How can I get more traffic?

It depends on your site. On the short term, just stick with only one that makes the more sense for your niche. It is not because it doesn't work that much you can't tweak it. Videos are often seen as higher perceive value and I love video marketing.

On the long run, of course you should diversifiate yourself.

Well the site is on getting video games, I dunno how to do to much with advertising or anything.

There are tons of free ways you can get more traffic to your site, no matter it's age. You could do article marketing, blog commenting, forum posting, press releases, etc. I recommend starting with free methods and then moved to paid advertising once you have determined your site will convert and earn you money.

I strongly recommend using the "search" feature of this forum and do a keyword search on the word "traffic" and "article marketing". Invest a few days reading throughout those threads, take notes, and then come back with more specific questions.

You can get traffic by:

Paying for it.

Using SEO / SEM techniques

Setting up joint ventures / strategic alliances.

Using content in different formats (text, audio, video, etc.).

Your question is so general there are over a million ways to answer it. You say you've "tried" a bunch of different things, but how indepth in studying them have you done? Let's take Adwords, as an example, you say it's a bit "expensive". Who did you learn Adwords or PPC marketing from? What kind of strategies were you using?
(By the way, those were rhetorical questions).



RoD

You can try article marketing is good for traffic and doing well for me.

Traffic will not come unless you do linkbuilding and take your site to considerable position in search engines.
youtube,facebook marketing,adwords are all works but temporary best way is to do complete seo and linkbuilding.

I would say your journey to a traffic generating website begins with keyword research.
You need to know which keywords to target to get relevant traffic and also to see the kind of organic competition you might face.

Good luck!

Hello,

I love to use modern techniques. For example, I've created a 'lite' edition of a program. This lite (flash) edition runs inside Facebook, and my users spread the word with a single click (by simply using it). It works quite well.

HTH,
Gaby

Do some social bookmarking! Here are some sites to get you going....

Connotea
Delicious
FindBetterLinks
Jumptags
Kirtsy
LinkaGoGo
Multiply
OneView
URL.ORGanizer

Also submit here and you'll start getting some traffic quick!!

SiteValueStats.com - FREE "website value" Backlink Generator - ONE Click Submission
SHE TOLD ME : NEW STORIES EVERY DAY! - DIGG-LIKE 100% ADSENSE SHARING REVENUE
Karmalynx.com
Web 2.0 sites, rankings, traffics and logos - Web2List
Public timeline - Identi.ca
YooRL
SiteValueStats.com - FREE "website value" Backlink Generator - ONE Click Submission
NowRelevant: everything about your subject for the past two weeks

**Be sure you do your keyword research first though....find low competion/highly searched keyword phrases

There's LOTS more to getting traffic...but this should help you out

More content = More traffic

Start contacting relevant experts in your field and request them to send you a unique article to help your readers. I have personally found this technique works great as long as you have a decent looking website and good content on your website.

The key here is to be specific regarding what you like about the author and how their expertise can benefit your readers.

Here are a few places for you to find experts

1. Ezinearticles
2. About
3. eHow
4. Amazon
5. Rtir
6. Clickbank

You will be surprised how many experts will be glad to contribute an article to your website.

To take this to the next step, once the experts send you an article, request them whether they would be willing to do a monthly column.

All you need is about 30-50 experts who can contribute an article a month to have high quality unique content and additional traffic to your website.

Be prompt and courteous in your responses.

What this also does is that it gives you a great network of experts to create high quality information products- interviews, webinars, seminars and coaching programs.

Hi,

I posted this to another thread a while ago, but it's still relevant to your situation.

Here's what I would do first.

Step one - write at least 5, but preferably 10 articles pertaining to your niche. Be sure your main keyword is in the title, and mentioned at least twice in the first couple of paragraphs while keeping it readable.

Step two - Set up accounts at social bookmarking sites such as Twitter, Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, De.licio.us, and friendfeed just to name a few off the top of my head.

Step three - Post your articles at the popular article directories. (Google 'most popular article directories). Be aware that some of them won't take an article if it's been published somewhere else - that's why I said preferably ten articles.

Step four - Set up a Squidoo lens

Step five - set up a Facebook page.

Step six - Set up a HubPages page.

Step seven - Research and write an effective press release and submit to news services.

Step eight - Create a video describing your content and what your blog is all about. Submit to the video sites.

Step nine - Find other blogs in your niche and apply to be a guest poster.

If you do all this, you will get traffic, and it'll be fairly quick.

After that, I'd investigate paid methods. there are many, many other ways to get traffic other than Adwords - better ways in my opinion.

One method I like is to buy a slot from Mike Glaspie when he runs a media special. He runs literally millions of ads a year and it's not spam.

Ezine advertising still works if you can write a compelling ad.

Good luck to you.

Michael

Build links to your site, CREATE youtube videos, and just generally put out good content. Use Google keyword tool (Google it) to identify keywords you want to target. You can scope out the competition for said keywords by using allintitle:keyword in Google search results to see how many people are using it in their title tag.

You'll also want to look into installing analytics, and some seo tools like seoquake. Fortunately, you came to the right place to learn about IM so good luck!

Start backlinking more and more with anchor text as your keywords.PPC is expensive,if you can afford and write attractive ads then ok.Write some keyword rich article in your site(for example description),though your site is of games

is fiverr good for this kinda thing?

If you have a budget the quickest way is to pay for it. facebook ads, media buys, ppv. forget ppc lol. If you dont have much to spend then good old fashion SEO will have to do. First firgure out what your target keyword is, then get your onpage optimization on point then go it an get high pr backlinks an some articles an its as simple as that.

These free and easy methods u can try.i am doing it.getting around 30-40 views
Read this carefully
1.Take plr article related to your niche from warrior free section.
Thanks to the member who are giving 600 and 15k PLR articles.
2.Rewrite them or replace them with synonyms
3.Submit your articles to auto APProve article directories
like Article Directory - Free Expert Article Directory - GoArticles.com
Large Articles
Search google u will find plenty
4.make sure you have backlink in that article.
5.Bookmark Them few bookmarking sites.
6.Ping
Rinse and repeat

Focus on one of these methods and do it well. I said one of the fastest ways to get traffic is put a bunch of videos out on you tube. Make sure that your VIDEO SEO is really good, and it will be easy to rank your vids for both you tube and google. A double whammy!!

Make sure that you have a powerful call to action that takes them off of you tube to your site where you capture their lead.

use these, they work for us :-

blogs
blog comments
PPC
SEO
press releases
links on other people thankyou pages
paid links in niche forums
solo ads
joint ventures
diretories
articles...

and this one - write your website on the beach in big block letters. LOL

Hope this helps.

I have had some good luck on buysellads.com in the twiter section!

Keep updating your site with good content and keep building backlinks.

When your site has just been launched it will be more suitable for you to work on social media to get the instant visitors. Blog commenting and forum posting are mainly used for the purpose of rankings getting traffic from them is there secondary usage. At the start you should focus more on developing your network on facebook and twitter. Getting high ranks on Google is time taking process and if it takes too long you will be getting no traffic.
When you will be able to made your loyal visitors successfully from the social networks than give your all attention to the SEO.

There are many ways to get great traffic and the most effective methods are:

Social Networking
Article Marketing
Forum Posting
Blog Commenting

You can also look at link building. Manually (ie yourself) perhaps using SeNukeX or something similar, or you can try doing something useful or controversial: that will get lot of people linking to it.

More links in general = more traffic.

The best way to get traffic is SEO. Free press release submissions and building backlinks to these press release links have always produced best results for me.

If I had to choose one for a quick burst of traffic it would be press releases.... all the very best, Allen

If it's about video games, your best bet is Youtube

You'll find your most of your audience hangs out there

James

I found a lot of usefull techniques browsing this forum!
Personally I do some article marketing, forum posting and blog commenting.

If you want some extra traffic do some video marketing!

To get required traffic you need to advertise a banner or text link at sites which are related to niche of your websites.

If you want to get traffic on your website try free manual traffic exchange website like easyhits4u, realhitz4u, hit2hit, soaring4traffic.These websites send traffic to your websites in free.

start by putting amazing well researched original content on your own site.
Next you get links from other sites pointing to that content (like forum signatures)...

Article marketing is very good for long term traffic, but it does take awhile before you start getting results. Some of the posts before me have mentioned some of the best article directories. Otherwise social bookmarking is another good way to get some quick results, and again there's a post before mine with some excellent suggestions.

Once I get the chance to post my link here, I'll give you the chance to go to my site where you can download a whole bunch of FREE e-books on different traffic driving strategies.

All I can say is there are three ways to generate traffic.
1.) Do what other people tell you to do from this post or
2.) Just keep building quality links from different websites (choose only the one relevant to your niche). If you can build links up to more than a thousand you will see some results. The only downside you may not rank well in the SERP's or
3.) Buy Ad space from Blogsitess. Normally you pay between $5-$1000 a month. But the usual price is around $10-$25 a month. (BuySellAds.com).

I gotta agree with allenjohn- press releases get ridiculous amounts of views, even without much SEO involved.

So if you write 2 PRs a day, and each gets 150-200 views with a 20% ctr, you're looking at 60-80 visitors a day.

Not shabby for 1-2 hours of work.

Join forums that are relevant to your niche and have a link to your website in your signature file. You just have to be active within the forums.

There's a ton of free ways to get a lil traffic here and a lil traffic there. But the bottom line is that you have TO PAY TO PLAY! That's right, time to empty out that bank account and invest in your business idea!

Sell stuff, work part-time, do whatever you have to do to raise the capital to get a solid marketing strategy in place.

An online business is a REAL BUSINESS and you're going to need some working capital. But until you get the cash, just continue to use all the free ways which are:

Blogging
Posting on other peoples blogs
Twitter
Facebook
ect...

That's what im doing for now...

This will get people familiar with you Brand, and then when you have your marketing budget together...BOOM! You can send a couple hundred thousand targeted people to your site, and if you have a good product, the word will spread.

I actually have a business..plan..I'm still working out the kinks, but I'm going to launch it on full scale soon.

Dude , I really like your question

How Can I get More Traffic ?

That is a great question to ask .

Since I am a creative person , I can come up with some answers that might be useful to you

So , there you go

1. Pay for It: By far the fastest way to get traffic when you know that your offer converts . if you do not know what you are doing , you want to stay way for a while . That said , the fastest way to get more traffic is to Pay for it . Anyone fool with some money can get traffic .

2. Team Up with People that have the traffic : This is what I do with Youtube, the third most visited website at the time of this post . Of course , you got to do it the right way otherwise you get very little traffic

Top Million Websites in the world using quancast

Top 100 blogs in your niche

Top 100 Product Launches in your Niche : They have the paying customers you are looking

Top 100 Services In Your Niche



3. Get for Free : Viral and Affiliate Marketing

4. Builld a Team To Create More traffic to your offers

5. Automate Your Process for Traffic

I think every sort of Blogging and articles submission are the best ways and also web 2.0, link wheeling are good ideas to promote any website.

Get more targeted traffic by concentrating on your search engine rankings. Build quality related backlinks and get you search engine rankings up there for your keywords and enjoy the traffic.

it depends but since you are looking for a free ways to get traffic i say go tot eh forums that talks about your site category and post about your site there and use traffic exchange sites it helps alot cheers

This very first thing you must do and this is immediately is to put your web address as your signature, so everytime you post to find out good ways of getting traffic people wil see your web address and click on it to see what you are all about. I know for sure I would have done. If im going to give comments and advice I want to see what your up to and if your site is any good first.
You will be killing 2 birds with one stone this way!!!! Obviously if you follow all the great tips you have recieved and take action you are gauranteed traffic
I wish you the very best and look forward to visiting your site I could just be your BEST customer.....so hurry up and get you site as your signature so as I can visit

There are many steps to increase the traffic of your website. For example:
* Directory Submission
* Social Bookmarking Submission
* Article Submission
* Press Release Submission
* Forum Posting
* Classifieds posting
* Review Posting
* Video Submission
* Blog Posting

There is lots of strategy that you can do or make to create traffic on your site

Exp. Social media optimization

you have had some great advice but what you must first do is get yourself a signature with your web address on it. People will then be able to look at what you do etc. I could potentially be one of your best customers or know someone who might be....but I dont know your web address.
Everytime you use the forum you are also advertising your services. The bonus is its free and you will get a lot of people seeing your web address. If you post regularly with good content you will generate good traffic to your site as long as you do it consistently

to your success

For Free Traffic :

- Article writing
- Giveaway Events
- Video
- Forum
- Facebook
- Twitter
- etc.

For Paid Traffic :

- Google Adword
- Yahoo Ads
- Facebook Ads
- Classifieds ads (Pay will get you better results)
- etc.


.....

Bottom line is what suits you best.

If you dont have much to spend then good old fashion SEO will have to do. First firgure out what your target keyword is, then get your onpage. These all are great to know about it.

You will get good traffic from social sites. social bookmarking and networking sites will help in getting traffic. Also work on some long tail keywords along with main keywords.

choose the perfect keywords and Do more and more social bookmarking and article submission
Don't forgot to do social bookmarking in this high PR websites..
digg.com
reddit.com/
stumbleupon.com
buzz.yahoo.com
wikio.com
mixx.com
folkd.com/
jumptags.com/
news.ycombinator.com/
bit.ly/
newsvine.com/
bibsonomy.org
blinklist.com
delicious.com
multiply.com 7
instapaper.com/
meme.yahoo.com/
faves.com
diigo.com

the best way for getting more traffic on your site is doing article submission, press release submission, and doing SMO on your site. then you got more traffic on your sit.SMO is the best way for getting more traffic.

blogging and social networks like facebook & twitter

I'm using SENUkeX and doing the automated campaigns on one of my landing sites. After 2 weeks of doing this automated campain I'm popping up on Google's page 2 for one of my three sets of keywords. Awesome. Can't wait to see more traffic as time progresses. I'm taking it slow and only doing 2-3 campaigns per week so I don't accidentially get my site deindexed.

You can get more traffic to your site by you tube views or social media networking methods.

Hi
Tough question you have here. If you should have to read a book on this subject,
it would be like 800 pages. Maybe more. So i will post just 1 answer.
Facebook brings me most of my traffic.

Hi
Tough question you have here. If you should have to read a book on this subject,
it would be like 2000 pages. Maybe more. So i will post just one answer.
Facebook brings me most of my traffic, free.

Be sure your site contains some type value-add for your visitors.

Double-check your on-site optimization to ensure that the search
spiders will like what they find.

If you have something truly newsworthy, create a press release
and start syndicating it across the web.

Get involved in social media marketing.

If you are new to marketing, follow the advice of a few others in
this thread and start searching the Warrior Forum, reading, taking
notes and applying what you learn.

Hey Everybody,

My name is Amuro Wesley. I have been marketing for 2 1/2 years now.

Today I have 2 internet courses for you. They are from 3 of the best super affiliates Chris Farrell, Mike Fulsaime (whom I consider as grandfather of IM since he started in 95) and our own Ewen Chia from Singapore.

Best of all, they are FREE!

Check out the links below:

1 Affiliate DotCom By Mike Fulsaime And Chris Farrell

2. Super Affiliate Trainer By Ewen Chia

The way I see it, making money online is like gardening. Before planting the fruit tree, you need to test the soil and seeds quality (keyword and niche research), plant the seeds (build blogs or sites) and then water them everyday. (driving traffic to your sites by article marketing, classified advertising, email marketing, forum posting, social bookmarking / networking and video marketing.

Quite skeptical of outsourcing due to bad experiences and more open to automation.

Even as I wrote this I am currently experimenting and testing my new software for current IM campaigns. It's an extremely powerful tool that you can do your whole project from keyword research all the way to driving traffic to your sites via the strategies I outlined above.

there are many ways to get traffic for your website.....but one of the most important thing is make the original and genuine content for your website and try to get more back links for your website....because when you get more back links for your website than you'll get more traffic....

Some good tips:
Forum marketing
Writing content
Article submission
Social Marketing

Writing content for your site is great but it will take a long time to make a dent in your page rank.

Try article marketing. You can take some of your same content and distribute it to the right article submission sites. Of course you will have your backlinks either in the article or your bio. Soon your article will be around the web with a variety of content related backlinks to your site.

Traffic exchanges can be effective as well.
Social networking
The list goes on, but all can be done at zero of little cost.

You can get more traffic if you focus on what niche you are. Also build quality links and content in your website. Join forum and post comments to other sites or blogs.

What u were doing works, just do more of it!
Also look at Articles, Forums, other classified sites, other video sites, paid advertising, bookmarking, facebook, twitter, squidoo and all the other similar sites, answer sites like yahoo answers etc.

There are a lot of traffic generating possibilities out there, you just have to sit down and map out a plan.

Go to Imautomator and sign up for a free account. You can do 10 free social bookmarking submissions per day. Spread the submissions out over 15 days so they drip feed and your total backlinks should be around 150 "somethings they fail". I've been doing this with my website for a few months and i have almost 8k backlinks in google alone and traffic is getting better every day.

Below are the various ways that you can increase your traffic

1.Continue growing your opt-in email list.
2. Find new ezines and send out more ads.
3. Add more unique content to your blog.
4. Write and publish YOUR OWN articles online.
5. Setup more free advertising.

With a brand new site, you can look for high traffic blogs in your niche, and add comments with a link to your site, ofcourse your comments have to be useful, and when people see you know what you are talking about, they are more likely to visit your site and spread the word

To increase your traffic. Use a combination of pay per click(don't go broke doing it), and Increase your search engine ranking organically by getting quality backlinks to your site.

Look out for free press release websites, you can find a lot of these.
Just search them on google.

Otherwise you can obviously do blog commenting, article writing ,etc.

The very first thing you need to do is make sure your site is SEO friendly. If your using wordpress for your sites I would highly recommend the plugin easywpseo which is great for ensuring your pages are highly optimized.

My second advise would be content. For this I outsource and it doesn't break the bank. I use a service called SEOGenerals which I have been very happy with. I build review sites so pick 3 keywords: 1)product name 2&3) two high competition keywords and have them write a 4-500 word review on the product using those 3 factors with 3-4% keyword density.

Thirdly, I use a service called linkpushing.net to promote my sites. They have different packages depending on your budget and once again doesn't cost much for their low end pushes. The great thing about their service is that it doesn't blast your site in 24-48 hour period but builds the links overtime for which ever keywords you choose.

Fourth, I'll blast my page after a couple of weeks using some of the services from here for EDU and GOV links and profile pyramids. At no time though will I have my links pinged as I prefer the search engines to find them naturally.

I'll do that for every page of my site as it's written and posted, this way fresh content is always being added and backlinks to the url and the search engines will see your not trying to spam your link all over the place. Over time it'll help improve your rankings and drive traffic to your site. Once your site starts to make money and has aged a little, you can up the promotion to higher end backlinks. Some people who have domains which have aged will blast 100k of links over a short period of time to help improve their rankings.

Even though none of the above is free, it doesn't break the bank. You can have a 400 word article written for as little as $4, 5 link pushes per month will cost you $67 and you can have edu/gov blasts for as little as $10-20, as I stated, it won't break the bank.

easywpseo will cost you $37 on warrior forum and you can use it on unlimited websites you own and I feel is essential if your want to ensure your websites are fully optimized.

press release, blog comments, articles.

these work for us. As and article veteran I can tell you if you can write quiality stuff, you will bring an audience, and you will make sales.

Hi:

Shireen here :-)

Here are a few ways that I normally use to generate traffic to my site:

1) ebay
2) submitting articles
3) be active in forum

Hope it helps :-)

Hopefully you're passionate about your niche.

If so, make a habit of writing every day for 30 minutes to an hour.

After that you can use all the free methods mentioned above to drive traffic with those posts and articles.

I think the best, most complete traffic course out right now is Traffic Grab by James Schramko (he replied above). Great price for a beginner too.

Good Luck

Sylent

I have had some success with OnlyWire. You can get a free demo from OnlyWire.com and it is good for about 200 impressions - then about $10 a month.

If you use OnlyWire along with blog SEO, posting on other blogs, comments, you will see your traffic begin to build. Don't let the time get away from you. In order for OnlyWire - or blogging for that matter - you must absolutely must post fresh and original content.

I strongly argue against repurpose articles and the like. Spend a little time in research. The suggestion about Google Alerts was very good.

In a short time you will have a list of topics. When you click thru to the topic - be sure to get the URL and use it at least once in your article as a reference. For example: A recent article in StarWeek.com (then put the hyper link behind it).

Another place for original material is Wikapida. That site has links upon links with more information. With any personal experience at all most folks should be able to build a great series on a whole group of topics.

I recently wrote a series on the growing market of baby boomers. We used references to Vance Packard and Elvis to describe that market's mind set and background. I thought it was useful information - and all original to my blog.

Hope these thoughts are useful to you. If you stop by my blog and leave a comment, I will respond. We may be able to help each other over the long term.

Cheers !

We are finding commenting on very VERY HIGH TRAFFIC blogs is working a treat.

Especially if it targeted towards your niche.

do some SEO stuff. and if your keywords are so competitive then you will soon rank on the first of google

Sylent,

All of the various ways mentioned here will get you traffic, and you should certainly investigate every one of them to see if they are right for you.

However there is one way that you can generate a very large surge of traffic right now - now let me mention that it may be traffic that is mostly "curiosity seekers" and not real conversion - but sometimes that can have a multiplier effect, and lead to quality traffic down the line.

Get something nobody else has. The video marketing niche is a huge attractor here, and if you can get a unique, funny, and short little video, or a picture nobody else has of a celebrity, or anything controversial - then you can get a quick and massive traffic boost, but again... this may not be very targeted traffic and may not really help you sell much.

A couple of things that a massive traffic boost does do is improve your confidence, increase your overall SEO rankings, and it also helps test your site under real loads - all good things.

Ultimately though, you want traffic that converts to real sales - so look at this "booster" traffic as a way to help position yourself, and then use the other techniques here to slowly and steadily build that traffic.

Good Luck!
-DTM

you can go for free traffic exchanges or safelist submitter.it will give you tons of traffic.

HI Sylent,

i think you most should be try to up traffic based keywords in all over search engines..

Pesonally not a fan of PPC. I think article marketing is the way to do it. Especially for a new site. Have you tried social media such as twitter?

My 2bobs worth is do more work and then some more work and then some more work that is write posts every day from the 50 odd keywords that you have found with the google keyword tool.

Make sure you have at least 8 pages that are keyword optimized as well. It just takes work like anything.

Like others have said grab James Schramkos traffic course and keep learning. This can take some time to all kick into gear before the traffic starts flowing.

Next question after that is when it comes (the traffic) what are going to do with it. Hope you are you building a list.....Best or luck with it.

Try not spend to much time in the forums ...Cheers Bruce.d.Stewart

I would suggest using adwords even though it is expensive it does allow you to target the specific traffic that you are looking for. This is usefull until you have your site seo sorted.

Did you use any keyword tool prior to setting up your website and are your phrases in your title tags? If your main keywords are highly competitive then, you'll get little organic traffic to your site and time and again I see people with great websites, but they've chosen the wrong keywords.

Mark :confused:

Article writing, forum posting, blog commenting. Thy those they might help.

Thanks
Christina

You can try link building.Blog comments to get more traffic.

Try forums. There are loads of forums in the gaming niche, most of which are very active.

useful content + right on page seo + off page seo

try article marketing its free and works well

Ok, you got your site up. Now it's time for some traffic generation. Here's a strategy I paid for to learn.

Do what others aren't doing. Here's what I mean.

Here's how the typical internet marketer thinks. Do keyword research and look for decent traffic (usually people think 3000 visitors a day is worth their time and effort) keywords and low competition. Then, they do their thing i.e. build back links from related sites, on page SEO, etc.

Usually, no one wants to go for a keyword that only has a 100 visitors a month, right? I mean, it's not worth it. This is where you think differently.

Instead of busting your butt trying to rank for that higher traffic keyword that has a little more competition, go for the low traffic keyword ONLY IF it's EASY to rank for.

You will get ranked FASTER and you can move on to the next related "easy to rank for" keyword.

You are catching a little traffic from here and there, from different angles.

As a bonus, Google likes related keywords back links (aka Latent Semantic Indexing).

So, instead of just creating 100 back links with the exact keyword, diversify your back links (Google keeps a profile on your site from what I learned).

Again, this is not my theory. It's information I am paying for.

Good luck with your campaigns!

-C

Try posting your links @ Yahoo Answers =)

StumbleUpon is awesome for traffic. Just share new content on your site and share content of other sites to give back to the community and good things will happen in regards to traffic.

OK Warriors, here's a strategy I learned (and had to pay for) so I think you'll like it.

The hardest part is finding connections but once you do, you can get targeted traffic at will.

Search out list owners that write to your targeted niche. Offer to write unique content for their subscribers in exchange for putting a link back to your site.

If that list owner hates to write he/she will take your offer because they are probably monetizing their newsletter w/ paid ads.

That's it!

Find a site in your niche and see if they offer free newsletters. Check out the page if it says something like "Subscribe To Our Free Newsletter With Over 10,000 Subscribers" so you have a little idea of how much potential targeted readers will see your article/link to your site.

Now, not all the subscribers will open the email but it's faster than trying to get a page on #1 in Google.

Hope this helps!

keep building backlinks as this is one of the most important way to bring trafic to your site, pay attention to content (if people like you site will tell others about it etc)

Are you trying to drive traffic with organic search? Or are you just trying to drive targeted traffic from anywhere?

Organic search takes a lot of time and patience. You have to build a lot of authority links to even start ranking for your keywords. Even for the most simple of keywords with practically no competition.

Backlinks from high-ranking sites pretty much "vouch" for your website as far as search engines care. The more links from high ranking, RELEVANT sites to your niche, the better you will stand in SERPs.

This is the most vital key I have ever learned in IM: Pick a traffic driving method you enjoy and LEARN and APPLY every single thing possible to increase your ranking or get more traffic to whatever your type of promotion is. I'm currently learning everything there is possible for getting my videos ranked. Perhaps you should try the same thing for article marketing or getting your website ranked for a low competition keyword.

Article marketing and blogging marketing. You can also do them in an automated way such as write an article and automatically submit it to 100s of article sites.