I found this over at another blog which I found really helpful! 1. Write and submit articles to the article directories. 2. Leave comments on other people’s blogs with a backlink to your site. 3. Answer people’s questions on www.answers.yahoo.com. 4. Post in forums and have a link to your site in your signature. 5. Write a press release and submit it to www.PRWeb.com. 6. Advertise your website in the appropriate category on www.CraigsList.com. 7. Give an unbiased testimonial on a product/service that you have used in exchange for a backlink to your site. 8. Start a blog and submit it to the 100’s of free blog directories. 9. Manually submit your website to the major search engines. 10. Optimize each page of your website for a particular keyword or search phrase. 11. Add a link in your email signature to your website. It’s a free and easy way to get a little more traffic. 12. Make a custom 404 error page for your website redirecting people to your home page. 13. Use PPC search engine advertising. 14. Add a “bookmark this site†link to your webpages. 15. Have a tell-a-friend form on your site. 16. Send articles to ezine publishers that includes a link to your website. 17. Hold a crazy content and make it go viral. 18. Give away a freebie (ebook, report, e-course) to keep people coming back to your site. 19. Add an RSS feed to your blog. 20. Submit your site to any related niche directories on the net. 21. Participate in a banner or link exchange program. 22. Create a software program and give it away for free. 23. Purchase the misspellings or variations of your domain name, or those of your competitors. 24. Buy a domain name related to your niche that is already receiving traffic and forward it to your site. 25. Pass out business cards with your domain on them everywhere you go. 26. Start and affiliate program and let your affiliates send you visitors. 27. Start a page on social bookmarking sites such as www.MySpace.com. 28. Submit a viral video to www.YouTube.com 29. Conduct and publish surveys to your website. 30. Find joint venture partners that will send you traffic. 31. Start your own newsletter or ezine. 32. Use a autoresponder or email campaign to keep people coming back to your site. 33. Purchase ads on other sites. 34. Send a free copy of your product to other site owners in exchange for a product review. 35. Sell or place classified ads on www.eBay.com with a link to your site. 36. Post free classified ads on any of the sites that allow them with a link to your site. 37. Exchange reciprocal links with other related websites. 38. Network with other people at seminars or other live events. 39. Purchase advertising in popular newsletters or ezines. 40. Advertise on other product’s “thank you†pages. 41. Create a free ebook and list in on the “free ebook†sites. 42. Buy and use a memorable domain name. 43. Do something controversial. 44. Create an Amazon profile and submit reviews for books and other products that you have read. 45. Start a lens on www.Squidoo.com. 46. Use a traffic exchange (low quality traffic, but can sometimes be worthwhile). 47. Get referrals form similar but non-competing sites. 48. Create and sell a product with resell or giveaway rights and include a link to your site in it o others pass it around for you. 49. Email your list. If you don’t have one, get one. 50. Buy a pair of sandals; get your website engraved on the bottom and walk on the beach, stomp in the mud or play in the snow. This will keep you busy for the next 10 weeks or so....so get to it.. to your online profits. Now add some more ways that have personally worked for you!
My eyes are tired, so I don't know if these have been mentioned already... 51. Park a truck or van in a parking lot on a busy corner with a sign on it. 52. Exchange ads with other sites. See if they will create a section for that purpose on the bottom of their page. 53. If you walk the dog a lot, put a shirt on him with your URL. 54. Magnetic signs for the car. 55. Leave a comment, along with your URL on Digg articles and posts. 56. Advertise on all the search engines. There are over 60 of them. 57. Create a funny and or cool page in your site, and submit it to Digg, and other such sites. Good example on something cool http://www.prontocondoms.co.za/ 58. List your business in the phone book. 59. Pay truckers to carry your URL on their trailer, taxi drivers on their bumpers. 60. Reply to spam e-mail with your own ad. 61. Place helpful quick tips in newspapers, and tell the readers to expect a new one every week. Put it in the movies / entertainment section. 61. Put your URL, along with a brief description on your shirts. Wear Polos. Put it on the chest, like a name tag, but twice as big. 62. infomercial. Find a couple of sponsors (people to place their own commercials) to pay for the air time. 63. CafePress.com 64. DayTipper.com. It's small, but still may be of some use. 65. Ask owners of message boards how they got traffic. They are more likely to open up more than an owner of a regular site. Most won't, but many will. More on #52, exchanging ads with other sites. On the bottom of your home page, create a section that stretches all the way across, from left to right. Give each Website owner a few lines of ad space. You could have, for example, two rows of about 7 different categories, such as web hosting, freebies, clothes, funny sites, dating...., going horizontally. You would then have 14 categories. In each category put the appropriate ads. To draw more attention to the section, on the top of it give it an eye-catching title and picture. I don't have one, but I'll use my URL as an example. The main title could be: "TheList.FM's Coolest, Most Kick-Ass Friends." with the subtitle underneath, "The Coolest, Craziest, Cheapest, Most Informative, Funniest, and Sometimes the Dumbest Sites You Just HAVE to See!" Then get them to bookmark your homepage so they can come back later to click on some of them every now and then. You could say something like...."A REAL Time Waster You Just Have To Save!" Next step is to then use http://compete.com to see, roughly, how many monthly hits a site gets. I know, I know, this thing ain't accurate, but it still gives you an idea. If it looks pretty good, send them an e-mail, pitching the idea of exchanging ads. Show them what you have done on your home page, and ask if they would like to do the same. All they have to do is to put in a box that will hold all the ads, with a nice-looking light gray border around that section. Pop up the same pic and title of it. They don't have to do much work. Get X number of sites, and it might add up for you, and for the ones advertising on your site, too. It, MIGHT produce one sale for you every day. Who knows. If you can get, oh, say, 500 hits, do you think you could get a sale??? NOTE: When looking for sites in a search, start on, oh...page 7. That way you know they aren't getting any traffic from the engines, thus increasing your odds in getting them to try the idea. Well, providing they aren't advertising all over the place. Ok, ok, maybe you are thinking that there would be a big mess of links down below. Not if you do it right. Put each ad in its own category, make the ad exchange box appealing to the eye, and give it a snazzy title. Also, keep in mind that section will be down on the bottom of the page, out of the way of your content. The visitors don't have to look at it if they don't want to. ... Right? Now, your goal is to NOT get as many sites as you can to exchange with. You do that, well, then, you WILL have a big mess, that will go alllllllll the way down the page after a year of doing this. The first year you don't have to worry about it, as this takes time to get so many sites to exchange with you. Your goal is to get just enough to where you can make around $100 a week. How many sites do you think that will take? Math time... Let's say you sell a product, like a book, like I do. Exchange ads with 100 sites. Every day each site sends you, say, ohhhhh, 5 people. Yes, just 5! Let's get realistic here, ok? That's 500 visitors a day, 3,500 a week. You make one sale out of every 500 visitors. Providing you do it right, that is. Your book is $20. At the end of the week you make 7 sales. 7 times $20, is $140. But, let's say you can get only one sale out of every 1,000 visitors. That's $70 a week. Chicken feed? Okay, look at it like this...that's $280 a month. What bills could you pay with that? How many ads can you buy with that? What extras for the house, or for yourself can you buy with that? How many more times a month can you and your little fuck muffin go out? And don't forget, boys and girls, that is just part of your advertising campaign. Add it to everything else you are doing, well, ya think you can pay your rent, then? Too low for you? Okay, exchange ads with more sites, or sites that have over a hundred thousand hits. But, do not get greedy. The larger the ad exchange box, the odds of people looking through all of it goes down. Plus, you have more competition. Relate this to the other site owners. Make them see the possibilities of this, and to not get greedy. Create your own small advertising network where you can all make a few extra bucks a week. Now, the real challenge is to get other site owners to think outside the box to do this. Okay, I'll shut the fuck up now. Next....
This is starting to be boring, and some of info are really stupid, like submiting to mayor search engines...
"50. Buy a pair of sandals; get your website engraved on the bottom and walk on the beach, stomp in the mud or play in the snow." Is that a joke? It sure isn't a good marketing plan.
I wrote an article a while back called 75 Ways to Increase Your Site's Traffic. It has some general ideas and then it has some very unique ones. It's mainly for blogs, and I've gotten a lot of good responses from it. http://superbloggingtips.com/2007/07/75-ways-to-increase-your-sites-traffic/
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