How to get free traffic

[stevread1]

It doesn't have to  cost a fortune to get traffic to your website here's a few ways to do it for free.

 1. Optimize your website to be search-engine friendly. Submit it to various search engines and directories. In addition to major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing and MSN, it's worth submitting to lesser known web directories. If your website is listed in as many places as possible, it can boost your rankings in major search engines as well.

2.Spread the word about your affiliate program by submitting it to affiliate program directories and contacting the owners of related websites.

3.Create a links page that will contain the links to other non-competing websites in the same industry. Contact the owners of other websites with your proposal to exchange links. You will add their link to your links page, and they will link to your website in return.

4.Post in forums. Visit the online discussion forums where people in your target market like to gather. Post useful responses to people's questions, and include a link to your website at the end of your post next to your name. Although you ultimately want to get your sig file with the link to your site seen as often as possible, don't overdo it with your posts, otherwise other forumites won't respect you, and therefore won't visit your site.

5.Comment on blogs. Visit other people's blogs on the topic related to your website. Most blogs allow you to add comments about the issues being discussed. Add insightful comments about the blog topics, and leave your website link. Your comment and your link will permanently remain on the blog website.

6.Create an e-mail "signature" - your name, your website address and a short tag-line describing the main benefit of your site. Set your e-mail program to automatically add your signature to every e-mail that you send.

7.Look into traffic exchanges. There are many types of traffic exchanges but the idea is the same - you team up with other webmasters, and they send you traffic in exchange for you sending them traffic. Search the web for "traffic exchange" to find those services.

8.Create something of value that people will pass around. It can be a report with useful information that you allow people to give away. It can also be some kind of cool and unusual web-page that people will want to e-mail to all their friends. Of course, the pass-around item will include your advertisement and your link, spreading the word about your website. This is a "viral" strategy.

9.Write articles on the topic related to your website, and include a link to your site in your author bio. Submit your articles to article directories, and allow people to publish your article in their newsletters and websites. Your articles will spread around the web like wildfire. People will read them and visit your website. The best part is that people who read your articles will regard you as an expert, and they will be much more likely to buy from you when they go to your website. How's that for a free publicity?

10.Start an e-zine for your web site. When people read each issue they'll be reminded to revisit your web site. Submit it to all the free e-zine directories on the internet.A news letter!

11.Start your own online discussion community. It could be an online message board, e-mail discussion list or chat room. When people get involved in your community, they will regularly return to communicate with others.

12.Advertise your site at free classified ad sites. There are many of these on the net. Some of the more popular ones are craigslist, inetgiant, freeadvertisingforum, and gumtree.

13.Join free safe-lists. These are lists of subscribers who have opted-in to send and receive emails to each other. You can instantly reach potentially thousands of people by sending out emails, and you don't have to worry about receiving spam complaints either because everyone on the list has opted-in to receive emails.


14.Getting a myspace page could also increase your site traffic because hundreds of people will see it.

15.Constantly update content on your web-page, so having a news section is a great deal for search engines especially

16.Update your Facebook status to let your friends know everytime you update your blog and create a Facebook fan page. Your friend's friends will see when they join the fan page or comment on your status

Thats one of the golden rules ,Google love new updated content.

Any more ideas you may have please share them with us.

[Rainee Bows]

ok i havent picked through the list too much but myspace ??? full of spotty teenagers .... if that's your market then i guess you're ontoa winner  lol

the traffic exchange programmes and webmasters kinda disappeared with the webring theory, very 80's and not something ive seen referred to for a very long time in regards to gaining any type of useful traffic,

exchanging links works to a degree, but non-competitive sites ? that confuses the issue , I personally dont exchange links on any of my sites as i prefer to target my traffic directly using blogging and onpage seo ...

Updated content is something that  DOES work , creating link bait on a blog  for instance ... the same thing as an e-zine if you oput it into context

I'll delve a bit deeper later , but always bear in mind that any traffic you want really does NEED to be targetted traffic , no point in thousands of visitiors that have no interest in your site :o)

Rainee x

[stevread1]

Sorry should have said social networking in general, face book would have been better shoudlnt have copied the original article so closely  but as you say relevance is the key, good on page seo and of course good content.

[michaelbish]

The only method of free advertising is SEO. You have to optimize your site with keywords, title tags, description tags and updated content. Submit your site to search engines. Also ask other companies similar to yours whether to put your link on their website. Subscribe to the traffic reports, such as Internet trends and analyze what you can do to re-optimize your site for better classification.

      

[beads4breakfast]

7. Press release submission.

how can you get this one free??

[PewDrop]

Here you are, courtesy of a fellow beader...

http://www.free-press-release.com/

[PewDrop]

Unlike yours, which seems to be short and spammy

[beads4breakfast]

ermmm whose is short and spammy mine?? or am I mis reading again 

[seamus]

Im thinking there might've been a spammers post deleted somewhere

[beads4breakfast]

Im thinking there might've been a spammers post deleted somewhere

oh I see   

[brandembell]

These are the ways to get the traffic.
1. Forum Posting
2. Article submission
3. Social Bookmarking
4. Link Wheel.

[Rainee Bows]

Forum posting ........ works if you are posting on a forum related to what you are selling ... otherwise its pointless
Article Submission ........... the articles would do more good placed on your own site than submitted to aricle base et al
Social Bookmarking  ..... Again only beneficial if you are aware of how to do it effectively
Link Wheel ....... this methid is outdated and quite frankly bad advice , link exchanges are one of those activities that are more harmful than beneficial in the eyes of google , relevancy is the key ...... masses of exchanged links DO NOT bode well with google ...

[conran]

And 90% of the people reading this will never do the very basic thing of writing original content.

All SEO is based on the principal of content. The web is text-based, if you cannot be bothered to write a few hundred words about your products or services or you prefer to use the words of others you will fail. Simple as that.

You can spend all day link building and using social networks, but organic traffic is still the best for sales and conversion because they are actively seeking your product or service. If you are not writing original content Google and others will not prioritize you over others and all your other SEO will take 10x as much time and effort to reach the same level.

Worry about your text first, everything else comes after.

[Rainee Bows]

And 90% of the people reading this will never do the very basic thing of writing original content.

All SEO is based on the principal of content. The web is text-based, if you cannot be bothered to write a few hundred words about your products or services or you prefer to use the words of others you will fail. Simple as that.

You can spend all day link building and using social networks, but organic traffic is still the best for sales and conversion because they are actively seeking your product or service. If you are not writing original content Google and others will not prioritize you over others and all your other SEO will take 10x as much time and effort to reach the same level.

Worry about your text first, everything else comes after.

 just as a side note ........... your link text in your signature  ... do you want what you post on this forum appearing in search results for your site ? if not remove it , part of SEO is making sure that everything google sees related to your site is relevant , you could be harming your sites rankings by adding those links into your signature here , forum posting will only help google rankings for your site if you are posting in a relevant forum ........ adding them to your signature here only guarantees that your customers can see your questions and queries and comments on this site , it's not a "customer" traffic forum .. so is quite pointless 

Rainee x

[aarisindia]

Thanks for sharing this great tips for getting free traffic, its really helpful for me.

Thanks a lot..