Which is your best way to get free traffic?

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Hey,

Which is your best way to get free continuous targeted traffic?

There are many, but the best one for me is Pinterest

Whats your best way?
#free #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
    I like Pinterest, too.

    My preferred way: viral marketing; video and social marketing coming in second place.

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  • Profile picture of the author naviown
    I think facebook.Not facebook ADS,but your own post in timeline.For example I have about 1400 friends in facebook and all(almost all) are in IM niche ,so If I post something about IM ,O got traffic,free.
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    Free traffic? I like forum marketing. It takes time and your results will go slower.

    If you want FAST results, go with PAID ads.
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  • Profile picture of the author AppstronautMe
    I actually get a lot of free traffic from mobile apps. Now if each app was better targeted I would probably see some results. But that wasn't my initial goal.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ross Dalangin
    Search engines for me targeting the keywords related to my niche but there are so many ways I can think of which doesn't need much time nor work.

    I have some questions for you although I know that pinterest traffic is good. How can you make sure the continues targeted traffic? I assume you will do it continuously too and that's too much work?


    Originally Posted by allseowork View Post

    Hey,

    Which is your best way to get free continuous targeted traffic?

    There are many, but the best one for me is Pinterest

    Whats your best way?
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    • Profile picture of the author discrat
      I think Solo Ads if done with the right expectations can be very beneficial (and have for me at least !)




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  • Profile picture of the author Greg Jeffries
    Build an email list.

    Send them high quality valuable content that links to posts on your site or blog.
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    • Profile picture of the author mattmajernik37
      I use facebook ads,content syndication across multiple sites in online marketing niche,forum traffic is laser targeted,guest blogging or blog comments
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    • Profile picture of the author backgardenideas
      Good and daily idea
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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
        There are a lot of choices to get free traffic and what works best for another may or may not work for you. I suspect what counts even more than traffic is conversions. if you get a ton of free but none of it converts, all you are doing is using up your hosting bandwidth.

        A good way to figure out what traffic is bringing you the results you want in terms of conversins, whether that is optins or sales or or CPA clicks or something else is to start with 5 free traffic methods. Concentrate on each of those one day a week. Set up 5 landing pages on your site, each targeting visitors from one of those sites You can offer the same thing on each landing page, but you have to word your copy differently on each landing page.

        Even if it is only your headline:

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        Change out the italicized portions for each free traffic source and see which works the best for you. You can put them on one list or set up 5 separate lists for each traffic source.

        Honestly, you should word your landing page a bit differently, that wording is simply for an example.
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  • Profile picture of the author kingofthesouth
    Post on Craigslist! I have made thousands of dollars from traffic and leads just from Craigslist.
    Check the Alexa ranking and you will see why this is a great source for massive free traffic
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    • Profile picture of the author allseowork
      Originally Posted by kingofthesouth View Post

      Post on Craigslist! I have made thousands of dollars from traffic and leads just from Craigslist.
      Check the Alexa ranking and you will see why this is a great source for massive free traffic
      What type of niches work with craiglist? Is it limited to mmo, and job hiring as earlier or does it even work for new niches?
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      • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
        Originally Posted by allseowork View Post

        What type of niches work with craiglist? Is it limited to mmo, and job hiring as earlier or does it even work for new niches?
        Sorry to chip in advice when it was addressed to someone else.

        It works for many niches. The subject is a large one, so I advise research. If you look at the categories on CL, some instant niches will spring to mind. CL used to be pure gold in terms of free traffic (quite literally, it was like finding a goldmine), but these days they've had to tighten down and you'll encounter much competition. And I don't mean garden variety competition: we're talking high-end, top of the food chain competition.

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  • Profile picture of the author khansaccounts
    Originally Posted by allseowork View Post

    Hey,

    Which is your best way to get free continuous targeted traffic?

    There are many, but the best one for me is Pinterest

    Whats your best way?
    Hi allseowork,

    I like facebook to get free traffic.
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    Mukhtiar Ali Khan Internet Marketer

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  • Profile picture of the author Trey Morgan
    Youtube video marketing and forum marketing are a great combination for consistent free traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author jeffs89
    Craigslist if good if you can dodge all their restrictions/guidelines and avoid being flagged.
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  • Profile picture of the author allenmartin
    Hi allseowork,

    these are my favorites when it comes to traffic generation:

    1. Create an Infographic in your niche
    2. Write 4-5 Press Releases for your niche
    3. Go to some forums in your niche
    4. Do some posts about your infographic (NO SPAMMING)
    5. See the traffic come in....


    Have a nice day
    Allen
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  • Profile picture of the author mikeac
    Im having great success using Instagram. The key is to interact with other instagrammers, like other pictures, and share engaging pictures that people will like and comment on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Brown1
    For me it is Facebook and Twitter.
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    • Profile picture of the author eac113
      I still get good results from safelists just make sure you have decent copy and a page that hasn't been beat to death.
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  • Profile picture of the author seoboyz01
    Pinterest is good but I'm still a big believer in search engine traffic. If your pages are highly targeted for the right keywords and all your other SEO factors are lined up and in order, you should be getting a fair amount of traffic from search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author skmyna
    Pinterest is undoubtedly a very good traffic source. I have been getting good free traffic from Google+ too.I am creating a strategy to build a list from there as well.
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  • My favorite traffic sources have always been Youtube and forum marketing. I am in a niche outside of I.M..
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  • Profile picture of the author hardworker2013
    Youtube is still my best source of free targeted traffic, most persons looking for a solution would rather watch a video than to read pages. Better yet if your youtube videos is highly optimized it will
    get on Google's first page giving you even more ton loads of traffic.
    I do not even want to hear the name craigslist again, every ad i post get flagged, it is best used to advertise a physical business, where you share your location and telephone number etc.
    Those are the ads that are most successful on there.
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  • Profile picture of the author EPoltrack77
    yeah, I average around 4 paid signups just using facebook.
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  • Profile picture of the author gauravt73
    Start Blogger Outreach campaign. Connect with same niche bloggers and do commenting, Start guest posting, Link or banner exchange etc.
    this is a best way to attract huge traffic
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  • Profile picture of the author allegandro
    The best "free" traffic is creating a good website with good content.

    It gives a boast to my SEO

    Good SEO gives me around 100K free visitors amonth.
    Social media gives me around 5K free visitors a month.
    Free backlinks from related forums(I not pay for back links) gives me 20K free visitors a month.

    Just having a good website that people like, give me in total of 450K free visitors a month.
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  • For you guys using Pinterest, what exactly are you doing?
    Are you just posting a pic with a link to your sales page?
    Is there any other strategies? I have just joined Pinterest but yet to fully explore its capabilities.
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    • Profile picture of the author seoboyz01
      Originally Posted by Michael Harrington View Post

      For you guys using Pinterest, what exactly are you doing?
      Are you just posting a pic with a link to your sales page?
      Is there any other strategies? I have just joined Pinterest but yet to fully explore its capabilities.
      One of the strategies that might work for your site is to create blog posts featuring useful business/marketing related infographics and then pin those images on Pinterest, leading back to the blog page where they were found on your site. This should result in a lot of extra foot traffic. Be sure to include a good description on what the original blog post was about.
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  • Profile picture of the author tristatemedia
    the best way to get cheap targeted traffic is solo ads. go to fb group solo ads testimonials. you will see alot of good sellers
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  • I prefer guest posts, but it's because I enjoy writing.
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  • Profile picture of the author regulardan
    My fav free traffic is launch traffic....especially if it's from a well known vendor in the marketplace with a huge list. These people always seem to pull out their wallet quicker....
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      give away a good valuable freebie and post it on a very busy community site with a link back to your website -
      that's how I started out
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  • Profile picture of the author spearce000
    YouTube videos, forum postings, and search engines/SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shaolinsteve
    I would suggest for you to stick to Forum Marketing seeing as it's often very targeted. Then if you can ever make any sales from that, I'd suggest considering paid traffic, because you can solely rely on your business to run just on free traffic. Even if you did, you won't be able to scale.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rory Singh
    For FREE methods, article marketing used to be the best for me in respect to conversions. However, nowadays Google and other search engines seem to be too picky because of 'Over' competition.

    I like forum marketing.

    It does take some time but and you must offer value but it does work for me!
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  • Profile picture of the author MichaelBartley
    Instagram for me. I get a minimum of 10 leads a day not posting a thing. Let the content speak and engage with others instead of spamming and using salesy posts. They will click the description link out of pure curiosity if you set your profile up correctly.
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  • Profile picture of the author benjamenjuan
    great post!
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  • Profile picture of the author markeeter
    My vote goes to social media especially pin interest, Facebook, and Google plus.
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  • Profile picture of the author st0nec0ld
    I just discovered that blog and social media works well together.
    One of those that generates a good amount of traffic to my site.
    I just make sure to update as often as possible to keep my audience up-to-date.
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  • Profile picture of the author owenlee
    Forum marketing.

    It brings in targeted traffic but the down point is that it might be slow at times.
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  • Profile picture of the author mansoorkhan386
    i think the best way is facebook and yahoo answer too i like ...
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  • Youtube and Facebook for sure!
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  • Profile picture of the author EPoltrack77
    Leveraging the power of other affiliates to send the traffic for me!
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  • Profile picture of the author ianeire
    YouTube and forums work very well, you must give people a reason to click your links however. Give, give, give to the people!!
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  • Profile picture of the author danieldesai
    YouTube and forum participation works pretty well for me. Another free option that can get you a TON of targeted visitors is guest blogging; the catch is that you need to create content good enough to be featured on a popular blog. If in doubt, you can just outsource the content writing but then you have to pay for it. Either way, no such thing as truly free traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author apalusk
    I am currently exploriing other avenues but what worked really well for me in the past is creating high quality content and then posting it in forums in your niche.

    But quality content is a winning formula. Once you build up your blog to a pr3 or pr4 and you have a ton of aswesome content ranking on organic search your golden. It takesa long time to build it up and a lot of work but it always gets results.
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  • Profile picture of the author eaw44f
    youtube marketing
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  • Profile picture of the author Nathan Kruz
    Guest posting for blogs and affiliates for products!
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  • Profile picture of the author krad32
    Social media can get free traffic and for me Google + is the best where you get to communicate with people and build network.
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    • Profile picture of the author johnsonf5
      Social media
      I spend alot of time on social media sites in one way or another.
      I've tracked the traffic that came through the major social platforms that I am active on (Facebook and Twitter mainly, Pinterest I'm just getting into).

      The results of my testing have shown that this traffic is highly targeted and responsive, so I feel I get more revenue in return for my time.
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  • Profile picture of the author FastService247
    Best is Facebook Group posting and Mobile apps.
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  • Profile picture of the author arindamb
    I've had good results with Pinterest, Linkedin and Twitter. Of course in some niches forums worked well too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Resource9
    One of the amazing ways to get traffic to your website is by joining the related groups on the social networking websites and posting regular updates on them. For instance, if you are selling women apparel online, you can join groups about fashion and style and post your content updates there. This is a great way of getting targeted traffic to your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author nizamkhan
    My best free traffic source is social media (Facbeook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Tumblr & Reddit), you need to submit quality and interesting content that people are likely to share, the more shares you get, the more traffic you will have.
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  • Profile picture of the author Keith Peterson
    Hi,

    Free traffic sounds good but it is always nicer to 'earn' links now.
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  • Profile picture of the author bleachersrights
    Pinterest is cool, and so is youtube.
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  • Profile picture of the author skyro
    i would say posting in facebook groups and forums
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  • Profile picture of the author Corey Taylor
    Originally Posted by allseowork View Post

    Hey,

    Which is your best way to get free continuous targeted traffic?

    There are many, but the best one for me is Pinterest

    Whats your best way?
    Free continuous targeted traffic?? Rank youtube videos, rank on google
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  • Profile picture of the author danieldesai
    My favorite free traffic source would have to be YouTube:
    1. YouTube is HUGE so lots of traffic potential there.

    2. It doesn't take long to create a good, informative video to draw in your target market.

    3. It's easy to rank YouTube videos on the first page of Google, if you're more into the SEO aspect of it.

    4. It's pretty passive and ongoing; you can get traffic from videos you created months or even years ago.

    Cheers,
    Daniel
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