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A thread started yesterday for free traffic ideas, a great share that you should take a look at

You have already begun.

If your online presence has a focus based on your web building skills, there are lots of others out there that could use your help. Participation in forums relative to your message will attract traffic.

Your website presentation of solutions to problems others experience will attract traffic if others are aware the answers they seek may be found at your location.

Same logic applies to social networks... Check on Warrior Forum as to how others have benefited from Pinterest, Facebook, LinkedIn and other venues. Pick the one or two that you are comfortable with, join a group, and contribute.

If you've already taken care of onsite SEO you've probably covered your URL name selection, keywords, site maps, robots.txt, Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools, and other factors. Make sure you're indexed by the major search engines, and monitor your progress on analytics..

See what competitors are doing in terms of back linking. Use iBacklink Pro to check them out. There are thousands of places to get links and the least desirable are the ones you pay for. Look for directories that cover the focus of your site. For me, time in forums related to site subject has been of more benefit than back links from the yellow pages.

Do your thing with a lens on Squidoo...You have knowledge others thirst for. Cash in on your experience to date.

Maybe write an eBook on what you know... Make part of it free for visitors to your site upon their subscribing to your periodic newsletter...Sell the rest of it on your site and through Amazon and others.

In the event you're shooting for affiliate income, Warrior Forum has lots of good brains to pick.

You'll find there will be a combination of things that fit your ability and style. Any one of the above thoughts should show some traffic results in 30 days.

Good luck, and let us know how things work out.

Vern

Hi Vern,

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I am looking into affiliate marketing specifically. I am not trying to sell my web building skills but want to promote either clickbank or amazon products on either blogs, lenses, hubpages and/or on my own site. Can you guide me to those "brains to pick" as I am completely new to this industry and any help will be appreciated.

I understand some of the link building strategies like articles, forums and others but so many forums and nofollow these days and looking at my competitors using traffic travis they have so many backlinks (numbering in the thousands) and I do not have a set strategy to get traffic to the review sites or pages. I want to start by making $1000 a month, this is my short term goal and so many people say that this is easy.

I started about 2 weeks ago and I may have chosen the wrong product to promote but I created a facebook page and gathered roughly 100 followers in about 3 days so it is looking good in that regard. I have posted an add on the page, only 1 because I do not want my followers/fans to think that I will only be spamming them with ads non stop. I have also started an adwords campaign and got about 60 clicks in a week but no sales as yet.

I am redirecting to the clickbank sales page using domain forwarding but still not a single sale. I am doing something wrong? How can I get free traffic to the landing page as my budget on the adwords campaign is almost depleted.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks again,

Owen

hi owen,

the main thing is to look at everything objectively and focus on a niche that meets your goal.

you can find these targeted niches by using trigger words like: how to, ways to, or even something like printable, or convert.

then once you find one take a loot at the traffic and estimate what you can earn per visitor. for example on my lottery numbers website i average $0.11 per visitor. so if i want to make $1000 per month on it i need 9000 clicks. now in this market with paid traffic i have been able to get that much in a day for 6c per click.

if i was going free traffic... i would take the term and look at the exact monthly searches and times that by the 11cents to see what i would arrive at.

there are many ways to get free traffic but you need to find what fits your niche.

do this: google your niche and see whats on the front page, if there are articles... you know that could work well, if there are youtube videos, that will be a good plan, if you see images, start making images, ect...

let the market determine the best way to get traffic :-)

marcus

Owen, have you considered creating videos and then posting them on Youtube. Youtube ranks right up there with Google when it comes to people searching for things on the Internet. Get a copy of Camtasia (there's a 30 day trial) and create up to 50 videos and post them on Youtube.

You are wrong. You need targeting relevant traffic not just any traffic. You want to be able to have visitors on your site for one thing only. This is why focusing on a keyword that best suits your business is the best thing for you.

The thing with affiliate marketing is....try not to make it seem that they are on the site you own. Try aiming for newer affiliates that nobody has ever heard before and that is new, this way it increases your chances of pulling in a sale when the time comes and you don;t waste time with an old affiliate everyone knows about. Also try aiming for an affiliate that provides something for free or trail period as these work the best.

Now for onsite seo, i would normally say "screw it" as long as you provide relevant and awesome content you shouldn't have a problem with rankings. If you are that concerned add your keywords on the content and keep keyword density at 2 percent.

Also you can do this for better traffic. Guest blog on a popular site related to yours and hire a professional to write the article for you. Make sure it's about 1,000 words or more as web owners love content. The article can be about something relevant to the affiliate you are promoting but making sure the content is not advertisement. You provide awesome content, people visit your site getting you relevant traffic and possibly pulling in a sale.

Hope this is helpful.

There are a ton of free traffic strategies that can bring alot of people to your site:

1) Forum marketing

2) Article marketing

3) Youtube

4) Blogging

5) Email marketing (build a list)

6) RSS marketing

Don't limit yourself. Make it a task to implement these techniques on a weekly basis.