What is the best way to generate new traffic to a website?

The best way to generate traffic to a website is by getting involved with social media sites like: Digg, Reddit, LinkedIn, Stumble Upon, Delicious, Tumblr, SlideShare, Google Ads, Squidoo, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums, Article submission, E-mail signature, etc. The idea is to use one or two of this tools or sites and dominate them to the full. You have to make sure, people see you as the expert in your choosen niche. I hope that helps a little bit.

 

Social networking is the best choice. Join forums related to your Web site content, Seo keyword optimization, Create an account at Google webmaster tools, Google analytics (free) and review reports for key word usage, traffic stats, Google will also notify of any errors. Avoid using flash and java, search engine bots can't read, use alt tags for images. Create Rss feed at Feedburner. Submit good quality articles to Article directories. Avoid linking to low PR sites. Submit your site to Yahoo - Site Explorer (free)

 

PPC can drive most targeted traffic

 

Hi,
Social media like facebook, twitter, g+ and social bookmarking , classifieds will give you more traffic as well as keywords ranking will improve.

 

Try to use ORM sites which is normally called reputation management site where you can easily post your comments as normal user. Do not comment as a marketer otherwise you will not get any positive response

 

Facebook, never underestimate the power of FB (Ad). Social Media 2.0 is one of the fastest way to generate traffic. FB Groups, Forums also will help.

 

bookmark your websites pages with correct keywords on social bookmarking websites,

it will generate you traffic easily.

http://www.b-infotech.com/social-bookmarking-websites-list.php

 

Also use social bookmarking sites. They can help drive traffic if your article is interesting to readers. Here is a list of top social book marking sites
ebizmba.com. These sites also let you create links which is also a backlink. That builds your reputation and backlinks are important for traffic and rank

 

Social Media
Facebook
Blogs
Definitely think about classified ads, they're not dead, yet...

 

when you said best way to generate new traffic , ofcourse is organic traffic earn after SEO marketing because organic traffic always bring highest conversion rate compare to referral traffic .
I'm always focus on SEO to use search engine to generate free traffic and use email marketing to generate repeat sales and maintain the those leads.

 

For generating traffic for your site you need to build backlinks for you site and do some seo work off-page promotion will help to build backlinks.

 

LinkReferral (referral based advertising network) is the best way to generate new traffic to your website within no time for completely free. All you have to do is follow the steps as specified in their website.

 

You can purchase large amounts of traffic from different media companies who can direct to your landing page of choice. Danari Media has bids starting at $.001 for search run of network traffic that can help boost rankings. speak to Adam there if you have questions. adam (at) danarimedia (dott) com

 

you should use social media and article submission for increase new traffic on your site. these things gives you double benefit. 1st you will get traffic and also get back link which increase your SERP on search engine. there are also some other options you can try as

Blogging, Business Cards, Press Release .​

 

I still like to submit articles to websites like ezinearticles.com..this is a great way to get free traffic. You can also make it go viral if you have high quality content and allow people to share it over facebook.

 

make web blogs for each services and promote it.

 

You can generate a lot of traffic by being active in a number of online marketing strategies such as Social Media, SEO, PPC campaigns, Affiliate Marketing/ Program , and creating links to your website.

 

Hi i think you can improve traffic in social media.
Very good: Viral marketing in social, Facebook and YouTube are the best for improve new traffic

 

It would definitely be possible to improve traffic in social media using facebook and twitter. But mostly, you'll need to tap into the social networks themselves. It's being an active member of the community that makes it hard.. and time.

 

Thank you for all the comments here, very informative that help a lot of people like me who don't have enough idea on how to get traffic.