Ok so the first way to get traffic is not particularly unique.But the fact is that you will get lots of traffic by writingarticles. The traffic won't come immediately but it will come.Articles will also bring link popularity. I wouldn't be doingmy job if I wrote about free traffic and neglected to mentionarticles.
If you write one article a week for the next year at the endof that year you will have an unstoppable flow of trafficand where there is traffic money follows.
So traffic source
#1 - Write articles
#2 - Post ads on other peoples sites. Now you're probably thinking'tell me something I don't know' but think about this for a moment.If there is a site that has a lot of traffic, gets spideredfrequently and has excellent page rank. Do you think pages on thatsite get good search engine rankings. You betcha!
Here in the UK there is a site called UK Free Ads. It has an Alexarank of about 20,000 and, you guessed it, you can place ads on itfor free. All you have to do is find your equivalent of UK FreeAds then find a keyword phrase without too much competition andwrite an ad optimised for the keyword phrase. I'm not guaranteeinga top ten listing but a percentage of the ads you write will placewell in Google and other search engines. You might even get a numberone position.
The best of these sites allow your url to be included in the listing.But better than that some of them allow you to upgrade your listingand have that listing redirect to the url you supply. Top Tip: Waituntil the page has been spidered and ranks well then upgrade andhave the listing redirect to your web page.
#3 - Get your site mentioned in mailings from complimentary sites inreturn for you mentioning theirs. You're going to need a list forthis. But assuming you have one why not contact other site ownerswith a list and ask them to mention your site in their next mailing.In return you mention their site in your next mail. This doesn'thave to be a heavy sell, just a mention of a friends site.
At worst this strategy will put your site url in front of a lot ofpeople who may not have heard of you. At best you will get a lotof free visitors. This strategy should work out just fine if youpartner with a site that isn't in direct competition with you.
#4 - Instead of just trading links why not trade home page links orads. Next time you visit a site and they have a space for an adand are inviting you to buy that space, why not contact them andoffer to exchange the ad space for a similar position on your site.Or why not barter an ad for a mention to your mailing list. A lotof smaller sites have trouble selling their ad space, but thesesame sites still have respectable traffic flows.
#5 - The last free traffic tip is probably the hardest to pull offbut also the most regarding. The strategy is to offer something ofreal value for free. If you use Adwords you no doubt know aboutMikes Marketing Tools where you will find a 'keyword wrapper'.Or if you are into natural search engine traffic then you probablyvisit Market Leap to find out how many pages you have ranked.People need these tools and everybody recommends these sites.They offer a valuable resource for free. Once you do that, wordspreads quickly . Mikes Tools has an Alexa rank of 5,000. MarketLeap has a rank of 900. Yes it's in the top 900 websites online.Do you think you could make some money with that sort of traffic?
To pull this off you need a tool that is useful to your targetaudience. Maybe some sort of calculator or a data manipulator orconverter. Although a software tool is an excellent choice itdoesn't have to be software. Think what tool do I use that Icould make available to others.
If your goal is to build free traffic to your sites then you needto be thinking about this all the time. As you surf keep this needin the back of your mind. Every site you visit think 'how couldI get free traffic from this site' or 'what is this site doing toget traffic that I could copy'.
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