How to Increase Your Targeted Website Traffic For Free
You want to increase the amount of targeted traffic to your website… and you want it for free from the search engines or other advertising sources! You can have all the traffic you want, as long as you're prepared to learn the basic SEO(Search Engine Optimization) ropes and create unique content.
Remember, you don't just simply want traffic. You want targeted traffic. And you can get it if you produce good, unique content. When visitors hit your site, they'll immediately be interested in your content if they're targeted visitors.
These Steps will Help You Generate Free Targeted Website Traffic:
1. Setup a Blog, preferably a Wordpress Blog
The reason a blog is going to help you to get free traffic faster is:
- It's fast and easy to add new content
- People tend to trust blogs more than websites
- Blogs get updated frequently by the search engines
- You get additional content when you allow visitors to post comments on your blog
- Your articles are linked and listed chronologically automatically in a blog – There's no need to do any linking of your pages like you'd have to do with a website
Maintaining a website is hard work. A blog eliminates a lot of the work you need to do for a website. For eg. you don't need to create a sitemap, or link your webpages together etc. which you have to do on a website.
If you intend to setup a blog long term and you want to build a business around it, get a Wordpress blog. And if you have some money to invest in the Semiologic add-on package, it's worth every penny. And it'll make your life a lot easier… and more efficient to setup and run your blog.
2. Get One-Way Links to Your Website or Blog
Google has stated that it does not like websites exchanging links directly. Therefore you need to get one-way links to your site to be on the safe side.
The easiest free ways to get a stampede of visitors to your site with free links is by:
- Submitting to carnivals at http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit.php
- Go to high traffic blogs and make contributing comments on those blogs
- You can find "Do Follow" blogs below which will allow the search engines to follow a link to your web site
Not all blogs do this, so make sure you visit blogs from these Do Follow lists.
Check out the Do Follow Blogs Directories and lists here:
3. Use Stumbleupon to Get Free Traffic to Your Site
Stumbleupon is a social bookmaking site. You need to have a good solid content site first before you use this technique.
But once you've got good content, you'll find stumbleupon will get you targeted traffic quicker than almost all the Web 2.0 sites. Simply open and account and get one or two people to help you to bookmark your site. Make sure they also bookmark other good websites too and Stumbleupon will send you decent traffic…
4. Submit Videos with VideoUploadPro or Tubemogul.com
Use TubeMogul to upload your viral video to the web. It's a universal upload tool which uploads your video to all the supported video sharing sites, saving your loads of time. The supported sites for distribution include Yahoo Video, Blip.tv, Dailymotion, Google Video, Metacafe, Myspace, Revver, Youtube.
This site tracks stats about the video so you can see how much traffic it's getting across multiple networks.
If you want to make sure you get even more exposure for your viral video on the web, I highly recommend getting a copy of http://www.videouploadpro.com/. This software uploads your video to 18 different sites such as Flurl.com, Clipshack.com, Sharkle.com and all of the above site which Tubemogul submits to.
Obviously, there are many more methods to get free traffic for your site. I'll cover more methods in future articles.
What are your 'secrets' to get lots of free targeted visitors to your site?
How to Get Do Follow Links with High Pagerank
One of the easiest and quickest ways to get high pagerank links to your site is by commenting on blogs, forums and social bookmarking sites with high page rank. Any sites you find with a page rank of 3 and higher will most likely be worth your time.
Also consider the possibility that a site with pagerank 3 today, could be a pagerank 4 or 5 in six to twelve months time. So make sure you visit these sites and give useful and helpful comments to the site owners.
Here's a 3-Step Strategy to Get
Do Follow Links from High Pagerank Sites
1. Use software to find Blogs which follow the "Do Follow" attribute.
A lot of Wordpress blog owners are already ignoring the nofollow rule and have started allowing the search engines to follow links to your website via the "Do Follow" attribute. This is good news for all of us who would like good links and are prepared to to give contributing comments on other related blogs.
To find the Do Follow blogs in your niche, simply go to http://www.ezbusinessneeds.com/dofollow.php. It does quite a good job of finding blogs, but does not seem to find all the blogs in a niche. I use Fast Blog Finder as it finds a lot more blogs with Google page rank. You can get a trial version here.
Also lookout for blogs which use the KeywordLuv Wordpress plugin. This plugin allows you to put your name in the name field of your comment, followed by an @ symbol and then your keywords. The result is that your keywords get anchored after your blog's url.
Now you get one way backlinks with targeted keywords to your website and the blog owner gets comments on his or her blog.
2. Post at Forums to High PR and Do Follow Links
I once found this list of high page rank forums at webgenome.com. It comes in very handy as these forums all have high pagerank and use the Do Follow attribute. The problem is that you can't use these fourms in many niches. You would therefore have to search via google for more niche related high pagerank forums.
Anyway, here is a list of those high pagerank forums:
* Adobe Forums – Lets Talk about Flash Baby
o Adobe RSS Feed Submittal – This may be hand reviewed – But if your blog talks about Adobe products, you can get a PR10 Backlink
* MSDN Forums – I can’t get Vista to Work either
* MySQL Forums – Debugging is poetry
* AMD Support Forums – I can’t get Vista to work either 
* Intel Software Network Forums – Note Intel has many different dedicated forums on different subjects
* CNET Forums – Can you fix my PC?
* Payment Processing Forum – Sig Links have PR6 Passed.
3. Get High Pagerank from Social Bookmarking Sites
You can also get high pagerank links from social bookmarking sites. You simply bookmark your content to get links to your site. You'd definitely also want to bookmark other sites too, to be of use to the community. Only bookmarking your own pages could get you into hot water with the social bookmarking site.
Here is the list of Pagerank 4 to 6 Social Bookmarking Sites:
1. Mister-Wong – Pagerank 6
2. Backflip – Pagerank 6
3. Spurl – Pagerank 6
4. Bibsonomy – Pagerank 6
5. LinkaGoGo – Pagerank 6
6. SpotBack – Pagerank 5
7. Buddy Marks – Pagerank 5
8. MyLinkVault – Pagerank 5
9. MyVmarks – Pagerank 4
10. TeDigo – Pagerank 4
11. ClipClip – Pagerank 4
12. A1 Webmarks – Pagerank 4
13. OYAX – Pagerank 4
14. Connectedy – Pagerank 4
Please comment and add your methods of getting high pagerank one way links to your site…
An Affordable Web Site Traffic System
Buying traffic is getting expensive. You only have to track the rising prices of clicks at Google Adwords to realize this fact. You can get your web site off the ground fast by simply investing some time. Use software tools and a simple promotion strategy to increase the flow of visitors to your websites.
Here’s a Mini-Traffic System to Get Affordable Web Site Traffic:
Step 1. Create a Blog and Write Content for It – the Right Way
This is a free method that only costs your time. It's very effective to build traffic to your web site or blog over time. The search engines love blogs and spider active blogs frequently. Once you've registered a domain, setup a wordpress blog and write content for it to get traffic.
Before you start writing your articles, make sure you research your keywords first, and then target long tail keywords (keywords with 2 or more words). Use Wordtracker.com of Nichebot.com for your keyword research. Then read up and apply the basics of Search Engine Optimization so that the articles on your blog get found by the search engines. You'll then start to get traffic for many of your articles, especially if you work on getting links to these articles.
Step 2. Get Links to your Long Tail Content Pages
Use Web 2.0 to Get Your Content Found Quickly
Set up accounts at digg.com and propeller.com. Then submit good content at these sites and you'll get indexed quickly by the search engines. Your site will also get additional links from these authority web sites. Now you can go ahead and add additional links to your web page and get a good ranking.
Should you want to submit to more Web 2.0 sites, you can go to http://www.socialmarker.com and promote your website or blog to to all the social networks immediately. You'll need to sign up to the social networks manually the first time, but after that the submission is fast and easy via socialmarker.com.
Comment on Blogs Which Have the Allow "Do Follow" Attribute
You can definitely find blogs in your niche which will have the "Do Follow" attribute. This means if you leave a comment on their blog, the search engines will follow a link in your comment to your web site. Please don't advertise on their blog, as you're a guest on their site… so add value to their blog in exchange for a link.
You can find a free program to find these blogs at http://www.ezbusinessneeds.com/dofollow.php. It works fine, but does not seem to do the best job of finding all the blogs in a niche. I use the professional version of Fast Blog Finder as it finds a lot more blogs with Google page rank. You can get a trial version here.
Now add a Press Release….
Create a press release and submit it to free and paid services. The best paid ones I use are prweb.com and webwire.com. I prefer the paid version of prweb.com. For $220 you can submit a press release and imbed a link to your website. You might think it's very expensive, but you could get a lot of traffic from your press release and some great links which will give your site a nice boost in the search engine rankings.
Some free press release sites to possibly get you more targeted traffic are:
- theopenpress.com
- prlog.org
- openpr.com/news/submit.html
- pr.com/promote-your-business
- pr9.net/press
- free-press-release.com
Let me know which your favorite traffic methods are and why they work for you…
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