Ways to increase traffic on Your Website or Blog
I have hand picked all of these resources based on their usefulness, rate of success and overall
quality. I have written this article to help people find new sources of traffic for their website or
blog and to shed some light on some of the best resources related to each method of
promotion. I hope you find this article informative and useful
1. Business Directories
Posting in business directories is still an effective way to get backlinks and small amounts of
traffic. Most directory sites have many listings that are organized into. Being that there are so
many business directories, the best way to find one related to your site would be to do a
Google search or to use the websites below to find them.
www.dmoz.org
dir.yahoo.com
www.lii.org
www.stpt.com/directory
www.business.com
www.cannylink.com
2. Article Directories
Article directories are a wonderful way to get traffic and backlinks to your website. There are
many well established article directories that have been proven to get websites traffic. People
search for articles in different categories and after reading the article they usually follow a link
at the bottom of the article to your website.
www.GoArticles.com
www.eHow.com
www.EasyArticles.com
www.ArticleDashBoard.com
www.Article99.com
www.ValuableContent.com
www.EzineArticles.com
3. Classifieds
Classifieds are a common way to easily make posts for free, and reach large amounts of people.
They tend to work better for business or service-based websites, but you can also drive traffic
to other types of sites as well
www.Kijiji.com
www.craigslist.org
classifieds.myspace.com
classifieds.yahoo.com
4. Forums
Forums are another good way to get backlinks and traffic, but you need to contribute to the
forums and not just spam them with your links. I recommend becoming an active member of
forums that are related to your site, as well as including your website link in your forum
signature. By making intelligent and informative posts people will be inclined to check out the
link in your signature.
The best way to do this is to manually search for forums related to your site and then sign up to
start posting.
5. Social Networking Sites
Social networking sites are often overlooked as a way to market a website or blog. Having lots
of friends and access to groups can be a good way to contact a lot of people in an easy and
efficient manner. Most social networking sites also have forums and classifieds that you can
post in.
www.myspace.com
www.facebook.com
www.linkedin.com
6. Social Bookmarking Sites
Social bookmarking sites can be an amazing way to promote your website. What a lot of people
will do is write a killer article and then submit it to the social bookmarking sites to drive traffic
to that article, hoping it will get bookmarked a lot.
www.netscape.com
www.digg.com
del.icio.us
www.furl.net
www.stumbleupon.com
www.reddit.com
ma.gnolia.com
de.lirio.us
myweb2.search.yahoo.com
www.simpy.com
www.newsvine.com
7. Search Engines
This is probably one of the most difficult ways to market a site, but also one of the most
popular ways due to the fact that the traffic you get can be extremely targeted to exactly what
your site offers. This is especially important for sites that sell a product and are looking for a
high conversion rate. It is usually better to start off targeting niche markets and low
competition long tail keywords. Ranking well on Google for a phrase like ‘graphic design’ in the
search engines would be extremely difficult to do, so look for longer keywords or more detailed
ones.
www.google.com
www.yahoo.com
www.msn.com
8. Word of Mouth
This is a very basic and old school way of marketing but it has remained because it really is
effective. All you have to do is tell all your family, friends and co-workers about your new site or
blog and let them do the work! Be sure to have business cards on hand to give out to anyone
you speak with.
9. Pay per Click Advertising (PPC)
PPC advertising takes a lot of studying to do right, and can cost adjacent amount of money, but
if your site is well designed and converts well, or you are just looking for traffic, it can be a very
powerful marketing tool when done right.
adwords.google.com
searchmarketing.yahoo.com
adCenter.Microsoft.com
10. Banner Advertising
The difficulty in banner advertising is simply creating a very alluring banner design in the
amount of space specified. Some sites don’t let you create animated banners, but if you have a
very intriguing static banner on a good site it can get you traffic for sure.
The best way to do this is to manually search for websites and blogs related to your site and
contact them for a banner exchange.
11. Text Link Advertising
Text link advertising is usually cheap and can bring in lots of traffic, but the traffic tends to be
rather unspecific – which is ok sometimes. I find it best to look for sites related to your website
to buy text links spots on. Or, if you are just looking for tons of traffic, you can go to major text
link sites that offer spots on very large websites.
www.text-link-ads.com
www.adbrite.com
www.adengage.com
12. Print Advertising
Print advertising can be very expensive, but is especially useful when advertising in a specific
location. For example, if you are opening a new restaurant in a city, sending out flyers is a sure
fire way to get people to your website and restaurant. You could also drop off business cards or
flyers at local stores and start offering your services to local people.
www.4over4.com
www.modernpostcard.com
www.vistaprint.com
www.clubflyers.com
www.alocalprinter.com