The best free traffic generation methods

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by jonathanfigaro, May 25, 2009.

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    I think it would be beneficial to the community if you could provide a list of good free traffic generation methods. I will do a short list below to get us going.


    1) article marketing

    2) blogging

    3) forums

    4) social networking
     
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  2. Crubalo

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    -Traffic exchanges
    -SEO
    -Word of mouth
     
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    Newbie Question:

    What are traffic exchanges? How can I implement that towards my site? Oh yeah and does it cost any money?

    Thanks,
    Ash
     
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    -Banner exchange
    -AdWords
     
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    * Link submissions

    * Pay per click

    * Article submissions
     
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    what about free classfied help ?
     
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    *Making and uploading erotic videos to youtube providing your link (20% effectiveness / view)
    *Facebook, facebook and facebook.. it works
    *Buying traffic
    *Article/post submisions...
    *Sell some ad space tp someone in exchange of traffic
     
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  8. Britt

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    Ash,
    Traffic exchanges are free but you must take a decent amount of time using them. They consist of you viewing other sites in turn for your site being viewed by others. My honest opinion of them is that they are a waste of your time and the visitors you do get aren't targeted. By far, search engine optimization is the best free traffic you can get. You can PM me for more info on that.
     
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    Rob a bank and wear a shirt with your website on it.
     
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    angilina Notable Member

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    The best and free source of getting lot of targeted traffic are the search engines. And in other to get organic traffic,one needs to rank high in SERPs. And to do that, we need to do SEO.
     
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    A lot of them are like that, but not all. There's one in particular that I get very good targeted traffic from, as well as reviews and feedback on my sites :)
     
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    One of my recent favorites: Craigslist (won't help with SERPs but great for traffic)
     
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    Does the craigslist traffic stick around or do you keep posting there when it goes down.
     
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    unless you value your time at $0 per hour, there are no 'free' traffic systems. Even autoblogs need you to spend time setting them up before they go on autopilot.
     
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    SEO is the best way to get traffic.
    FOllowed by article submission and email marketing
     
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    classifieds are not bad.
    also, you can use for free video marketing and distribution of your videos.
     
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    #17
    - SEO
    - Forum marketing
    - Article marketing

    However, there aren't really any real "free" traffic generation methods, because whatever you do, you have to either spend money and/or time to generate that traffic.

    Even with the methods I mentioned above, you actually have to do the content yourself (takes time) or you outsource to people to do it (costs money).
     
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    Thank for a sharing.
     
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    make people blog about how good your site is.
     
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    There are so many ways to earn free traffic all you need is to have time and efforts in doing it. Lastly, would be is your patience in taking some back links because some other sites don't loads so fast and some are needed to be moderated and sometimes your comment will never showed up.
     
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