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Free Traffic Sources

by Ishie Joyce
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Hi everyone....
I just launched my online business but I am having serious issues with getting free traffic. Based on my budget, free traffic is what I can afford for now. What can I do? I will really appreciate your advice. Thanks.
#free #sources #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author jdjenkins
    Youtube is a very good source of traffic. You can also use Twitter, Facebook, and so on. Answering questions on Quora.com can also be good too.
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    • Profile picture of the author Stephen Tracey
      I agree with jdjenkins... FB Groups,Twitter,LinkedIn,Youtube,Quora
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    • Profile picture of the author bizzinfo
      youtube, twitter, facebook, tumblr, stumbleupon etc are good sources of traffic for free.
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  • Profile picture of the author wjohn
    Blog commenting is the best source of traffic.there is always the high profile blog sites like forbes, Inc, medium and Gawker etc.every market has its leading pressures, and also as long as you're not the leading blog, you can use the leading blogs as website traffic sources for your very own
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  • Profile picture of the author Jamel Hassell
    there is no such thing as "free traffic" due to the fact that your time is an investment in itself. what are you currently doing to get traffic ? Do you have a blog /
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  • Profile picture of the author SiteNameSales
    Though there are many staunch critics of this method, you might want to give some of the traffic exchanges a try. I wouldn't devote my a great deal of energy to the endeavor, but I think it's worth exploring particularly if you are new.

    The criticism is mostly based around phony hits and the fact that most of the surfers could care less about what others are promoting. Use a site like statcounter or bitly to gauge the accuracy of the reporting and, though there many participants have other things on their mind, your postings will not be neglected entirely if you have a good landing page.

    As you can see by the other posts, I'm mentioning the traffic exchange option as one of many. I wouldn't make a career of it, but, if nothing else, you'll get a look at what your competitors are serving up. See something that catches your eye? Consider incorporating the strategy into your own landing pages.

    As for choosing an exchange, trafficswarm and easyhits4u have fairly good reputations.
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  • Profile picture of the author st0nec0ld
    Free traffic from where? I bet it is more like exchange traffic. If that's the case I suggest you look for something that is worth your time and effort because there is no such thing as free traffic, and exchange traffic are worthless. On the other hand why don't you do an analysis on your target audience instead so you'll not just get traffic but genuine traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author luciesmazanska
    YouTube Is Traffic Source Number One!
    then
    Facebook Fan Pages, Facebook Groups & Facebook
    Reddit Traffic
    Weebly & Tumblr - 2 Explosive Free Traffic Sources
    Pinterest (Our Next Traffic Source)
    Next Free Traffic Source - FORUMS

    hope it helped
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  • Profile picture of the author vegaspro
    Youtube (make a video)
    Facebook (make a page)
    Facebook Groups (join related and share your posts to the group)
    Twitter (target people to follow)
    Tumblr (follow strategy)
    Pinterst (follow strategy)

    All can be done for Free.
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  • Profile picture of the author Christyjohnson Johnson
    Create a blog and write some good content about your business and work on SEO, this is one of the easy method for lifetime free traffic.

    Another free traffic methods are
    Youtube
    Social Media

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  • Profile picture of the author ginasands
    What you really want are signups to your email list. Make sure you have an autoresponder. Give away a free report, software, something of value and you will get some good results. Good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    What's the niche? This will help determine the best options.
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  • Profile picture of the author frankandres
    When it comes to free traffic there are so many good options. Of course all the big ones mentioned many times here FB, Youtube, Forums, Twitter etc.

    What I found really hurt me when starting out was that I went in too many directions at once. For example I knew how powerful Youtube was but didn't have a clue about video marketing. Attacking that skill set first was not a wise move for me. It took a lot of time and I never got any traction(or sales) until I learned video marketing skills.

    If I had to do it over I would focus on the Free Methods that do not require months of learning before I could put them into practice.

    Even if you only make a couple good contacts each day at least you have something to build on.

    Lastly I found the fastest way around my lack of skill was to offer free gifts to make relationships. All top marketers do it so I focused on giving to turn me free marketing into a success.
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    • Profile picture of the author ryanbiddulph
      Yep; focus on a few prime sources, and I prefer to toss in a few secondary sources as well.

      Example; I spent hours today guest posting, commenting on blogs and promoting my latest post, then spend 10-15 minutes answering questions on Quora....another 15 here on Warrior....15 on Twitter, 15 on FB, 15 minutes doing Facebook Live Videos, Periscope Live videos and a YouTube live video as well. Focus on 1-2 mains, then complement with a handful of other free traffic sources.
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  • Profile picture of the author John47
    Social Media - Facebook and Pinterest in that order and then others such as Twitter, Instagram etc.

    Articles on Slideshare. Upload a pdf to the site with your article.

    Tumblr for blog postings.

    Optimize your site for the search engines and ensure that it loads quickly .

    Blog commenting in your niche. Look for the top blogs in Google and make helpful comments about the posts.

    Try to guest blog on blogs in your niche. Go to the highest traffic ones if possible. If this is difficult, then go for medium traffic ones. Just don't waste your time with low traffic blogs.

    Upload YouTube videos.

    Answer questions on Q&A sites such as Quora.

    To learn more about free traffic methods, read the blogs of top online marketers such as Neil Patel, Matthew Woodward, Pat Flynn etc.

    Look for the major traffic forums in your niche and join them to answer questions and be helpful. Don't spam them or you will get banned! If done properly, this will build credibility and drive traffic and sales.
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    • Profile picture of the author ryanbiddulph
      Good tips John and I would add, comment on those blogs on top marketers too. I have driven more traffic and opportunities than you would believe, thru the simple habit of commenting thoughtful and regularly on top blogs.
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  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    Instagram is a traffic gold mine

    The best part is it QUALIFIES your traffic before one visitor is sent to your site
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  • Profile picture of the author Jorkman77
    One of the best places for free traffic (IM niche / MMO niche) is forums. Forums tend to have passionate followers, and depending on the site, if you have alot of traffic, well other than the cost of joining, that would be free. Now if only you could find such a place where a million people a month come for assistance and tools to make money online; hmmm....
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    • Profile picture of the author anayb
      Facebook is a very STUBBORN company. Its ONLY fb Who make money out of your user-generated content, not you. If they find you happen to make quite a bit of money out of your fan page and without any paid ads, they will just reduce your organic reach to 5% or less.

      Unlike Google, YouTube, or Pinterest, consider fb as a paid marketing platform. FB is popular among marketers because of their SHARE function. You content/message can troll over the Internet (viral content), but you need to eyeball your content with a targeted source of traffic (push traffic).

      What you do organic or paid its your choice, but always try to build an email list--the only form of traffic that you completely own.
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    • Profile picture of the author ryanbiddulph
      True true. I am a lounge lizard here, and also on Q and A sites like Quora. Fab traffic and business builders for me, and both are freebie sources too. As with all free sources, the time, energy and service you put in determines what you get out of the channels.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanbiddulph
    Hi Ishie,

    I have built everything you see thru my blog, brand and online businesses by using free traffic sources.

    I:

    - comment effectively on top blogs in my niche; 2-3 paragraph comments, usually
    - guest post on top blogs in my niche
    - promote hundreds of *OTHER* bloggers monthly through Twitter, by featuring them on my blog and by featuring them through my guest posts
    - actively answer questions on Warrior
    - actively answer questions on Quora
    - comment on the blogs of my commentors; I have over 7000 comments on my blog....so that is a lotta comments
    - publish Facebook Live videos
    - publish Periscope videos
    - publish YouTube videos
    - publish podcasts on iTunes and SoundCloud

    These are some ideas. But the most important thing I do is to promote other bloggers.....because as 10, 50, 100 and 500 bloggers or more promote me - because I promoted then without asking or looking for anything in return - I get a boatload of traffic and comments, as well as increasing sales.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rory Singh
    FREE TRAFFIC?

    They all work!

    But here's a newsflash...

    They won't work for everyone!!

    Find only one that you honestly feel is a match for you.

    A lot of folks are saying you tube.

    I love video, like being in the middle of things, in the spotlight etc.

    And if you do too, then maybe video marketing is the way too go.

    But if you don't, then maybe blogging (or some (1) other marketing thing will be better suited.

    Just don't make the no.1 new marketer mistake...trying this out and that out but no traction anywhere.

    See the great majority of threads and you will see this pattern.

    Spreading your focus thin gets almost zero results.

    I saw a quote the other day but can't remember who said it.

    "You can have anything you want but not everything".
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  • Profile picture of the author diportel
    Luckily, you have a few options. You can post on social media (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.) You can also post your own videos on YouTube. Videos are one of the top ways to generate traffic these days.

    You can also create your own blog or add value/useful information to other blogs relevant to your niche (e.g. blog hopping or guest blogging).

    Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author bigbig
    Bing ads, google adword.....
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanalexender
    >> Create Social Media Profile. Post and update regularly on it.
    >> Blog commenting on high DA and PA Blogs
    >> Join Niche Forums and create Profile on them
    >>You tube channel creation
    >>Profile creation
    >>Community Posting
    >>Email Marketing
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  • Profile picture of the author alaynaaleah
    There are many ways to get the Free traffic if you know the technique. Such as you can do SEO by creating Back Link. Create many many Do-follow link than the No-Follow link. Forum posting, Relevant Blog commenting, Article Submission, Social Media site. Thanks for your advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author yasinfaruk
    Don't get stuck by every comment. First of all, you should know who is your targeted traffic and where are the hanging around. It totally depends on your product. Though from every Social Site, you will get more or less targeted traffic. But be specific which platform is the best to get more conversion with less effort.
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  • Profile picture of the author IamEinstein
    Do the SEO, it can be free. If your site is the top of google search, you will have a big traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author DURABLEOILCOM
    You can get a huge amount of traffic on free online classifieds websites like Craigslist and Backpage.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanalexender
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  • Profile picture of the author alisa scott
    The use of website to promote your affiliate products is a good idea but email marketing is the most popular and best way to promote your affiliate products.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanalexender
    • Create Social Media Profiles, Facebook, twitter, Linkedin, VK, Instagram, stumbleupon, pinterest etc
    • Create your video channel and Add new video weekly promote it on social media do'nt forget to add website links on channel page and every video description.
    • do Classified ads
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    • Profile picture of the author xpatlifestyle
      Originally Posted by ryanalexender View Post

      • Create Social Media Profiles, Facebook, twitter, Linkedin, VK, Instagram, stumbleupon, pinterest etc
      • Create your video channel and Add new video weekly promote it on social media do'nt forget to add website links on channel page and every video description.
      • do Classified ads
      i think this is a complete list of free traffic you can use, my suggestion is only focus on one or two sources, i like instagram and facebook, both can be automatically and have large engagement going on.

      all you need is just 2 hours everyday, which could easily managed outside your normal business hours.

      and classified ads is not a bad idea too, as these can be done as copy paste.
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    • Profile picture of the author ginasands
      Great response to this question. I found software to do mos t of the social media posting, classified ads submission and even the video submissions so your posts and the other similar post is the most efficient way to get free traffic. Thanks to everyone for their response.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
    Banned
    Doesn't matter, 4 days later, 34 replies and OP can't be bothered to respond to their own thread.
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  • Profile picture of the author vinita888
    Hello,
    Facebook group, google+ community and blog commenting is best way to get traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    Based on my budget, free traffic is what I can afford for now. What can I do?
    Get a job and spend your precious time doing something you know will produce income.

    "Free" traffic is an Internet fallacy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ranganath M
    Google Search Engine, Bing, Quora, Youtube, Pinterest, LinkedIn
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  • Profile picture of the author Omarkenawy
    Currently I using FB groups, Google+1 groups and Instagram for getting free traffic to my squeeze page. The trick i stick with is to be unique because there`s so much competitors on those places.

    I usually use canva.com to create high quality photos and images for my marketing campaigns.

    All my best,
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    • Profile picture of the author Pedro Campos
      I use blogging, Facebook page, and groups, Pinterest, Linkedin, Instagram and forum marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author kharim
    I would suggest doing some guest blogging, blog commenting, forum posting and lost of seo.

    Those can help you top get lots of free traffic
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    Since we're almost two weeks in, and the OP can't be bothered to come back, here's a tip for the rest of y'all...

    Before you go charging off to do YouTube videos or guest posts or blog comments or whatever, spend some time figuring out where your ideal prospects already hang out. The spend some skull sweat figuring out how to get their attention. Stipulating "free", as in no upfront cash outlay, just narrows the possibilities.

    Pretty much all of the methods mentioned CAN work, if you can attract the attention of the right people.

    Take forum posting, for example. If you run a quilting site, posting here on WF would likely be a waste of time. As would trying to promote your SEO course on a quilting site.

    Match your message to your market, and watch the magic start to happen. Get one or both wrong, and you end up with a top hat full of rabbit poop.
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  • Profile picture of the author chanks2015
    Almost all the free traffic sources has been mentioned above.

    Free means you need to invest time to generate this traffic, when you earn from it you can go for paid traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author ellakatie94
    There are many ways to get free traffic. You can use any ways. Such as Forum posting, Relevant blog commenting, Social Media sites, Facebook, Youtube & so on. Thanks for your advance.
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    • Profile picture of the author Pedro Campos
      The problem is that most people don`t have the patience to wait, we as humans have a tendency to see a problem solved now, and free traffic is just that, is about consistent action and patience.
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  • Profile picture of the author CityCowboy
    There are a lot of free traffic sources out there, most of them take a lot of time to see immediate traffic spikes, but for me I believe SEO is by far the best free and reliable traffic source out there. It takes time, but it's worth it.
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  • Profile picture of the author franamico
    I think that social media these days offer lots of opportunities. If you have no budget for advertising I would try Facebook group marketing. The strategy works if you can post in several hundreds of them. However, please remember that spamming Facebook groups will get you banned by Facebook.

    So always post in Facebook groups trying to provide value to the group e.g., write a nice and informative blog post.

    If you decide to use a software to automatically post in Facebook groups, please create a separate Facebook account to avoid getting your personal account blocked
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  • Profile picture of the author Dealhopp1
    Hi,

    If you have to Increase traffic then you have two options:

    1. Organically
    2. Paid Traffic

    If you want to bring the traffic organically then you have to apply various kind of SEO techniques,
    Like - On-Page, Off Page, Directory Submission, Forum posting, Pdf Submission and much more. Let me remind you its completely free, but it takes a lot of time and efforts, also if you are doing in it proper way, it could backfire you.

    If you are planning to bring traffic to your website via paid sources, then you can buy it from independent sources, because if you choose to promote it on Google Adwords it will be very costly for you and Facebook marketing is the other option which you can choose, but if you didnt optimize it properly, it could not profitable for you.

    Thank You
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  • Profile picture of the author spearce000
    YouTube is a great source of free traffic as is guest blog posting. Also, optimize your website for Bing. The competition isn't as great as on Google and it's the power behind Cortana which comes bundled with Windows 10. There are free coupon codes for Google AdWords released from time to time, so it's worth watching for those, too.
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    • Profile picture of the author pawandave
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      Almost everyone have same answer with little bit different when it comes to FREE traffic...

      And you know it will be

      1>> FB Groups
      2>> twitter
      3>> Youtube
      4>> quora (is great if you spend some good time but it is long term traffic)
      5>> linkedin
      6>> Instagram
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      • Profile picture of the author Marian
        My number one source of free traffic is blogging! I not only get traffic from search engines, but when I post a new article it gets spreaded over to FB, Twitter and sometimes even further - automatically.

        Marian
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  • Profile picture of the author Nitin Soni
    Hello Ishie Joyce,

    I think Facebook groups, G+ communities, Linkedin Groups, Reddit and StumbleUpon are the best medium to get free traffic for your website.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Jamel Hassell
    You have started off on the right foot by engaging on this forum. Whilst I believe there is no "free traffic" Due to the fact that your time is an investment init'self however you can get traffic "organically" . I will give you 3 specific ways to attract traffic.
    .continue to engage in this forum and contribute meaningfully
    . Give value consistently which would help you build trust
    . use your face book timeline as a means to inspire,entertain ,educate and make sure that you address the pain-points of peoples problems (solve). These are indirect methods of getting leads (traffic)
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  • Profile picture of the author ratulin02
    There are many ways to get the free traffic, you can use any way which is more easy to you. Such as Youtube Video, Facebook Fan page, Facebook Group, Relevant Blog commenting, Forum posting, Article submission & so on. If you can do work in these sector, you are enough. On the other hand if you do not know how to work here, you can hire a freelancer from any freelancing market place. Thanks for your asking.
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  • Profile picture of the author st0nec0ld
    Originally Posted by Ishie Joyce View Post

    Hi everyone....
    I just launched my online business but I am having serious issues with getting free traffic. Based on my budget, free traffic is what I can afford for now. What can I do? I will really appreciate your advice. Thanks.
    Ugh, this is going to be the root of your problem. There is no such thing as free, believe me. If you want to be successful and established, you need to have a rough start. Yes, rough start as in look for your market; do your assignment -- research and don't expect freebies. If you need to go back from the start get back to it and do things right. Come on guys it's 2017! No freebies for you!
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  • Profile picture of the author Ged3
    If you have plenty of time but not much spare money, try creating a free report in a PDF format with links to your website (or what you are promoting) to give away on any of the sites that people have mentioned.


    This could be one of the following:


    Find an answer to a problem that people have in a specific niche.


    A list of resources e.g. free diet plans, free woodworking plans etc.


    Then advertise the free report in your headline.


    You could also use this as an inducement to building a list as some people have suggested.


    Mailchimp have a list building service that is free for the first - I think it is 500 subscribers.


    Hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ken ny
    Youtube review videos, Facebook groups/pages
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  • Profile picture of the author Subhamm
    Facebook is Considered as Best Source ....Whatever Your Niche is Join Some Groups Similar To that and Start sharing your Offer or Post to Those Group ...remember Dont Share Too much at a Time else you be Blocked by Facebook....
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  • Profile picture of the author Murat Akhmetov
    You may also get traffic on forum commenting:

    1) Go find out popular forums related to your niche.
    2) Edit your profile signature to contain a link to your site.
    3) Contribute to the ongoing discussions.

    The only condition is to contribute VALUABLE input. Spamming is not an option.
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