How do i get traffic to my site?

Many people think that having a good website is all you need to get tons of visitors. Wrong answer. Getting traffic to your site takes hard work and diligence and is not accomplished overnight. Think about it this way - how are people supposed to know where to find your site if you don't tell them? You must advertise. Here are some proven ways to advertise your site without spending [much] money:

1. Submit your site to as many search engines as you can. Here are some of the popular ones you can start with:
   
   [TABLE]
   [TR]
   [TD]Alexa[/TD]
   [TD]AltaVista[/TD]
   [TD]AllTheWeb[/TD]
   [TD]AOL[/TD]
   [TD]Ask[/TD]
   [/TR]
   [TR]
   [TD]DMOZ[/TD]
   [TD]ExactSeek[/TD]
   [TD]Excite[/TD]
   [TD]GigaBlast[/TD]
   [TD]Google[/TD]
   [/TR]
   [TR]
   [TD]What-U-Seek[/TD]
   [TD]Kanoodle[/TD]
   [TD]Live[/TD]
   [TD]Lycos[/TD]
   [TD]LookSmart[/TD]
   [/TR]
   [TR]
   [TD]MSN[/TD]
   [TD]National Directory[/TD]
   [TD]Yahoo[/TD]
   [TD]Bing[/TD]
   [TD]WebCrawler[/TD]
   [/TR]
   [/TABLE]
2. Use a favicon.ico
3. Have Dynamic content on your site - Message Board, Links Directory, Guest Book, Online Search, Picture Gallery, Quote of the day, News items, Site Search, Links Engine ... It all makes for a more enjoyable experience for your visitors ... and interested visitors come back.
4. Make sure you don't have broken links on your site! There is nothing more annoying when one clicks a link and it does not work. There are hundreds of places you can go on the internet that will check your link validity. Use them.
5. Make sure your META TAGS are done right.
6. Submit your site to as many privately run Link Directories/Search Engines as you can find. These will not generally boost your traffic in any major way but will help to maintain steady stream of qualified visitors.
7. Use Banners with care.
8. Subscribe to the Usenet groups and advertise there. A good place to start is Google Groups
   • Be sure to submit your site in appropriate groups!
   • Be sure to signup with a backup email or you will get onto every spammers database!
   • Be sure you don't SPAM -- only submit a write up of your site once to any given group.
9. Use social networking sites like Twitter, facebook, YouTube, Plaxo, Linkedin and others to get the word out.

 

Article submission, Social Media submission is the good for traffic.

 

Here are some of the ways to get traffic for free:
Optimize your site for search engines.
Frequently update the contents of your site
Take advantage of social bookmarking sites.
Get links with other sites in your niche.
Use Relevant Image & File Titles

 

I appreciate the input guys. Thanks.

 

Some good solid tips you got here. And your right about it taking time that's for sure.

 

Good share buddy!!

 

I think you doing all the ways of SEO to get high amount of web traffic and backlinks.

 

This is really a good input. Many members of this forum always asking how to get traffic for their sites so I think through this thread they will get idea on how to get traffic for our site.. Thanks for sharing

 

Improve your quality back links through article submission, directory submission, blog submission, classified submission, social bookmarking submission, forum posting is the best way of increasing your traffic.

 

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this is one of the best guide to seek the traffic from the internet.otherwise you may receive a number of advice and you get confuse because every body think that way best which he/she is presently suits for his/her website.
This may also helps you:
Article submission
Good social media presence
Social Bookmarking
Web directories

 

Great share man. Really appreciate your hard works.

 

You can also choose key word properly for SEO.

 

if u want traffic share u r website in social networking sites like facebook, twitter, hi5, myspace and etc., and also social bookmarking sites, Directories, blog commentint etc.,

 

Social bookmarking is one of the best way to increase traffic, not only to increase traffic but also to create back links.

 

you have mentioned important points to get visitors for any website. the most powerful tool is social bookmarking. you can get hundreds of visitors in a single day if you submit to social bookmarking and social networking websites....

 

Yes, i also think powerful tool is social bookmarking, you can get all working social bookmarking sites below:

http://www.bookmarking-sites.com/

 

If You Want Really A Unique Visitors On Your Site,So Plz You Can Add Quality Content On Your Web Pages,Which Is Giving Right Information To Visitors . and Google n Visitors Trust On Your Site Then Slowly Slowly Your Site Make A Good Brand. And Other Site You Can Do SMO Task For Visitors .like Goolgle + ,Facebook,Digg,Stumble and Many More thing Have.

 

Great information in this thread! Thanks so much you guys!

 

Good share, thanks for sharing.