7 Ways to Get Free Traffic to Your Website
Anthony Sowders
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Website owners realize that the major factor contributing to whether or not their website is a success or failure is the amount of traffic that their website gets. For veteran online entrepreneurs this task will be easy through years of perfecting their search engine optimization and a personal bag full of tricks and secrets. However, for startup websites, gaining traffic can become the most important step to master at the beginning. Implementing any of the following suggestions is sure to increase your website traffic.
1. Writing Articles - If writing is your strong point then writing articles about topics that relate to the content of your website and submitting them to article websites such as GoArticles (www.goarticles.com) will get you lots of traffic. If your articles are informative enough they will more than likely get republished on other websites. Make sure you leave your website link in the resource section of the article.
2. Blogging - Get a free blog over at the Google owned website Blogger.com and create some quality posts and the link to your main website. Search engines such as Google love the fresh content that blogs put out making it easy to get indexed quicker. Updating your blog regularly with more content will mean that the search engine spiders will crawl your website regularly. Pinging your blog and publishing an RSS feed will help your loyal readers know when you've posted new content.
3. Free Classifieds - Searching for the term 'free classifieds' or 'post ads' in Google will help you find some very good classifieds sites. Your title must be attention grabbing and interesting enough to lure readers into viewing your ad and following through to your website. Make sure to place your website link in the ad form.
4. Writing eBooks - Compile some useful information covering the topic of your website and give it away free to others. Adding your website link to the eBook and giving permission for others to distribute the eBook without changing the contents will help spread links to your website. Offering the free eBook as an incentive to sign up for your opt-in list is very effective.
1. Writing Articles - If writing is your strong point then writing articles about topics that relate to the content of your website and submitting them to article websites such as GoArticles (www.goarticles.com) will get you lots of traffic. If your articles are informative enough they will more than likely get republished on other websites. Make sure you leave your website link in the resource section of the article.
2. Blogging - Get a free blog over at the Google owned website Blogger.com and create some quality posts and the link to your main website. Search engines such as Google love the fresh content that blogs put out making it easy to get indexed quicker. Updating your blog regularly with more content will mean that the search engine spiders will crawl your website regularly. Pinging your blog and publishing an RSS feed will help your loyal readers know when you've posted new content.
3. Free Classifieds - Searching for the term 'free classifieds' or 'post ads' in Google will help you find some very good classifieds sites. Your title must be attention grabbing and interesting enough to lure readers into viewing your ad and following through to your website. Make sure to place your website link in the ad form.
4. Writing eBooks - Compile some useful information covering the topic of your website and give it away free to others. Adding your website link to the eBook and giving permission for others to distribute the eBook without changing the contents will help spread links to your website. Offering the free eBook as an incentive to sign up for your opt-in list is very effective.