Module 8: Traffic Generation – Just A Few Idea’s
Traffic exchanges
Here, you need to visit other people’s website, who will reciprocate by visiting yours. It’s not a one-to-one relationship. On an average, you need to visit about 2 websites to get one visit to yours.
Free classifieds
Nowadays, free classified ads have lost their significance. Due to being free, many people opt for this medium for placing ads, which results in ads getting unnoticed. But trying your luck is not a bad idea. Since it’s free, placing a classified ad is good. Who knows, you might get a visitor!
Press releases
Your website will be overloaded with visitors when the website is printed in a press release. But your press release must be written properly, and not just like an on-the-face advertisement. This works!
Resource box
A resource box involves you putting a link for people to click on. But ensure that the site you wish the readers to visit is in relation to the article of yours. A resource box can get good traffic to your site, and it should not be considered an unimportant option.
Title tag
A blog must have an attractive title in order to get a good ranking in the search engines. The title plays a vital role, but the actual post must be well-written and informative as well. That will get your site good traffic.
Submission to directories
Though the submission of your blog to the various online directories is a monotonous job, it is very important since it goes a long way in increasing the blog popularity. Every directory that you submit the link to, results in better rankings.
Link Exchange partnership
You can put your website’s link on another good website, and allow the webmaster of that website to place a link in yours. By this, both the parties gain.
Tell-a-friend
You can place a “Tell-a-friend” script on the website, which would help you get more traffic as visitors might recommend your website to other people.
Paid reviews
There are many freelancers out there, so you can surely pay someone to review your blog. This is a great way of exposure for those who are new to blogging.
Re-visits
You can turn the one-time visitors to regular visitors to your website by recycling of traffic. You can direct them to many sites at a single instant.
Error page
You can design a 404-error page for your site. A link can be placed in that website, which directs the visitor to the main website.
Promotion
If you’ve liked a product that you’ve used, you can leave behind a testimonial and put a link to your website at the end. This will get adequate traffic to your site.
Offers
You can offer the visitors free gifts. For instance, a free e-Book would do the trick to get greater number of subscribers.
Customer support
If you offer your customers good support, they will refer you to others and this will increase your popularity manifold.
Commenting
You can comment on blogs, and put a link to your website at the bottom. This can build traffic very well.
Screensaver
You can make a good screensaver for your company, and make it attractive. The company logo can be placed in the screensaver for branding purposes.
Keywords
If you have any profile on the internet, put necessary keywords and give back a link to your website.
eBay
Selling any item as a charity auction on eBay will result in the charities linking back to your eBay auction, and also to the main website.




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December 21st, 2008 at 3:36 am
Thanks for this list. I have used some, but not all the methods and they definitely work over time.
Just re the free classifieds: Yes, they are overused, and you don’t get many direct clicks (unless you post ads at, say Craigslist). But it’s still worth doing because it can help with SEO.
Free classifieds often appear high in search results and are neatly categorized so if you place your ad in the right category, with a good, original ad you are giving good info to Google.
February 20th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Hi,
One of the items you mention is free classified ads. You stated they have lost some of their effectiveness because it’s free. There is some truth to that. However, for some of the higher page rank free classified sites like USFreeAds.com, the back links that result from them makes it worth keeping this as a viable channel.
One question I have, how did you get the Twitter ID text box within your blog? I’d like to add that to my blogs.
Thanks,
Jim