Quite often the best ways to get traffic to your website
are the free ways. You can get some serious amounts of
traffic for free or very little cost. The real power in
generating your own traffic is in the fact that you are in
complete control of it quite often allowing you to choose
more accurately who to target therefore generating higher
conversion rates. People quite often overlook these methods
and there are some real gems. Below I will outline the 5
best ways to get traffic to your website for FREE:-
1.People are spending more time watching video's online
than doing anything else online. Video marketing is huge
it's not all about YouTube although obviously YouTube by
itself is massive but there are also loads of site that you
can upload your videos to including Google, Myspace, Yahoo,
MSN and AOL. It is not that hard to do and you can download
some screen capture software for free. Although if you wish
to get serious about Video marketing then some investment
in software will improve the look and feel of your videos.
2.Searh Engine Optimisation (SEO)' I know its obvious but
it's probably the best way of getting more traffic for your
website. The three most important things to consider are:-
2.1.Choice of keywords - Most people choose keywords that
there is too much competition for and do not give
themselves a chance of getting to the top of the rankings.
2.2.Content - You need to have loads of relevant content
that you update frequently to make sure that the search
engines see your site as a current one.
2.3.Links - Not the quantity but the quality. You need one
way links that are relevant and from other sites with high
rankings for similar keywords. The best way to look at SEO
is to try and look at it from the search engines point of
view. When somebody does a search they want the best
results to be displayed (if a load of irrelevant sites with
no real content ie spam sites are listed then its not a
very good search engine)
3.Articles and Press Releases just like the one that you
are reading here are great for generating free traffic for
several reasons:-
3.1.You will get high quality one way links from the
article directories that you submit to right back to your
site. So they are great for SEO. Imaging if you write 2
articles per week and get them published on 10 sites you
will be adding roughly 80 high quality one way links to
your site per month or just under a 1,000 in a year.
3.2.If you do some keyword research then your articles will
very likely get good rankings in the search engines and be
found that way.
3.3.People just browsing the article directories find your
article and read it.
3.4.The best thing that can happen is an Ezine or magazine
can choose to publish your article including the resource
box with the link back to your website in it. Some
magazines and Ezines have hugh readerships and your article
can go out to the whole list generating massive traffic for
FREE.
4.Harnessing the power of web2.0. Write a review or a short
description about a page on your website that you wish to
promote and then submit the review to the social sites.
There are loads of the including, Digg, Furl, Stumble Upon,
Reddit and Propeller to name a few. Using this method you
again generate those one way links from high ranking sites
so its great for SEO and people can find the link when
browsing these social sites and click through on the link
to have a look for themselves. The more interesting and
intriguing your review is the more people will click
through on your Link.
5.These are excellent ways to tap into highly targeted
groups of people. You can also learn so much from other
people in these groups or forums. Just go out and find a
group or forum and start participating in the conversations
and answering questions. You will have a signature file
attached to each post that you make and this is where you
have your link back to your site. Again building those
one-way links and if you write a good signature file that
is interesting people will click on those links. With this
type of marketing it is best only to give responses if you
know the Answer rather than just to get your link up there.
It is easy to loose credibility and be seen as a spamer if
you are not careful.
The most important thing to do now you have some knowledge
is to Take Action without it you will not get any Free
Traffic. It's best to focus on one way of getting traffic
and get good at that before moveing on to the next. So good
luck and above all enjoy what you are doing.
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Mike Goodchild has been Making Money Online for 7 Years and
is the author of a 10 Day FREE Email course about how to
generate Traffic to your Website for Free or very little
cost.
http://www.mycashmachine.co.uk/free_traffic_tips.htm
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