The Top 7 Ways To Generate Website Traffic

If you did an indepth survey, you’d quickly find out that many websites suffer from, “No trafficitis!”

They built an awesome website but they have no visitors and as you know, a lack of website traffic will mean the death of any website no matter how great the graphics, content or idea.

And for those of you who don’t know, just because you have a website doesn’t mean that you are going to automatically get website traffic.

If you want visitors, you are going to have to take steps to drive them to your domain.

Assuming that your website is already SEO optimized, here are my top 6 ways to generate a high volume of website traffic with very little money.

Website Traffic Hot Tip #1

Submit Your Website To All of the Search Engines

I would not pay for this service and I would not use any automated submitter software or service. The reason being is because search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. often change their algorithms and submission rules to prevent automatic submissions. It’s laborious work, but submitting your website manually to each search engine doesn’t cost a dime and it protects you from automatic rejection. As the search engines crawl your website, you will see an increase in organic traffic.

Website Traffic Hot Tip #2

Write and Submit Informative Articles

There are numerous online article depositories, e-zines and online encyclopedias that allow to submit your articles and make them available to their readers. Some of these article repositories have thousands and tens of thousands members. By posting your informative articles on these types of websites, you will immediately expose your website to a multitude of individuals who are eagerly searching for what you are writing about.

There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money; it is best to write the articles yourself. Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise in so that when people read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that links them to your website. When you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your website to see what else you have to offer.

Website Traffic Hot Tip #3
Start a Newsletter

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles needed to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and websites that are willing to provide free articles as long as you agree to put their name and a link in your newsletter. Essentially, this provides free advertising for them.

As your newsletter gets passed around, you can widen your public awareness and 

Website Traffic Hot Tip #4

Build An Opt-In List

An Opt-In List has fast become the cornerstone to sure online success. The list is comprised of people that have signed up through an auto responder form on your website giving you permission to email them with more information on whatever it was that you are offering, (i.e., products, hot tips, ebooks, up coming events, etc.) The power of being able to email your list with product offers is essential to your online success. Just think, lets say you’ve built up a list of 4700 members on your DIY auto care website and you decide to offer them an ebook that shows them how to avoid getting ripped off by shady auto mechanics. That’s like making a sales pitch to a room filled with people who already trust and believe in you. How hard will it be to close that deal? Get the picture?

Website Traffic Hot Tip #5

Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

Website Traffic Hot Tip #6

Get Involved in Exchanging Links

This is a sure and proven method. Rarely will you see a website where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so they can produce more public awareness about their websites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site as you exchange links.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as theirs. You should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of information and services to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website with little or no costs.

Website Traffic Hot Tip #7

Traffic Exchange

This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each other’s efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your website’s existence is boosted.

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