Getting
Free Traffic
By: Anwar Ally
You’ve
published a website right? You realize that it’s a meaningless
endeavour unless you get some good traffic. You have absolutely no
money for expensive advertising campaigns.
In fact,
your advertising budget is virtually non-existent. Read on to discover
some simple methods to get good free traffic.
Good
SEO
This
cannot be emphasized enough. Good Seo is your starting
point to any free advertising campaign. Before you even consider any
other methods for free traffic, get your website user and search engine
friendly. Put on quality content in line with the objective of your
website. Make your content interesting, fresh and unique for the user
and the search bots will come crawling. If word gets around that your
content is great, webmasters may voluntarily link to your website.
This
one-way linking will increase your link popularity, search engine
rankings and get you good free traffic. Ensure your site is well designed,
your html is clean and compliant, your pages load quick and there
are no dead links. Your users should be able to get what they want
within three to four clicks. Avoid excessive use of graphics and animation
unless absolutely necessary. I don’t recommend you use pop-ups
as most users get irritated by them.
Articles
Writing
articles is another great way to get free traffic. Webmasters are
constantly looking for fresh, quality articles to put on their website.
When you write an article, you are allowed to describe a little about
yourself and your website in the resource or author bio box. It is
in this box that you are allowed to put a link back to your site.
Submit these articles to article directory sites.
If your
article is relevant and exciting, webmasters will put it on their
websites. In this way, you can improve link popularity by getting
a one-way link back to your site and free traffic from readers who
read your article. Write articles that relate to your website. For
example, if you have a website on growing roses, write an article
that has something to go with growing roses. Submit your article to
as many article directories and relevant websites as possible.
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Forums
Every
niche on the internet has a plethora of forums. Do a Google search
and find relevant ones in your niche. Join these forums as member
and contribute to the community by making useful and thoughtful posts.
You are allowed to put your link in your signature line. This also
counts towards your link popularity as search engines also index forum
posts. Fellow forum members may also click on your link to visit your
site.
A word
of caution – every forum has a different set of rules, especially
when it comes to links. Make sure you read and obey them at all times.
If you just go in and put up links, you will be banned almost instantly.
Link
Exchange
The great
granddaddy of free traffic, link exchanges are still very relevant
and effective today. Make contact with sites that are in a similar
niche as your own. Offer to exchange links with these sites. A word
of caution – choose the sites that you link to very carefully.
Avoid linking to spammy, black-hat sites with questionable content
and motives. Make sure that these sites are not banned by the major
search engines.
Newsletters
You not
only need to get a continuous stream of new visitors to your website,
you need to make sure you keep the old ones coming back all the time.
The best way to do this is by providing fresh valuable content and
by way of a newsletter system. Put in a newsletter subscription form
on your site and invite visitors to subscribe to a newsletter that
you can email to them either weekly or monthly.
You can
put some content, some special offers, ads and a link back to your
site in your newsletter every time you email out. Also provide them
with an incentive or reason to click on your link and visit your site.
In this way, you remind your visitors about your website.
Submit
to directories
There
are many directories available on the web that allow ads or links
free of charge. Some are general and some specialize in a particular
niche. Choose relevant ones and submit your link or ad to them. Make
sure you choose quality directories that are indexed by search engines.
In this way you get a one-way link back to your site. You benefit
by getting free traffic and improved link popularity.
Email
this page
Another
great, yet simple idea is to add an “Email this page”
feature to your website. It’s a simple form where a visitor
fills in the name and email address of another person that he/she
wishes to recommend your site to. You set the form to automatically
email a link to your website to that person. That person will then
receive an email with a short message that says that so and so person
had recommended that he/she visit your site, etc.
If you
follow these simple ideas, you should start to see an increase in
traffic to your site. Please note that building traffic takes time
and won’t happen overnight. All the best!
Article
Source: Anwar Ally operates www.super-clix.com
This site provides websites with free traffic by serving free text
ads to thousands of sites.
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