In order to do either we need website visitors. And not all website visitors are equal. It's best if a high percentage of your website visitors are people interested in the subject of your site, not people who wind up there by accident.
And, it's better still if your traffic is free...if it comes as a result of places like;
- Yahoo Answers
- Myspace.com
- Yahoo Groups
- Stumbleupon.com
- Forums
- Craigslist.org
- Site maps
- E-Book Giveaway
- Website Design
- Submit To Directories
- Tell a Friend
- Search Engine Optimization
- Squidoo.com
- Social bookmarking sites
- Article Promotion
- Site Explorer
- Epinion.com
- Alexa.com
- Newsletter Box
- Pay per Click search engines
- Get Links from Relevant Websites
- Increase the Size of Your Site
- Send out Press Releases
- Advertise On Online classified Ad Sites
- Use Firefox Plug-in
- Add a Forum to Your Site
- Add a Blog to Your Site
- Optimize Your Blog for The Search Engines
- Comment on Other Peoples Blogs
- MySpace News
- Digg
- Banner Exchanges
- Traffic Exchanges
- Pop Unders
- Technorati and ping it when your blog content changes
- Use a ping service like pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators
- Submit your blog to all of the RSS directories
- Link to other blogs in your posts
- Use Stumbleupon to stumble your posts
- Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites
- Start a group blog
- Join SpicyPage and promote your blog
- Join a webring
- Sign up for BlogWoods and promote your blog
- Exchange Ads (not blogroll links) with complementary blogs
- Use Twitter
- Publish videos on YouTube
- Search for Wikis related to your page
- Join Hub pages and post links to your blog from articles you write
- Pray
- Create a MySpace Page. Put your blog on it, and get some friends
- Tell people you will link back to them if they review your blog
- Review relevant products on Amazon.com
- Create product lists on Amazon.com
- Review related sites on Alexa
- Review products and services on shopping search engines
- Swap some links
- Try to get links from within the content of relevant content pages
- Sell items on eBay and leave your link
- Target niche social news sites like DZone, Sphinn or Hugg
- Always add your website url as a signature when you email
- Do email signature swaps
- Tag blog posts at social bookmarking sites
- Add photos to your blog with appropriate keywords - Google Images generates traffic too
- Tag blog photos at Flicker
- Make a custom 404-error page for your website. You can provide a link back to your main website or even try to monetize it by offering a related affiliate program within your niche
- Outsource grunt work
- After someone orders from you offer a one-time offer that compliments your product
- Participate in Blog Carnivals
- Create a network of blogs in different niches, and then link them together
- Give away stock images with a wee watermark of your URL
- Find and discuss memes.
- Create a Yahoo Group in the niche your site sits
- Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us and if you're really keen, add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage
- Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree
- Syndicate your site's content by using an RSS feeds
- Submit your RSS feeds to aggregator sites
- Get a custom t-shirt made with your website URL on it, and wear it often.
- Send out a newsletter
- Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site
- Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products
- Add a "Tell a Friend" function to your site, so people can easily recommend you to their friends
- Share your banners on banner exchange sites
- Create a "lense" for your site on Squidoo
- Slashdot will bring you a mass of traffic if you have hot content that geeks love
- Upload a favicon.gif file so that your users have a nice icon when they bookmark your site
- Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search
- Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish
- Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers
- Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts
- Increase the list you ping
- Use Facebook
- Social Networking
- Micro
- Email Marketing
- RSS Feeds
- Get outside links to internal pages
- Use free hosting and build sites and link them back to your main site
Now you know how... Just DO IT!
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