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Twenty Ways to Boost Traffic
to Your Site Starting Today!
Copyright 2007
Written by: Andre Slocombe
www.createandflip.com
This free report will list to you twenty proven ways that I've used to boost my
website's traffic.
1) Yahoo Answers.
You can go through and start answering questions at answers.yahoo.com.
You'll be surprised at the many questions left unanswered in many categories.
You can become an "expert" within many fields by answering questions, and
having relevant links point back to your site. It's a quick way to build back links
and actually have targeted users viewing your site.
Check it out at answers.yahoo.com
Be sure to never spam. It's important to be friendly with your answers, and
provide good relevant information. The goal here is to have the user to trust you.
To get started simply browse the categories or you can search for questions. For
example you can do a search for "making money" and it will produce questions
people have asked about "making money".
2) Myspace.com
Create a myspace account and start marketing to the users. Some quick tips for
myspace are:
a. Never spam
b. Join as many relevant groups as possible and participate within the groups.
c. Post interesting bulletins that provide useful information
d. Send friend requests to users within the groups you've joined.
e. Use graphics in your posts to catch the attention of the reader.
f. Use catchy titles, anything boring will be ignored.
g. For non-targeted friends, you can look into friend trains such as
friendstorm.net
h. To automate friend adding, comment posting and bulletin posting you can
check friendbot.com and madderadder.com
3) Yahoo Groups
Join yahoo groups. I've joined groups within the "Home Business" section and
promoted my products/services to group members. You can also create your own
group as well. One of the keys here is to offer free reports and tools to the users,
and then use that free report to up sell your main products/services.
You can find home business groups at the link below:
http://finance.dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Business___Finance/Home_Business
The marketing/advertising groups at the link below:
http://finance.dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Business___Finance/Marketing_and_Adv
ertising
4) Stumbleupon.com
Download the stumbleupon toolbar and ensure you click "I like this" to all of your
websites, and have your friends and family do the same and click the "I like this"
to all your sites. Also create pages specifically for stumbleupon that either is
funny and odd, which can range from funny pictures to funny videos. You'll find
many users clicking "I like this" and on those pages you should have links to all
your other sites, and perhaps even Google Adsense to earn money from all the
visits you'll receive. This works well since Stumbleupon users love to browse sites
that have odd and funny stuff, or even free stuff would work good as well.
5) Forum linking
Every forum you join, always have a signature file that contains links to your
most treasured websites. Be sure to use your preferred keywords within the links
or perhaps catchy titles to entice clicks.
6) Craigslist.org
Submit free ads to craigslist.org. Be sure not to spam the classifieds.
One or two ads per week in a few select cities are fine. If you submit too many
then your ads can be flagged or labeled as spam, so be careful with how many
submissions you make. Always use catchy titles to ensure your ad is read.
7) Site maps
Always have a site map for all your sites, and ensure the site map is submitted to
Google. You can create a free site map using the following site.
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Once your site map is created, then upload it to your site, then submit it to
Google using the link below:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview?hl=en
8) E-Book Giveaway
If you have an e-book, give it away free, this can help build your mailing list and
get more traffic to your site and offers. Ensure the e-book is of good value and
that you'll have an up sell product to then make money from the subscribers at a
later date.
9) CSS Website Design
When having your website designed it's best to use CSS to organize the layout of
the site rather than using tables. CSS can power the layout using div tags instead
of table tags. This will ensure your design is tableless. It will allow your textual
content to have more weight when viewed by the search engines. If you have a
designer, ensure you request "CSS Tabless Design" for your next website layout.
10) Submit To Directories
Most people already do this, but just in case you haven't, you should submit to
directories. You can find a list of directories below:
http://strongestlinks.com/directories.php
The above list some of the better directories to submit to. By submitting to these
directories you can acquire back links and more traffic to your site.
11) Tell a Friend
You can install a tell a friend script to your site that will allow users to "refer" your
site to their friends and colleagues. The downside to this is that some spammers
try to manipulate tell a friend scripts. Be sure the one you use actually has
"image verification" to limit form manipulation; otherwise you may find spammers
trying to use your form to send spam.
12) Search Engine Optimization
Always read up on the latest with optimizing your website for search engines.
Some good forums to review for free tips are:
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=3
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=12
http://forums.seochat.com/
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/
http://www.searchengineforums.com/apps/searchengine.forums/
I would join each of these forums or at least review the forums for the latest tips
and strategies on search engine optimization.
13) Squidoo.com
Create a lense at squidoo.com, this is one of the latest fads.
14) Social bookmarking sites
Submit to each of these sites.
http://del.icio.us/ PageRank: 8/10
http://www.furl.net/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.simpy.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://del.icio.us/ PageRank: 8/10
http://www.backflip.com/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.blinklist.com/ PageRank: 6/10
http://bluedot.us/ PageRank: 6/10
http://de.lirio.us/bookmarks/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.diigo.com/user/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.shadows.com/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.markaboo.com/ PageRank: 5/10
http://ma.gnolia.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://linkagogo.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://netvouz.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.mister-wong.de/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.spurl.net/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.rawsugar.com/ PageRank: 6/10
http://www.stumbleupon.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.digg.com/ PageRank: 8/10
http://www.blogmarks.net/ PageRank: 7/10
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.netvouz.com/ PageRank: 7/10
http://www.taggly.com/ PageRank: 5/10
http://www.lookmarks.com/ PageRank: 5/10
http://socialbookmarking.org/ PageRank: 5/10
15) Article Promotion
Write articles are short reports and submit to ezinearticles.com,
goarticles.com , articlecity.com.
16) Site Explorer
Submit your sitemaps using Yahoo Site Explorer, similar format to
Google Webmaster Tools
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
17) Epinion.com
Post your opinion on products and services related to yours on
epinion.com
18) Alexa.com
Review popular websites on Alexa.com, and at the end of the message have your
URL listed. It may not hyperlink automatically but a few people may still
copy/paste into their address bar. Just make sure your post is really a review and
not spam.
19) Newsletter Box
Always have a newsletter box on your website that will allow all visitors to
subscribe for updates on your site. This can be a real winner, as you'll be able to
market your product or service to these subscribers. You can use aweber.com,
getresponse.com, constantcontact.com for the newsletter subscriptions.
20) Pay per Click search engines
I've listed this last since almost everyone does this, but I can't have a list of
marketing tips without mentioning PPC. Google Adwords, Microsoft Ad Center and
Yahoo Search Marketing are the big three. Other options are SearchFeed.com,
Goclick.com .
For a comprehensive list of pay per click search engines see link below:
http://www.payperclicksearchengines.com/
Hopefully one of the marketing options mentioned caught your eye. I've used
these various avenues to boost traffic to my sites on a regular basis. You may not
get a flood of traffic overnight, but combining these methods can result in gradual
increase traffic, and in some cases you can receive a tremendous boost. It's all
about your efforts and sometimes having luck on your side helps as well :)
Wishing you the best,
Andre Slocombe
Copyright 2007
Written by: Andre Slocombe
www.createandflip.com
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