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Best way to build good traffic?

by stevendbrady
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I've followed many links over the last couple months to "good", free/inexpensive ways to build traffic to my websites. However, most sites/systems require that I sign up and pass out an affiliate link to sign other people up to their site to generate traffic to my own. Honestly, I'd rather spend that time promoting my own sites and increasing my own traffic than increasing their traffic.

But how?

I'm sorry, but I'm still very new to all of this. I've done a bit of keyword research and SEO optimization (to the best of my understanding, submitting the sites to all those social bookmarking sites, Twitter "spamming" (tho, it's very targeted, and I've toned it down to not get many unfollows), and I even did some PPC with extremely targeted keywords (using two coupons) and that didn't pay off.

I'm seriously not sure what to do. I'm really ready to stop reading senseless drivel and stop signing up to these websites and try something that works!

Thanks for all your upcoming advice,
Steven
#build #good #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Mohammad Afaq
    You might wanna look into article marketing or web 2.0 marketing (squidoo, hubpages, youtube etc.)

    Also try forums in your niche.
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    • Profile picture of the author innocent07
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      article marketing is good for a steady stream of long term traffic, if done right that is
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  • Profile picture of the author ggoddi
    Hi! IMHO,

    I think you can try blogging, social networking and article marketing. Give some valuable information and sure you will be noticed and win the traffic.

    Wish that can help you.
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    • Profile picture of the author SecretMLMLeads
      Hey man, I was just like you not too long ago. There is so much mis-information out there on SEO and promotion in general that I felt like I couldn't get together a game plan for my sites...

      ...that has all changed now. Two things have made a tremendous impact on my financial well being. The first one is David Jenyns theseomethod.com (not an affiliate link). This is the BEST, straight forward SEO training on the planet. It costs about $87 and is worth far more.

      The other thing that helped me out tremendoulsly was realizing that things take time...even on the internet. I'm extremely impatient and want everything to work right now, but that's not possible in most cases.

      So, here's my advice. Get some training on SEO. Make sure your site is providing value. And work a CONSISTENT plan over the next 6 months. Consistency is the key.

      Hope that helps a little.
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    • Profile picture of the author Geoffrey Freedom
      I have been having some good luck with facebook fanpages along with FB ppc for targeted niches (small daily budget maybe $10/day). Linking to my website from my fanpage that has multiple followers w/comments. I feel like I jumped a page in SERP pretty quickly once I had some daily fresh content linking to my page from an authority site. Sorry if I'm off topic or missing the thread entirely.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dunder
      Blogging and article marketing are the two methods that have always worked best for me.

      I do other things too, but those two work best.

      You do have to have some patience though, as the traffic will not appear overnight (regardless of hwat some salespages will tell you)
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  • Profile picture of the author treasurehunt369
    I feel web2.0 and article marketing work better and fast than others.There are plenty of web2.0 networking sites that have huge amount of traffic, having a link on them can get some portion of that traffic (do not spam) and they will help you to rank better on search engines. This way you get even more traffic (natural). Submit few articles every day and you can get good traffic from the directories and also from SEs.
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    • Profile picture of the author andr3w84
      Minimum investment, may take longer: Article Marketing (article directories, web 2.0 sites, forums)

      May be expensive, quick: PPC
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  • Profile picture of the author novintabligh
    Follow the followings:
    01. write an introduction and submit it to share sites like Digg, Reddit and Now Public.
    02. Create a Yahoo Group in the niche your site sits.
    03. Create a MySpace account and use it to publisise your site.
    04. Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us and if you're really keen, add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage.
    05. Create a Technorati account and "claim" your blog.
    06. Submit your site to free, search engine friendly directories. An excellent list can be found here.
    07. Conduct a survey. This is an excellent way to generate offline publicity.
    08. Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree.
    09.Syndicate your site's content by using an RSS feeds.

    10.Submit your RSS feeds to agregator sites like FeedBurner, Squidoo, Feedboy, Jordomedia, FeedBomb, FeedCat, rssmad, feeddirectory and feedfury. Stolen from DigitalPoint
    11.Write an article related to your site and submit it to article sites.
    12.Sign up to StumbleUpon and get your friends to Stumble your site.
    13.Create a custom 404 page so that even if someone encounters an error on your site, they are re-directed somewhere nice.
    14. Set up a 301 redirect to take traffic from your non-www address to your www address. See here for more info.
    15.Add a link to your site in the signature of any forums you post on.
    16.Tell your friends about your site. It's free advertising init.
    17.Speel cheek your stie. Nothing appears more amateur than a site with typos or spelling mistakes.
    18.Test your site and make sure it appears correctly in all major browsers.
    19.Buy enough hosting. No one likes a slow site.
    20.Don't worry about PageRank - worrying about PageRank is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.*
    21.Offer something for free. Free is good. People tell their friends about free stuff.
    22.Tell your neighbours, you never know what contacts they might have.
    23 Offer your users as many ways as possible to contact you. MSN, Skype, Yahoo etc all complement email, phone and a real address.
    24. Advertise your site on Craigslist. It's free, relevant and localised.
    25.Do NOT use frames.
    26 Submit your site to DMOZ.org. It may take time, but it's worth it.
    27 Create an XML sitemap of your site and submit it to Google.
    28 Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often.
    29 comment on flicker photo
    30 Sign up with an affiliate programme to sell your product, or if you're a publish, make some cash!
    30 On your Contact Page ask people if they mind receiving your newsletter.
    31 Send out a newsletter!
    32 Go to a free seminar for Website owners. You might learn something.
    33 Find quality and relevant blogs and leave a comment (with a link back to your site of course).
    34 Don't pay people to submit your site to search engines. It's a waste of money.
    35 YouTube and Google Video are excellent portals on which to launch a viral campaign.
    36 Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site.
    37 Sponsor a Wordpress theme or a phpListDirectory template.
    37 If you sell products that are advertised on television by the manufacturer, add "As Seen on TV" to your site!
    38 Avoid proprietry technologies like Java and Active X.
    39 Put downloadable content on your site, but make sure it's not manufacturer specific - so mp3 rather than wma.
    40 Learn about CSS. It's the new HTML.
    41 Contribute to related subject areas on Wikipedia.Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products.
    42 Have user friendly page names - most tools comes with some way to avoid
    43 If you must have a Flash homepage, make sure you have a "Skip Intro" link.
    44 Tell your local rag about your site. These newspapers are desparate for stories and you may well even get a pic of your ugly picture published.
    45 Become a leading authority on your chosen subject
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  • Profile picture of the author robert weber
    hey,Im new to this hole we call the internet still have not made any money but I have just started with Chris Carpenders ebook and Bookmarking article marketing pinging html codeing may take so time but better thin any thing else I come acrossed Rweber
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  • Profile picture of the author stevendbrady
    Thanks for the links everyone! I see that I have quite a bit of reading. Also some work, but I'm not afraid of that.
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