz,
    jobic
     
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  17. jammu143

    jammu143 Banned

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    social bookmarking
    article sub
    direct sub
     
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    ^^^That works pretty well
     
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  19. blogosquare

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    in my opinion, there are 2 kinds of traffic : the first which you might get when you've submitted your post to social bookmarking and digg-like sites, i.e a sudden surge in visitors(not constant). The second : a regular, constant traffic which you can get from Search engines because people keep looking for something that sooner or later they might fall on your site.

    so the effective way of driving that traffic is to equip your blog with the features allowing for both kind of traffic, that i.e providing social bookmarking buttons so that visitors can further vote for your post and tweaking your site to make it seo optimised by using correct titles, descriptions and keywords

    then let time do the rest or you will tire yourself......
     
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  20. web-world

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    Yes mainly hard work and linking
     
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