What Are Your Top 3 Ways To Drive Traffic Online?

[laurasmileys]

Hey folks, I am looking to start my traffic driving plan and I see a lot of you say SEO and Forum for getting traffic and blogs.

My questions would be what is the best way to find related forums and blogs for a particular niche?

Thanks

[technomart]

Forum Posting
Blog comment Posting
Social Bookmarking

these are the best way to drive traffic for me

[Gravitehx]

for a product:
*joint ventures
*affiliates
*email lists

for a (content) website:
*seo
*social bookmarking
*backlinks on similar niche sites

[gathersuccess]

Originally Posted by Samuel Pold

for a product:
*joint ventures
*affiliates
*email lists

for a (content) website:
*seo
*social bookmarking
*backlinks on similar niche sites

thanks for your response

[tim_buchalka]

We are getting great results using a variety of social media sites including the obvious ones (squidoo, hubpages, etc) but in combination with many other sites, and of course social bookmarking.

Having multiple networks of networks really drives up keyword rankings, which in turns increases traffic.

Works for us

[naruq]

My Top 3 ways to Drive Traffic Online are a) E-mail Solo Ad E-zine Newsletters b)Articles C)SEO Organic traffic.

[jiefred]

article submission ( fresh and unique content)
Social Bookmarking
Forum posting

[ezimedia]

HI

My top 3 are

1- Seo for my sites..
2- Articles
3- Forums

I also do free and some paid directory submissions..

Tom

[Mal Keenan]

Mine are:

1. Blogging
2. Article Marketing
3. Social Bookmarking

[gathersuccess]

Originally Posted by winkypee

Article Writing
SEO
Social Bookmarking

Thanks For your response... seems like not many people do Article Writing ?

[seye]

organic search (article) and media buying this can make you rich in the shortest of time

[JAIDEEP2959]

1)Social networking
2)Forum posting
3)Article marketing

[Paxton]

Depends on what I want the traffic to do and what I what the traffic to do next, so this is not a "carved in marble" list, but my top 3 methods are:

Article Marketing
SEO
Syndicating content via RSS

Don't think in terms of creating a picture from scratch.
You'll get much more traffic and many many more sales if you think of it as "painting by numbers". Each step in the process is important, but even more important is to get the individual bits lined up with each other.

[Megs the Wealth Warrior]

Nice to see this thread. i'm just starting and the sense i get is that i will mainly focus on
1. google adwords
2. forums
3. youtube

I'm in google training right now and feel pretty optimistic!

[Oling]

this is what i do to drive traffic to my website
At least 1 article everyday submited to Ezinearticle
Bookmarking
SEO

Hope you can add more..

Thanks
Oling

[Tuzic]

hi,

social bookmarks,
forum posting,
article writing

[Kim Roach]

Here are my top 3....

Article Marketing / Guest Blogging
Ad Swaps
Forum Marketing

[shermanchoo]

Adwords $0.01 CM bids
Yahoo $0.10 bids

$0.15 bids and above, need to be monitored via tracking

[TheRealDomainer]

Use google base
Write articles
Use your signature
post in forum
blog about your business
use adword
register typo generic domain names

[amylimcd]

PPC
Believe It Or not- Emailing Existing Customers with a Tell a Friend/Recommend
Article Marketing

[kuterdan]

There are lots of ways to drive traffic to your site. All the postings are pretty good. Now if you're talking about a way to drive traffic to your site that will cost some money then pay per click is the way to go. I don't recommend adwords so much unless you have the budget. There are other sites like 7search and looksmart for a fraction of the price. Article writing is a good option too. Make sure that when you choose an article site that you start posting on the high pr sites then work your way down to the lower ranking sites. High pr sites are very important because the search engines like google love them and crawl those site quite often. The same applies to blogs, make sure you get the high pr sites to post your links on. Doing this will create a lot of good backlinks to your site. That leads into the third, SEO getting good quality backlinks will help your ranking on the search engines. Believe me it works wonders. I use comment hut to find good high ranking pr sites. give the free version a try.

[gathersuccess]

Originally Posted by Mal Keenan

Mine are:

1. Blogging
2. Article Marketing
3. Social Bookmarking

Thank Mal for your response.

[gathersuccess]

Originally Posted by marcanthony

It all depends on what you are marketing. Personally, my favorite uses for press releases are:

1. Driving traffic to an online store.

2. Driving Traffic to a blog

3. Driving traffic to a newly launched product.

Should you decide to do a press release, I highly recommend Prweb. And I stress that you take advantage of their package that allows you to add video.

Lastly, unless you can write, outsorce the writing of your press release.

thanks marcanthony for your information.

[gathersuccess]

Originally Posted by nicholasb

articles
google bum marketing seo
videos
bookmarking
web directories
traffic exchanges


I can set up a site on any niche, and in 2 weeks start recieving 100-300 visitors a day.

using only free methods to start. then when the site is making about $500 a month I use ppc to increase the total profit per month to about $700

That's nice one, thank for your response.

[kkchoon1]

1. Article marketing
2. Video Marketing
3. Viral Ebook

[gathersuccess]

Originally Posted by enlightenedlady

Hi,

My three main traffic drivers are:

Article Marketing,
Hub Pages
and free directories

Hope this helps

Yup.. Its helps thanks enlightenedlady.

[angilina]

1. Search Engines

2. Forum Signatures

3. Article Marketing

These are the 3 ways I use to get traffic.

[shardul2050]

Search Engines (SEO)
Social Media Websites (usually StumbleUpon and Digg)
Press Release Submission
Forum Posting (5 - 10 Visitors a day )

[USEO]

I promote real products (mainly in the UK) like at Amazon etc.

[1] highly targeted keywords

[2] On page SEO...

[3] An unusual linking strategy...

On page SEO and a few decent text links (even from irrelevant sites) = mega traffic.

I've been in SEO for years and half the time I explain to Google Account managers how google works.

It's all about on page SEO at the moment...

A lot of text, a few anchor text links, keyword page names, different meta sections on each page, and a sprinkle of graft.

Regards

Aaron

[jacstone193]

Hi at present - article writing, SEO and forums. Hope this helps

[gathersuccess]

Originally Posted by technomart

Forum Posting
Blog comment Posting
Social Bookmarking

these are the best way to drive traffic for me

Hi techno, Do you have any blog currently?

[JWB]

The fastest way would have to be PPC , dont you think ?

[Darken]

forum, classified ads, ppc

[strauss]

Hi,
The ways to drive traffic online,
Web 2.0
Video submissions
PPC
Try this you definitely see the results.

[gathersuccess]

Originally Posted by Triton

Here are my top 3

1. Bum marketing
2. List Building
3. PPC

How about joint venture?

[gathersuccess]

Originally Posted by marcanthony

It all depends on what you are marketing. Personally, my favorite uses for press releases are:

1. Driving traffic to an online store.

2. Driving Traffic to a blog

3. Driving traffic to a newly launched product.

Should you decide to do a press release, I highly recommend Prweb. And I stress that you take advantage of their package that allows you to add video.

Lastly, unless you can write, outsorce the writing of your press release.

How Effective it is?

[Yetty]

Really, it depends on what u are marketing but all the methods mentioned above are very good. just know what you want to achieve.

[Darken]

Originally Posted by Yetty

Really, it depends on what u are marketing but all the methods mentioned above are very good. just know what you want to achieve.

yup, i agree

[Sell]

Adwords
MSN Adcenter
Traffic Wave
Ad Tactics
IPostAd
Traffic Swarm
SoloAds
Ezine Articles
Prospect Response
Veretekk
Herculist

[Terry Ma]

1. SEO
2. Web 2.0 sites. (Youtube, Facebook etc...)
3. JV

Cheers,

Terry

[AndrewStark]

No has mentioned my #1, so here's my 3 ways

#1 Safelists
#2 Ad swaps
#3 Forum Posting

[Paul M]

My top techniques to drive traffic to my sites are as follows,

1. Article marketing
2. SEO
3. PPC
4. forum sig
5. yahoo answers
6. viral reports
7. social bookmarking
8. cassified ads
8. blog comments
9. free ads forums
10. backlinks from other niche sites & blogs

Regards,
paul

[Yetty]

CLASSIFFIED AD AND QUALITY FORUM POSTING CAN REALLY HELP.GET INVELVE IN SOME OF THE LISTED ONES ABOVE

[gathersuccess]

Originally Posted by p1a1u1l1

My top techniques to drive traffic to my sites are as follows,

1. Article marketing
2. SEO
3. PPC
4. forum sig
5. yahoo answers
6. viral reports
7. social bookmarking
8. cassified ads
8. blog comments
9. free ads forums
10. backlinks from other niche sites & blogs

Regards,
paul

Which are the most effective one?

[Darken]

i believe it is ppc

[Bizmind]

Forums
Social network
Traffic Exchange

(the others I still haven't learn yet)

[gathersuccess]

Originally Posted by Bizmind

Forums
Social network
Traffic Exchange

(the others I still haven't learn yet)

So which are the most effective one??

[scmedan]

Drive traffic online that we have done for my website slayo dot com
1. Plugin ( sitemap-xml, SEO plugin, Related post plugin )
2. Tagging - Important for SERP and related ads content
3. Forums

[gagan]

articles
forums
ads and banners

[Bizmind]

Originally Posted by gathersuccess

So which are the most effective one??

Hmmm..
Forums can give me quality traffic.
But if it's just about traffic, then
it will be traffic exchange.. ^_^
As for the social networks, I need
to build credibility before they start
to ask about the links that I promoted.

I am in the process of doing article
writting now. Hope it can be successful.