Every online marketer needs to generate traffic to their website in order to survive.
This article offers 10 suggestions on how to generate free traffic to any website just by following these tips and strategies. As an online marketer you can use any one or all ten to generate traffic to your site. Obviously, the more strategies you use, the more traffic you will experience.
Strategy # 1: Send Pre-written Emails
Whether you have a list or whether you purchase solo ads in an e-zine, you can use this method to generate traffic easily.
Obviously, the more emails you send out to a safelist the more responses and traffic you will get. It is strictly a numbers game in that the more you mail, the more you can expect to sell. Even a small mailing to a list of 1,000 members will generate results.
Warning: Send your emails to double opt-in email lists ONLY! Do not send to Co-Reg, FFA, or single opt-in members. SPAM complaints will result in a law suit.
Method # 2: Post Banners On Your Site
If you have an Internet marketing or online business related website place a prominent ad on your sales letter, main pages, or "thank you" pages. Customers who find their way onto one of these pages will see your banner, and any that click and buy will result in a commission for you.
If you do not have an online business, you can post your banners with other sites that allow placement of banners or you can purchase banner ads.
Method 3: Change Your Forum & E-mail Signatures
You can spot these by the "PS" that is inserted at the bottom of an email that you receive from someone. That is an example of an automatically-generated or inserted email signature. This can also be done in forums too.
Your "signature file" should be included at the end of every email you send as it acts as your personal advertiser wherever you send an email, and is one of the most overlooked sources of free advertising available. If you have any standard email provider such as Yahoo, MSN, AOL, or Gmail you should place your sig file on all of these email addresses you may have.
This is an often-overlooked method of getting free visitors as most people do not add their sig file when participating in forums when they place or respond to posts. Care should be taken when posting in discussion boards and forums but you can easily generate traffic to your site by just adding your sig file to every post. Just make sure the rules of the board or forum allow that to be done, otherwise you will get banned forever.
Method # 4: Article Submission
Write short [350 - 600 word] articles relating to the internet, online marketing, "how to make money from home", "how to easily lose weight safely". "how to stop smoking in 10 easy steps", "how to train your dog", or anything else you care to write about.
Submit your articles to e-zine publishers in the applicable field as well as to article directories. Your articles will include a "resource box" where you can place s mall blub about yourself, along with a link to your chosen website. whenever anyone reading your article is motivated to click on your link, they will get directed to your website instantly. The more articles you have out there circulating in cyberspace, the more chance that readers searching those topics you wrote about will get to your link and website.
The good part about this process is that if anyone reading your article wants to publish it in their e-zine, newsletter, or blog, they would have to do so with your link intact. If their publication has a large membership or subscriber list you could literally be moments away from having thousands see you article and then your link and subsequently website. Anyone on that list who also has a newsletter, e-zine or other publication themselves and likes the article and wants to use it in their publication would also have to re-print in with your resource box intact, therefore potentially leading to thousands more people seeing your article and then link.
Your article could go viral in no time if you get the right crowd interested in it and what you are saying, and you could be generating visitors to your site for months and possibly years to come.
Method # 5: Free and Low Cost E-zine Ads
You can place your ads in free classified ad sites such as USFreeads and others. You can also place your ads in paid sites that can generate a lot more targeted traffic for you.
Submit your ads to about 5-10 free e-zines per day. This simple technique, if used consistently can add up to $100's worth of free advertising for you! You can purchase Top sponsor Ads in most good e-zines for a reasonable amount. The advantage to using these sites is that they have a subscription base of dedicated members who read the publication religiously and your chances of scoring some big sales improve by using the paid services as opposed to the free ones.
Method # 6: Testimonial Submission
In this method you simply prepare and submit testimonials (with your name and your affiliate link at the bottom) for products or services that you've purchased in the past.
If you haven't *purchased* many products and therefore can't offer many testimonials, subscribe to free e-zines and offer testimonials for the e-zines that you enjoy! With over 300,000 e-zines online, you could be submitting testimonials endlessly.
Try to submit at least 5 testimonials a day. That way, your link at the bottom of those testimonials will be floating around the entire database or subscriber list of those e-zines and anyone reviewing it would have your link staring them in the face. You could have your link in the face of thousands of people just by providing a testimonial to the e-zine who will surely use it in their publication if it is a favourable one.
Method # 7: Traffic Exchanges
Sign up for free with at least three of the better Traffic Exchanges and spend at least 30 minutes a day working them to promote your site.
If your budget allows, purchase credits and you can reduce or eliminate the need to "surf" to earn credits to assign to your site.
Method # 8: Safelists
Use the pre-written emails provided by your affiliate program creator.
You can also build a downline in the safelists that you join just be referring other s who, when they join will begin to earn credits for your by their surfing activities.
Endeavour to mail at least three safelists a day, and five if you can.
Method # 9: Free Advertising
You can advertise here for FREE! Many sites have that statement on them and if you get there, you should review it and place your ad if it is one that markets your niche products.
Post an ad daily.
Free Internet Marketing Ads - Post Your Ads In Front Of Thousands Of Potential Buyers For Free!
Free Advertising Blogs - make a list and use them often.
Free Advertising Post - Post Your Ad for Thousands of People to See... 100% FREE!
Free Classified Ads - Free classified advertising for individuals and website owners to promote their products.
Free Classified Ads Forum - This site allows anyone to post their classified ads for free!
Important: Always read the forum rules
Method # 10: Pop-Under or Pop-Exit Window
Use these whenever you can on your site. they have been proven effective, notwithstanding that many believe them to be annoying. Many a sales have been made by using these free resources.
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