Article Marketing

In this case, you write articles about things that you have a vast knowledge of, in order to give useful information to your readers.

Your articles must be very well-researched and very well-written, so you don’t lose your credibility. This will ensure that you get good targeted traffic to your website.

Forum marketing

If you want other people to get to know you, you should post in various forums. But pay attention to the forums you choose: don’t just post on any forum you find on the Internet, look for the forums in the same field as your business.

To get traffic from the forums, you need to set up a signature in your profile, which is nothing but a couple of lines of text, with a link to your site or the affiliates website. The signature will appear at the bottom of every one of your posts, so the more you contribute to the conversation, the more links you'll get and the more traffic you will get.

Of course, the more you focus on things that are related to your business, the more you'll bring targeted traffic to your site.

Free classifieds

Like with all marketing, some sites are good, while others are not.

Craigslist is of course the best known example of a free classified site that produces real results for people. Another one is the ebay backed kijiji which also gets a lot of traffic.

There are hundreds and hundreds of other free classified sites on the internet, here is my tip to you regarding them. If you can't make a link back to your site, it's probably a waste of your time.

Think of each ad you place as not only being for humans, but for search engine spiders too. More links back to your site, means a higher pagerank, especially if that link is your keyword. For me it's something like Web Strategy, which is what I want to rank high for on Google.

If you're getting a back link out of it, it's at least worth something to you, but in general you won't get huge results from placing ads on classified sites. As with anything, there are always exceptions, but make sure you test each of your traffic sources to see if it's worth your time to keep doing that in the future.

Email

Emails can be used effectively to get people visit your website.

Emails are inexpensive, and can give huge profits to online campaigns of marketing. Emails can be used to update the customers about your company, your product, etc.

But be aware: you are allowed to send them emails only if they asked for them (opted into your list); otherwise, your email will be marked as spam.

Google AdWords

For targeted traffic, Google AdWords is a great option for webmasters to use.

The keywords being used with AdWords are very important when you are targeting people to visit your site.

The keywords must also be relevant, and must be in relation to the product that is being sold.

Title tag

A blog must have an attractive title in order to get a good ranking in the search engines.

The title plays a vital role; it has to be catchy, not to general and it is better if it contains key-words. But remember one thing: even if you have a very good title, you will still have to write a good article. That will get your site good traffic.

Submission to directories

Though the submission of your blog to the various online directories is a monotonous job, it is very important since it goes a long way in increasing the blog popularity.

Every directory that you submit the link to, results in better rankings.

HubPage and Squidoo

Both of these allow you to focus on a specified topic, and write on it. Also, both of them permit you to bring RSS feeds, which means you can republish your blog on their site (good time saver, and lots of back links).

Tell-a-friend

You can place a “Tell-a-friend” script on the website, to make it easy for people to recommend your website to others and thereby get more traffic to your site.

Paid reviews

There are many freelancers out there, so you can surely pay someone to review your blog.

This is a great way of exposure for those who are new to blogging. And if you get to convince a well-known freelancer to review your blog, your traffic might grow spectacularly.

 

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8 Comments on 10 Traffic Tips | Drive More Web Traffic To Your Site

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Riel:  Thankyou for all of the information.  Seems I can never learn enough about driving traffic to my website.  Active Rain has certainly been a big boost!

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It's an ongoing learning curve, since it's always changing, you can never really stop.

Good thing I love this stuff :)

4:00am • #2

Thank you for the article Riel. Even though I already do many of these items it's nice to read them again and learn something new too!

5:04am • #4

Yes thanks great tips  I have been told I have a good web site .. but not enough traffic thks again

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Riel,  Thanks for posting. I appreciate hearing details even about the methods that are seemingly well known.  Because as you said things keep changing. So don't stop!  All the best 

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Hi Riel, Good post. Thanks for sharing.

Best - Sash

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I have my website AND plog addresses under the return address on my outgoing envelopes.  I have my website on EVERYTHING I print from my computer and have started including my facebook and twitter information on my property owner correspondence!!!

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Great Article. I found a couple things that I still need to do so THANKS!

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