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Aside from SEO, AdWords & social networks, how do I get traffic to a site?

by AmericanWarrior
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  • Profile picture of the author moonheart
    Just look around your niche, you will definitely find more and more resource for drive traffic to your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author BloggingPro
    Forum marketing. That alone can drive thousands upon thousands of visitors to your site every month, or even every day depending on how many forums you use and how active they are. Niche-related forums of course.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ralf Skirr
      Affiliate partners.

      Obviously it only applies if you're selling something with an affiliate program on your site.
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      • Profile picture of the author Boston Joe
        Guest blogging. If the blog is popular enough it could drive endless amounts of relevant traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author AmericanWarrior
      Originally Posted by Ralf Skirr View Post

      Affiliate partners.

      Obviously it only applies if you're selling something with an affiliate program on your site.
      Yep, we're definitely setting up a very good / high-paying affiliate program. Aside from advertising it on our site and emails, how do we get it noticed by affiliate marketers?

      Originally Posted by BloggingPro View Post

      Forum marketing. That alone can drive thousands upon thousands of visitors to your site every month, or even every day depending on how many forums you use and how active they are. Niche-related forums of course.
      Yea, I've thought about that - so basically just get someone to Google up hundreds of different forums and post there from time to time?
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      • Profile picture of the author davidmeeonline
        You could have a look through clickbank, there is training avaliable on how to setup affiliates, and how to attract them etc!
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        • Profile picture of the author AmericanWarrior
          Originally Posted by davidmeeonline View Post

          You could have a look through clickbank, there is training avaliable on how to setup affiliates, and how to attract them etc!
          Awesome, I'm on there now thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Gary Ning Lo
    Try adding a signature to warrior username

    This should drive some traffic..

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  • Profile picture of the author cryst
    just concentrate on your niche ....try to build some quality links to your site... this will help u in growth of your business...
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  • Profile picture of the author MandLoys
    Videos! And guest posting.
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    • Profile picture of the author AmericanWarrior
      Originally Posted by MandLoys View Post

      Videos! And guest posting.
      Like what kinda videos?

      Also, guest posts by who? Celebs? So do I just create a blog on the site and pay celebs to post there?
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  • Profile picture of the author Marian Berghes
    Solo Ads, Media Buys, Product Integration, Affiliates, Guest blogging...there just so many of them.

    And to get noticed by affiliates you just have to prove that your stuff converts well...run some tests on different paid traffic platforms and seo...gather data and then contact potential affiliates in your niche and tell them your stats and from where you got them.

    Make sure that you have a good back end tho so you can cover the cost of paying affiliate commissions.
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    • Profile picture of the author AmericanWarrior
      Originally Posted by Marian Berghes View Post

      Solo Ads, Media Buys, Product Integration, Affiliates, Guest blogging...there just so many of them.

      And to get noticed by affiliates you just have to prove that your stuff converts well...run some tests on different paid traffic platforms and seo...gather data and then contact potential affiliates in your niche and tell them your stats and from where you got them.

      Make sure that you have a good back end tho so you can cover the cost of paying affiliate commissions.
      Sorry, what do you mean by solo ads? Also what are media buys and product integration? Sigh I'm such a noob.
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      • Profile picture of the author ciel
        Originally Posted by AmericanWarrior View Post

        Sorry, what do you mean by solo ads? Also what are media buys and product integration? Sigh I'm such a noob.
        Solo ads are the single email advertisements about your website to someone's list which you can purchase here in Warrior forum as well.

        Media buys are finding out appropriate ad spots among your related niche websites & purchasing them to attract traffic to your own site.

        Have a look at the following thread, it will help.

        http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...d-traffic.html

        Hope to have helped.

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        • Profile picture of the author AmericanWarrior
          Originally Posted by ciel View Post

          Solo ads are the single email advertisements about your website to someone's list which you can purchase here in Warrior forum as well.

          Media buys are finding out appropriate ad spots among your related niche websites & purchasing them to attract traffic to your own site.

          Have a look at the following thread, it will help.

          http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...d-traffic.html

          Hope to have helped.

          Cheers
          Ciel!
          Thanks, checking that thread and a few sites out now.
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  • Profile picture of the author jt808
    There is lots, but here is few:

    Blog commenting, forum posting, and video content uploaded to Youtube.

    Make sure and include a link to your site.

    If you would have had your link in this post, I would have visited your site
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    • Profile picture of the author AmericanWarrior
      Originally Posted by jt808 View Post

      There is lots, but here is few:

      Blog commenting, forum posting, and video content uploaded to Youtube.

      Make sure and include a link to your site.

      If you would have had your link in this post, I would have visited your site
      Lol I would if it was up already!
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  • Profile picture of the author blueboy9
    Video marketing and forum posting are great because they have a snowball effect. One or two per day isn't much but after doing it for a few weeks or months the effect is *very* noticeable. The trick is in making your videos and forum posts valuable enough to be noticed.
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    • Profile picture of the author AmericanWarrior
      Originally Posted by blueboy9 View Post

      Video marketing and forum posting are great because they have a snowball effect. One or two per day isn't much but after doing it for a few weeks or months the effect is *very* noticeable. The trick is in making your videos and forum posts valuable enough to be noticed.
      So video marketing is basically just posting YouTube videos that market the site?
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  • Profile picture of the author Phuoc
    What about writing articles and marketing them, also known as Article Marketing.

    Then post it up on an article directory, you could use ezinearticles or streetarticles and then get ranked on Google based on the content you have in it.

    Hope it helps?
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  • Profile picture of the author fitz10
    Guest posting in related blogs
    Media buys
    Solo ads
    Webinars/teleseminars/telesummits
    Forum marketing
    Thank you page ads
    Videos
    Podcasting
    Photo traffic
    Article marketing
    *Actual* comment posting (no bots and one liners)
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  • Profile picture of the author michaeldoring
    Originally Posted by AmericanWarrior View Post

    Aside from SEO, AdWords & social networks, how do I get traffic to a site?
    I'm sure there's more I could be doing!
    When you say aside from SEO? So you mean not chasing Backlinks to position organic positioning in Google, and other search engines?

    Then other ways are this,

    If you are selling products, signup to affiliate networks and let their huge list of affiliate publishers promote your product.

    I would try and get on radio if your product is unique, or on TV like Current Affairs shows etc.

    Use Offline Marketing like banner advertisements, leave your business cards in random places specific to your business, put up flyers, or get polo printed with your website/logo on it and walk around.

    Umm... no other ideas spring to mind at present, this is an interesting question, I will subscribe to this thread.
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    • Profile picture of the author mikereisinger
      I would go for the forum profile links. It's worked well for me in the past. I also get a good deal of traffic from articles on smaller niche sites.
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      • Profile picture of the author michaeldoring
        Originally Posted by mikereisinger View Post

        I would go for the forum profile links. It's worked well for me in the past.
        CAUTION: I feel like spamming profiles for links can be risky, I know it can work, but read the below.

        Some interesting comments about spam profiles from Google Webmaster Central Blog, spammers '...will create accounts and fill their profiles with gibberish... they'll add a sneaky link... Welcome to the world of spam profiles...Some fake profiles are obvious...but we've noticed an increase in savvier spammers that try to use real names and realistic data to sneak in their bad links... This isn't an easy problem to solve...Google is constantly under attack by spammers trying to create fake accounts and generate spam profiles on our sites, and despite all of our efforts some have managed to slip through...' these comments are from Spam2.0: Fake user accounts and spam profiles (2009, June 26th). Retrieved 5th May 2011, from Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Spam2.0: Fake user accounts and spam profiles


        I recommend white hat link building. Google knows about profile spam, so whether its today, tomorrow or a year from now, their algorithm will get savvy.

        In addition, don't come and say that websites cannot be hurt by spam linking. Because you can hurt your own site with bad link strategies, and competitors can also hurt your site.

        Further supporting evidence of my viewpoint, is the video Can I flag spammy links to my site that I didn't create? By Matt Cutts that states '...we removed the language that it's impossible for a competitor to hurt another competitor and replaced it with language along the lines of its very hard...whenever we write an algorithm for example that looks at incoming links we do think about, ok, what if a competitor tried to hurt someone else, and we try to put in code to make sure that is not easy to do'


        Lastly, I have written a article about Forum Profile links, and the theme of the article is its dangerous, and not sustainable. The kind of links have a high rate of death. It would be redudant to include my article in this post, but it can found at My nonsensical rant about Forum Profile Backlinks*|*Michael Dorings Blog: SEO, Internet Marketing, and Life.
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  • Profile picture of the author fernades
    Originally Posted by AmericanWarrior View Post

    I'm sure there's more I could be doing!
    Do some local directory listing and advertisements in news papers. Hehe
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    • Profile picture of the author AmericanWarrior
      Originally Posted by fernades View Post

      Do some local directory listing and advertisements in news papers. Hehe
      Sounds like money flushed down the toilet, no? :p
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  • Profile picture of the author kfugere
    The best way is to keep creating content. Whether that is by using white papers, blogs, press releases. It is the most consistent way to drive traffic and will also enhance your SEO.
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    • Profile picture of the author AmericanWarrior
      Originally Posted by kfugere View Post

      The best way is to keep creating content. Whether that is by using white papers, blogs, press releases. It is the most consistent way to drive traffic and will also enhance your SEO.
      True, thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author stunning boy
    do blog commenting
    directory submission
    classifieds
    guest books
    article marketing
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  • Profile picture of the author michaeldoring
    I know 29 backlink-building methodologies thus far.

    A few are:
    1. Social bookmarking
    2. Article Marketing
    3. Forums (posts and profiles)
    4. Link directories
    5. Blog Commenting
    6. Guestbook's
    7. Reciprocal link exchange
    8. Press Release
    9. Squidoo and HubPages, etc
    10. Social Networking e.g. Twitter, Facebook
    11. Video Directories e.g. YouTube
    12. Research competitor links
    13. Recycle existing content, by merging it in different ways.Then submit it to article directories, or PDF directories, etc.
    14. Offline marketing e.g. mugs, polo shirts, banners, TV ads, etc
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  • Profile picture of the author dagaul101
    You could try press releases, and article marketing to the top article directories like Ezinearticles and Goarticles, the search engines tend to reward more for activities that involve a little more effort than say blog commenting
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    • Profile picture of the author OCLead
      Promote through classified ads, create your own blog and interlink it to your site. Your site will recognize if the content of your topics are good and have an optimize keywords.
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