Low cost or free methods to drive traffic

You could submit it to RSS directories,
Start guest blogging,
Article marketing,
Distribute free PDFs that have links back to your site,
Posting videos to youtube

Hi wyatt

The eating healthy niche is a good one, and I can already see that you have content down pat. Very well done.

Have a look around on the Warrior's Forum for SEO information and in particular Wordpress plugins that can automate the process for you. Sometimes investing in SEO specific services could be of assistance as well.

Wish you well in your marketing. Peace and Prosperity.

Take your blog posts and make them into a videos.

Then upload to Youtube and add these back to your blog.

hi, you can use youtube and article marketing to drive traffic to your blog. You also can do some SEO on your pages to gain traffics from search engines, good luck.

These are all of the free methods that I know of

blog posts
forum posts
video sites (use a service like tube mogul to distribute your videos to multiple sites at once.) youtube vimeo yahoo video metacafe daily motion and so on
Bookmarking sites like digg reddit
hubpages squidoo
social sites like facebook and twitter
article sites like ezine articles

You can either do this yourself, or pay to have someone do it for you. There are some warriors' that do this sort of thing. you can find them in the services section of this forum. also you can find people at the digitalpoint forum and fiverr.com

- Do Guest blogging and let the blogger know you have a post ready to guest blog on their site, if it’s okay with them

- tag your images properly

- respond to your comments and emails
actively

- link to other posts

- Comment on other blogs

- Submit your blog to search engines

- link to your other posts as often as you can

- establish a form of a relationship with your fellow bloggers

- Use Social Media

- Check out big bloggers and ask if you can link

you can:

1. Submiting article on directory websites
2. Using 2.0 webs
3. Bookmarking and making Pinger
4. Blog commenting

You can use direct site like viralosphere.com which can help you drive traffic to your site.

i use articles, i also accidently discovered a free traffic source that gets millions seing your website, yes millions, i found it by accident and it works.get your website subbitted on stumbleupon it shares websites with other people across the world and yours could easily be seen by millions of people. forums are also a great source.

How to get traffic? There are many ways to get a lot of traffic. Here are the ones that are used more often:

1) SEO. Yeah, it's an old strategy, but it still works. It's a little bit harder to get high rankings these days, but it's still worth the efforts. Especially, if you outsource backlinks. You can use my quality link building service, if you want.

Some key points: dont use broad match keywords. When you're doing keyword research using Google keyword tool, use exact match. That will tell you exactly how many people are searching that exact keyword per month.

Another important thing is to understand your competition. You have to fail a couple times, before you can estimate your competition properly. Use SEO for firefox plugin for this.

So, the next step is to build links. You can use my service if you want or you can build them by yourself, but I WARN you - it's very boring

2) This is my favorite - traffic from JV partners and affiliates. You need a product, but creating a product is easy. Just take a PLR product and order new graphics and change the title. Then try to recruit affiliates. Offer at least 75% commissions. Go there and find people in your niche. Then, figure out what they need. For example, they might have a membership site. Tell them that if they promote your product, you will give them 2 hours worth of video content if they promote for you. That's how you recruit affiliates.

Another great thing, that Im actually doing right now, is interviewing experts. I will create a product from 10-15 interviews and then ask these people to promote for me. Many of them already said yes, without me asking them

Also, another very important thing about recruiting affiliates is to make sure your offer converts well. It should make at least a dollar per click for affiliate.

3) Video marketing. Just grab a couple PLR articles and read them. If you dont know where to find them, search for "free PLR articles". Then submit videos to YouTube. Then build some backlinks.

4) Guest blogging. Just find blogs in your niche and offer to write a blog post for them in exhange of a link to your site.

I hope this helps, if yes, hit that thanks button

Matt Poc

press releasees and solo ads.

These work great for us.

You can post on forums related to your niche and advertize your site in your sig. I would normally advice you to do this as a way to generate leads and catch peoples emails in return for a free product. That way you could notify them of new blog posts by email. If listbuilding is not your thing, you can just promot your main site.

The number of people clicking on your links will increase over time as you provide more and more value and gain the trust of other forum users and visitors. It is a very good idea to have a picture of yourself as you have here at WF and using your real name (or an alias sounding as a real name), as this will get more people recognizing and remembering you.

You have a lot of good content on your site. In addition to the suggestions made above, it could be useful to review or compare different theories of longevity related to nutrition such as Roy Walford's Longevity Diet , the book Brain Longevity and theories about wine for a longer life etc. Also, a few personal posts on the blog are good to let people know why you are interested in nutrition and to connect with readrse.

Debbie

Seems like you have your personal tone in your articles. I recommend you start list building and "talk to" your audience. To capture people's emails, you can write a mini report (10pages maybe) and give it free. In your niche, people are always in need of valuable information and a bit of guidance because they are almost always confused about what to eat and where to go for smart shopping etc. You get the idea.

I recommend you also keep an eye on government's and big companies' "healthy living" campaigns. You can work with them in many ways as a blogger.

Here are some things you can do drive more traffic to your blog

1. Guest Blogging - If you do nothing else , do this ... Build relationship with other blog owners and get those tasty backlinks to your website

2. Interview Experts in your niche

3. Repurpose your content : articles to video , article to podcast e.t.c

4. Write articles . it is free and if you outsource and are consistent you would do fine

5. Newsletter Ads

~Femi

You're going to want to make the link in your signature live. You can do this with this code: [ url=yourdomain.com] your keyword [ /url] without the spaces.

WOW. These all sound like really awesome ideas and I can't wait to start doing them! Thank you all VERY much and If you happen to remember something else later on feel free to stop back and post again! Reading all of your comments has got me feeling good and more confident about my site. It was just the boost I needed to start moving to the next level.

When I need fast traffic I do a lot of forum post to a list of sites related to my niche. (not spam or just profiles)

Article Marketing
Blogging
Forum posting
Social BM
Directory Submissions

Hi Wyatt ,sound like everyone has their own take on the best free traffic methods.I use article marketing and both on and off page seo strategies with great success.Bearing in mind this is a strategy that initially takes some time but once you have the rankings you have them for the life of your blog,cheers

Here are some ways that you might use to start driving traffic:

1. Submit Your Blog to Search Engines

2. Have a Signature with a link to your Blog in every email you send out.

3. Create a youtube video with a link to your Blog in the description area or just tag it on your video.

4. Provide good content on your Blog.

5. Syndicate Your Blog's Content with an RSS Feed

6. Publish content on a regular basis.

7. Put Bookmarking widget and submit your posts to social bookmarking sites

8. Use Ping Services

9. Never use black hat strategies

Here are some ways that you might use to start driving traffic:

1. Submit Your Blog to Search Engines

2. Have a Signature with a link to your Blog in every email you send out.

3. Create a youtube video with a link to your Blog in the description area or just tag it on your video.

4. Provide good content on your Blog.

5. Syndicate Your Blog's Content with an RSS Feed

6. Publish content on a regular basis.

7. Put Bookmarking widget and submit your posts to social bookmarking sites

8. Use Ping Services

9. Never use black hat strategy

hi wyatt!
If you want to add traffic on your site, you can have design SEO landing pages. These are search engine friendly so you won't have any problem with getting high ranks.

Here are some ways that you might use to start driving traffic:

1. Submit Your Blog to Search Engines

2. Have a Signature with a link to your Blog in every email you send out.

3. Create a youtube video with a link to your Blog in the description area or just tag it on your video.

4. Provide good content on your Blog.

5. Syndicate Your Blog's Content with an RSS Feed

6. Publish content on a regular basis.

7. Put Bookmarking widget and submit your posts to social bookmarking sites

8. Use Ping Services

9. Never use black hat strategy

Nice blog, good niche!

Traffic:

Articles
Document sharing sites
youtube videos from articles as mentioned
Banner advertising
social media (FB, Twitter)
Ping
Unique regular content
PPC
Forum posting
Offline adsvertising magazines (although this can be expensive)
HUSTLE!!
Media Buying (again can be pricey!)
Look to buy online real estate from similar sites and offer either a fixed fee or a commission share on any products you sell!
Affiliates if you are at that stage!

Good Luck!!

I believe that short key words are becoming a thing of the past. It is probably due to too many web sites competing for the same phrases that cause searchers to write more specific questions.

Recently a client added a news article to his web site that contains words and phrases that a lot of people are keen to know. The result was almost instant, his web site visitors leaped up.

In future I'm going to stop pushing the product gargon and think hard about what questions searchers would use.

Try and look up some highly searched long tail keywords and get ranked.

Syndicate all of your content through the article directories.

Write some guest blogs.

Keep your blog updated daily.

Keep going....

and the traffic will come!

Chris

PTC sites - a lot of traffic

Hi Wyatt,
I just launched my site and we are in the same niche and same boat. I've made some rookie mistakes already, such as paying for bot traffic and garbage traffic. My visits have been anemic and I wanted a quick fix and ended up wasting money, which I definitely can't afford with my limited resources. I've decided to focus on better quality traffic with articles submission and blogging and social bookmarking. It'll come slower, but at least I know I am attracting the right people. If anyone has suggestions for a struggling new launch please let me know! @Wyatt - since we're in the same niche maybe we can help each other. Thanks!
Doug

Like alot of other people have said, you have a good niche with alot of potential. In the way of driving traffic to the site im in the same boat as you as I would like to do this to a few of my sites although I have tried quite a few things apart from blog posts, which I may have to try.. But forum posts seem to work well if you can find a good forum which will let you post that sort of thing and will not lock the topic.

Nice looking blog! The best traffic strategies I've implemented on my blog (only a month old now--just add /blog to the domain in my sig) are:

Using RSS Poster to post 5-8 new articles daily while I build up my own unique article list.

Submit my original articles to 10 article directories--submit to Ezine articles at same time of blog posting, then to the remainder after it's accepted there.

Use the Onlywire auto submitter for posts. Started getting traffic from StumbleUpon quickly.

Use WordPress Traffic Genius Pro--this increased my Google listings from 30 to 192 in 48 hours.

Create Web 2.0 sites at Weebly, LiveJournal, Blogger, Squidoo and Posterous. I created an original homepage for each, then I post a 150-250 word excerpt of all my original articles with a link to my blog saying, "Continue reading ArticleX..."

I'm still learning traffic strategies myself, but maybe these will help some.

On a different note, I saw your post on kefir--I have a section for kefir on my 2-yr old niche website that's doing very well. If you're interested in a link exchange, I'd be happy to do that.

Hi Wyatt...

I used to run a blog with your topic... and I used a technique that worked really well.

It won't work for all niche markets. But it works for yours because your content is "Evergreen." It doesn't go out of date.

I call the technique the "Traffic Recycling Method." (yeah, I just made that up)

Here's how it works:

Step # 1: Focus on getting visitors on the email/notification lists.

Sell the opt-in with bullets of what they can expect inside the articles.

(Don't use one of those auto services where you don't have full control of the list.
Use Aweber or whatever you prefer)

Step # 2: As you create new articles, you're going to add
links to them in your autoresponder.

Inside your emails, you'll give a nice little 2-3 sentence tease
of what's in the article.

Sell the click and the article. Tell them why it's timely.

Here's what happens when you do this:

1. You continually drive traffic back to old articles.

Typically, inside a blog... if older articles don't get a prime position
in the search engines, they die a slow death.

Browsers never reach the old ones.

2. You can add social media buttons (Facebook "like" button,
Twitter button, and Google+ button). Be sure to have a call
to action to use the buttons.

Over time... you now not only have a growing mailing list...
you've got a "Self propelling" traffic system.

- Customers join your mailing list ==> Get rotated through all
your old content ==> they use social media to drive more
traffic to the old content

3. You're building a list you can monetize with affiliate offers
or your own products.

The best way l find is the organic way
Build up lots of different backlinks to your site
dont rush it .
articles press releases, web2.0 links, ect
make sure you get a mix of page rank
this all helps to look organic in google eyes.

Hi Wyatt,

Nice looking page that...are you using social media?? that can be a brilliant way of bringing traffic over to your page, and increasing your page exposure!

All the methods mentioned here are great ways to add traffic

I have been doing really well lately with just content driven sites

Seems like Google is going after sites like this lately, take advantage of keywords and LSI keywords

It has been working real well for me lately, with no backlinking

Ed

Wyatt,

I found these sites extremely helpful for SEO and affiliate marketing:

Copyblogger.com
Affilorama.com
Blueprintaffiliaqtes.com/home
and I think its tools.seobook.com. You may need to dig a little with seobook but they all have a weath of information available to you. When you are ready to pay for services, they would like you to purchase from them. Whch I am going to do when I am ready.

Good luck to you!

That's great to hear that, traffic can be hard to come by.

Almost all of the ideas mentioned above are good for getting traffic, targeted traffic. I personally found article directory marketing effective, along with a Facebook page, Twitter, social bookmarking and guest posting. I really haven't done that much blog commenting and forum posting within my niche yet. Guess I should get right on that.

Your traffic will come in time if you just stick with it. Your blog looks really good and I'm sure it will become popular in time.

traffup.net ---- Dont use refferal sites like this, if you want to make money, Especially if you have Adsense on your blog... You dont get any credit for your Rank by using Surfing sites...
Thx

posting videos, unique and useful article writing always helps, focus on building good and valid back links.

Use high pr do follow forums
blog commenting
link exchange
etc,etc.

An eye-catching signature in a popular niche forum is still a very good way of driving your first few hundreds/thousands visitors if you become an active member in the forum.

these have been repeated so this will serve to reinforce what you've already heard:
article marketing, break articles into videos and post around, social media - twitter, facebook etc - but to me the key is always giving value that will keep them coming back.

I've always done well hosting and promoting contests for mega boosts in traffic.

Consider solo ads and banner buys.

Best luck.


Kal.