Give Me Your Best Tips for Traffic

Outside of forum posting, blogging is my 2nd favorite way to generate traffic. I just put up a free WSO that details my content marketing strategy. Check my sig!

My first tip would to approach this whole traffic affair strategically. Desperately latching onto a source simply because it offers a glimmer of hope then being disappointed is not going to work as many seem to approach it.

Let me just say that I don't believe blogging should be a primary source of traffic to concentrate on if you're serious about traffic. Blogs have great uses, and can bring traffic, but is not controllable. Traffic needs to be controllable. Creating content is good for other things, but not for traffic that can be scaled.

The thing is, "free" traffic is not a viable long term solution, and as far as I understand, your friends need an initial bit of traffic to get them going, preferably free.

Do a search on the forum to bring up threads on free traffic sources.

Social networking, Forums, Articles, Blogs, Press release websites are all great forms of gaining traffic. You have to take action!

Hi Jeanne,

FREE Traffic = Months of Individual effort = Being glued to computer for many hours!

Given your situation, create a community on Facebook [or any other online forum/social media site] and provide valuable content to build a relationship. Over time your following will grow and with that will emerge opportunities to monetize the traffic.

Abul

All the answers to your traffic questions have been posted everywhere across the web, from forums to blogs and you have no doubt read them all. It's not a traffic generating strategy you need, it's a clarity in thinking and a willingness to follow one method until you make it work.

That's not what you want to hear. It's not what anyone wants to hear. But it IS what you need to hear. It IS what you have to adhere to.

I really don't use it enough to know, but isn't Pinterest perfect for this? Have all the images link back to your site. Maybe the Pinterest gurus can fill in more...

On a higher level, who is your customer? Where do they hang out? You need to identify where they are, and what they are doing. Whatever strategy you work with, it needs to take that into consideration.

If you have been a follower for some time you should know that there are enough Tips on how to drive traffic on WF that it would take you months to implement them all.

My best tip...build lists...email lists...twitter followers...facebook friends...G+ followers...and write epic @#$%!!!

Content is and always will be KING for getting quality traffic and earning respect in your niche!

Abul

What makes this recipe site different and better than the other million recipe sites? If you're doing something different, contact other food related sites and tell them about it. If it is actually interesting and unique (not just a "Me too" blog) they'll likely right about it.

Hello Jeanne,
You seem to have the same problem that I and so many other people have. Driving Traffic. You are so right, if you don't have the right contacts or connections that can sometimes present a problem. I sometimes use regex.com. It drives large amounts of traffic to your sites. I hope that helps.

Apart from direct and search engine (Google) traffic, social bookmarking is bringing a steady stream of traffic to my site.

Well, I will be honest with you. To get traffic there are two options: spend money or work really hard. It doesn't matter what is the strategy you wan to follow (blog, list building, facebook, twitter, video marketing, forums, ads, etc) if you have money to invest the way will be short and fast but if you don't have money then you need to work hard and for a few months until see good results. So, what is your position?

ppc is the best way

Promote product on Facebook/Twitter.
Buy like (On official facebook website)

Make us sure about one thing, you said you have tried so hard to get traffic. I would like to know what techniques you have used so far to get traffic? Out of those, I think I will be able to give you some good suggestion.

Attack all fronts. Get them to start making YouTube videos or make these videos for them on related topics. Set up Facebook pages and get active on other related facebook pages. Post at least 2 new articles a week. Create a Pinterest account and start posting photos of food with a link to their blog and get active on other related Pinterest accounts. Lastly, start SEO optimizing all pages on the sites for Google traffic.

Hope that helps!

-Brody

Creating Joint ventures is easily the best strategy for driving traffic. Most people flop at it cause they lack the communication skills and relationship building skills for getting the job done. If you can master that, you'll have all the traffic you want.

If not, get read to do a lot of blogging and forum posting, providing links back to your site.

Come up with a daily marketing plan and stick with it. Test your results via traffic and sales, and if you see both are increasing in a positive direction... scale your efforts up more and put your daily marketing plan on steroids.

Post links to your content on Reddit... don't get banned.

Paid traffic, or become really good at KW research and find good quality easy to rank kw's to optimize for.

My best bet for traffic source to my websites has been social marketing. For example Yahoo Answers has been a great help for me regarding the traffic issue.

I have Yahoo answers level 2 account and use my website in resource box while answering relevant questions. While doing so I get decent targeted traffic to my websites. Also it does not require much time also.

PPC, its not free but it can be low cost and very effective.

Allot of people are saying use the FREE advertising but its slow to get traffic. Others are saying to do paid Solo Ads. Hope this helps.

Yahoo answer
You can participate in yahoo answer. It is something like forum. One person asks about their problem and another people give the answer. You can go there and answer their question and add your site links if your site has better solution.

To get more traffic you have to spend more money.
You can do sponsored blog posting, for that you have to find out blogs with high traffic, and send them the request if they are interested to publish the paid posting or review for you, try to use a good blend of text and images while you create article for paid posting.
Try this out and this will definitely increase your traffic

Okay, here's my secret:

PPC is definitely the way to go. (PPC = pay per click, and it's how most big guru marketers and companies like Apple and Ebay and Amazon advertise)

Yes, you need money to start, but here's my secret loophole.

Search for and download "Perry Marshall Definitive adwords guide." forgot the exact title but you should be able to find it.

This is in my opinion the best book for learning PPC. Learn the hell out of PPC before you go anywhere near it.

Next, sign up for an MSN adcenter account. Yes, MSN..not google adwords. I wouldn't recommend google for a beginner. (Search for create adcenter account on google and you should find a page that can get you started)

After that, go to fiverr.com and search for "MSN Adcenter (or bing) coupons. Look for coupons that will give you up to $200 in advertising)

Buy a coupon pack, load it to your adcenter account.

You now have $200 in your adcenter account. Use what you learned in Perry Marshall's PPC guide to help you. Also, search PPC-coach and sign up for their 14 day free trial. Ask them to help you make the most of the $200 you have in your account.


This is your best and safest bet. Free traffic isn't worth it and all big time marketers get into paid traffic sooner or later.


Good luck!

Hi JeanneD!

Given that your friends do not have much budget, it is wise to engage in social media marketing sites such as Twiter, Facebook, and Tumblr. Then, sync all the 3 sites so that you can have consecutive the same content for each.

This is not an assurance but with great quality images and content, there is a high chance that your audience will click through your link and be converted as a customer.

Start with a small group of people and slowly grow your business through referrals from your pioneering customers. Just spend 2 or 3 hours in spreading your content and you will do just fine.

You can piggyback with other blog or forum with busy traffic. You can JV with offering swap or exchange to that busy traffic owners.

You can try out some of these methods... via facebook, twitter and also Youtube. You may see an increase of traffic soon...

You can buy traffic packs from providers. It's very cheap but I am not sure about the conversion rates. You may know that there are many services around who sell a certain amount of visitors to your website. You can find a very cheap option starting from $5 per 1000 visitors.

Blogging, creating Squidoo lenses, answering questions at Quora, email messages, forum posting, blog commenting, etc. But nothing is enough. There is no time for everything. I focus on writing good content and attracting many readers because this is my best tool.

Someone said that blogging doesn't work by itself for getting traffic because it depends on promotion.

I agree that your blog must be promoted, but if it is already displayed on the first results pages whenever internet users type in its main keywords, the content you’ll post at this blog will work like a traffic magnet.

A blog with a good ranking is an excellent traffic generating method that doesn’t depend on extra promotion.

The only traffic you should think of getting is paid traffic because it is the best by far

Invest portion of your earnings toward traffic on regular and keep doing the other stuff. There is no best way. Just keep promoting and tracking. Keep what works and leave what do not.
I hope you know most of the traffic sources already you just need to take action.

OMG, I never expected this kind of response. I was hoping for, maybe 10 or so.

Thank you all so very much. I can't tell you all how much I really apptreciate your suggestions.

I do want to offer some special thanks to some who offered specific ideas. Others also had great ideas but I just didn't know how to implement them.

pinky2 suggested regex.com

Steve Longoria suggested punch fork (I was familaiar with Foodgawker)

Alex Greene wanted to know what I had done already.:
Pinterest, Squidoo, Weebly, Blogger, Wordpress.com

Broderick Boyd had Good tips in general

Michael55555 suggested Reddit

seobuzz and milliondream suggested Yahoo Answers

Robert Montgomery suggestedPPC
stevealtman more specific PPC
Perry Marshall Definitive adwords guide
Bing ads and coupons
DeMango25
Bing ads

abyssofseo $5 for 1000 visitors (how and where)

clever7 suggested Quora (among others)

celente (How do you go about getting these banner ads placed?)
But where we do well for targeted traffic is paid banners on forums. You cannot beat it. We have over 42 of these spots, all around the web and also in many varied niches. Does us very good.
Also suggested 7 Search

Again, thank you all,
Jeanne

Hi Ti, many thanks to you for taking the time to pass along this much valuable information.

I did check out your WF post and its comments as well as your blog. I also subscribed to your newsletter.

I haven't had time yet to explore scoop-it but will later today. I will report my results to all of you in a future post.

I wish you all the success

Jeanne

Good quality content plus lots of backlinks

good quality content is the best option

I am averaging 200+ unique a day from my personal blog without doing direct seo on it. I thought at first the traffic is not that much until one of my friend told me that she only averaging 20 unique a day.

In my case I use social media, forums, and blog commenting as source of back links. For social media I see to it that I join related groups and from time to time share some value to group. If members of those social groups always see you sharing valuable information they will follow your link every time you post in the group and sometimes they share to their friends.

Create YouTube videos around the keywords you wish to target. Then optimize your videos for those keywords. Including your target keyword in: Title, Description, Tags, and even channel would be good.

Then build backlinks to your video or buy a few gigs on Fiverr.

This strategy works great for ranking your video in Google and YouTube to bring in the traffic you need for that keyword.

Manual SEO will be best for building traffic to your site. Try out services like Web 2.0 ,Blog Network ,Articles and lots more

Theres lots of super suggestions above. My 2 cents would be to id your market, find you where they hang out and go tell them. Blogs, classifieds, articles,posts, video etc OK; but find out first who they are and where they typically go (sites), and interact/advertise/backlink/post/blog/video etc there.

If it`s in the recipe niche i would do a number of things to increase
traffic

1. start creating content that others will want to link to (link bait) ie: really cool recipes or something
2. build a social following
3. start doing some guest posting on relevant blogs within your niche
4. write articles all linking back to there recipe site
5. creating regular quality content for the blog

These work in pretty much any niche but are very powerful and effective none the less

Paul

I wrote a thread how to use forums to build a list and you can check that out. It's a good way to build a list.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7167856