SEO is by far the most reliable source of unlimited niche traffic, so concentrate on SEO to attain good ranking for relevant keywords. Successful SEO depends on optimization for the right keywords and targeting 1 keyword per page using good content (check out my SEO services).
JV/List Traffic – Get traffic from people who own niche lists and let you advertise in their email messages.
Promotion. Spread the word through legitimate news sites and entertainment outlets.
Get a variety of incoming links such as bookmarks, links from high PR sites (including .edu sites. .org sites and Alexa links), profile links and forum comments. Getting high PR backlinks is one of the most important factors to get good search engine ranking today. (I’m providing many linking packages here).
Get niche traffic. Buy ads and get articles in niche sites to get niche traffic. Develop relationships with other bloggers and webmasters in your niche so that they’ll allow you to write for them.
Low fee PPC search engines. There are many PPC search engines besides Google Adwords and MSN where you can get traffic for a penny per click.
Free & Paid local directories, local review sites and specialized directories. See more info about local directories here.
Buy solo ads. Pay others to mail your offer to their list. This typically runs around $30 to mail to 100. This can be very effective if you choose targeted lists/newsletters to advertise in.
Viral word of mouth. Successful companies often have something cool that makes people talk about them.
Set up an affiliate program to sell your products or services. The affiliates will drive the traffic for you. Find out why you need an affiliate program here.
Create a targeted blog. Successful companies blog and network. They spread the message on their site and legitimately network with other people without spamming.
Design a Facebook fan page and create a campaign that will entice visitors to “like” your page – develop a relationship with your fans so you can market to them. You can be very creative with how you LEVERAGE off Facebook, especially Facebook fan pages to get a lot of free targeted traffic!
Create non-fiction ebooks for Kindle with links inside the ebooks that direct readers back to your website.
Create ebooks and reports and submit them to document sharing sites. This is a lesser known method that is effective.
Paid advertising. Websites that get a large amount of traffic typically spend a lot of money on advertising and they advertise across various marketing channels. Most marketers recommend a variety of targeted paid advertising.
Facebook.com advertising. Facebook is one of the largest websites with more than 500 million monthly users and it’s one of the most effective places for targeted advertising today. You can target your advertising based on interests and demographics so it’s really flexible.
Generate video responses on YouTube aimed at your target audience.
NOTE: To get targeted traffic and attract your targeted audience, you have to select the right keywords and have a great landing page. This applies to free traffic as well as paid traffic.
Also, have a look at my free traffic methods. Those free methods require work but you can outsource most of these methods. I provide many marketing packages and services.
1. Update your web pages or blog pages frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines and don’t motivate visitors to return.
2. Offer additional value on your website. Place links to affiliate and partner sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their products if they relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.
3. Invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts, special offers, valuable coupons or a newsletter.
4. Never spam a subscriber who has opted for newsletters with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to “opt out” of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.
5. Add a link to your primary page asking people to “Bookmark or Add this site to your Favorites.”
6. Add a link ‘Recommend This Site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link with a prewritten title, e.g. “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.
7. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.
8. Create a “Policies” page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with customers. Also post your privacy policy so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.
9. Create a FAQ page which addresses questions, doubts and clarifications about your product or your company to resolve most of the customers’ doubts.
10. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the bookmark.
These tips are easy to implement and will give you repeat web traffic.
Another excellent way to gain traffic is to be active on internet forums that are related to your niche. To find relevant forums, just go to any search engine and enter “your keyword” +forum” . For example, if you are selling products related to home businesses, search for “home business + forum.”
Find the most focused forum with a substantial number of active members. Check the dates of the threads posted on the forum to see how active the forum is.
When you join active forums that focus on your field of discussion and post useful and valuable posts, members will start noticing you and paying attention to what you have to say. In most forums, you are allowed to have a link to your site in the signature, which is under every post you make on the forums.
You’ll get several benefits from forums
1. Build credibility.
2. Get links from high PR sites.
3. Get direct traffic from forums.
People will click on your link and visit your blog if they find your posts helpful and informative.
This is very targeted traffic and your credibility is built even before they land on your blog, so traffic from the forums is easier to turn into sales. You can sell your own products or recommend affiliate products as your readers are already convinced you’re an “expert” in your field.
Being active on the forums and providing good information is the key to getting successful in getting traffic from forums.
Do you need traffic but don’t have money to spend on advertising? Are you frustrated because you’re not receiving all the internet traffic you would like to get to your website? Are you confused about the latest website traffic tactics? Are you spending too much money on pay per click advertising? Are you not ranking high in major search engines?
Below are three basic free traffic methods that have proven to work. These methods are still working today and they will continue to work for a long time.
Here are three free website traffic tactics that won’t cost you a dime.
1. Links
Linking to and from other websites is the one of the most widely-used methods and one of the most effective website traffic tactics that can get you the best results. And it’s free traffic.
Today, it’s important to get links from high PR websites. Also, links related to your niche are better than unrelated links.
If you don’t want to spend your time getting links, I offer many linking packages here – See Services.
2. Keyword-rich AND useful content
Writing or acquiring articles that provide useful information regarding your business is one of the best ways to get free traffic. Making use of keyword suggestion tools will help you focus on keywords that will provide you the most traffic to your website. Providing information that is genuinely informative will provide you with repeat visitors who can become repeat clients.
Submitting these articles to various article directories will give you additional backlinks and visibility for your business.
3. Meta Tags (Basic SEO)
Meta tags describe your web pages to search engines and help them index your site. When using a WordPress blog, take advantages of plug-ins that will make it easier to optimize your blog. If you have several web pages or blog pages, you must optimize each page for the search engines. Each search engine optimized page can help you draw additional traffic to your site.
If implemented properly, these free traffic methods will not only get you traffic and higher conversion rates as your traffic will be highly targeted.
Here’s why you want to leave comments on blog posts:
Get your name out there and reach a wider audience. Contribute to the conversation. Mention what information helped you. Add information. Share your information with blog readers.
When commenting, your name (or better yet, your keyword) will be linked to your website which may improve your site ranking with Google.
Increase traffic. Because your web link is included, other readers may click through and visit your site.
It’s good karma! You just might get more comments on your blog as a result, not to mention visibility with other readers.
TIP: I have some linking packages available that are based on getting comments and backlinks from high PR blogs.
The basic concept of Yahoo Answers is that people ask questions and other people answer them. When you answer a question, you can put a link in the resource box.
Here are three benefits of Yahoo Answers.
1) You get traffic from people reading your answer.
2) Your answer will rank in the search engines and get traffic – especially if your answer is chosen as the best answer.
3) You can get a backlink from your answer which will boost your site’s rankings. Yahoo Answers is considered an authority site by other search engines, and backlinks from Yahoo Answers are high PR backlinks.
How to get the best results from Yahoo Answers.
The key to getting targeted traffic from Yahoo Answers is to find questions that you can answer that are related to your niche and then send them to your website where you provide more information on the topic. Additional benefits of checking Yahoo Questions is that it is good market research, it will tell you what your audience is looking for and it will give you many ideas for blog posts.
To get traffic from Yahoo Answers, you want to provide useful answers.
You must do an advanced search to find the best questions to answer. To get the most relevant questions, search questions opened in the last seven days with your keyword or key phrase. Then, answer the questions you can answer.
To get voted as the best answer, you need to provide quality answers. Read the question thoroughly, understand what is asked and give a targeted answer. Too many people give answers that have nothing to do with the question.
You can be banned if you abuse the system and provide consistently poor answers. As long as you follow Yahoo’s terms of service and provide quality answers you will have no trouble keeping your account.
Start your answer with a greeting, e.g. “Hi, thanks for your question”. Or better yet, mention the person’s name, e.g. Hi Terry.” This will make your answer stand out from the crowd and will start to build a relationship with the questioner.
Then provide your answer and end with something friendly such as “I hope this helps” and then sign with your name.
You should only put your link in your answer directly if it has been asked for. Putting your link in every answer can get your account banned. Your link needs to go in the resources box below your answer. Don’t worry, people will see it and click on it, particularly if your answer is voted the best answer.
Yahoo Answers provides a good method of generating targeted traffic to your website. It works well for most types of sites and some people make decent money just from Yahoo Answers. Use it well and you can benefit from it. I’ve used Yahoo Answers and it works.
Videos are very popular today for Internet marketing
Video marketing can take your business to the next level. YouTube is a mass traffic source and Google shows YouTube videos high up in its search results with a small image of the video which is likely to get more clicks.
Are you looking for good video creator software to make short videos? There are many ways to make cool videos. Here are some of the most popular methods of creating videos.
Use a flip cam and record yourself or someone else.
YouTube video. You can make movies right at YouTube.
Record Powerpoint slides. You can create a slideshow in PowerPoint and record your screen. (Use powerpoint or Keynote and then Camstudio, Camtasia or Screenflow to capture your screen)
Create screen capture videos with Camtasia. You can download a 30 day fully functional copy of Camtasia from techsmith.com. Or you can use the free alternatives Camstudio and Sony Vegas.
Windows Movie Maker (Free – included in Windows computers). It can help you make beautiful slideshow or video clips (e.g. mixing your songs with pictures/video/etc), then save it as video file such as wmv or mpg, then upload. Or just get use clips you want, save and convert them, and then mix/match with pictures and sound using Windows Movie Maker to create new masterpieces.
iMovie for Mac users.
Animoto – www.animoto.com (free). Create videos in minutes. Animoto works with any operating system as long as you have Internet. Just upload your own photos or put your own text in, select the music and layout, and Animoto will do the rest. It’s really easy.
Picasa. Similar to Animoto. (I like it – but seems to have limited transitions)
OneTruemedia – Onetruemedia.com – similar to Animoto – has lots of stock photos – easy – I like their transmissions and you can control the length of the images. Works with any operating system as long as you have Internet.
Zillatube – www.zillatube.com. This is the easiest and the fastest way to create YouTube movies. Free download (limited usage) or purchase at $20.97. It is very easy to download and convert videos. Then edit those converted MPG videos with Windows Movie Maker.
After Effects CS4 – This professional software gives you more capabilities than Powerpoint or Camtasia but is very expensive.
Adobe Premiere lets you edit your movie.
Convert your articles to videos.
This is a great way to get quick videos, traffic and links
ArticleVideoRobot is very easy to use and really fast. It has a free trial (but the trial is limited and you can’t submit or download your videos.) Article Video Robot is well worth the money. The advantage of articlevideorobot over similar software is that they automatically blast your video article to many sites gaining you loads of traffic.
Try out some of those systems and see which one best fits your needs.
Want the easiest way? Just write the script, record your voice and hire a freelancer to make the video.
Also, if you have if you have articles, you can make extra money by converting articles to video.
Getting traffic doesn’t have to be expensive. It can even be free. But if you want free traffic, you’ll have to invest your time and energy in getting free traffic. And you’ll have to learn about the free traffic methods.
Here are 31 methods to get free traffic to your site or blog.
Optimize your website or blog. Learn SEO or pay someone to optimize your site for you. Read more about SEO here.
If you don’t have a blog yet, start one. Make sure to host the blog on your domain (not on a free blog).
Post frequently on your blog. The more often you post, the more results you can expect. Blogs increase SEO and traffic. You can expect 30% increase in traffic when posting every day. Google likes blogs, especially blogs that provide new quality content on a regular basis. Additional benefits of blogs include fast search engine indexing because of ping services, blog directories and blog search engines. Find out more about blogging here.
Make money by promoting affiliate programs on your blog!
Free traffic methods continued:
Submit your blog to blog directories.
Provide quality, unique content. Google’s Panda algorithm updates have hit poor quality sites. Make sure you have high quality content on your site to avoid getting Panda-related penalties.
Get backlinks for each of your blog posts or web pages. There is a lot of information on this site about linking methods.
Add your site to free Web directories. Just don’t forget to get your website ready and functional to increase your chances of getting accepted in directories. Make sure all links work and that you don’t have missing images.Don’t overlook Open Directory - You can get the submission directions at www.dmoz.org/add.html. Make sure to read their guidelines before submitting. Free Web directories. More info here.
Submit your site to free local directories, local review sites and specialized directories. Using “local” services to list your business is one sure way to get your website listed in the search engines. Click here to Read more info about local directories.
Create profiles on popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus. (Profiles give you links.)
Be active on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. Provide a lot of helpful tips. Don’t give up too quickly. It might take 6 months to a year before this pays off.
Install plugins in your WordPress blog so that your blog posts will automatically be announced to your Facebook and Twitter.|
Bookmark. Submit each post or each article you write to top social bookmarking sites. You can do automated submission to social media sites. Use either OnlyWire OR Social Marker, a social bookmarking service for fast tagging and posting to all major social websites – SocialMarker.com and automate the process. Both are FREE (free if you do it yourself. Or you can check my bookmarking services). Read more info about social bookmarking.
Focus on building a list. Use some of free traffic methods below to drive traffic to your opt-in page or squeeze page. It takes time but it’s one of the best online marketing techniques.
Join JV giveaway events. JV Giveaways are one of the best ways for newbies to build a list. Most JV Giveaways are focused on Internet Marketing. Also some of the leads are freebie seekers, but it’s a great way to start building a list. To get a list of JV giveaway events, visit NewJVGiveaways.com.
Add an exit page.
Set up an affiliate program and have your affiliate promote your products or services. You’ll have to pay commissions but it won’t cost any money up front as you’ll only pay commissions for sales (and optionally for leads.)
Do joint ventures with poeple in your niche.
Do adswaps and reciprocate with other list builders in your niche. They email your offer to their list and you email their offer to your list. You will need a list of at least 300 to participate in an ad swap. Don’t overdo ad swaps as you don’t want to burn out your list’s responsiveness. Once a month is good.
Write a compelling signature to use when posting in forums, posting comments in blogs, submitting articles to articles sites and anywhere else you’re posting.
Write quality articles and submit them to a few select article directories with your signature. It’s a time consuming marketing method but you will see consistent results for a long time. Read how article marketing has changed.
Write and send out free online press releases. This is a free website promotion tactic that you can do anytime. There is a lot of information on this site about press releases.
Leave useful comments on blogs in your niche with a link back to your blog or site. Do a search on Google for other blogs in your niche that are relevant to your own blog and try to find blogs that have a lot of traffic, a lot of activity, and are seen as somewhat as an authority in your niche. It’s a great way to get targeted visitors to your blog that will be interested in your content and products. If you focus on high ranking, popular blogs that receive a lot of daily traffic, you can begin to generate traffic to your website instantly at absolutely no cost. Read 5 reasons to comment on blogs.
Write content on other blogs. Contact other bloggers in your niche who have popular blogs that receive a LOT of traffic and offer to write unique content for them. In exchange you will get a link that will give you more exposure.
Be a guest blogger. Write guest blog posts on one or more active blogs in your niche. Guest blogging is writing original articles on subjects that interest the readership of your host blog. Get more info on becoming a guest writer at myblogguest.com/
Write and give away a free ebook or free report.
Leave useful messages at forums and popular message boards such as Yahoo Message Boards. Find forums and message boards that are very active and related to your niche/topic, post actively, provide good tips and put your site url in your signature. Or link to a squeeze page to build your list. See how to get forums traffic.
Answer questions related to your products or services. In addition to answering questions on forums, a popular question and answer site is Yahoo Answers. Click here for more information about how to use Yahoo Answers.
Video marketing. Create videos and put them on YouTube and other video sites. The more creative your videos are, the better your chances are that the videos will become viral. Also, demonstrating the benefits of your products with videos works well.
Drive free traffic to squeeze pages through video marketing. You could use PLR and add callouts with your links using video editing software such as Camtasia or Cam Studio, a free video editing software.
Be a guest speaker at teleseminars. Interview someone in your industry or have someone interview you.
Be a speaker at life seminars and conferences.
Attend seminars and network with attendees.
Advertise on free classifieds like craigslist and backpage.
Be friendly online. Other webmasters can provide links, guest posts, recommendations, become affiliates and more.
Swap banners. Make a banner ad for your site and ask another webmaster to do the same for his site. Then swap! This is a variation of link exchanges.
Traffic exchanges. Traffic exchanges will give you traffic but it’s low- quality and low-converting traffic. Some traffic exchanges are easyhits4u.com (geo targetting) and trafficswarm.com.
Word of mouth and offline promotions. Tell everyone about your site. What is free website promotion without the word of mouth? Mention your website, its URL and features in daily conversations and let the good news spread from one mouth to another!
Submit Your Business or Services to Local Directories
and Specialized Directories To Reach Customers in Your Area
People search the internet and use online directories when they are ready to buy. You want to make sure that your ad is in front of your customers so that customers can reach you when they want your products and services.
There are many ways to target local customers online. Here are a few:
Google Places/Google Maps (Free). If you don’t have a free listing in Google Maps or Google Places, set that up right away. This is very important today.
Yahoo Local listings (free and paid listings).
Review sites.
Get FREE listings in local directories.
Get paid listings in local directories.
Get free and paid listings in specialized directories
Put ads in popular classified sites. Craigslist works very well.
Reviews sites have become very important for local business as they can get you listed on the first page of the Google search results. Don’t forget to ask for reviews from people you know on the sites that allow reviews.
Get listed in specialized directories. Which directories you’ll choose will depend on what you’re selling, e.g. medical, dental, restaurants and more (free and paid options). Submission to specialized directories are personalized to your needs. Please contact me to discuss your needs and get a quote.
Local Pay Per Click ads that allow you to target areas by zip code. For example, you can target zip codes with Google Adwords and many other pay per click search engines.
Low fee PPC search engines. There are many PPC search engines besides Google Adwords and MSN where you can get traffic for a penny per click.
Additional ways to get traffic
Paid advertising on Facebook. Facebook is one of the largest websites in the world, with more than 500 million monthly users and is one of the most effective places for targeted advertising today.
Linkedin. Regardless of the kind of business and industry you’re in, you will build professional relationships over time. In order to build and maintain valuable relationships, you must commit your time and effort. Get more information on how to be successful with Linkedin here.
The possibilities to get traffic are endless. Your main focus should be on getting targeted traffic by knowing and targeting your audience.
I can help you reach local customers who are looking for your services.
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You will get a proof spreadsheet with login infos and active links.
The key to SEO is consistency and variety: a variety of link types and a variety of incoming domains that you get links from.
Profile links are another good way to get backlinks for your site. They are effective and should definitely be a part of your linkbuilding strategies.
What are profile links?
Many large and authoritative sites have member boards and forums. You can register on their forum, create and read posts and search for help from other users. Forum boards allow you to register and create a profile to tell other members about yourself, your hobbies and interests. Many allow you to put one or more links to your website in this profile.
Why profile links are effective
1. Trust. Profile links are very effective because you are getting links from authority and trusted sites. When getting links from these sites, some of that authority and trust is passed on to your site.
2. You’ll get links from high PR Sites. Many of these links are on high PR sites, such as PR6, PR7 and even some PR8 and PR9 sites.
Benefit of our profile link package:
Get 50 back links to your Website.
Get links from high quality and high PR (page rank) sites by creating profiles in those sites (most are forums and there’s a few blogs).
Increase search engine rankings and traffic.
Info about profile link services:
All profiles are created manually.
You’ll get a report of the finished work
If you have lots of time you can create profile links yourself, but it’s a tedious and time consuming task. It takes time to login onto the site, find appropriate sites and create profiles. It’s best to leave this time-consuming task up to us.
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