When you are beginning your journey in internet marketing you start with nothing - no contacts, no knowledge, no advertising budget and no traffic. A common misconception is that free traffic is some mystical entity that you have to harness to become successful, but traffic is just web users like you and me. We all want to find valuable content and when we do we will revisit and tell other people about it.
Once you have created the valuable content you can use these 7 fantastic ways to generate free traffic that will have visitors to your site in no time.
1) What are people searching for?
Remember, Demand = Traffic. You wouldn't build a bricks and mortar store in the desert, where there are no people. You make sure you place your store in a city centre where there are as many people as possible.
It's the same on the internet, do your research find out what people are actually searching for and create a business around that demand. Research possible niches on ezinearticles and see how many page views (at the bottom of each page) an article has got, if it is getting 1000+ a month it could be a profitable niche. Try tools like google keyword tool or wordtracker to find out the most searched keywords/phrases and build each page around one keyphrase.
If you do not do your research first you will have an uphill struggle to generate traffic.
2) Create a blog
A great way to generate free traffic is the blog, you can get a free account at blogger.com and start publishing in minutes. Just decide what you want to write about (as above) and if you create real value in your writing you will start to get visitors. Post regularly (daily) and your traffic will start to increase, as your readership grows you can then post links to the site you want to promote.
3) Post in forums
Find forums that are related to your niche and start to post useful valuable information. Help people out and promote yourself as an expert. Be prolific, monitor the threads and be there answering questions as much as you can (if you are not an expert, research through google, you will soon become very knowledgeable on the subject).
Have links to your site in your signature file but do not overtly promote your site, you will just annoy people. Help people and they will gladly check out your links.
4) Article marketing
Create articles with valuable content and post to article sites like this. Base your article content around the same one keyphrase that you have used for your own web page and the search engines will recognise the connection, building your reputation in that niche. Use your real name as this information helps to establish you as an expert on the topic. Each article site allows you to have a couple of links at the bottom. If you write great content you will even get website owners using your content on their sites keeping the links in place.
5) Link building
Links are the backbone of the web and put simply the more you have the better. That said links have an inherent value, in google, page rank is used to determine the value of the linking page so if you get one link from a high page rank page it is more valuable that an low PR one. eg a link from dmoz directory (PR 8/10) carries more weight than a link from your own (eg PR 1/10) blog. Contact website owners in your niche to see if they will link to you. Also in many directories you can submit links for free.
6) Create a video
With the better internet speeds available to all users, web video is becoming huge. If you create a video and post it to youtube (making sure it has value - funny ones work well) you can get a lot of free traffic. Make sure you embed the name of your website into the clip so it is in people's faces.
7) Exchange your time for traffic
To get immediate free traffic you can exchange your time in visiting other websites to get visitors to yours. These kind of traffic exchanges are usually free and very easy to use with guaranteed instant traffic.
LE-ADS.com is a free traffic exchange and will get visitors to your site within minutes and members get free traffic building advice. Get free traffic, bridge the gap today.
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