31 Ways to Generate Web Site Traffic

I pick up a good article from the Rhodes Brothers on traffic generation. And I thought I share this with you guys. If you have read my other traffic series, this will be a great complement.

So let’s not waste time. Here’s 31 Ways to Generate Web Site Traffic!

Enjoy!

3. Find comments from other blogs and use trackbacks

4. Ping it with Pingomatic.com (no affiliation

5. Post comments on other blogs

6. Join blog communities and blog carnivals – a simple Google
search will bring up many.

7. Make a Squidoo Lens based on long tail keywords

8. Post videos on YouTube with a link to your squeeze page, or
another "pre-sales" page.

9. Submit articles to article directories, such as EzineArticles,
GoArticles and more.

10. Use Facebook groups to link to your pre-sell squeeze pages. (Be
unique on Facebook, and you’ll be seen.

11. Use Facebook flyers to advertise your squeeze page – if it’s a
mass appeal product.

10 Random Traffic Generation Strategies – Part 3

Today, we will be continuing where we left out from the 2nd issue of ‘10 Random Traffic Generation Strategies’ series.

As usual, these value-packed traffic tactics come in bite-sized nuggets.

Without further ado, here’s part 3!

Note: There are thousand and one ways to get traffic. What’s important is to take action and focus on the ones that work best for you.

1. Add social bookmarking icons to your site. And encourage visitors to bookmark your site.

2. Optimize your site for the search engines. If you are using WordPress, you can use the All-In-One SEO plugin that takes care of your on-page optimization needs (meta tags, keywords, description and title).

3. Host a webinar

4. Submit your site to review sites.

5. Do a 3 way link exchange.

6. Join a high authority forum or group in your niche, and contribute valuable content. And have all the good karma transferred to your site when you put it up in your signature.

7. Write link-baiting content. A good way is to touch on very controversial issues (e.g. Is Google a big conspiracy?)

10 Random Traffic Generation Strategies – Part 2

In the last issue, I came out with the first ever issue of ‘10 Random Traffic Generation Strategies’ series.

Got rather good feedbacks on it.

So let’s get straight to the point.

Here’s part 2!

Note: There are thousand and one ways to get traffic. What’s important is to take action and focus on the ones that work best for you.

1. Encourage your visitors to spread the word about you with a Tell-a-Friend script – in exchange for an incentive

2. Submit articles to article directories like EzineArticles and GoArticles.

3. Look for sites related to your niche, and offer to do a banner/email exchange.

4. Place an add on Yahoo Classifieds.

5. Expose yourself with Craiglist.

6. Give away free reports/software/scripts that links back to your site.

7. Write a press release and submit to PRWeb.com

8. Answer people’s questions at Yahoo Answers, and get not just traffic, but credibility along the way.

9. Submit your RSS feeds to RSS directories.

10. Hold a contest among your readers and offer a lot of attractive incentives.

10 Random Traffic Generation Strategies – Part 1

I realized that I’ve not really talked about traffic generation in my blog before. Since online marketing is a lot about traffic, it really should be a topic I have to cover.

So here goes. My first part in my "10 Random Traffic Generation Strategies" series.

Note: There are thousand and one ways to get traffic. What’s important is to take action and focus on the ones that work best for you.

1. Exchange links with other websites

2. Write a damn controversial story (e.g. USA president is a closet gay!) that is link-bait and flame-bait worthy.

3. Start your own newsletter or e-zine

4. Submit your site to directories

5. Buy text links

6. Use Adwords – almost instant traffic generation

7. Create a viral video and submit to all video sites like Youtube and TubeMogul

8. Promote your blog in newsgroup

9. Set up a social network account (e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace etc)…and network!

10. Publicize your site in your email signature.

There. The inaugural issue.