How To Get Free Traffic To Your Website

How To Get Free Traffic To Your Website

Many website owners start a website and find they only have
a limited budget, if any, to spend on advertising. This is
not necessarily a problem, however, because there are
several ways of promoting your site for free.

The most obvious way is to submit your site to sites
offering free classified ads. There are literally hundreds,
if not thousands, of these sites on the internet. Start
with some of the more popular ones and begin experimenting
with different ad copies to see which ads attract the most
readers, and stick with them when posting on other free
classified sites.

You can also sign up to various traffic exchanges, and
promote your site to other users. This is a great way of
getting guaranteed hits to your site, although it is
untargeted traffic. I recommend manual exchanges over
automatic because this way people have to physically click
on ads themselves, so more people will actually see your
site. For optimum results you should join 8-10 of the
largest traffic exchanges, and download a browser such as
crazybrowser, which will allow you to have upto 10 windows
open in the same page. Therefore you can surf them all at
the same time, and quickly amass hundreds of hits to your
site.

Submitting your site to directories is also a good way of
getting free traffic to your site. Plus not only will you
get a small steady stream of traffic, but it will also
benefit you in terms of search engine rankings. You want to
target high pagerank (from the downloadable Google toolbar)
directories, and those where your site will be listed on a
high pagerank page. This will boost your own pagerank, and
help you achieve higher rankings in the future, allowing
you to get subsequent free traffic from the search engines.

Similarly getting links from other related sites, either
one-way or more commonly reciprocal links, will also
improve your pagerank, and search engine rankings. If you
are able to get links from popular sites, or get prominent
links, for example from a home page of a popular site, then
you can get a lot of free traffic from these sites.

Safelists are a traditional form of free advertising, and
although not as effective as they once were, they can still
deliver reasonable results, particularly if you are
building a list of subscribers. A safelist is essentially
just of list of opt-in email subscribers, who are free to
send and receive emails to and from each other. You should
make sure you use a free email address as your inbox will
be filled with hundreds of emails.

Posting on popular forums that allow sig files (external
links at the bottom of each post) can be a very effective
way of receiving free traffic to your site. You should
create a compelling link in your sig file, and the link
should use anchor text which contains your main keyword(s)
for SEO purposes. You should then make helpful and useful
posts to these forums, which will build your reputation and
get your link seen of course. Just make sure you don't post
worthless posts, just so you can promote your sig file.

A truly viral way of getting lots of free traffic to your
site is by writing and creating your own free report or
ebook, based on the subject of your site. This should
include links to your site embedded within it. You can then
contact popular related sites, free ebook sites, ezine
owners or people with large lists, etc, and offer your free
ebook to them, and tell them that they have permission to
freely distribute it on their site or to their subscribers.

Finally, another great viral advertising method which can
also result in a large increase in traffic over time is by
writing articles. Simply write informative articles related
to your site and submit them to as many article directories
as possible. Each article should contain a resource box
which tells the reader about yourself and also includes
that crucial link (using keyword rich anchor text if
possible) to your site. For even greater results you can
track down ezine owners with large lists who accept article
submissions, and submit your articles directly to them,
offering you immediate access, if accepted, to potentially
thousands of readers.

As you can see you don't necessarily need to pay out lots
of money to promote your website successfully. There are
some equally effective free methods that can deliver
excellent results, particularly those last two methods that
I mentioned, writing free reports and articles.

Whatever methods of advertising you choose to persue, you
should make sure that you use some kind of ad tracking
software to track your results. This will tell you which
methods of promotion are delivering results, and are worth
continuing, and which ones are simply not worth wasting
your time over.

James Woolley is a successful marketer who has several
money-making sites in various niches. His latest site is a
free internet marketing resource guide, which also includes
a newsletter filled with free tips and bonuses:

http://www.jimsmarketing.com

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1:34 AM - Wednesday, June 7, 2006