How To Get Traffic http://how-to-get-traffic.com Getting traffic to your website or blog - Tips, Tricks and Advise Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:51:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Free Classified Ads http://how-to-get-traffic.com/free-classified-ads/ http://how-to-get-traffic.com/free-classified-ads/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:51:23 +0000 Arun http://how-to-get-traffic.com/?p=28 There are also free classified ads that you could avail of. These are usually sites that are built for the sole purpose of displaying ads per category. The problem with this option is that, because it’s free, you’ll be competing against thousands upon thousands of other advertisers vying for the same market. Additionally, people might not have the patience to sift through thousands upon thousands of ads. For this option to work, your ads would need to stand out from the rest of the pack.
Here are some tips to help you come up with a killer ad for free classifieds. • Formulate an attention-grabbing headline. Your headline is your only chance to capture the interests of the readers, especially in a venue as crowded as free classified ad websites. Make sure that you clearly state the main benefit that your readers will derive from what you are advertising.
• Keep your ad short, but sweet. People won’t have the patience to read a mini-sales copy. Stick to the basics and present your ad as concisely as possible without compromising its appeal.
• Try to capture leads instead of generating sales. You may not be able to garner immediate customers, but at least, you’d be
able to inform them about your website and your business for future considerations.Free classified ads may not be as powerful a technique as the other tactics we have discussed in this chapter. But they’re free, and as with everything else that does not come at a price, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by trying out this approach.

]]> http://how-to-get-traffic.com/free-classified-ads/feed/ Back Links At .Edu Websites http://how-to-get-traffic.com/back-links-at-edu-websites/ http://how-to-get-traffic.com/back-links-at-edu-websites/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:55:21 +0000 Arun http://how-to-get-traffic.com/?p=27 The domain extension .edu is reserved for bona fide educational institutions. Google, being the “thinking” search engine that it is,awards high ranks to websites whose links appear in .edu websites. Hence, one way by which you can ensure a high position in the search engines is by penetrating these .edu websites. Somehow,you should be able to leave your URL on their pages. This is quite difficult, considering how selective most .edu websites are.The easiest way is to look for .edu websites with forums for membersof their respective academe. Participate wholeheartedly in the discussions and leave your URL whenever possible.

]]> http://how-to-get-traffic.com/back-links-at-edu-websites/feed/ Yahoo Answers http://how-to-get-traffic.com/yahoo-answers/ http://how-to-get-traffic.com/yahoo-answers/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:42:32 +0000 Arun http://how-to-get-traffic.com/?p=26 I was one of the first to discover, and test, the traffic-generating potential of Yahoo Answers, a user-driven  question-and-answer forum sponsored by Yahoo. Yahoo Answers encourage members (you must have a valid Yahoo account) to answer a question posted by a fellow member. The best answer is awarded recognition, and a prime spot on that particular page. Also, answers can cite the URLs of their sources. Can you see the strategy taking shape? Simply search for a question related to the subject of your website. Answer it to the best of your abilities, then leave your website’s URL as a source. Repeat the process for every question you can find. You will notice direct traffic generated from such a technique. Furthermore, if your website is new, posting at Yahoo Answers will get your URL listed in search engines within 48 to 72 hours – quite fast in this day and age. Why? It’s because answers posted over at Yahoo Answers get listed overnight in the major search engines, and such will lead the search engine spiders directly to your own web pages.

]]> http://how-to-get-traffic.com/yahoo-answers/feed/ Sponsoring Contests For Fresh Content http://how-to-get-traffic.com/sponsoring-contests-for-fresh-content/ http://how-to-get-traffic.com/sponsoring-contests-for-fresh-content/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:10:01 +0000 Arun http://how-to-get-traffic.com/?p=25 You can even encourage your readers to submit well-crafted content by hosting contests where the winner can be awarded a specified prize, provided that he will surrender all the rights to the winning entry. Believe it or not, some people will even submit entries without the promise of a prize. For them, a venue where they can display their skills is enough motivation.

]]> http://how-to-get-traffic.com/sponsoring-contests-for-fresh-content/feed/ Getting Visitors To Add Fresh Content http://how-to-get-traffic.com/getting-visitors-to-add-fresh-content/ http://how-to-get-traffic.com/getting-visitors-to-add-fresh-content/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:30:43 +0000 Arun http://how-to-get-traffic.com/?p=24 To Your Website Earlier, we discussed the sheer importance of always striving to add new content to your web pages. But this can be a very onerous undertaking. You will have to write – or cause the writing of – the content and you will have to manually upload it to your website. You can, however, encourage your visitors to add content to your own website. This way, you can be assured of fresh content, even if you’re not in front of your PC.You can add a “comment box” for every content piece you upload, for example.Or you can encourage reviews from your readers.All of these are made easy by a program called Turbo Feedback Manager.

]]> http://how-to-get-traffic.com/getting-visitors-to-add-fresh-content/feed/ Blogs And RSS http://how-to-get-traffic.com/blogs-and-rss/ http://how-to-get-traffic.com/blogs-and-rss/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:23:56 +0000 Arun http://how-to-get-traffic.com/?p=23 You don’t have to wait for people to discover your blog, however. You can announce new blog entries to the whole world… or in this case, to the whole World Wide Web.You can do this through RSS, a file type that makes syndication very, very easy. All blogging services can transform your entries into RSS feeds, ready to be distributed to open channels.Real Simple Syndication (RSS) is slowly becoming the universal standard for message transmission over the Internet. RSS is an excellent option for the following reasons:
• Your messages will be delivered straight to the recipient’s desktop, eliminating the possibility of your messages being filtered out as spam.
• Your messages will be delivered in real time, meaning, your recipient will receive them as soon as you send them out.
• Your messages can be displayed on all the websites you maintain.
• RSS feeds can be generated from your blog entries.
• There are a lot of novel applications being developed for RSS.
You can even send audio messages, and the file size is amazingly kept to a minimum thanks to RSS 2.0 technology.To start delivering RSS feeds, all you need is an RSS feed generator.These are widely available for free all over the Internet. Your
recipients will need an RSS feed reader. If they don’t have one,they’ll be prompted to download a copy, also for free.

]]> http://how-to-get-traffic.com/blogs-and-rss/feed/ Blogging And Tagging http://how-to-get-traffic.com/blogging-and-tagging/ http://how-to-get-traffic.com/blogging-and-tagging/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:25:20 +0000 Arun http://how-to-get-traffic.com/?p=22 The problem with the blog-and-ping strategy, however, is that it will never generate targeted traffic; rather, it would tap into a general audience. If you’re looking for mere volume of visitors, the blog-andping tactic may suffice. But if you want a specific group of visitors, blogging and tagging is the way to go. Basically, tags are the new age keywords. What makes them different, however, is that they are keywords that web publishers can choose. Now tags play a crucial role in ser-driven blog directories. Why? Because bloggers can choose the tags under which their blog entries will be classified with. If you have a blog about dog care, for example, you can choose the terms “dog,” “dogs,” or “dog care” as your tags. You won’t have to populate your blog entries to satisfy certain keyword density levels. By classifying them under the tags of your choice, you’ll be able to tell the world that your blog entries are all about the tags they pertain to. Want to know more about keywords in general? Do check out the Internet Marketing Cookery: Bake Your Online Success With Easy-To-Use Recipes, a thorough guide for everything you need to start out with online marketing. You can also give Jimmy D. Brown & Ryan Deiss’ Niche Factors a try to learn the many techniques you can employ to find highly profitable niiches. You can use some of these techniques to find hot, hot tags.
1. Create a blog. It would be nice if you can host your blog under your own domain name.
2. Create an account with www.flickr.com. Upload an image relevant to your online business. It can be a picture of your product or even a picture of yourself if you’re branding your online persona.
3. Hyperlink your URL to your images. Use the tag below: <a href=”http://yoururl.com”>custom message here</a>
4. Categorize your images under appropriate tags related to your online business.
5. Now, sign up with some social bookmarking websites. We will be discussing these in depth in succeeding tactics, but for now, simply create an account with www.furl.net then bookmark your website and blogs under their appropriate tags. You can do this for other social bookmarking websites like www.del.icio.us, www.moreover.com, www.blinklist.com,and others we will be enumerating in the next chapter.
6. Sign up your blog at www.technorati.com . Choose appropriate tags.
7. Publish a post.
8. Ping www.technorati.com
At this point, you will notice that Technorati will categorize your blog entries according to the tags you have chosen.Every tag has a landing page. The landing page is arranged in such a way that certain entries will be seen before others, hence the method we have described above. The goal is to populate the landing page with links to your blog, as much as possible.

]]> http://how-to-get-traffic.com/blogging-and-tagging/feed/ Blogging And Pinging http://how-to-get-traffic.com/blogging-and-pinging/ http://how-to-get-traffic.com/blogging-and-pinging/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:28:48 +0000 Arun http://how-to-get-traffic.com/?p=21 The usual practice circa 2005 was to regularly publish new posts in your blog, then ping blog directories through services like www.pingomatic.com to inform them that you had new content.This would make the URL to your blog appear in a favorable position in those blog directories. Furthermore, since search engine spiders crawl through those blog directories, they would likewise be alerted that you had published new content.

]]> http://how-to-get-traffic.com/blogging-and-pinging/feed/ Blogging http://how-to-get-traffic.com/blogging/ http://how-to-get-traffic.com/blogging/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:34:43 +0000 Arun http://how-to-get-traffic.com/?p=20 Blogs are great online social tools, but they have become powerful Internet marketing weapons in recent years. There are many
reasons for this.

• Blogs are simplified content management systems, in essence. Publishing content is easy. You can upload new content conveniently and regularly… and search engine spiders LOVE regularly updated content.
• Blogs have their own interconnectivity. Bloggers will link to you, often without expecting anything in return. This will give you additional sources of traffic.
• Blogs have become the launching pads for many Web pursuits that can dramatically increase the traffic that can pass through your pages. Blogs are the anchors of pinging techniques, tagging strategies, and many other revolutionary methods.
A blog can serve as your main website itself. As we have discussed earlier, blogs are simplified content management systems. Think Joomla or Mambo, only easier… way easier. But blogs can serve you better if they are used as follows:
• To complement your main website. Each entry can include a link to your main website, increasing the number of back links.
• As an anchor site to once again complement your main website. A blog has a higher chance of figuring prominently well in relevant search engine results. Hence, it has a better chance of attracting targeted visitors, and leading them to your main website.
• To interact with the members of your target market through the comments feature of your blog. Also, blogs are more personal, more intimate… your readers will be able to relate with you better. Setting up a blog is quite easy. Free services like www.blogger.com and www.wordpress.com abound.

You can even download movable type blogs from these services so that you can host your own blog under your own server and under your own domain name.

]]> http://how-to-get-traffic.com/blogging/feed/ Forum Marketing http://how-to-get-traffic.com/forum-marketing/ http://how-to-get-traffic.com/forum-marketing/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 07:33:48 +0000 Arun http://how-to-get-traffic.com/?p=19 There are a lot of online communities on the Internet. There are actually forums for every niche of every market. If you manage to infiltrate these forums, you’d only be reaping more benefits for your business and your website.
• Membership in a forum will afford you a signature box where you can place a link to your website. Your signature box would appear in every post you make. If you make a hundred posts in a hundred different threads, for example, you’d have a hundred different pages providing inbound links to your website!
• Forums are excellent venues where you can build relationships with potential clients. Being dedicated to the subject of your business, you’re sure to mingle with people who are most likely very interested in what you have to offer. By befriending these people, you could secure for yourself some faithful customers, or, at the very least, regular visitors to your website.
• Forums would provide for you a channel where you could interact with your target market. You could help them out with their concerns, answer any questions that might be bothering them, or make recommendations whenever it’s appropriate.
In so doing, you’d be branding yourself as an expert in the field. Once your credibility has been established and your worth to the online community has been proven, you could suggest the use of your products or the information contained on your website. This could win you some highly targeted visitors. There are a lot of forums on the World Wide Web. There’s sure to be one devoted to the market you’re eyeing. You can use the resources below to find the forum catering to the market you have in mind.

www.theforumzone.com
http://www.directories-directory.info
http://www.thelocalforum.co.uk/directory

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