What is a good FREE way to drive traffic to your website?
Like a program or something…suggestions also appreciated! I need some ideas fast! (search engine optimization, etc.) SOMETHING GOOD!
5 Responses
webmasterauto
08 Mar 2010
imisidro
08 Mar 2010
"If you build it, they will come" is not necessarily true on the Web. Putting a website up is one thing, but getting visitors to come to your site is another. The process becomes even more difficult if you have limited resources to market your business.
Here are some FREE and shoestring marketing ideas that can help you get the visitors you need at the least cost possible:
1. Create the best content you can with the best products you can possibly offer. Your content is your best advertisement – if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.
2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important — and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. If only 10 people go to your site, but these 10 people invite 10 more – that’s additional traffic that you get for FREE!
Recommend Site Scripts (various) http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Website_Promotion/Recommend_Site/
Big Nose Bird Recommend this Site http://bignosebird.com/carchive/birdcast.shtml
CGI Resource Index http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Website_Promotion/Recommend_Site/
Hostscripts http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Site_Recommendation/index.html
3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.
If you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com’s "Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm
4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News.
http://www.prleap.com/sign_up.html
http://i-newswire.com/
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/
http://www.pressbox.co.uk/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.pr.com/press-releases
http://www.prfree.com/
http://www.clickpress.com/releases/index.shtml
http://www.theopenpress.com/
http://www.przoom.com/
http://www.prweb.com
http://www.newswiretoday.com/
http://www.free-press-release.com/
5. Submit articles. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.
Here is a comprehensive list of where to submit your articles http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AhzreGmnCUicOoyedqypscUjzKIX?qid=1006022407481
6. Post a link to your site for free where it is allowed (always read the Terms of Use). Examples are:
Craigslist http://www.craigslist.com
Google Base http://base.google.com
Classifieds for Free http://www.classifiedsforfree.com/...
Text Link Exchange http://www.txtswap.com/
Recycler.com http://www.recycler.com/
Yahoo Classifieds http://classifieds.yahoo.com/
US Free Ads http://www.usfreeads.com/
RedCloud_1998
08 Mar 2010
You can request other people with websites to put a link to your website and vice versa …..
New Millennium M
08 Mar 2010
There are many good resources mentioned in this forum, but here’s a short version of how I generated about a million clicks a month on a starter software companies site. Remember this took almost three years total.
1) Blog, knowledge bases and anything where the customer can interact. ONLY use ones that utilize "natural naming" for posts. i.e. the answer is titled xyz.com / Generating_Traffic as opposed to xyz.com/inedx.php[?]trafficID[=]4…
2) Use PRWeb, or other well optimized portals to generate links to your site. PLAN and USE a keyphrase strategy.
3) Take the time to plan what keyphrases you want and are not highly competed for. Maybe go after ‘Real Estate in Colorado’ rather than ‘Real Estate.’ Submit to DMOZ.org and MATCH phrases in page titles, meta tags and text. DON’T TRY TO CHEAT by repeating phrases on purpose, etc.
Also, visit the YAHOO Computer Geek Team regularly to stay well informed. There’s more details about efficiently using PRWeb there too!
D.F.
08 Mar 2010
write articles, and submit them to article directories with a link to your site in the resource box.
submit your link to as many decent PR link directories as possible, make sure they don’t require a reciprocal link
post on forums related to your site, with a link to your site in your signature file
hope these help






Targeted Forums. Here’s a directory with hundreds of forums listed.
http://www.webmasterautomation.com/forumdirectory.pdf
Traffic Exchanges
http://www.webmasterautomation.com/TrafficExchangeReport.pdf
Submit FREE To Yahoo Site Explorer BETA!
Submit a Website or Webpage.
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/su...
For any URL, Yahoo’s crawler will extract links and find pages that have not been
discovered already. They will automatically detect updates on pages and remove dead
links on an ongoing basis.
You can also submit Site Feed’s ie. Atom, RSS, etc.
Here are the largest sites online to place free classified advertising.
There are 13 sites listed below.
http://classifieds.yahoo.com/ Alexa Rank: 1
http://classifieds.myspace.com Alexa Rank: 5
http://www.craigslist.org/ Alexa Rank: 28
http://adlandpro.com/ Alexa Rank: 1,298
http://www.backpage.com Alexa Rank: 2,133
http://www.oodle.com/ Alexa Rank: 5,501
http://www.adpost.com/ Alexa Rank: 6,906
http://www.sell.com/ Alexa Rank: 13,471
http://www.adquest3d.com/ Alexa Rank: 22,252
http://www.chooseyouritem.com/ Alexa Rank: 19,569
http://www.domesticsale.com/ Alexa Rank: 24,207
http://epage.com/ Alexa Rank: 24,834
http://postaroo.com/ Alexa Rank: 43,471
Michael
http://www.webmasterautomation.com/blog/