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Free Web Site Trafic: 3 Top Sources
By Stew Crossen
There are many ways you can pay to get traffic to your web site. Today I want to cover something everybody is interested in -- free ways you can generate traffic.
Keep in mind that most free ways to generate traffic can take some time to build, while using a paid method such as Pay-Per-Click can start bringing in traffic within minutes. With that in mind, let's take a look at the list.
Article Marketing
This is
not new, companies have used this method for decades. You
write an article that would be of interest to your target
market and then include a link to your product or service.
The article gets published as widely as possible and when
people read it, they click through the link to get more information
about the subject. That's when you can start pitching them
more directly on what you're trying to sell.
Thousands of people are using the Article Architect software to help write and manage their article marketing. You can do it without special software, but often a tool or utility will take away some of the drudgery and time-consuming aspects.
One thing to be aware of with article marketing -- it doesn't usually send you a flood of visitors. But a single article can send you a trickle of traffic day after day, for weeks or months to come. And the more articles you have out there, the larger the flow becomes.
Social Media
Whether you
think Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter are simply fads doesn't
take away from the fact that there are MILLIONS of people
using those services. Twitter, for example, is a real-time
tool, so once you've built a list of "followers" all you have
to do is type a quick message with a link and get traffic
to a site within seconds.
Social media methods can be time-consuming and there are more sites and services coming online everyday, so you're going to have to try and figure out which services have the most bang-for-the-buck so you don't waste time on the also-rans.
Joint Ventures & Affiliates:
This has the potential to be the biggest traffic generator
of the three, but I put it last because it's not something
you can do by yourself. You need to build a relationship with
someone who has a large list of people who will then promote
your product for a cut of the action.
While some people use the term Joint Venture (or JV) and Affiliate interchangeably, a real JV happens when two people each contribute something to a product or service and then promote it. But no matter how you define it, getting someone else to promote for you can bring in significant traffic.
There are many other sources of free traffic and some people may think the ones I listed here shouldn't be the top three -- that's fine, it's mostly opinion. What matters is which technique works best for you in your business?
Start trying some of these traffic generation methods and track your results. That's how you'll finally know where you should be spending your time and energy.
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