Here's my secret free traffic strategy that can also work for you

Thanks for this.

Wow,

I find seo really challenging normally, so any tips on how to get extra easy backlinks is a real asset for me - thanks a bunch.

nice share for newbies like me.

I found drop my link about a week ago and have been careful to only do a few links per day but have not seen any real results in terms of page rank or search results. How long before you noticed a difference?

There are dozens of free traffic methods you can use if you're willing to put up the work. You could create a free valuable report which would link back to your website, your products and affiliate products and give it away for free and create a list of subscribers. You can offer your free report in various places such as: forums, facebook groups, free ebook listing sites, ad swaps, and so on.

As long as you can be consistant you will notice the results.

This can be a useful tool among many and by far one of the most entertaining as well as productive. I will implement this tool immediately!

Below is the method i found really helpful, it's almost 100% free if you can do it manually.

Article Marketing
Write 3 articles that are related to the topic of your website. Include a brief bio and link to your website at the end of the article. Submit each of these articles to article directories, and also to webmasters and ezine owners that rank well for your keywords.

Participate In Forums
Do a search on Google for keyword+forum. If you have a pet related site, for example, search “pet forum” (without quotes). Find the top 3 forums in your niche and join each of them. DO NOT SPAM, but do set up a profile (and signature, if allowed) and post an introduction. Get involved in each of these 3 forums by posting at least one thread or response each day. This will help you gain exposure in your target market, and people will naturally be interested in your related website.

Yahoo! Answers
Go to http://answers.yahoo.com and find questions related to your niche or website. If you can provide a legitimate answer to their question, you can include your link as the resource or reference URL. Again, without spamming, if you can contribute to the community you will interest them in your related website.

Viral Marketing
Write a Report that would be of great interest to your target market, and sell it cheap. Include your bio and information about your site within the report (briefly in the Introduction, and fully in the About The Author section at the end).

Get Socializing
Set up profiles at popular social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Ryze.com etc. Network with people in your niche and get established on these sites with a customized profile.

Blogging It
Blogging can be considered another form of Social Networking, and enough so to be considered a stand-alone marketing technique. You want to set up a blog that is directly related to your website’s topic, and post content to it frequently (3-5x/week minimum). If you have a pet store website, for example, you can create a blog on Pet Tips (dog grooming, dog training, etc).

Shoot a Press Releases
You can write and submit a press release free of charge. While some websites charge to publish your press release (and this may be worth the investment!), many also offer a free submission option. You want your press release to be newsworthy, so you choose your angle carefully. Do a search on Google for press release tips.

SEO
Learn all that you can about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and take the necessary steps to optimize each of your web pages. It is not complicated or impossible, but there is a lot of mis-information out there about search engines. I can help you with this personally if you like (free) at my discussion forum – look for the SEO section.

Build Links!
Submit your new site to appropriate directories, and get it listed on niche resource pages. Link farms and exchanges on “link pages” are a waste of your time, but do seek out quality linking opportunities. You want a variety of links pointing to your site, not only to your main page but also to internal pages of your site as well.

Funnel Traffic From Other Sites
This strategy may require a little creativity, but you want to consider ways that you can funnel traffic from popular websites such as: craigslist, ebay, youtube, wikipedia, etc. These are very popular websites that are established and bursting at the seems with live visitors. Think of ways that you can add something of value, and (without spamming!) lure these visitors to your website.

Cheers!

Any sites that you find most useful to create bacllinks within the drop link list?

My one website needs a couple of links! Thank you!

Thanks for the link, bookmarked.

A lot of the sites that pop up when you enter your keyword are basically spammy link farm blogs. Is there a way to filter out the junk blogs? From what I've read penguin doesn't like links from these types of sites.

how your experience, you do not share your experience with the traffic source that you share. if you use it to get traffic to your blog or mini site. how much traffic a day that you get from these.

This is something that is very important. Your blog comments can make you look like an expert in your field, and the more you post ... and the more informative your posts are... the more you hits you will get back to your website.

thanks for the share, never heard of dropmylink before

thanks for this.... this is really a cool tool

thanks so much for your useful info

ALL NEWBIES SHOULD USE THIS POST.

I actually didn't know about the site myself.

A great way to start off in IM. Man, i wish i knew about this site when i first started looking for blogs to leave backlinks on.

Thanks for showing us this, seo can be even harder now since all the google slaps... I'm always taking notes and learning all I can from other people on here... Thanks again ;-)

Don't forget to test anything you plan on doing extensively...

For example, I have about 7-8 sites that I haven't been promoting in a months time.

I plan on testing 3 sites using 3 different strategies..Then social bookmark and send RSS feeds to all 3 equally.

In about a week, I'll look at the results...If one technique improves keyword ranking 20% and another 5%, Ill note this and in the future Ill know where my time is best spent. Then rinse and repeat...Its a slow process, but effective for the best diy long term results.

Don't rely on a forum for your answers..Theres too much theory and not enough factual advice going around. People mean well, but you have to take it w/ a grain of salt, and test it yourself before taking it as the holy grail.

good tip thanks!

Hi joekoffi
Thanks a lot for sharing. I would be using it.
Parg

Yes, for blog commenting, most comments are automatic and most good blog owners will delete them, so to get your comments accepted, asy something which is obviously SPECIFIC about that blog, ie. use words which tell the blog owner for SURE that you have actually read that post, and that you are human (ie. don't just say "great blog" and copy the blog name or subject, as the auto robots can do that too

I'd suggest a wider range of different types of backlinks, too, as lots of backlinks of just one or two types is a rather obvious "signature" to Google, and they are likely to decrease your traffic due to doing that. To get the best results form backlinking, you need to make the backlinks as natural as possible, and that means a very wide range of different types of backlinks, and a variety of link wordings, etc.

Chris

You are totally right there Cheryl. Most people have not got the kind of mindset to sit there day after day to complete these tasks in the kind of volume they require and get fed up and then say it doesn't work. Def outsource this kind of thing.

you rock this is helpful thx

Good strategy , but what about if i comment on 100 blogs per day ? is this spam ? if yes , why 10 comments are not spam and 100 are?
I`m not joking really.

NICE! I will add this to my blog commenting arsenal. Can't thank you enough.To show my appreciation, I will give you my go to blog commenting search engine platform:

DoFollow Diver - Type your keyword, find tons of dofollow blogs in your niche.

I suggest looking for ability to comment, and updated blogs BEFORE you read the article and leave your comment.