How To Get An Extra 108,160 Hits A Year Most of you have seen those little award graphics on web sites. They are given to the web site by another web site or award association to reward the web site for a specific reason. They usually link right to the site that has given the award. These award sites are drawing tons of traffic to their own web site. The reason is because all the web sites who get the awards are linking right back to them by posting the award on their web site. What is stopping you from offering other awards to other web sites? You could design a graphic for the award. The graphic could include something that will draw them to your web site. Have an online form at your web site so other people can enter to qualify for the award. You then judge all the entrees and pick a winner. You give them the award graphic with a link included. They post it on their web site and now they're linking your web site. You could offer web site awards for many reasons. The web site might offer outstanding and original content. The design of the web site could be very professional. It could have a fast load time. It could include original web features that aren't found on most web sites. The site may be easy to navigate through. Let's say you give out 20 web site awards a week. In a year that would be 1040 people linking to your web site. If you received 2 hits a week from each link, that would be 104 hits a year from each award you have given. That equals an extra 108,160 hits to your web site a year! For more articles go to www.articles.youngandhra.com
But think about the negatives of that. i run a calling card site. if i create other awards and give them to our competitors it will also draw traffic to their site, no?
Back in 1999, my brother and I had a stupid little site that we were looking to get free traffic for. So, we saw a bunch of "award" type sites pop up. We made our own little award and sent out 50,000 or so emails saying - your site has been nominated for our "award". Simply place this code on your site so people can vote for you. Of course, no voting mechanism was employed - it was just a way to get these 50,000 people to visit our site. I had no concept of getting traffic beyond that. Out of those 50,000 we probably had about 1800 or so people sign up. we also had about 2000 hate mails sent back to us - stop spamming and the like (perfectly justified - we just used a web-bot to grab emails from random sites). Secondary sign ups from thos people clicking links and nominating other sites garnered other links too. In today's world, it was an awesome concept (no effort for the link backs). I always wondered if that'd still work. Problem is - how to legitimately get enough people to sign up, put the code up (un-altered) and get some benefit from it.
I run a little dynamic ranking service for an online league (egoshooters). The pro's are: - many new backlinks since i add the code for the images with a link back to my site (most people just copy and pasted it) - more visits con's: - high traffic and serverload
Problem is, enough people already do this to devalue the whole concept. But it was a good concept. You need money, a sponsor, a reputation to get away with this without just annoying a whole heap of people. Of course, some people dont care about annoying a whole heap of people.