There are some old hat ways to drive traffic to your website for FREE building up a
steady flow of traffic.
Read on to find out how…………
Public Post Boards
One of the easiest ways is to
place an ad in your local community. Think about your local stores, college,
community centre etc. They all have one thing in common, Public Post Boards.
You can post whatever advertisement you wish, all for FREE. Print out a flyer
(about A5 size or smaller depending on space available – too big and they may
not have room for you). The idea is to use black writing on a bright coloured
card to make it stand out. You could even make the card circular to make it
stand out further from the other adverts.
Business cards are great for
putting up in local places as they don’t take up much room. Make them bright
and eye catching.
Link Exchanging
Look for websites with
similar content to yours. Contact the owner and ask them if they would be
willing to place a link for your website on their site in exchange for you
doing the same. Some websites actually have a button called ‘link to us’ on
their home page. You simply click this button, fill out your details and press
submit. Some may require approval from the site first.
Doing a google search for ‘free
link exchange’ will also bring up 100,000’s of sites that will do exchanges.
Viral Marketing
Send a funny picture, joke,
poem etc to a friend/family member and somewhere in it add a catch line (make
it good) and your website link. This in turn is sent to their friends and their
friends and so on. If you haven’t got one to send just wait until the next time
someone sends one to you and add your link to it before you pass it on. It’s
that simple!
Blogs
Do a google search for
websites relating to the content on your website. Have a look to see if that
website has a blog. If it does leave a nice reply on the blog saying for
example that you found the website informative and easy to use. Also say that
you found some great information also at this website (and add your website
address).
Alternatively search for
blogs in your topic and leave posts on it related to the content on the blog.
For example if the blog had content or comments about trying to lose weight you
could leave a post saying “I’ve also had trouble with trying to lose weight but
found some great tips at this website” (again insert your website address).
Business Cards, Flyers and
Stickers
This great advertising tool
can be left almost anywhere. Carry them with you and were ever you see an
opportunity to leave one, voila!
Offer an incentive
Create a quick 1 or 2 page
report to offer as a free gift. For example if your website is about weight
loss, create a quick report offering ‘20 quick weight loss tips’ or ‘weight
loss secrets revealed’. If you can’t think of something to write do a bit of
research in magazines, newspapers or on the internet for content that you could
quickly write up in your own words. You could add the report to your
website to encourage visitors and on your flyers, business cards or stickers
put ‘Free report on weight loss secrets revealed’ read it for free at www.yourwebsite.com.
You could also post the report on free article directory sites with your
website link in the ‘about the author’ box. Do a google search for ‘free
article directories’ and register with a few. Follow the simple instructions
for uploading your article to these sites, not forgetting to put your website
address in the ‘about author’ box.
Article Marketing
Create an article to submit
to article directories.
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