Top 5 ways to attract traffic

[skyjoe76]

Top 5 Ways To Generate Low Cost Website Traffic


There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn’t take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the Top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.

Exchange Links

This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.

Traffic Exchange

This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.

Write and Submit Articles

There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter.

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets pass around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

[quek]

Good contributions, skyjoe76.

May I know which approach you use that give you lots of results
in terms of traffic and conversion?

I want to learn from people like you who are knowledgeable and experienced.

I ever read an ebook by Allan Gardyne from AssociateProgram.com. He list about 77 ways to boost traffic.

I am focusing in writing article to draw traffic to my ebusiness website.

regards,

Allan

[skyjoe76]

Hi Allan,

I'm not an expert.

I read Allan Gardyne from AssociateProgram.com 77 ways to boost traffic too. He's the master in this area.

I had used all 5 methods that I've mentioned.

Contributing in forums is the most effective compared to the others. I mentioned contribute not spam.

[EquusTrade]

Some good comments, but surely the top one you haven't listed is make your website interesting. On one of my sites I run a blog and it attracts around 300 visitors a day. I basically write blog posts about what's going on in the finance world and it sometimes amazes me how many hits I can generate.

[quek]

Originally Posted by EquusTrade

Some good comments, but surely the top one you haven't listed is make your website interesting. On one of my sites I run a blog and it attracts around 300 visitors a day. I basically write blog posts about what's going on in the finance world and it sometimes amazes me how many hits I can generate.

Hi, Are you referring to your home page listed in your forum profile?

Just did a traffic check at Alexa, ranking >2,700,000. Not sure how many hits that you get per day? A modest good site will get Alexa ranking below 500,000.

Your site has about 50 inbound links. Quite impressive to get Google rank you PR 4. Search Engine like Google might have sent you quite a lot of traffic. If you pages are keyword focused, you can get much better results.


Share with us your experience.

Cheers,

Allan Tan Kim Kia

[EquusTrade]

In your opinion are the Alexa rankings and the number of inbound links Google shows reliable pieces of information?

[quek]

Originally Posted by EquusTrade

In your opinion are the Alexa rankings and the number of inbound links Google shows reliable pieces of information?

Yes. Alexa traffic ranking is quite reliable. Your pass 3 month's traffic has improved tremendously, from what I read from the Alexa traffic details of your site. Your weekly average is 507,973! Your 3 month average is what I quoted in the last post, which is 2,711,981. Quite a big jump, in fact.

The number of inbound link (relevant) has definitely helped your PR. Your site also has >100 pages indexed by Google, so, I guess Google sent you some traffic.

Could you confirm that you traffic has been increasing tremendously since 3 months ago?

I believe many readers can benefited from your experience.

Cheers,

Allan Tan Kim Kia

[EquusTrade]

I know Alexa is used a lot by people in the SEO world, but suppose the major flaw is it relies solely on the number of people installing its toolbar.

Pagerank and the number of incoming links is ok as a rough guide, but the drawback is that it is only updated (publicly) every 3-4 months. I estimate my site will go to at the very least 5, but expect it to be 6, after the next update.

My traffic has increased over the last three months, but mainly because I only started the site properly in about July. Because I deal in loans, I was waiting for the various licenses coming through before I promoted it (I obviously didn't want to do anything illegal).

I estimate that my traffic comes roughly 50% from search engines, 35% from repeat visits, 10% from miscellaneous links (like the one at the foot of this post), but only 5% from the words I have targetted.

For my business to be a success I want the targetted words to account for 80% of traffic and to get there I've still got a hell of a lot of work still to do.

This is my problem with page rank and the number of inbound links. I could be page rank 10 with 10,000 inbound links, but if people aren't visiting my site for the right reasons I might as well pack it in.

[squalid]

i agree alexa is a complete waste of time and not to be taken in any serious sense.

[bigOz]

In my own experience, I have witnessed sites coming up in top ten search engine listings, covering a wide range of key phrases, but being hardly ranked in the Google toolbar! I also see many high ranked sites that are literally invisible to search engines...

I receive regular articles by email every week from a known search engine. You might find the information below useful (with regards to ranking).

Google official: PageRank is not a big deal
Many webmasters are still obsessed with the green PageRank bar in Google's toolbar. Last month, marketing expert Mike Grehan interviewed Google's Matt Cutts. Matt Cutts is a Google engineer who knows exactly how the Google ranking algorithm works. He confirmed that PageRank is not the only important factor for Google.

Matt Cutts made a clear statement about PageRank in the interview: "There are over 100 factors in ranking. And PageRank is just one of them. It's an important factor, but it's by no means the be-all and end-all."

We've said it before in our newsletter: the green PR bar in Google's toolbar doesn't mean much. If you want to get good results with search engines, you should not get obsessed with that value.

What can you do to get your web site listed on Google if PageRank is not a big deal?
As Google's Matt Cutts explained in the interview, Google uses many factors to rank web pages. The problem is to find out which factors exactly influence the ranking of your web site.

Google (and other major search engines) basically want two things:
· good web page content that can be crawled by search engines
· good inbound links from reputable web sites
If your web site has interesting content that can be crawled by search engines and good inbound links than it is difficult not to get high search engine rankings.