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Increasing Web Traffic by Links
Every people with an online presence wishes to increase web traffic to their web site. It doesn’t matter if you have a page to get money from ads, to promote a good cause, to inform or just to have fun: in all cases it’s useless to run a web site if no one is going to visit it. Advertising may be quite expensive, but fortunately there are some great free ways of generating web traffic.
A good way to increase traffic on your website is to find blogs that are related to the interests of your readers. Create a username for the blog site that reflects the content of your own site. For example, if your site is about collecting antique cameras, then choose a username such as “old camera collector” or “antique camera guy. Then go to the comment section of the blog and reference your related site and include the url.
Something else that you may want to think about is that a static site can grow old. The content on your site is designed to be read and remembered. After someone has read your site and the articles contained on it, they usually do not want to read it again, or have no need to. Because of this, a successful website should be frequently updated with unique content and newer articles. The readers who visit your site will check your website often for these updated articles and come back to read them over and over again. That is more traffic for your site!
Online networking is helpful. You should find and contact owners with sites that would attract your target audience. Ask them for a quote for an online article, or invite them for a guest appearance on your blog or to write an article for your site.
Site owners, being quite flattered, may put you on their blog roll or even give you a link back from their site. By being asked to guest blogger post or even to write an article for their site will give you more exposure and free web traffic.
Don’t limit your networking to only small blogs or sites. Many very successful bloggers have gotten exposure and a huge amount of hits from being quoted in larger publications like their local newspaper or even major magazines like Time or Newsweek. They may be primarily old-fashioned paper publications, but most of them have an online component.
Having your site mentioned in a large publication is probably the best way to increase web traffic. To make this happen you should determine the subjects which interest your readers, and find reporters who cover those subjects. Then you can send these reporters press releases. You can also send them letters telling them how much you enjoyed their articles and letting them know that you have a related site. It’s possible that they will use quotes from your letters and website or even mention your site.
Increasing Web Traffic by Links
Every people with an online presence wishes to increase web traffic to their web site. It doesn’t matter if you have a page to get money from ads, to promote a good cause, to inform or just to have fun: in all cases it’s useless to run a web site if no one is going to visit it. Advertising may be quite expensive, but fortunately there are some great free ways of generating web traffic.
A good way to increase traffic on your website is to find blogs that are related to the interests of your readers. Create a username for the blog site that reflects the content of your own site. For example, if your site is about collecting antique cameras, then choose a username such as “old camera collector” or “antique camera guy. Then go to the comment section of the blog and reference your related site and include the url.
Something else that you may want to think about is that a static site can grow old. The content on your site is designed to be read and remembered. After someone has read your site and the articles contained on it, they usually do not want to read it again, or have no need to. Because of this, a successful website should be frequently updated with unique content and newer articles. The readers who visit your site will check your website often for these updated articles and come back to read them over and over again. That is more traffic for your site!
Online networking is helpful. You should find and contact owners with sites that would attract your target audience. Ask them for a quote for an online article, or invite them for a guest appearance on your blog or to write an article for your site.
Site owners, being quite flattered, may put you on their blog roll or even give you a link back from their site. By being asked to guest blogger post or even to write an article for their site will give you more exposure and free web traffic.
Don’t limit your networking to only small blogs or sites. Many very successful bloggers have gotten exposure and a huge amount of hits from being quoted in larger publications like their local newspaper or even major magazines like Time or Newsweek. They may be primarily old-fashioned paper publications, but most of them have an online component.
Having your site mentioned in a large publication is probably the best way to increase web traffic. To make this happen you should determine the subjects which interest your readers, and find reporters who cover those subjects. Then you can send these reporters press releases. You can also send them letters telling them how much you enjoyed their articles and letting them know that you have a related site. It’s possible that they will use quotes from your letters and website or even mention your site.
Using Link Bait To Attract Massive Free Traffic
Here is a technique I have long used to attract massive free traffic to some of my websites. Recently, more and more people are discussing this largely intuitive technique, and giving it a variety of names. The name I most embrace is “link bait.”
“Link bait” is anything that you put on your site that encourages others to link to your site, and then drive massive amounts of free traffic to your site by telling others about it. It’s some feature that by it’s very nature makes others reference your site and want to tell others about it.
Examples of this could be a service that they need to visit your site to access, or an outstanding article that they have to visit your site to read, or even some type of list that they need to visit your site to access.
Examples of link bait that I can think of (actual and hypothetical)… things that would cause other webmasters, publishers, and just people in general to send you traffic include:
– The site http://formatit.com/ has a software utility that formats emails for free. This is where I format all of my ezines and emails to a max of 65 characters per line 😉
– The site http://selfpromotion.com/ has a program that allows you to semi-automatically submit your sites to all of the major and minor search engines and directories for free.
– A site that has a listing of all the major blog directories.
– A site that has a listing of all the major places to “ping” when posting to your blog.
– A recipe conversion chart on a cooking site.
– A chart showing calories burned during various exercises.
– A listing (with hot links) and maybe reviews of major internet marketing forums.
– A list of 100 top rated directories to submit your ezine articles to.
– A list of the 100 most popular baby names.
– A list of foods considered aphrodisiacs… and why they work.
… you get the idea!
If you can incorporate something similar to the above on your blog or site, then after the word gets out, it will be natural for people to link to you. They’ll feel good linking to and telling others about your site. People enjoy appearing “in the know.”
You should do some brainstorming today, and see what ideas you can come up with for link bait to add to you site and then tell the world about.
As I said, it can even be an article. For example, an article on how to really optimize a website, 20 top traffic generation methods, some type of webmaster tricks, etc.
As an example, I recently wrote an article, which I expanded into an ebook called “20 Insider Techniques Of A Super Affiliate.” I recently decided to post these techniques as a 20-part series to my blog at http://WillieCrawford.com/blog/
Once people start referring to this series, it will attract traffic to my blog for a very long time. The key then is to have links in my blog’s navigation that make it easy to locate this series even months from now!
Go ahead… do some brainstorming, and then put some link bait on your site. Then tell a few others and ask them to help spread the word. After all, link bait only works if the word gets out. Once it does, the flow of traffic will become unstoppable.