Best Traffic Resources?

[ghi572000]

Hi, I want to ask a very important question that is constantly on the end of every internet marketers tongue?

Were and how do I get traffic to my web site?

I'm sure you yourself have asked that question many times before, knowing that this is now all you need to start making some money online, the icing on the cake?

Many people in the past talked about Google Adword but now that does not work well anymore unless you have tons of money to throw away.

This is my question!

I want to start a chat were everyone can offer some useful insight how they generate traffic whether it's paid for or just pure free organic?

Let me start the ball rolling:

I manage to get traffic not loads but regular flowing organic traffic by just optimizing a landing page correctly at zero cost. The first thing I do is set up email accounts to Google, Yahoo and bing and then add meta tags of root files to the web site. These are some links to get you started after you have set up the email accounts first:

GOOGLE
google.com/addurl
google.co.uk/addurl
google.com/webmasters

YAHOO
siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

BING
bing.com/webmaster

Make sure you add all meta tags or txt files to your domain name root folder for Google, Yahoo and Bing to start receiving organic traffic. This method should always be the first step when adding a web page to the internet no matter what.

This is called SEO (search engine optimization)

I will try and answer any question here.

Regards
Gary

[affiliaterocks]

Hi Gary,

Thanks for sharing your free methods to get more traffic here

Cheers!
Julius

[wrongnumber]

Originally Posted by ghi572000

Hi, I want to ask a very important question that is constantly on the end of every internet marketers tongue?

Were and how do I get traffic to my web site?

I'm sure you yourself have asked that question many times before, knowing that this is now all you need to start making some money online, the icing on the cake?

Many people in the past talked about Google Adword but now that does not work well anymore unless you have tons of money to throw away.

This is my question!

I want to start a chat were everyone can offer some useful insight how they generate traffic whether it's paid for or just pure free organic?

Let me start the ball rolling:

I manage to get traffic not loads but regular flowing organic traffic by just optimizing a landing page correctly at zero cost. The first thing I do is set up email accounts to Google, Yahoo and bing and then add meta tags of root files to the web site. These are some links to get you started after you have set up the email accounts first:

GOOGLE
google.com/addurl
google.co.uk/addurl
google.com/webmasters

YAHOO
siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

BING
bing.com/webmaster

Make sure you add all meta tags or txt files to your domain name root folder for Google, Yahoo and Bing to start receiving organic traffic. This method should always be the first step when adding a web page to the internet no matter what.

This is called SEO (search engine optimization)

I will try and answer any question here.

Regards
Gary

hi mate, apart from all these methods... paid traffic is what one needs to make a jump start... i am giving a special deal on paid traffic HERE, upto flat 20% off on all types....

cheers

[WillR]

Originally Posted by ghi572000

The first thing I do is set up email accounts to Google, Yahoo and bing and then add meta tags of root files to the web site. These are some links to get you started after you have set up the email accounts first:

GOOGLE
google.com/addurl
google.co.uk/addurl
google.com/webmasters

YAHOO
siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com

BING
bing.com/webmaster

Make sure you add all meta tags or txt files to your domain name root folder for Google, Yahoo and Bing to start receiving organic traffic. This method should always be the first step when adding a web page to the internet no matter what.

I am confused. I do a LOT of SEO but I have certainly never gone through a process like this!

[shafiqkamal]

Submitting on top sites like Google, Yahoo and Bing is not the only way to drive organic traffic. I would suggest adding more relevant content to your website that is unique and useful to the readers. Google will reward you with them. This is what I did and 70% of my traffic came from organic traffic from keywords that i did not think of.

[Chris The Traffic Blogger]

Google adwords with 1 cent bids actually works rather well.

Also, simply going to your audience instead of advertising is your best traffic building strategy. Are they on a forum? YouTube? Social media? Blogs? Go to them!

[SEO Agency]

Pretty good list of traffic resources. BM this I know it can help a lot on the future.

[sketteksalfa]

Good point from ghi572000 If traffic alone, social medias are the best. twitter and fb. but should you want quality traffic. use ppc campaigns or paid display adverts

[caksut]

I think organic traffic ( SEO optimization ) offer good conversion rather than other source.

[thebitbotdotcom]

If you're going to go the Social Bookmarking route, focus on StumbleUpon. That is where most of my SB traffic comes from right now.

[haymanpl]

I think its really important to optimise your content which should be highly relevant to the keyword you are targeting which is the search qeury. There's easy ways to do this to make sure you get a good indexing and plenty of consistent search engine traffic. If you have plenty of incoming links your content will be indexed no problem

[Daws0n]

I think its black hat technique, you are just adding meta tags to text files so that google will crawl those and you will get indexed easily, between, the same meta tags are already in your other pages along with some other content, but the text files are going to be blank (only meta tags) i doubt if its work ?

[imfusa]

Thanks man, just added to sitexplorer.search.yahoo.com, verification process same as google, by uploading a html.

[marcopetriz]

Create interesting articles or free products and give it to people who are in your niche, if they like it, they will give it to other people. There You Have Some viral.

[NateRivers]

The best analogy for traffic I've heard is to realize that for any given niche, there will always be a few main hubs for that type of information online.

What you have to do, is figure out how to weave yourself into those hubs to get in front of interested prospects.

Find the forums, blogs, sites, etc that are in your niche, and become an active participant in them and as long as you're providing value, people will want to know more.

[maxsi]

I suggest:

1) Offer good content to your visitors
2) Use Organic SEO for all your pages
3) Add good content/pages every week (optimized content)

At this moment, every website I built with organic SEO is on top of search engines. It's an amazing way to optimize your pages.

[ghi572000]

Firstly to WillR, it wasn't meant to confuse anyone it's just a great starting point for any SEO work and believe me it will get your web pages index a lot lot faster, plus I have a lot more great pointers to make later so stick around.

It's also interesting to hear the rest of your views so far with many talking about paying for traffic, social networking, forums and organic, etc, but its one thing being able to get traffic and another for getting converting traffic in to buyers?

I think most of us here are searching for the buying traffic and if you go the organic root, I personal think that is where the money is, however if anyone would like to add to differ please do because that is why we are here?

Lets Summarize
1. Add meta tags, html or texts files to the root folder of your web pages for the search engines to find you.

2. Your next step is to make sure you have all these meta tag in you web pages: Were you see the '----' add your text here

<meta content='----' name='Description'/>
<meta content='----' name='Keywords'/>
<meta content='-----' name='author'/>
This one below will tell the search engine that you want to be found.
<meta content='index,follow' name='robots'/>

Very very important, make sure your keywords are in both the description and obviously in the keyword meta tag.

Another very important step is to make sure your main keywords are in the top part of your text in the html page.

This is sound SEO procedures for your web page what ever route you take but please continue this thread with your views also how you think or know which is the best way to get traffic?

If anyone is not sure on any part of these SEO tips for generating traffic please let me know and I will try and answer them all here!

For Now
Regards
Gary

[rockerbelly]

In fact, traffic building is a long term job, you cannot get tons of traffic overnight. Make nice use of SEO is the best resource to your traffic.

[olakh]

Hey man.Not only the meta tags and text files matters but also there is a requriment of a fresh content to increase the traffic.

[alsgroup]

If you want to get huge traffic on your website so you need to developed your website user and SEO friendly...Website's look and feel, Navigation, Contents and so on. Then you have to start your SEO work on it. Don't forget to be presence in Social Networking. Social networking websites play a major role to driven traffic on your website. Social website like Stumbleupon, Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, xing, bebo etc.

[ghi572000]

Thanks all for your comments, however I am posting actual information to help people improve their web pages for gaining Organic traffic and if you follow my step by step process, I guarantee you will get some good Google ranking for for web pages using your main keywords.

Okay, lastly I spoke about using meta tags. One thing to do within your meta tags is keep your keywords to three only and make sure you main number one keyword is in your description meta tag and most importantly is in your TITLE.

In my last post I forgot to mention the TITLE meta tag, it should look like the example shown below. In this example I have chosen to use a key word [INTERNET TRAFFIC] as an illustration, appearing in all the meta tags you should be using:

<title>How to find Internet Traffic</title>
<meta content='Internet Traffic, How to Find it Fast' name='Description'/>
<meta content='Internet Traffic, Traffic, Internet' name='Keywords'/>
<meta content='Your Web Site Name Here' name='author'/>

<meta content='index,follow' name='robots'/>

As we go along I will show you the next steps on how to optimize your web pages to gain traffic online and offline.

Stay tuned and if anyone else wants to explain their methods for gaining traffic I am sure we would all like to see some example?

For Now
Regards
Gary

[webboss]

I think its a the same as if when you are getting traffic google or any search engine crawls and check out the actual data stats from the website .

[rain21]

thanks 4 da methods !!

[Angel Smith]

Hi Firends,

Thanks for sharing the great resources..These are really best resources...

[Digitel]

Thanks for sharing the list of traffic resources, it is the best.

[ghi572000]

Hi I'm back to continue this thread and I will be here right the way to the end in teaching you a step by step process on how to gain traffic through high search engine ranking (organic traffic) for any web page or web site.

In fact, I am giving you for free all my testing and experiences over a five year period, and of which this content is going to be made in to an e-book and I will be selling it for $97, so if your interested please bookmark this thread as I will be adding post here weekly, and don't forget to give your input on how you gain traffic as well?

I have given this a lot of thought on the step by step simple tasks you need to use to gain Google first page ranking for almost any keyword or keyword phrase you want to target for.

Just as an example, do a Google search for GHI Marketing Solutions and you will see we dominate the first and most of the second page. This is just to show you the power behind this process.

Okay, to continue with your next steps. After following all the previous steps so far, you now will need a sitemap.xml and a robots.txt file. These files are to be added to the root directory of your web site or page. Your root directory is normally where your index.html file is. I know for some this might sound a bit difficult but I am going to explain this in a way just about anyone can do it so let’s start with the sitemap.xml file.

This sitemap.xml file will be automatically generated for you by going to this web site for free: xml-sitemaps.com Create your Google Sitemap Online - XML Sitemaps Generator - so you do not even need to know anything about XML file extensions. Once you have your sitemap.xml file put it in to your web site root directory (normally the root directory can be found where your web site index.html file is stored) your web site page that loads first on the internet when your URL in entered in to the browser. Okay that wasn't to hard was it?

Now, for the Robots.txt file which is in a .TXT file extension and can be created by saving a word document or using Notepad, either will do. Just cut and past this little bit of coding below in to your word or notepad document, save as robots.txt and put this file also in to your web site or page root directory.

================================================== ========

COPY CODE BELOW HERE IN RED

# /robots.txt file for YOUR FULL WEB SITE ADDRESS HERE/robots.txt
# mail webmaster YOUR@FULL EMAIL ADDRESS HERE for constructive criticism
# SUNDAY, 18 March 2011 17:00:00 +0000

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: YOUR FULL WEB SITE ADDRESS HERE/sitemap.xml

# End robots.txt file

STOP COPY ABOVE HERE IN RED
================================================== =======

Once you have this bit of code make sure you change the details IN IT to your web site URL and your email address and change the date to the day and time you put it in to your root directory.

Well that’s it for now and if you have any questions post them here and I will try to answer as soon as I can.


For Now
Regards
Gary

[Boricua]

Free traffic from all the three best search engines.

That's usually more then enough to be a happy camper!

[ghi572000]

Just in case some of you missed this!

Thanks
Gary

[pilaruk]

Directory submissions, article marketing, web 2.0.
There are so many different ways to get traffic to your website.
Best to not depend on just one way of getting traffic.
Hope this helps.

[faysal969]

Thanks for sharing your technique. But, I think organic traffic is more potential for IM.

[ghi572000]

One thing that has been on my mind for a while now is finding the best way to pay for you're traffic?

I'm sure lots have wasted a few bucks this way and thought this would be an interesting topic to also include to this thread if anyone has had some experience with this method of traffic generating?

Regards
Gary

[ghi572000]

Hi just to let you know that after some time I have finally turned this into a WSO, so if you want more details let me know and can send you out a review copy?

Thanks
Gary

[sharyninoz]

Looks really interesting, thought I knew a bit about traffic, but obviously still learning, I guess it will be a lifetime thing. Would love a review copy by the way. I have Thesis Theme, does that make any difference, it is supposed to do some magic SEO.

[ghi572000]

Originally Posted by sharyninoz

Looks really interesting, thought I knew a bit about traffic, but obviously still learning, I guess it will be a lifetime thing. Would love a review copy by the way. I have Thesis Theme, does that make any difference, it is supposed to do some magic SEO.

Will do and thanks for your comment, although I haven't read Theis Theme but what I have is totally unique and is something the search engines want you to use and get well rewarded for!

Regards
Gary

[biz_online]

SEO has it's limits.

If the keyword is extremely popular you're going to need to start on a blog platform with your main keyword as your domain name.

For example: If your main keyword is gardening, then your URL needs to be "freegardeningtips.com"

If your main keyword is not in the URL for a hot topic then forget it.

Next, you need to make sure you get the right plugins for your blog:

1. SEO plugin for WordPress or Platinum SEO

2. Google XML Sitemaps

3. SEO Smart Links

4. Akismet

5. Block Top Spammers

6. No Right Click Images Plugin

7. Text Captcha

8. Search & Replace

With new FTC Regulations cracking down on internet marketing, I would also advise:

8. WP Policies

9. Terms & Conditions

Now to direct real traffic to your site you may need to write a series of articles on your niche topic with active links pointing back to your site. You can also use press releases or even convert articles into short ebooks and give them away for free on scribd.com

You can also upload YouTube videos and even leave video responses on high traffic videos. Just go to youtube and type in "top popular videos"

The numbers are staggering:

Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris; 684,597,595 views

Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor ft. Pitbull; 463,245,100 views

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance; 438,181,560 views

I think you get the idea. Leaving comments and video responds can divert traffic to your own channel and you can get some luv that way.

If you are into CPV, you can hop on over to alexa.com/topsites and download their csv file and find the top visited sites in your niche. This is a free download and you can use excel to filter down to what you need.

Quantcast.com tells me that "finegardening.com" and "gardeningknowhow.com" would be great place to pop CPV offers related to gardening with over 153K+ visits per month, you would have to watch your budget very closely.

If you still believe in using Google Adwords, you can place email ads directly inside people's gmail inbox likeso:

Display Network --->managed placements --> mail.google.com::inbox

Unfortunately, google takes at least 24hrs to report details, so you need to keep a close watch on your campaigns.

Those are just a few ideas to get you started and really just skim the surface of what's really out there.

[amandeepsingh]

social media

[roadies9]

and what about other small search engines?

[biz_online]

The amount of SEO work is entirely dependent on what keyword you are going for. I have ranked in 1st place with only a blog and the main keyword in the URL. If there is heavy competition, you're going to need lot's of good quality content and backlinks. You don't always need backlinks for every site that you put up... only when you are not on page one and you've got stiff competition. I would take a lot of good quality articles submitted to ezinarticles.com "any day" over a backlinks package like those offered daily in the forums.

[ghi572000]

Originally Posted by biz_online

SEO has it's limits.

If the keyword is extremely popular you're going to need to start on a blog platform with your main keyword as your domain name.

For example: If your main keyword is gardening, then your URL needs to be "freegardeningtips.com"

If your main keyword is not in the URL for a hot topic then forget it.

Next, you need to make sure you get the right plugins for your blog:

1. SEO plugin for WordPress or Platinum SEO

2. Google XML Sitemaps

3. SEO Smart Links

4. Akismet

5. Block Top Spammers

6. No Right Click Images Plugin

7. Text Captcha

8. Search & Replace

With new FTC Regulations cracking down on internet marketing, I would also advise:

8. WP Policies

9. Terms & Conditions

Now to direct real traffic to your site you may need to write a series of articles on your niche topic with active links pointing back to your site. You can also use press releases or even convert articles into short ebooks and give them away for free on scribd.com

You can also upload YouTube videos and even leave video responses on high traffic videos. Just go to youtube and type in "top popular videos"

The numbers are staggering:

Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris; 684,597,595 views

Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor ft. Pitbull; 463,245,100 views

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance; 438,181,560 views

I think you get the idea. Leaving comments and video responds can divert traffic to your own channel and you can get some luv that way.

If you are into CPV, you can hop on over to alexa.com/topsites and download their csv file and find the top visited sites in your niche. This is a free download and you can use excel to filter down to what you need.

Quantcast.com tells me that "finegardening.com" and "gardeningknowhow.com" would be great place to pop CPV offers related to gardening with over 153K+ visits per month, you would have to watch your budget very closely.

If you still believe in using Google Adwords, you can place email ads directly inside people's gmail inbox likeso:

Display Network --->managed placements --> mail.google.com::inbox

Unfortunately, google takes at least 24hrs to report details, so you need to keep a close watch on your campaigns.

Those are just a few ideas to get you started and really just skim the surface of what's really out there.

Biz Online, thanks for all the information you have given to this thread, I think anyone who is interested in SEO and wants good rankings has to listen to what you are saying.

Thanks
Gary

[biz_online]

Originally Posted by ghi572000

Biz Online, thanks for all the information you have given to this thread, I think anyone who is interested in SEO and wants good rankings has to listen to what you are saying.

Thanks
Gary

Hi Gary... I see that you've got a groove going here so I will try to help out.

First of all, with regards to StumbleUpon, for me that was a big Ouchhh!

I had to jump thru a bunch of hoops for them to accept my landing page, then I got only a trickle of traffic. So for me, it's not worth my time.

However, I think YouTube "promoted videos" can bring home the bacon if they are VERY professionally done.

Also, if you can get around all the FaceBook rules, you can use "image" ads but with facebook and google its like trying to hit a moving target with regards to what they will accept during a given week.

Even if you follow their rules you can get a round-house kick to the back of your head... then, after you wake up out of your daze you get up and try again.

The best FB trick I have ever seen is the one where the guy says "stop tanning you look like a cheese nip".

Welcome to Facebook - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More

This was a Facebook promoted Fan Page that started as a test and now has 133,536 likes. The creator stopped promoting it at 12,000 likes and it went viral from there. I'm not going to give away all of his secrets, but I hope you get the idea.

If you find my tips valuable, please give me a "thanks"... and thank you.

[ghi572000]

Originally Posted by biz_online

Hi Gary... I see that you've got a groove going here so I will try to help out.

First of all, with regards to StumbleUpon, for me that was a big Ouchhh!

I had to jump thru a bunch of hoops for them to accept my landing page, then I got only a trickle of traffic. So for me, it's not worth my time.

However, I think YouTube "promoted videos" can bring home the bacon if they are VERY professionally done.

Also, if you can get around all the FaceBook rules, you can use "image" ads but with facebook and google its like trying to hit a moving target with regards to what they will accept during a given week.

Even if you follow their rules you can get a round-house kick to the back of your head... then, after you wake up out of your daze you get up and try again.

The best FB trick I have ever seen is the one where the guy says "stop tanning you look like a cheese nip".

Welcome to Facebook - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More

This was a Facebook promoted Fan Page that started as a test and now has 133,536 likes. The creator stopped promoting it at 12,000 likes and it went viral from there. I'm not going to give away all of his secrets, but I hope you get the idea.

If you find my tips valuable, please give me a "thanks"... and thank you.

Lol

Great stuff
Gary

[ghi572000]

Biz Online, your giving to much away already as video's on YouTube are rocking right now and really easy to get ranked highly if you get the SEO part done correctly.

Facebook also has some great benefits, but your going to have to be 100% transparent. Applications are a great way to get likes and there is so great javascript codes you can use to create a funnel and suck them in in their thousands.

For all the learners out there, just create a video load it on YouTube, create a Facebook application and back-link them to your web site and your rocket up the ranking alone from just taking action and implementing this!

Hope this helps a few?

Thanks
Gary

[biz_online]

Right! As I said before... There's A limit to what you can do with SEO and you really need to call out the big dogs with article marketing and backlink packages to rank for high traffic keywords.

Your facebook application trick sounds very interesting and I'd like to hear more about that in future posts.

[ghi572000]

Originally Posted by biz_online

Right! As I said before... There's A limit to what you can do with SEO and you really need to call out the big dogs with article marketing and backlink packages to rank for high traffic keywords.

Your facebook application trick sounds very interesting and I'd like to hear more about that in future posts.

Will do, but I am a bit busy right now with a WSO going out this Sunday called Starting out SEO. Will get round to getting out to you the FB angles I use when I have a bit more time!

[Aaronhiscock]

black hat technique,bookmarking,dir submission are the best traffic resources.

[alexsam]

I am very pleased to read the informative and interesting discussions above. The topic is also very interesting. I would also like to share best traffic resource as many of them are suggested above but social media marketing is very useful and reliable source for traffic gaining, it is also quickest and organic way of traffic gaining. You can do bookmarking of your website for gaining and tons of instant organic traffic.

[3drenderingservices]

Thanks.. your question will help me a lot.

[Newbieee]

Originally Posted by caksut

I think organic traffic ( SEO optimization ) offer good conversion rather than other source.

depends how you do it really.
SEO and paid methods are just means of increasing your exposure.
How you convert is your website, your sales model, your sales funnel, your quality of service or product. And how you market it, how you promote it.

SEO and Media buys itself doesnt mean anything if you cant convert traffic. They are just means to get you traffic. =)

There is a gap between traffic and conversions, many people think there is an auto link. but it does help alot if you have lots of traffic though. =)

Originally Posted by wrongnumber

hi mate, apart from all these methods... paid traffic is what one needs to make a jump start... i am giving a special deal on paid traffic HERE, upto flat 20% off on all types....

cheers

yes paid traffic gives you an instant boost for the time being.
but overall in the long run you may want to have SEO tied in.
=)

[ghi572000]

Originally Posted by Aaronhiscock

black hat technique,bookmarking,dir submission are the best traffic resources.

If your using black hat methods and your getting results that's fine, but the way things are moving forward in IM you have to be 150% transparent nowadays otherwise I think in the long term these methods with go against you, so I would recommend trying to stay with using white hat methods as be safe?

Thanks your you views, however you might like to abbreviate so the readers here know more about your methods?

Regards
Gary

[sowellavena]

join social networking sites like face book,twitter ,myspace etc.