Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Learn How To Drive Traffic To Your Website For Free

By Jon Rognerud

Blogging. If you have a blog that you can link to your website, than do so. If not, visit blogs that are related to your website and leave comments with a link back to your site. If you know people with blogs, ask them to recommend your site in a post. If you do not have a blog yet, then start one, either on your website or as a site of its own. Blogging is dynamic, interactive, and one of the best ways to reach a wide Internet based audience in a short amount of time.

Consider this a "teaser" - and ask for permission to send more materials, and perhaps a weekly or monthly newsletter and subsequent followup. You can program your auto-responder to send information every 14 days for example, and create good quality content, and submit to your list for the next 6 months.

Use other people's network. Popular information products are found on Clickbank.com. You can create the same, and use people to refer business to you, while giving them a cut. Affiliate marketing is a great business, generating millions of dollars each day, and if you have a particular niche where people are hungry for information, and you can separate yourself with quality content, you'll have an edge. Traffic can really take off.

Leverage existing network. Reach out to partners and ask to join / share in the mailing lists. You'd be surprised the amount of traffic and visibility it can yield. Make sure that it's related to your business, and submit only quality information. A small promotional blurb on somebody else's mailing list that carries distribution and authority, will not only help increase traffic to your site / page, but increase conversion to signups, downloads and sales.

Create a website that people, including yourself, would want to visit. Does this seem like a no brainer, if so, consider how many websites you have visited recently that you do not plan on visiting again. What was it about them that made you feel this way. Was it poor design, poor navigation, a complicated shopping cart system, massive on page errors. Whatever it was, take this opportunity to learn from others mistakes and make sure that your website is clean, easy to navigate, and is frequently updated with fresh content, links, and features. - 16069

About the Author: