What is the best way to get traffic to your site without paying?

SEO.

I get lost of traffic from Google for free.

Actually, it's not that free.. it takes plenty of time and effort.

The gurus around here tend to use the most dreaded 4-letter word as an answer: WORK

Here is a list which will keep you busy for ever ...

Organic traffic
forums
social media
web 2.0 sites (eg... squidoo)
article directories
rss
ad swaps
emails
jvs

Should keep you busy for a while

Start out with stuff like Ezines and squidoo, then move on up to SEO and stuff. Maybe make a few blogs.

There are many ways to generate free traffic including signature marketing in active forums, article marketing, social networking, put a video up on YouTube, advertise your website offline with posters, and word-of-mouth. You can also use organic search engine traffic, create an XML Sitemap, Squidoo, Blogging and of course SEO tactics.

seo, article marketing

Article marketing & forum traffic = the highest converting I've ever found.

And focus on making your landing page convert better to take the pressure off of needing so much traffic. Do more with what you get. Then you can get more traffic and be secure in the knowledge that it will translate to more money in your pocket.

John

Without paying? Well, handling your websites in SEO purposes. If you know the process of SEO then you can work with it. Then you should target your keywords and do the link building process to improve your rankings in Google.

Also, social networks really helps just be sure you have followed the right way of handling it.

Some paid one will work out too

Incoming links from other sites that have traffic. Press releases, blogs and articles are a great method.

Craigslist is a great way if you can find a way not to get your ads flagged or
account placed on hold.
craigslist classifieds: jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, events, forums

Totally agree with article marketing as a surefire way to drive traffic. That, along with basic SEO are the best way to me.

Having said that, this question is asked very frequently. Do a forum search and you'll come up with lots of good posts.

When it comes to free traffic, in order of effectiveness:

1. Web 2.0 Marketing
2. Article Marketing
3. Blog trackbacking

These 3 give direct benefit to SEO too, so your site can go higher and higher in Google, resulting in free organic search traffic.

Can I consider paying for traffic and then making back the money to be free technique? If yes,
the simple way will be:

1. A squeeze page for a free product
2. Buy traffic to the page and build a list
3. Put in a low price OTO offer, something below $10.

With this, you get traffic as much as you like, build a list, at the same time, earn back from the OTO and list marketing. Good for long term business!

Then, you can do adswap with people. On your adswap, you have to be able to convert at above 40%, same thing, present a OTO when they opt-in. Then, on the first email, tell them they can sell the OTO and earn 100% profit, this build even more subscribers for you. Go on for the list marketing for more affiliate income.

Daniel

..and definitely consider viral methods

yahoo answers gets you good seo

Jv's all the way my friend. And if you think you can't get 'em, my sig below may help you with that

The best way is getting traffic from google, you need to master search engine optimization

Keep away from safelists. One of my biggest online regrets so far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Search Engines drive more traffic to a website than all other mediums combined. this is not opinion, but a fact. Therefore, logically, the answer to the question is SEO since organic listings yield the highest click through of the serps.

With SEO, article marketing, squidoo, forum discussion, comments, video creation, all that marketing jazz is used to improve SEO. In fact, for us, it's not 'SEO', it's merely marketing of transparency and exposure.

It's a long term game, it's take a while and a lot of work, but the work you put in will work for you for a long time (if done properly).

Hello friends!

For me, I will have to say the two best ways are social networking sites & article marketing. They are both long term strategies, but I've seen articles where things are done decently bring in 5,000 views a week after posting on only one article directory. You can also get significant leads from social networking sites within a month or two, if you're not spammy.

In other words you are not bombarding your new friends with sales messages before building any kind of relationships. That's my two cents.

Happy holidays,

Scott Blasczyk
kungfumarketer
MLM Peak Performance

SEO and article submitting,I think these two are the most useful ones.In addition,you can try using social network or forum signature.

I agree the most traffic that I have recieved comes from article marketing and forums.

Dave

If you are great at online marketing, then article marketing is your best friend to get solid targeted traffic. I think that is the best way to pre-sell.

Article marketing is good if you can get your articles ranked. Most of my traffic is from return visitors that originally found their way to my site from forums, etc.

The key with forums is to actually make informative posts. It's fine to have something in your sig, but don't go and post off topic. I'll refer someone to my site if I've already got a post on there that answers their question in detail.

Traffic is going to cost you no matter how you look at it. You either pay with your own time and do the work yourself or pay someone else to do it for you (time is our most precious resource, it's the only thing way can't get back). I prefer to drive traffic with PPC first so I can test & see immediately how well my offer converts. Once I know that I have an offer that converts well, I then focus on a combination of SEO, JV's, Affiliates & Social Media. Bottom line, don't waste time driving traffic to an offer that doesn't convert. With PPC you will know right away if your offer is a winner.

Being a good resource!

In IM you have the typical: Top Article Directory list, RSS submission site list, etc. If you have a good resource you need to promote it, and people will link to it for you from forums and their blogs.

Other good methods:

Being controversial
Being friendly and connect
Help people

Get your links out there in busy places. You want lots of people clicking the links from lots of locations. SEO is likely one of the best ways, as well as just get your link out in some of the biggest haunts on the net.

-Trevor

Social Media, Article Writing and Video Marketing
Here are some samples for everyone

Twitter - James Hickey (SDEntrepreneur) on Twitter
Articles - James Hickey Expert Author Profile & Articles | Sooper Articles
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/sdentrepreneur

can anyone reccomend a post in this forum that will steer me in the right direction regarding article marketing? I have written the articles, I just need to know where to submit them.

Hi

Here is a How You Get Free Traffic To Your Website using, Blogs & Networks, News Websites, Answer Websites, Forum Websites and you can also use Google Alert to Get 100 FREE Traffic. : )

best ways of traffic: forum, blogs, articles, squidoo, yahoo answers, scribd, twitter, social bookmarking and video traffic. ooohh! stay away from safelist sites. It's a waste of time!

All of us who are into internet marketing want traffic to our websites without paying for it. I have to agree the gurus do not mention you have to WORK for what you want just like with anything else.

I have been using safelists and have not found them to be useful yet. I have posted on Craigslist for free myself. I would say forum marketing is one of your best bets. I have been able to make a couple of sales from the forums with my signature.

I think its allways

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