What Is The Best Way To Drive FREE Traffic To Your Website?

Nice!

Just turn everything around. What sites do you go to regularly and why?

That is what you need to provide to others.

I thought you were going to say linkwheels.

True, Content is King. Always has been.

TIP - Once you find your trend before starting to write remember to use the free Google Keyword Tool: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal to find out quality keywords related to your trend. Integrate as many of these quality keywords in your post as possible when writing your blog. This will help with traffic too.

Well this might not be the best at numbers but it is for conversions, personal referrals.
Asking customers to refer you gets you great conversions.

So depending on the numbers, and if you have a product or service that is "High End" the personal referral could be the best.


Matt

Few ways to drive traffic to your websites:

1. Signature Files
They say, "There's no such thing as a free lunch", but by using your email signatures, that simply isn't true. Signatures are those little messages that appear at the bottom of your email. Typical examples are your name, email address, company and position, but in the world of Internet Marketing, this is free advertising.

For Signatures the things you want to consider are:

• 1. Always add a signature because they work great and are absolutely free.
  
• 2. Depending on who you are sending an email message to, have multiple signatures you choose from.
  
• 3. Make sure you are including a signature for each and every email, whether it is personal or business.
  
• 4. Make the signatures work for you. Be aggressive, and if you have a landing page, drive every email to that so you can capture them in your autoresponder sales cycle.
  
• 5. Only have one link for them to choose from and make them want to go to it.

• 1. Word of Mouth, referrals from friends, promote in the bottom of your email
• 2. Free Link Exchange Program - This is where you go through the Internet in search of appropriate sites compatible to your industry, and offer to list their website, if they list yours. Time consuming, but free.
• 3. Affiliate Links - If you have the type of product that can be sold by others, where they make a percent of the sale, make sure they set up a website link back to your site. They will also have a page on your site with a unique identifier so that the sale can be traced back to them. This is a great way to not only increase your links, but get your product out there faster.
• 4. Purchased Links
• 5. Testimonial Links
• 6. Articles
• 7. Press Releases

The ultimate key with links is you want a site that has content similar to yours, they are credible in what they do, and they are in the same keyword area you are. That way it will benefit extensively.
3. SEO -Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or Keyword Optimization
SEO is a fancy way of saying make sure your web pages, titles, meta tags, and descriptions, and your page content contain the key words you want to appear in for your particular market. When considering your Internet marketing strategy, make sure you optimize your pages for keywords.
Many people rush off to Google and Yahoo and do pay per click campaigns (we'll get into these at a future date), but forget to use the old-fashioned free route of making sure each web page really uses these tools.
I have visited so many sites, and randomly checked to see if they use them, and they don't. This is a missed, free opportunity at 'true rankings' improvement.
Now it can take a while for search engines to start to notice you, and this is where Pay Per Click programs come into play, when you want a fast rank while the search engines start to take notice of you. But if you haven't optimized your page, that time will never come.

Getting your site listed for the keywords you want on the major search engines is a key to receiving the traffic increase.
When putting together the content for your page, remember that content is a major difference to appearing on page 1 or page 15 on the searches. Have your keywords appear as much as you can.
Then make sure your title has a keyword phrase you would enter if looking for your site, and that your meta description is a nice sentence about what your site is (and contains your keywords), and the meta keywords (contains your keywords.) With all 4 of these elements considered, you will have taken a big step in creating a relationship with the search engines.
4. Message and Social Boards - Make posts on relevant message boards and Social sites.
Make sure the posts are informative and not direct advertisements. In other words, post on message boards related to your site and offer the other viewers real advice and information to solve a problem. Make sure you are including a signature on each post that holds a link to your website.
5. Articles
The rule of thumb is create 10 articles for your industry, and get them out there fast. Then you can sit back and wait for the reaction. One of the best ways to promote you, your company, and your products or services is to give information away, with no strings attached. There are hundreds of free article submission sites and ezine lists on the Internet, with tons of sites hungry for free content.
As long as your article provides readers with useful information and are not for the purpose of selling, sites will accept them for publication. In turn, they will then make those articles available for reading--and for publication--for anyone else browsing their article sites. Free exposure for you. Articles have real power when it comes to traffic generation. You can use products such as ArticleSubmitter Pro, or go to each site you want and upload for free.
Then, another little tip is you add your article to your blog. This creates activity at your blog, and another link opportunity, back to your website which should be a landing page.
6. Press Releases - A press release is information supplied to reporters or media that is an official statement or account of an event that is specially prepared and issued to make known to the public.
It is generally done when you have a newsworthy event such as a new product, website, grand opening, upcoming event, new product feature - but whatever is going on, the key is to write about it, and let everyone know through a press release.


SOURCE: hooverwebdesign.com

I did the same thing when Obama was just elected and sold books he had written from amazon.

This is a great way to make some money and another thing you can add to this is promoting things that fit a specific season. I have a specific gift that I promote that makes me a sale or two throughout the year, but around Valentine's day and Mothers day it makes me much much more. Plus since I use article marketing I don't have to write again about it if I don't want and I still get a boost in sales.

Benjamin

You can use the newspapers, magazines, friends etc but why not just goto google trends that shows you exactly what people ar in a buzz about and write about that. You will get masses of hits from this and you can use different CPA offers , adsense, Products to make you money from these.

Pete

There is some great advice here. My advice would be to pick 4 or 5 traffic strategies and run them for a couple of month's. The problem I see with many people I coach is they hop from one strategy to naother just as they are about to be succesful.

Start with article writing, forum posting and blog posting. But do your keyword research first.

Go for something with long term value in terms of the site/niche not just the next big thing.

Some great tips here guys and i would like to add that another one that also works for me besides the newspapers etc is topics that are on forum sites. An example would be this one....Look how many have looked at this post they are showing that they are all interested in free traffic, so i write free reports on this subject and give this away as a freebie to anyone opting in. Then i sell to them anything relating to free traffic. Forum sites are definately a way forward in generating new traffic.