Nov

27

7 Traffic Generation Ideas

Filed Under Article Marketing, Blogging, Ebay, Forum Marketing, Group Marketing, Pay Per Click, Search Engine Marketing, Traffic Generation 

Today I would like to talk about how to generate traffic to your site.

1) Create a blog in your niche. Keep it updated - say 2-5 times a week. Use a service like Pingoat or Ping-o-Matic to tell the world your site has been updated. Wordpress has a nice feature that allows your blog to automatically ping many of the popular services every time you update your blog!

2) Create articles in your niche and submit them to both article directories and your blog. Many webmaster use these article directories to gather articles for their sites to use as content. If your article is interesting enough, you could see LOTS of backlinks to your article and your site! See What is Article Marketing for more information. You can also get a list of “Top 50 Article Directories By Traffic, Pagerank” by visiting - http://www.vretoolbar.com/articles/directories.php

3) Use Ebay! Ok … just follow me here: Ebay has a fairly new feature called Classified Ads and guess what? MANY of their normal rules do not apply in this section! For example, with a normal auction, you are not allowed to link to an outside site for sales…in Classified Ads, you CAN! The cost (as of today 11/27/2007) is less than $10.00 (US) for a 30-day listing. There are other “add-on” features you can, well, add on to the listing to make it stand out and it may be worth testing to see what works better for you. What is really nice is that Classified Ads show up when a Ebay user types in their normal search keywords! So, if you find a popular search term or product that is selling well on Ebay, you can grab yourself a portion of that traffic and send it to your site! Just make sure that your landing page is relevant to what the user is searching for ;-) … you can read more about Ebay Classified Ads Here.

4) Find Forums and Groups that are related to your niche. Make useful, relevant posts in those forums. USE YOUR SIGNATURE LINE, if allowed. If you are not a part of a forum or group, you are missing out! Not only can you get a lot of useful information that can help you make more money online, but you can also develop a nice following of people that may buy your products! Many forums generate thousands of page views and again, if you are not plugged into these forums and groups, you are missing out on some really good traffic!

5) Obvious…but manually submit your site to the major search engines and directories. I don’t suggest paying for submission, unless you can get it done manually. One nice site to check out that is “free” (with a voluntary donation option) is called SelfPromotion.Com. There are links to many of the search engines and directories on his site.

6) Not-So-Obvious - Use a page translation plugin or software! Guess what: not everyone on the planet reads or speaks English ;-) If you use a blog (again, another reason to use one) is that there are plugins that will do this for you. Why not give people the option to translate a page into Spanish, French, or German?! You can check out some plugins by going to Wordpress Plugins/Translation and Languages Page. Here is a nice Paid Translation Plugin - Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro For WordPress 2.x.y Blogs.

7) Use Pay Per Click advertising. Ok, so it’s not free, but it “can” be a nice addition to your other traffic generation techniques. Oh, yea … by the way - there are more choices other than Google Adwords, Yahoo SearchMarketing, or MSN AdCenter! You can check out PayPerClickSearchEngines.Com … there are tons of places … and the best part is that they can give you some of the same keywords/searches for a whole lot less money!

There are 7 ways you can generate traffic to your site. Theykey to ANY technique is to DO IT …. do everything you can do get traffic.

In the coming weeks, I will be adding onto this list…and please use the comment form below to add to them!!!

Wishing you the best!

Dave

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