This is goldmaker time.. Ready for this one? I’ve just spent the last couple of hours outlining all of the methods I could think of to drive traffic to your website, and increase it exponentially!
This is goldmaker time.. Ready for this one? I've just spent the last couple of hours outlining all of the methods I could think of to drive traffic to your website, and increase it exponentially! (and mine)
Here goes:
1. Comments on blogs, remembering to leave the url of your website. 2. Posting your link on social bookmarking websites (use bookmarking demon) 3. Using mailing lists with autoresponders. 4. Writing articles and submitting them around the web with your link at the bottom. 5. Using software to submit your website to all of the search engines. 6. Use online advertising such as adwords, use keywords that are related to your product, make sure that you mention these on your website. 7. Create an affiliate marketing program, get other people to drive traffic to your site for you! 8. Using search engine optimization (use the correct keywords in your pages) 9. Create an xml sitemap of your website (for Google) - increases the chance of your entire website being indexed 10. Submit your website to directories (such as dmoz.org) in the correct, relevant category. 11. Start a blog, post as many articles on your blog each day as humanly possible, 12. Create your own comments on your blog and remove comments that are negative/spam. 13. Use social networking websites such as MySpace, Facebook, Linkedin, etc. and add as many people as you know and dont know. 14. Word of mouth. Tell everybody about your website. 15. Create a T-Shirt, put your website address on it and keep wearing it every day and show it off. 16. Create a Resell-Rights/giveaway product,distribute it to the membership sites for people to sell-on. Have links back to your website within the product. 17. Do a podcast, talk about what you do, throw in a couple of tunes. Mention the website 18. Get on radio shows, talking about your product, mention the website. 19. Advertise on radio, whether online or offline. 20. Create a video talking about what you do and your website, post the video to youtube, google video, and all the other ones. 21. Advertise in the small-ads or local newspaper, most have a listing. 22. Google video has a world map, pin your website on where your office is. 23. Viral marketing, do something outlandish with your product. 24. Post press releases on your website, this will increase your search engine ranking. 25. Traffic Exchanges - Advertising where each click on your website will make a click on someone elses. 26. Use Link Exchange websites (a bit out of date now) 27. Use WebRing websites, link in with those that are related to your topic (also a bit out of date now, but might be relevant for your category) 28. Create a group on yahoo, etc. on the subject of what you do. 29. Be active on forums, DO Create a signature with a link back to your website. 30. Chat. Talk with people on IRC, ICQ, MSN, Skype, etc. about your product. DO NOT spam, thats a bad move, ease yourself in there slowly. 31. Buying traffic in bulk - there are websites that will sell you 1000's of visitors for a very good price. 32. Write a glowing testimonial of a product, and get them to include your name and website. 33. Sponsor someone else's mailing list! Its a great way to get traffic, and it will be targeted as well. 34. Make your website worth coming back to, whether its a forum, a message board, search etc. 35. Post your website on free classified advertising, like gumtree.com etc. 36. Do teleseminars, mention the website, give out business cards with the website in BIG letters
37. Do a joint venture with someone who has a lot of traffic in the same field. 38. Ask for a link back to your website, while you add a link to theirs on yours. 39. Create PDF's of your content/website, and put those files onto file sharing networks with links back to your website. 40. Bumper/rear-window stickers! or stickers of any kind. Get some printed and stick them where you can in prominent view!
This is just the tip of the iceberg, i'm sure that you can tell me some more, if you can PM me on my home page on rewards1 or click that link down there / That link links to my rewards1 homepage