Sunday, August 19, 2007

How To Get Website Traffic For FREE

To get a huge traffic for your website, you generally need to shell out a large sum for it and if your website is worth the expenses and the traffic so purchased will keep visiting your website, then you can definitely make an investment in purchasing the traffic. But for starters it’s not quite easy to take such a big step. Whether your website has the potential to be popular among masses will be revealed only when people come and visit it. So most of the budding webmasters would like to opt. for the cheapest yet reliable means to earn website traffic.

1. E-zine publishing:

If your website is a content website like ours, then you can publish your articles in an E-zine website for FREE.
All you need to do is sign up for an account, submit your articles and put a link back to your site in the resources for your article.
The article is then reviewed by one of their editors in a week’s time and then when your article is approved by the editor you article is put live on their website.
They may even display your article in the high traffic zone and this may get your articles many views and the resources of the article that you display on it would get unique visitors for your website if these links are clicked.
For a great response publish “killer articles” which will get your articles maximum views and maximum visits for your website.
The articles should be so impressive that they not only read the article but
also come back to check out your website for more articles and valuable
data.

2. RSS feed:

Getting a personalized RSS feed is very simple.
Go to google news.com and type your search terms and you will find a list of results
in there.
Click on the RSS link to get the URL of the RSS feed source.
Go to Feedburner.com create an account and click the “my feed” link and paste the feed source URL and get your RSS feed created.
Once you activate it, you get a URL and clicking on it will lead you to a page
where you can subscribe to the RSS feed or embed the RSS widget in your website.
You can set a few topics whose RSS feed your website visitors can benefit from.
You can distribute it to your visitors for free or after collecting their email address.
When your personalized RSS feed is used by them, it would act as an advertisement for your website.
Your visitors can use it on their blog or website.

3. Word Of Mouth Publicity:

If you are in a workplace, school, college or any other social place, you can always let your colleagues & friends and of course your near and dear ones know about your website.
The website should appeal to them initially and later, jot down their valuable comments and try improving the site and then again tell them about your improved website and again take down their comments.
Also ask them about what features would they like to have in the website? What
problems do they face in their daily life (or what problems does their class of
people face in their daily life) and think of the solutions that your website
could provide.
Once your website provides solution to their problems, you have won half the battle, now they would definitely like to share the piece of information with the rest of
their people.
This will increase your website traffic as the people who visit your website will spread the solution that your website offers to their problems.
Include a feature which lets your visitors leave their comments on the website and without any hassles.
This way you could communicate well with your visitors and optimize the features of your website.

4. Meeting your visitor’s needs/requests:

Maintaining a good service and answering the queries immediately will attract even more visitors as they would have an impression that your website is run by a huge corporate organization with 100-400 employees.
Providing a good customer service always enhances your website’s resonance.

5. Joining Social Networking Websites:

This is again a very useful way to increase traffic to your website for FREE.
A good and impressive profile will just be fine to attract known and unknown visitors.
Leave comments on different profiles leaving your website name as your signature.

6. Joining Forums:

It’s a totally free of cost deal to increase traffic to your website.
Interact with the other people in the forum, solve their problems and these solutions could be included in your website and its link could be given to them for reference.

7. Chatting:

Make friends while chatting in a room with people whose interests are quite similar to the contents and subjects of your website and after a while give them your website’s reference to explore their interests.
Keep in touch with them to know how they felt after visiting your website and
what changes could be introduced to improve your website.


Here we have discussed mainly about asking people regarding their opinion of your website, so always take their opinion in the positive stride. You may sometimes come across harsh criticism which may wash away your enthusiasm, but never give up, rise and fight back all the negative comments with an even improved vigor. You can also come across false praises, so do not get carried away by it, stay grounded and focus over the majority i.e. what are the majority comments? Are they positive or negative and accordingly plan your next move.

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