How can I improve traffic to my Website for free?
I’ve just started my own business and am having a hard time increasing visitors to my Web Site. How can I get up the Search Engine Rankings for free?
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I’m not sure about free, but you can go to sites like facebook, myspace, etc. and put ads there for fairly cheap…. and a lot of people are on those sites.
Get your website indexed in Google.co.uk and use keywords that people will search on in your title tag and body copy. The search landscape in the UK is still in its infancy stage so their is not as much competition than in the US. You have a better shot at rank in Google.co.uk with a UK website.
Hello,
well……There are many ways to optimize the potential of your site in generating traffic.
The followings are the methods to have more web site traffic for free. What you need is the proper mindset, a lot of eagerness, the drive, plus perseverance to do hard work and research to generate increased free web traffic.
Free methods for increase traffic:
1. Forums and communities.
2. Links with other sites.
3. Social networking sites.
4. Submit articles.
5. Blog commenting
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Hi
Here is the list with top 12 link building tips that I highly recommend you to use when starting to build your links.
1. Directory Submission
Getting listed in dirs is good for you, you get a lot of backlinks. I am posting here only high quality, free, human reviewed, PR6+ directories only ( BTW I checked the PR of the directories I am providing with Google Toolbar and I have to say that there is a big difference in their PR since the last update. I have seen many directories that have fallen from PR6 to PR0, I suppose they have used some black seo to get promoted and finally they lost their PR). The good thing about these dirs is that if you get your site listed you will get lots of traffic. The bad thing is that the review proccess of your site often is more than 3 months. Here is the list I use:
http://dir.yahoo.com/ PR 8
http://www.dmoz.org PR8
http://www.stpt.com/ PR 8
http://www.open-site.org PR 8
http://www.femina.com PR 7
http://www.portal.eatonweb.com PR 7
http://www.bloggernity.com PR 6
http://www.podcastzoom.com/ PR 6
http://www.bloguniverse.com PR 6
http://www.gogreece.com PR 6
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu PR 6
http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm PR 6
http://www.worldhot.com/ PR 6
http://www.elib.org/ PR 6
http://www.ezilon.com/ PR 6
http://www.christiansunite.com/ PR 6
http://www.aardvark.co.za PR 6
http://www.nzs.com/ PR 6
http://www.info-listings.com/ PR 6
http://findingblog.com/ PR 6
http://www.iguide.co.il/ PR 6
Of course there are more good high PR directories but I will leave the search for them to you. You can use google to find some, but the lists that come on first page results shows the old PR of the directories. So in my view these 21 dirs that I have posted here a worth to submit to them. Don’t get mad if you are not listed after 3 months from submission. Your time will come, don’t give up!
2. Link Exchange with other webmasters
This is also good way to get backlinks. When contacting other webmasters write in personalized way. Tell them why you want to exchange links with them, introduce your site to them, tell them more about your site. Try to exchange links with only high quality sites with higher PR. You may find good partners to exchange links, the best way is contacting them in personal, or you may use some forums to find link exchange requests, and last but not least you may use some automated link exchange sites. Here are some of them:
http://www.build-reciprocal-links.com/ PR 6
http://www.linkdiary.com/ PR 5
http://www.telalinks.com/ PR 5
http://www.linkexchanged.com/ PR 5
http://www.belinked.info/ PR 5
http://www.linkwizard.net/ PR 4
Using these automated link exchange sites will also boost your backlinks and you will get many relevant links to your site. You can find much more sites like these but to be honest I think these ones will do a perfect job. You can always ask google about something like: ‘free automated link exchange sites’, ‘free reciprocal programs’, ‘free link building programs’ and some more search terms like these.
If you want first to check the pagerank of the site you will be exchanging links with I recommend you to use:
http://www.digpagerank.com/ – In this site you can check the PR of a page or site in over 700 google datacenters
3. Article Submissions
Maybe I won’t tell you something new but try to write good quality unique articles and post them to the best free article directories. This is one of the best way to do 2 things for your site: first get a lot of backlinks from the articles and second get a lot of traffic I hope you know that you have to put your keywords that you compete for in the anchor text which is very very important for higher results in the SE’s.
http://ezinearticles.com/ PR 6
http://www.articleclick.com/ PR 6
http://www.1888articles.com/ PR 5
http://www.articlesbase.com/ PR 4
http://www.talkinmince.com/ PR 4
http://www.article-hut.com/ PR 4
http://www.articleuniversity.com/ PR 4
http://www.articlefeeder.com/ PR 4
http://thephantomwriters.com/ PR 4
http://www.article99.com/ PR 4
http://www.instantcashflow.org/free-article-directory/ PR 4
This list is only 11 sites long but if your article gets listed in all of them expect more than 1000 visitors to come to your site from the link in the article.
4. Press Release Submission
This method is something like writing articles and post them almost everywhere. In fact using this tactic you have to write a press release about your site or a page from your site. The process is the same. You have to submit the press release to good press release distribution sites. Below is the list of the ones that I am using.
https://prndirect.prnewswire.com/ PR7
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/ PR 6
http://www.pr.com/press-releases/ PR 6
http://www.free-press-release-center.info/ PR 6
http://www.clickpress.com PR 6
http://www.pressbox.co.uk PR 6
http://www.prleap.com PR 6
http://www.1888pressrelease.com/ PR 5
http://ecommwire.com/ PR 5
http://www.przoom.com/ PR 5
http://www.newswiretoday.com/ PR 5
http://www.free-press-release.com PR 5
http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com PR 5
http://www.prfree.com/ PR 5
Hope these 13 sites will help you to get much traffic. If you submit regularly to them and your site or articles gets listed there expect to get at least 200 unique visitors daily.
5. Social Networking / Social Group Sites
Social networking sites are very useful these days not only to get links but also huge traffic. Participating in social group / networking sites are proving to give boost to your traffic these days. Here is my list:
http://www.myspace.com PR 8
http://spaces.live.com/ PR 8
http://www.livejournal.com/ PR 8
http://www.orkut.com/ PR 8
http://www.friendster.com/ PR 7
http://www.linkedin.com/ PR 7
http://360.yahoo.com/ PR 7
These are one of the best social group sites. There are a lot more but I think these are enough, they are high quality and have a high PR ( 7+). They are perfect for getting good backlicks to your site.
6. Getting link from .org , .gov and .edu sites
The education, organization and government sites are considered much more valued sites and links coming from those sites are valuable. You need to search and find such sites.
Do a simple search on Google with this search term:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%…G=Search&hl=en
You may use another perfect search term special for edu blogs:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q…22&btnG=Search
With this string you will get all .edu blogs that allow posting comments and do not require to be logged in. Hope you find this string perfect. You can experiment with it for all kind of domains, it’s up to you. Make blog comments and put links in them, make sure your comment is genuine and not spam. You have to read the whole topic and find something to comment on the topic, job is done. After doing some comments maybe in a week you will see in Google index that you have links from .edu domain or .gov
7. Social Bookmarking Site Submission
This is the newest technique to get quality backlinks to your site. These days people like to share their interests in social bookmarking sites. Posting your interesting article to such sites will boost your traffic and give you thousands of visitors. But it is not so easy as it sounds – you have to write really good article, or news or something very very interesting to get your article on first page of these sites.
Don’t waste your time or money submitting to sites that don’t receive traffic! Use this list of sites for the best social bookmarking results
http://www.netscape.com/ PR 9
http://www.digg.com/ PR 8
http://del.icio.us/ PR 8
http://www.furl.net/ PR 8
http://technorati.com/ PR 8
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/ PR 7
http://reddit.com/ PR 7
http://www.fark.com/ PR 7
http://www.43things.com PR 7
http://www.mister-wong.de/ PR 7
http://de.lirio.us/ PR 7
http://www.newsvine.com/ PR 7
http://www.blogmarks.net/ PR 6
http://ma.gnolia.com/ PR 7
http://www.simpy.com/ PR 7
http://www.shoutwire.com PR 6
http://www.spurl.net/ PR 6
http://bluedot.us/ PR 6
http://www.blinkbits.com/ PR 6
http://www.blinklist.com/ PR 6
http://netvouz.com/ PR 6
http://www.trailfire.com/ PR 6
http://www.backflip.com/ PR 6
8. Forum posts
This is the way I like best for getting backlinks. Find forums that are in your niche and create account with them. In userpage write your homepage and you have a backlink. DO a search on Google and you will see how many forums are out there, you will be amazed. Do this process many many times and you will have one way links pointing to your site.You can combine this with forum posts and this way you will get your signature shown much more times. Personally to me it doesn’t matter that forums have nofollow tags, Google still counts that as a link to you.
9. Blog comments
Another great way of letting the world know about your site. This method is similar to forum comments, again most of the blogs comments have nofollow tags but Google still count this as a backlink. Here is another good way to get a backlink from a blog’s main page:
Find blogs that have “top comments” or “recent comments” plugins, this way if you are top commentator you will get your link on the main page of a blog. Do this with blogs that fall into your category. I didn’t knew that but a friend told me this method and I must say that I see good results for now.
10. Get a link on a mainpage of PR 9 sites
This one you probably do not know but I am going to share it. Spare some time, do a search for sites that have PR 9 and have a donation section in their mainpage. I am sure there are at least 20 such sites. In this donation section they post latest 20 or 30 donators. Do a donation for at least 1$ and you will see your site listed there. This is the cheapest way I think to have one way non-reciprocal backlink from PR 9 site, don’t you think?
11. Design a Template
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I think this is what you are looking for (sort of?) I run a small business myself selling mainly through my online store. I have recently struck a deal on zimzar.com and I have already increased my traffic by a huge amount.
Check out http://www.zimzar.com A recently launched website which brings advertisers, businesses, organisations and individuals with anyone with a social networking page, videos (think how many hits some videos receive in a day), blogs and website to trade, sponsor, swap and negotiate their own deals for embedding adverts,URLs and more. If you are a business, it can be a great way to reach a mass audience whilst on a really tight budget, you can even offer free products to the person you work with if you are low on funds.
It’s completely free to register so its worth a look.
Good luck
I think you need to take a step back and look at your site design before you spend your time on marketing. Go back to the drawing board and clean it up a bit. I highly doubt anyone will convert on that site if they do land on it.
After you have done this there are plenty of things you can do for free to get your self started.
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The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.
Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using
such "generic" queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.
You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.
Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, "Who’s my end user – is he on dialup or
DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.
A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.
Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.
Placement of Metatags:
A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which
should consist of no more than 65 characters separated
by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic
terms, the goods and services, followed by a location
from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.
The placement of a domain name which is not generic
within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.
The second metatag is the "Description" which is
usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which
best describes one’s goods and services.
And the very last category – "Keywords" are also
somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.
Here’s an example of a very highly-placed website on
Google.com: Begin with the very "generic" search query
"sandwiches downtown los angeles," taking note to not
abbreviate Los Angeles to "LA" and of course, leave
out the parentheses ("). It will bring up some 2.4
million+ search results. Check out where "Nazos.net"
is ranked. It’s ranked No. 1!
Again, Nazos.net’s high web presence was achieved by
proper web design and placement of relevant metatags
according to Google’s publication guidelines.
Good luck!
Write articles about your website or ideas.
Submit your website for users to review, free!
Go to Famous Pages
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You can get a free traffic here in Yahoo Answers.
There are plenty of ways to promote your site.
1)Article Marketing
Really a powerful method in getting audience. Write a good article based on your niche topic and submit it in article directories. Just go to google or yahoo and search for "free article directories". It will suggest you a host of directories that you can easily submit your writings. When people surf in that certain directory, they might stumble into your article and you got all the fame needed to be successful in Internet Marketing.
2)Blogging
This method is just like the article writing. You write what you want but good contents for your audience in blogs. The better you got, the more audience you get. You can also submit the same contents that you wrote in blogs in article directories. You get instant viewers if your article is in top 10 within your niche
3)Offer free stuffs
It’s always good to get free stuffs. Everyone likes it.So offer some free stuffs such as e-books or software for your audience. You will get a good, loyal and repeating audience. If you are looking for FREE e-books to market it in your site, check out this link.
http://www.abc-netmarketing.blogspot.com.It provides a host of e-books on internet marketing. The e-books will be updated weekly. So hurry up and get your best one soon.
4)E-mail Marketing
It’s as easy as ABC. Just promote your site to all your online contacts using e-mail.Write a good email that will attract your audience. If you got the contents right and able to convince your contacts , you are on your way to success.
5)SEO-Search Engine Optimization
Check out
http://www.ezinerticles.com for HOT tips on SEO
6)You Tube Videos
Use free videos from you tube and paste the links in your site. People like video tutorials better than articles or e-books.
7)Google Adsense
I strongly suggest you to visit http://www.abc-netmarketing.blogspot.com and learn about google adsense.If it’s not the best, atleast one of the best income generator for your websites. Visit the link and watch the video tutorials for FREE.
The core reason for search engine marketing is to increase targeted website traffic to your site. The premise behind this is simple: The less traffic you have to your site, the less business you will do online. The more traffic you have, the more business you will do. It really is that simple.
Your basic goal = Drive Traffic to Website. So, how do you do that? Here are some of the best ways to improve your website traffic.
Set Up and Use Pay-Per-Click (PPC)
PPC is a great website promotion tool. It allows even small businesses to compete with the big boys at an affordable rate. While there are many PPC search engines, Google Adwords is used more than any other. One of the main advantages to using Google Adwords is that you can see results quickly. One of the disadvantages is that Google often changes its policies so you have to keep yourself updated on those changes. In order to set up this service as your search engine marketing tool, you need to register an account and pay a one-time fee. Once this is done, you can begin your website promotion within minutes. Adwords allows you to set your daily budget and also allows you to set up as many campaigns as you wish. They offer tools for website traffic analysis which can be very helpful as your optimize your website.
Increase Website Traffic through Back Link Techniques
Using links and back links are great ways to get free traffic. In simple terms, back linking is when a distant site has links that go back to your site. The key is to make sure that only high-quality web sites are linking back to your site. Remember your goal? Drive Traffic to Website. This is one way to do that, but back linking also helps to improve your search engine ranking.
The best way to get quality sites to link back to you is to offer relevant content. Keep this in mind as you optimize your website. This content can be delivered in a variety of ways, such as:
- Embedded Video
- Free Downloads
- Free Newsletters or Articles
- Free Ezines
- Links to Other Relevant Sites
You may also want to consider using reciprocal links. This is when you put up a link on your site in exchange for having the other site put up your link. This is a good way for both sites to get free traffic as well as increase targeted website traffic. To do this, simply contact the webmaster about exchanging links.
Website Promotion through Ezine Advertising
Ezine advertising is another good way to drive traffic to a website. Generally, ezines are either online reads or delivered via email to subscribers. You can either contact ezines to see about adding your content to their product or you can start your own ezine. Either way you can increase targeted website traffic by using good quality ezines as a means of promoting your website. If you use a special url within your ad, you can conduct website traffic analysis to see how many people are visiting your site directly from the ad you posted. This can help you decide if your ad is working or not.
Get Free Traffic through Article Submissions
Article submission has become a very popular way to get free traffic as well as increase targeted website traffic. It is also an excellent way to get more back links to your site. If you allow your articles to be used by others, it becomes “viral”, which leads to even more exposure. Your article needs to be high quality and it should contain your link in the author resource box. In some cases, you can embed your link within the article content itself. When you embed your url in the article body always use a keyword anchor text style instead of the very vague “Click Here”.
Two of the most popular places to post your articles are http://www.GoArticles.com and http://www.EzineArticles.com.
Forum Posting
Forum posting can be a good website promotion tool but it must be done carefully. The best way to use forums is to find sites that are related in some way to your product or service. You also want to find forums that are popular and active. Lastly, make sure the forums you join allow you to use sig tags. Before you join any forum, read the rules.
Once you join a forum, remember that subtle website promotion is one thing, blatant sales copy is another. Posting pure sales copy will often get you banned from a forum, so don’t do it. Make sure your sig tag is short and update it often. Use the most effective back link to your site as it pertains to the forum. Be an active member on the forum and plan to spend between 30-60 minutes per day participating. Intelligent participation is key to gaining trust from the other members. Use your sig file to its best advantage while staying within the forum rules. Some forums have places where you can advertise and give special deals to members.
Increase Targeted Web Traffic through Social Bookmarking
Remember that in order for you to increase targeted web traffic you have to be in front of those who are actually interested in your product or service. This is why we use the word “targeted”. Social bookmarking can help you achieve this goal.
In a social bookmarking system, users store lists of Internet resources that they find useful. These lists are often available to the general public or they may be restricted to a specific network or group of people with similar interests. Users can view the links by category, tags, or even randomly. Some social bookmarking outlets allow for privacy on a per-bookmark basis.
Social bookmarking can bring immediate and free traffic to your website. Web 2.0 community websites such as Technorati, Digg, Reddit and Tailrank provide almost immediate information on various topics. These types of bookmarking sites usually index and categorize content faster than the major search engines. People looking for the latest information on certain topics will often refer to these types of services as they provide more accurate and updated information. Bookmarking accounts to check out include:
- digg.com
- technorati.com
When it comes to website promotion, time is money. You can speed up your bookmarking work by using the free submission site at http://www.OnlyWire.com to bookmark several accounts at once. When you signup to OnlyWire.com you can mark several accounts with one simple procedure that allows you to bookmark your blog post to all your accounts at once.
OnlyWire.com interfaces with: Backflip, Bibsonomy, Blinklist, Blogmemes, Blue Dot, de.lirio.us, del.icio.us, Diigo, Furl, Jots, Linkroll, Looklater, ma.gnolia, Markaboo, Rawsugar, Shadows, Simpy, Spurl, Wink. If you don’t have a bookmark account for those listed above, go and sign up.
Search Engine Marketing via Viral Traffic
When it comes to search engine marketing, being viral is a good thing. As you consider the best ways to optimize your website, keep viral marketing in mind. In simple terms, being viral means you are offering some form of content (e-books, reports, articles, etc) that others can share either on their websites or through email. Think of it this way: One person downloads a free report that you offer. They share that report with two other people, and those two share it with two more people. Within a very short time, your report is being seen by hundreds, if not thousands, of people. This is a great way to get some free traffic to your site, because your report includes your website url as the resource point. The key to increasing your website traffic through viral marketing is to make the material relevant and useful.
Directory Submissions
This may sound like common sense, but do not forget to submit your website url’s to the search engines Google, Yahoo, MSN and Bing. You can build back links by visiting and adding links to directories such as DMOZ or Yahoo business. Also, check out your specific niche directories and submit your website to them. If you need ideas on how to find your niche directories, search your main keyword and directory on Google (e.g. “motorcycle directory” where motorcycle is your main keyword).
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search Engine Optimization, (SEO), has nothing to do with sales and everything to do with visitors finding you. When SEO is done properly, search engines will rank your site higher, making it easier for people to find you. The better optimized your web page is, the higher a ranking it will achieve in the search engines.
In order to optimize your website properly, make sure that each web page incorporates the appropriate title tags and meta tags. Use the most relevant keywords for each page and stay within a sensible keyword density (3-5 percent is the norm). Applying these simple tips will help the search engines to find you and rank you in a positive light.
These are just a few ways to get more web site traffic. Feel free to browse websitesbytraffic.com to learn more.