10 Ways to Generating Traffic & Links to your Website

Traffic is something we all need . If you have traffic, you know that people find your posts and resources valuable, I have put together 10 ways that will  hopefully help you to generate more traffic to your blog or website for free . I hope that you will find this post helpful. If you have any other ways to generate traffic please post a comment .

1.Article Marketing

You write articles and distribute them to article directories. There are hundreds of article directories on the Internet. You can submit to them all  but should  at least submit to the following EzineArticles.com, GoArticles.com and ArticleBase.com.

2.Press Release Marketing

A properly written press release is a powerful tool that can benefit your business in many ways while continuing to send traffic your way for months or even years to come , here are a few to get started with Free Press Release PRWeb and 24-7PressRelease .

3.Link Directories

Well, there are more link directories out there than there are article directories. Getting your website on these article directories sure is an easy way to build backlink. Some of these directories will have a high Pagerank, which will help in search engine spider crawls and indexing. Simple searching for “link directories” will give you a lot of options. You may need to prepare some basic info about your site because you are going to need them a lot when you start to submit your website to these directories. Google Link Directories

4.Social Bookmarking

This is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata, typically in the form of tags that collectively and/or collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social tagging, “the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content You can bookmark your own sites. You can also expect some viral traffic if your site contains really great content that others would appreciate. make sure you bookmark specific pages, not just the main page website. Some social bookmarking sites are  Digg, StumbleUpon,  Etc. You can use SocialMarker.com to help you bookmark your website to more social bookmaking sites faster.

5.Posting Blog Comments

You can simply go to other people’s blog and leave your comments there. There are many high PR blogs, so that is a good place to start looking for blogs to comment to. And make sure you make insightful comments and not  just blantantly promote your site.

6.Submitting Videos

This is simple. Create and upload videos. One video can be submitted to many, many video sites. You know, YouTube, Metacafe, Viddler, etc… And don’t tell me that videos are hard to create. Just use the free photos from SXC.hu, your website screen shot and the free video editing software in your computer – Movie Maker or iMovie. If you have Camtasia, you can use that too. And your video doesn’t have to be long. 1-2 minute is good enough. And the best part, you can link back to your website. Use Tubemogul to submit your videos to multiple sites  at once.

7.Creating Profile Pages

Not many really know about this. There are many high authority websites that accepts user registrations. And each user will have their own profile page. Another interesting thing is that you can link to your website from your profile page. Just some that I can list out right now… StumbleUpon.com, MyBlogLog.com, Digg.com, YouTube.com… and also VBulletin powered forums.

8.Forum Posting

Forum Posting Is similar to blog comments, but this time you participate in forums. Just like doing blog comments, I recommend that you participate in or start a conversion and sharing something of value. Do not get involved in any negative discussion, I recommend that you link your site only from your signature, also try and make a few post each day. Here are some Forums to get  you started Beternetworker & Warriorforum

9.Software Directory

This may sound strange and unrelated, but you can create some kind of software for your site. There’s this thing called PAD file, where it contains info about your software. What you need is a PAD file creator, and then just use a PAD submitter and you are all done. As for the software, you can use Byterun software to convert you website to a EXE file

10.Social Pages

This is where you create pages on websites like Squidoo Lens and HubPages. The ultimate is where you can get a link back from Wikipedia.

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