What is the best free method to drive traffic to my website?

I still haven't found a great free way. Most of my business is coming from Google Adwords which of course costs. Mind you it depends what your site has to offer.

You need to give more specifics. Is it a product? A service?

Driving decent traffic to it for free is very hard. I think the most natural way would be to get current customers to recommend it and share that info but I guess they want to keep such referrals for themselves. IMO you need to spend a bit of money promoting this and you also need to prove that this is a genuine successful way of making money.

Free / cheap things I can think of that you haven't tried:

- You could try Ezinearticles on a topic like: 'how to earn extra money from home' and then link to your site in the resources.

- Do a leaflet drop around local neighbourhoods. And rather than just point to the site, offer a free visit to explain the deal.

- Ask friends and family to share the site via social media like facebook and offer them a small kickback for anyone who mentions their name in the signup.

Re the website, if I landed on that page I wouldn't sign up. Why? I see few trust signals. It's a one page website looks like it's been created in seconds. The video takes a little longer of course. If you're making money and have been around a while, then that website should look bigger and contain more trustworthy information. You could for example:

- Get testimonials from happy customers to pad out the site.
- Provide more information about the deal.
- Case study successful users of it.

That kind of thing. Also explain the benefits of the motor club signup. If I read it right the person that signs up also gets club membership. So what benefits does that give that they might like?

Once the site is better, I'd then consider what your profit is from each sign up. Also what the percentage of visitors converts to a sale. Then consider how much you're prepared to pay to get a lead.

Then consider what searches people might type in to a search engine to find your site. Like 'make money from home' or similar. Try Google's keyword checker for ideas that aren't so high in competition. You could also target things like 'motor club membership' to try and tempt people already debating joining the motor club.

Then consider and carefully implement a Google adwords campaign. Of course you need to make sure your conversion rates give you an acceptable amount of profit. That's really a bit of trial and error. Start small and grow it if it's successful.

Hope that helps!

The best and always effective method... build a site with quality content. Have a couple inbound links so Google crawls it.. and bam thats it. Google wants quality content, so give it to them. Yes there are tons of other ways to build traffic (for free), articles, forum postings, youtube videos, etc. etc. etc. But the tried and true method... the method that is the most honest and will ALWAYS work is building a site with quality content. Start a blog if you arent tech savvy. Fill it with your own written content (or hire someone to write content). Make it unique, fresh, and engaging. Worry less about keyword density then how entertaining/informative it is. This takes a lot of work and effort, but if you do it right... it'll pay off.

If you talk about free SEO I will be assuming you are referring to stuffs like web 2.0, blogs, article directories and others.

Well, it's largely going to be based on the site you use, some sites have more traffic than others.

Below are my few list of free traffic source:

Web 2.0 like hubpage, Squidoo
Press releases
Classified ads
Targeted blog comment

When you post a new article / blog post submit it to Reddit, Stumbleupon, Digg etc.

One guy I coach, get's anywhere from 300-600 uniques a day off of Reddit.

Since you're talking about direct traffic versus SEO driven traffic from search engines, your best bet is to advertise on related niche forums. You could use a signature line or where allowed, the promotion section of the forum. You could always offer a freebie such as free software or ebook download (with email signup) to induce click through.

Best Free Traffic Method; You Tube and Face Book
These are the 2 big sources which can generate tons of free traffic if done correctly.

Create a blog, give good content, not spam, participate in discussions online, create you tube videos, link your social networking sites to your blog, YouTube, and websites.. If you stay active, you will create traffic. This is a very short answer, just search online how to do it

Personally I like using YouTube to drive traffic. YouTube and SEO actually but a blog is also a good option but Google loves videos.

Get a Facebook page going for it. Build up a network of fans for it. If you don't have any advertising budget, the likes will still add up daily.

try social media like facebook ,stumbleupom

press releases and article sydication. Get infront of your most likely candiatates or most likely prospect.

These two are a bit more running around or leg work if you may, but the results are 100 times better. A really well written press release can bring in mass subscribers and sales over a few days, even a few hours. There is real power in this, trust me.

There are some cheap SEO and backlinking services offered on Fiverr. Then, you can use social media. Twitter is good because if you use a hashtag people search for they will find your tweet thank links to your site. Pintrest is good too because people will repin your pin and your site will get around. Then find other similar sites and trade links with each other- you link to their site and they link to yours.

Probably YouTube. Create a bunch of screencast tutorials.

I will say blogging. Blogspot is good, and can get you hundreds of hits per day... but you dont own the landscape. Meaning your account (and years of content) can be instantly removed, deleted, and banned by Google for no good reason. Stick with Wordpress, and blog often about topics in the niche you're in.

there are so many traffic methods you can use to drive traffic as you already know,but video marketing has proven to be one of the best way to drive targeted traffic

Guest blogging. Hard to implement but free.

getting traffic through free method is very hard to achieve, however you can try promoting your product or service through social media like facebook, twitter, youtube, etc.

for many years, i'v been using FB Ads to get optmize traffic.

As per Google latest Penguin 2.0 update Google will get you more traffic free if you improve on the following 3 major points

1. Quality back links- Back links from reputed sites will improve your site SEO value but link from a spam site will reduce your site's google credibility.

2. Quality Content - You must have quality and unique content that has an audience base. You must update the site with new unique content.

3. Social Sites - Regular updates on social sites will improve your site's crediblity. Not only that Google is likely to place those fan pages in better rank in search.

I think if you concentrate on 3 things along with normal SEO of your site pages you will get a lot of free traffic through google either directly or via social sites.

There's plenty of advice you could get. My advice? Try two resources in particular; Moz and Econsultancy. Become a smarter digital marketer. If you're a self-starter, these are the best two websites for online marketing IMO.

All of the popular social networks work great for me.

My favorites are YouTube & Facebook.

You want highly targeted traffic for the best conversions, so I would create content specifically for your niche and post it on Facebook and Youtube with a link to your website.

You could also try eZines and you could create a blog.

Hope this helps!

All the best,
Josh

A tip from one of the members on warrior, was to check out the podcasts on itunes. They are the ones you want to listen too, i download the free podcasts that talks about internet marketing, and etc.

I have always been fond of signature advertising in your chosen niche on forums. Of course instead of money you are still investing time. So I guess you pay either way you go?

Create a brand. Make sure you use the same picture on Facebook Page, Twitter, Linkedin is the first step because people will start to recognize you.

Next step is to ask yourself, "Who is my customer and what fears, hopes, dreams do they have, and where do they hangout?"

Once you ask yourself those questions you'll know where the best place is to generate traffic and you'll have the ability to create content that they actually want to read.

The next thing you need to do is to start converting those people into your email list. Run a/b split tests to see what is working and what isn't so that you can constantly work towards growth.

Use analytic tools to track everything and I mean EVERYTHING you possibly can to see if changes impact your audience positively or negatively.

If you need any help just PM me and I'd be happy to help!

One that probably does not get mentioned much is yahoo answers. It does work.

seo, youtube, guest blogging, backlinks. there are literally tons of ways to generate traffic
good luck

Good thread. Now, what is the best PAID method to drive traffic? I mean, what has really worked, no BS.

There is no FREE traffic.

Don't fool yourself in believing that.

You can either buy traffic or you can spend most of your time trying to get " FREE TRAFFIC".

Yes you can leverage . But that is also not free.

If you are trying to promote a motor membership, have you thought of thinking where your target market might congregate online - like forums, blogs etc - find those blogs and forums then look at what members are posting as issues problems etc - answer some posts on the forums with your motor membership as a signature link. If you find where you target market hang out then put yourself in front of them by adding value and helping solve problems you should get noticed that way. Just a suggestion...

Stay away from Adwords. Depending on your product Facebook advertising does very well.

Michael

Hi,
I hope you have a blog! If you do, you should be blog commenting, as well as, forum marketing.
I just saw a video where the gal drove 8000 people to her website in 30 days. She is on twitter and her name is Ti Roberts @tiroberts.
Go and listen to her video on getting traffic and it's all free.

Good luck,
Geri Richmond

Though no method is truly free I would have to say SEO.

Get a big bumper sticker then drive around on the loop in circles all day. Make sure you hit your breaks quite a bit so they see the sticker and are close enough to it.

I posted comments on relevant forums and blogs to get generate traffic for my web site. I also added my web site back link in my profile and left info that added to the discussions going down within the forums. This led to free traffic generation for my web site.

I always prefer twitter as my best traffic, facebook and pinterest is also good. Best traffic to convert is reviews of your website on top blogs. You may have to buy this.

There are many ways to drive traffic in your website, among them forum posting, answering forum posting in authentic way, facebook sharing and regular twitter posting is valuable for getting more traffic.

Blogging and social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. are good. Unfortunately it takes a lot of work.

Best free method to drive traffic to website is build quality High Authority links to your website either through relevant blog posting or via linking from that quality authority domain