There are thousands of ways to increase website traffic. Most of these variables cost money, but there are many other methods that are free. Below is a list of over 100 free ways to increase traffic to your website.
1) Yahoo Answers
2) Myspace.com
3) Yahoo Groups
4) Stumbleupon.com
5) Post in Forums
6) Craigslist.org
7) Submit Site maps
Give out E-Books
9) Website Layout and Design
10) Directory Submissions
11) Tell a Friend (word of mouth)
12) Search Engine Optimization
13) Search Engine Marketing
14) Social bookmarking sites
15) Article Writing and Submission
16) Site Explorer
17) Epinion.com
18) Alexa.com
19) Newsletter Box
20) Scribd
21) Back Links from Relevant Sites
22) Add New Pages to your Site
22) Write and Submit Press Releases
23) Place Ads on Online Classified Ad Sites
24) Use SEO for Firefox Toolbar Plugin
25) Add a Forum to Your Site
26) Add a Blog to Your Site
27) Optimize Your Blog for The Search Engines
28) Comment on Other Blogs
29) MySpace News
30) Digg
31) Banner Exchanges
32) Traffic Exchanges
33) Squidoo.com
34) Technorati and ping it when your blog content changes
35) Use a ping service like pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators
36) Submit Blog to RSS Feed Directories
37) Link to other blogs in your posts
38) Use Stumbleupon to stumble your posts
39) Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, etc.)
40) Start a group blog
41) Join SpicyPage and promote your blog
42) Join a webring
43) Sign up for BlogWoods and promote your blog
44) Exchange Ads (not blogroll links) with complementary blogs
45) Trade blog roll links with related blogs
46) Use Twitter
47) Publish Keyword Rich Videos on YouTube with your URL
48) Search and Add Wikis Related to your Site
49) Join Hub pages and post links to your blog from articles you write.
50) Web 2.0 Marketing
51) Create a MySpace Page. Put your blog on it, and get some friends.
52) Tell people you will link back to them if they review your blog
53) Most brands are not well established online, you review related content and it will rank well.
54) Review relevant products on Amazon.com.
55) Create product lists on Amazon.com
56) Review related sites on Alexa
57) Review products and services on shopping search engines.
58) Swap some links.
59) Try to get links from within the content of relevant content pages.
60) Sell items on eBay.
61) Target niche social news sites like DZone, Sphinn or Hugg
62) Whenever you send an email to someone, always add your website url as a signature.
63) Do email signature swaps
64) Tag blog posts at social bookmarking sites
65) Add photos to your blog with appropriate keywords – Google Images generates traffic too.
66) Tag blog photos at Flicker
67) Make a custom 404-error page for your website. You can provide a link back to your main website or even try to monetize it by offering a related affiliate program within your niche.
68) Outsource grunt work.
69) After someone orders from you offer a one-time offer that compliments your product.
70) Participate in Blog Carnivals
71) create a network of blogs in different niches, and then link them together
72) Give away stock images with a wee watermark of your URL
73) Find and discuss memes
74) Create a Yahoo Group in the niche your site sits.
75) Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us and if you’re really keen, add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage.
76) Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree.
77) Syndicate your site’s content by using an RSS feeds.
78) Submit your RSS feeds to aggregator sites.
79) Don’t worry about PageRank – worrying about PageRank is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.*
80) Get a custom t-shirt made with your website URL on it, and wear it often.
81) Get a custom t-shirt made with your website URL on it, and wear it often.
82) Send out a newsletter!
83) Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site.
84) Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products.
85) Add a “Tell a Friend” function to your site, so people can easily recommend you to their mates.
86) Share your banners on banner exchange sites.
87) Create a “lens” for your site on Squidoo
88) Do you have really hot content on your site that geeks would love? If so Slashdot will bring you a mass of traffic.
89) upload a favicon.gif file so that your users have a nice icon when they bookmark your site.
90) Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search
91) Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.
92) Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.
93) Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts.
94) Increase the list you ping
95) Use Facebook
96) Social Networking
97) Micro
98) Email Marketing
99) RSS Feeds
100) Get outside links to internal pages
101) Use free hosting and build sites and link them back to your main site.
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Thanks for the great list. I saw your post on Pandia about article marketing and it was also great. Do you think search engines consider it duplicate content if the same article appears on multiple article sites as well as places like wikipedia, knol, etc?
That is correct Martin. Unfortunately Alexa rankings are a bit biased, but they are still used my a majority of the SEO community and webmasters as a way to judge their sites importance.
David:
I am glad you read my article on Pandia and enjoyed it. I am here to share my knowledge with readers like you who have a vested interest in SEO techniques. There is a duplicate content issue that arises when the articles are showing up on multiple sites. What Google does is looks where it was originally published and gives that site credit. All the other sites receiving the content are not negatively impacted; instead they do not receive the credit by Google for having original content. It is a good idea to publish the original article on your site/ blog and then submit it to article sites such as
http://www.ezinearticles.com with a link back to the original site it was published on. This method has worked for myself and many other marketing gurus I know.
Found your blog on Google and have enjoyed reading your posts. Nice work!
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Of all the things that you mentioned, SEO produces the most traffic to your site. Also Search Engine Marketing and Social Media like Facebook and Twitter. But all of these ways are helpful to the increase in your Website's traffic. Thank you for sharing this info!
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