51 Free Ways To Get FREE Traffic!

#1
James.H

Posted 04 December 2009 - 01:58 PM

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1. Write and submit articles to the article directories.

2. Leave comments on other people’s blogs with a backlink to your site e.g
CodeCall Programming Forum - Blogs

3. Answer people’s questions on Yahoo! Answers - Home

4. Post in forums and have a link to your site in your signature. Not in posts as you will get banned for spamming. I recommend this Programming Forum

5. Write a press release and submit it to PRWeb.

6. Advertise your website in the appropriate category on craigslist .

7. Give an unbiased testimonial on a product/service that you have used in exchange for a backlink to your site.

8. Start a blog and submit it to the 100’s of free blog directories.

9. Manually submit your website to the major search engines.

10. Optimize each page of your website for a particular keyword or search phrase.

11. Add a link in your email signature to your website. It’s a free and easy way to get a little more traffic.

12. Make a custom 404 error page for your website redirecting people to your home page.

13. Use PPC search engine advertising.

14. Add a “bookmark this site” link to your webpages.

15. Have a tell-a-friend form on your site.

16. Send articles to ezine publishers that includes a link to your website.

17. Hold a crazy content and make it go viral.

18. Give away a freebie (ebook, report, e-course) to keep people coming back to your site.

19. Add an RSS feed to your blog.

20. Submit your site to any related niche directories on the net.

21. Participate in a banner or link exchange program.

22. Create a software program and give it away for free. (You can submit your software to our download section!).

23. Purchase the misspellings or variations of your domain name, or those of your competitors.

24. Buy a domain name related to your niche that is already receiving traffic and forward it to your site.

25. Pass out business cards with your domain on them everywhere you go.

26. Start and affiliate program and let your affiliates send you visitors.

27. Start a page on social bookmarking sites such as MySpace.

28. Submit a viral video to YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

29. Conduct and publish surveys to your website.

30. Find joint venture partners that will send you traffic.

31. Start your own newsletter or ezine.

32. Use a autoresponder or email campaign to keep people coming back to your site.

33. Purchase ads on other sites. (Codecall.net which is alexa 30k is selling high visible ad spaces, get in touch!)

34. Send a free copy of your product to other site owners in exchange for a product review.

35. Sell or place classified ads on eBay.

36. Post free classified ads on any of the sites that allow them with a link to your site.

37. Exchange reciprocal links with other related websites.

38. Network with other people at seminars or other live events.

39. Purchase advertising in popular newsletters or ezines.

40. Advertise on other product’s “thank you” pages.

41. Create a free ebook and list in on the “free ebook” sites.

42. Buy and use a memorable domain name.

43. Do something controversial.

44. Create an Amazon profile and submit reviews for books and other products that you have read.

45. Start a lens on Squidoo.

46. Use a traffic exchange (low quality traffic, but can sometimes be worthwhile).

47. Get referrals form similar but non-competing sites.

48. Create and sell a product with resell or giveaway rights and include a link to your site in it o others pass it around for you.

49. Email your list. If you don’t have one, get one.

50. Buy a pair of sandals; get your website engraved on the bottom and walk on the beach, stomp in the mud or play in the snow.

51. Register at Codecall.net to improve your programming skills and learn more on how to increase traffic!

#2
Guest_Jordan_*

Posted 04 December 2009 - 06:25 PM

Guests

Nice list!

I was reading, just today, xx ways to promote your website on sitepoint (I can't remember the number, some odd number like 67).

Some things I do that work well:

1) Ping ping-o-matic each new blog post. Make this automatic so you need not worry about it. Ping-o-matic will ping all the big guys like Technorati.

2) Submit to social network/bookmarking services. There are services out there that let you do this with the click of a button.

3) Don't be afraid to link to others. If they find your link to them, they may link you back (especially if you and they are using pingback/trackback).

4) Posting on forums. If you can offer a excellent content, people will want to learn more about you and click on your signature link.

5) Blog Comment Posting. Same as above except with blog comments. I use it and it gives me link-backs but I rarely ever see much traffic generated from it.

There are many more methods that work as well. If you really get into promotion and SEO you'll learn from experience what works and what doesn't and I suggest you go with that. If you really want to learn what works or not for you and your site you'll need to analyze traffic. I look at each of my sites at least once per day and for new sites often multiple times using some kind of real traffic tracking software (I'm currently stuck on Piwik).

Also, Traffic doesn't happen over-night... Give it time!

#3
James.H

Posted 07 December 2009 - 06:50 AM

Programming God

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866 posts

Great post Jordan!

I love learning new ways to bring in extra traffic!

#4
mickeyy

Posted 18 December 2009 - 04:59 AM

Newbie

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Hey really very long and useful list for SEO. Who would have known that there are so many ways to get traffic to your site. I am using a few of these methods and they are really fruitfull.