5 Free Ways To Get More Traffic To Your Website

February 9, 2010 by evanyone
Filed under: getting traffic to your website

Traffic is the main aspect in online success. There are different types of traffic: organic traffic (the traffic you get from search engines), paid traffic (from advertisements – using programs like Google AdWords or Yahoo Search Marketing) and the free traffic you get from social bookmarking sites, forums, blogs, traffic exchange sites, article submission etc.
In this article I will talk about 5 effective (and FREE) methods to increase your business’s popularity and bring free traffic to your website.

1. Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking sites are a great way to promote your business. Use Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Propeller, but make sure you add articles from other sites too. Don’t add too many of the articles on your website because you will be considered spammer. Only about 30% of the articles you submit should be articles from your website.

2. Social Networking Sites
A good way to interact with other people and increase your website’s popularity is using social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter or Yuwie. On MySpace for example, you can join groups and interact with other webmasters and people interested in your niche. On Twitter you can keep your followers’ interest in your website adding a tweet with a link to your site each time you add a new article on your website.

3. Use Free Classified Ads
Go to free advertising sites like BestAds, AdToad, CraigsList, Ad2Go, DollarAds, FreeClassifieds, AdlandPro, Recycler and post your ad in the proper category.

4. Press Releases
Press releases are very much like article submission and of course they are meant to have the same effects. When you update your website, write a short press release. Once written, submit your press release to announcement services like: FreePressRelease, Pr-Inside, PrLog, PressMethod or PrUrgent. If you write a high quality press release announcing something newsworthy then it could get picked up by other media and bring you even more visitors.

5. Video Advertising
Create a short video, upload it to video sharing site like YouTube or MetaCafe and place a link to your site. This is a great method to get free traffic because these video sharing sites have lots of unique visitors per day. Also, besides the traffic that YouTube could bring to your website, your videos can be themselves ranked high in search engine results.
Let’s say you have a site on “art”, you can create a video on “Paintings” and upload it on YouTube. If your video has many views and becomes popular, when people search for “paintings” on Google, your video might even get a higher rank on the search engine results page than your website. But if you place a link to your website on the video, as I said before, many of its viewers might go and visit your website too.

All the methods aforementioned are free to use and can significantly increase your website’s popularity.

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