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How many ways are there to get free web site traffic? I don't know, but this week I'll tell you about some of them. Hopefully there will be one or two ways here that you haven't yet tried. Feel free to email me at stevegillman@themoneymakersite.com if you want to add to the list.
1. Search engine submissions. The obvious one, right? You can submit to 20 at once for free at www.freewebsubmission.com. Submit manually to Google (www.google.com/addurl.html).
2. Directories. You can search for niche directories for the topic of your website, and I'll have a list of free general directories in an upcoming issue. The primary value of directories is not direct traffic, however. It is the links that help your ranking (and therefore traffic) with the search engines.
3. Forums. Covered in the last issue, these can be a great source of traffic for some sites. You may want to link to subscription pages for newsletters or e-courses you offer, to get maximum repeat visits from the traffic.
4. Free classified ads. There are many places that you can advertise for free, but only a few of them seem to be of any value. I'll let you know which have worked for me in a coming issue.
5. Link exchanges. Exchanging links with other sites can get you free traffic in two ways. First, you may get traffic from the site, and second, the link will help your placement in, and traffic from the search engines.
6. Posting paper ads. I've seen more people posting ads for web sites on bulletin boards, telephone poles and at bus stops lately. I don't know if this is worth the time or not.
7. Testimonials. If you loved an e-book or other online product, tell the author. Let her know that she can use your testimonial, and that you'd appreciate it if she left the link to your site (under your name) active. Good testimonials are valuable, and you've probably seen them with a name and link attached.
8. Articles. This is a great way to generate free traffic. I'll cover this in depth soon. I'll also let you know which ten article banks have generated the most traffic for me.
9. Start a blog. Post your thoughts, news and products, and always have a link to your site. Blogger.com will get you started for free, and Pingomatic will notify the major blog directories of your existence.
10. Post comments in other's blogs. Many blogs have a "comments" section, and allow you to post a message. Sales pitches are usually frowned on, but a link to your site under your name is usually okay.
11. Start your own affiliate program. It's hard to do this one free at first (but possible), but once you have it set up, you only pay out of your sales.
12. Add content. You can get free content from article banks. You have to leave the author's link active, but it won't matter if you lose a few visitors to that, if the new page brings in visitors. You can also write your own pages, of course.
13. Submit press releases. There are several good places online that distribute your press releases for free. I'll have a list for you soon. If you add a new section to your web site - time for a press release!
14. Opt-in newsletters and courses. Have a newsletter or e-course on your site, and once someone signs up for them, they have to return repeatedly.
15. Distribute a free e-book. This works especially well if you have several related web sites. The idea is to sell or give away the book (probably in PDF format) and have several links in it to your site. You can even let other web masters give it away as a free gift.
16. Pay per click search engines. Free? Sometimes the new ones offer $20 worth of free traffic just to get you to try them. I signed up for one that gave me $100 to start. I'll cover this in a future issue too.
17. Domain type-ins. A name like "cars.com" is sure to get free "type in" traffic, but who can afford names like that? What you can do, is to see if there are ".nets" that are active, without the ".com" registered.
18. Have an interesting site. In the early days of the net, the primary way sites got incoming links was just through other web masters wanting to tell there visitors about a site. This still happens.
Next Time: An easy way to write an article fast, and generate traffic with it.
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