Top 10 Ways To Get More Traffic To Your Website Free

BusinessMarketing & Advertising

  • Author Cecilia Biemann
  • Published May 5, 2011
  • Word count 1,303

The more traffic your website or blog attracts, the quicker and it will be for you to grow wealth, spread your messages, self-promote, connect with people, or anything else you want out of your online endeavors.

If you are eager to increase free traffic to your website or blog, start applying these methods to boost your traffic right now and your numbers are guaranteed to rise!

Here's 10 easy techniques you can use today that will start getting you results as soon as tomorrow.

  1. Add Unique Content To Your Site

Adding unique content on your website regularly is one of the easiest, yet most important things you can do to receive more free traffic to your site because Google and other search engines value this most. Ensure the content you publish on your website or blog as original as possible, and add fresh new content as often as you can manage and Google will naturally start sending plenty more free traffic to your site.

Not keen on the idea of writing the content yourself? Then head on over to Fiverr.com and pay someone $5 to do it for you.

  1. Get Guest Posts Published On Related Blogs

What's in this for you? The editor of the blog on which your guest post is being published will normally allow you to include your website link in an author bio at the bottom of the post. Plenty of that blogs visitors are likely to click on the link and visit your site, and the best thing is that it will be highly targeted traffic.

To get your link out there in from of targeted readers via guest posts on related blogs, simply write a post appropriate that matches the specific style and target audience of the blog you want your guest post to be published on, then email it to the owner of the blog with a short note introducing yourself and your blog or website, and ask them whether they are interested in publishing your guest post on their blog. You might not be offered a guest blogging spot today, this week, this month, or ever on the bigger blogs, but you are bound to have success with a few medium sized blogs within your niche.

  1. Be Intentionally Controversial

When you present something controversial on your website, soon people will talk about it and link to it, either because they strongly agree or disagree with your point of view. The outcome will be loads of free traffic streaming your way. Give it a shot, it works almost every time!

  1. Post a 'Top 10' or 'Top 100' List On Your Site

'Top 10' lists are incredibly popular with online crowds because they are a small snack of appealing information snippets that are easy to digest and share with others. Popular 'Top 10' lists rank highly in search engines and also tend to get many links from other bloggers in that same niche - the trick to getting great results is to be the 1st to create a 'Top 10' list about a certain topic within your niche.

"Top 100" lists are super for generating free traffic too as people are strongly inclined to bookmark and share "Top 100" lists due to the huge amount of value they usually offer. Preparing lists is quick and easy to do, and if your list ends up going viral you will be absolutely thrilled by how much free traffic they can deliver to your site

The trick to creating a list that is likely to go viral and deliver you a stream of free traffic is to make sure that it covers evergreen content and appeals to a wide audience.

Along the same lines, you may want to create a ranking of websites or people, such as the "50 Hottest Male Bloggers" or the "25 Best Cooking Websites".Once you have published your ranking on your website, send a short email to those mentioned to let them know about it, and then sit back and watch the free traffic that flows your way as a result.

  1. Submit A Few Articles To The Top 3 Article Directories

Regardless of what niche you're in, you simply cannot go past article marketing as an effective method to attract free traffic. And it's as easy as creating a few keyword-rich 300-600 word articles and submitting them to a few of the top article directories with a keyword anchored link to your website in the bio section. Too easy!

Research the keywords you want to target and distribute them through your article so that your site will rank well in the search engines for those terms. Write well and include targeted keywords in your articles and you will soon be enjoying a flowing stream of extra free traffic.

Concentrate on informing, educating and entertaining readers of your articles, and then channel them to your site to find out more - don't try to sell to people in your articles; save that for your website.

  1. Provide Answers To Questions On LinkedIn or Yahoo Answers

Browse the open questions on Yahoo Answers or LinkedIn Answers and when you come across one relevant to your site, answer it – without sounding like a spammer. The way to gain free traffic to your site using this strategy is by inserting a link to your site in the resources section. Regularly providing answers to questions on LinkedIn and Yahoo Answers lets you demonstrate your expertise, put your URL out there and pull targeted free traffic to your site.

  1. Publish A Funny Image As Link Bait

The idea of using a humorous image as link bait is that those who find it amusing are likely to link to it which will increase traffic to your site with more and more people visiting to take a peek. Take a look at the pics section on Reddit.com to get some inspiration.

  1. Give Away A Free eBook, Report or Cheat Sheet

This is one of the most powerful ways to get free traffic. Simply create a useful eBook, free report or cheat sheet to give away that includes information that is both valuable to others and relevant to your site, include your website address in the footer so people know where to go for further information, then publish it on your website. Once you have published it on your website, send a short note to bloggers in your niche to let them know about it and include a direct download link to your freebie in your email message.

The better the information you provide, the more people will share it, and the more traffic you’ll get as a result.

  1. Locate An Ad Swap Partner In Your Niche

Engaging in an ad swap is as easy as swapping your unused ad space with another website owner in your niche for the promotion of each others sites. You can use this strategy to swap banners, email messages, newsletter ads or Ezine advertisements.

  1. Build Lenses on Squidoo and Hubs on Hubpages

Quick and easy to create, Squidoo Lenses and Hubpages hubs are like 1 page mini websites in which you can include as much information as you like on one specific topic. You can create a Squidoo lens or a Hubpages hub on almost any topic for free, include anything you want in them, and you can include links to your site in them, too.

Pay attention to keywords you are keen to target in your title, headings and tags as Squidoo Lenses and Hubpages Hubs can rank very well in Google and draw lots of free traffic to your site. And be sure to use the keyword anchored links that Google and other search engines adore.

These are all simple methods you can start using immediately to almost instantly boost free traffic to your blog or website, so begin implementing them today.

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