6 Free Ways to Get Quality Targeted Website Traffic - Part 2
Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part article. To read Part 1, go
to
http://www.internetbusinessformula.com/free-website-traffic.php.
Did you realize that there are easy ways to get free quality
traffic to you website? Most webmasters do not realize that some
of the best website traffic that they can receive won't cost
them a dime.
In fact, one of my websites receives hundreds of newsletter
subscriptions a month without me having to spend a dime on
advertising.
Most Internet marketers will tell you how to write good ads and
pay the write amount per click at Google and Yahoo, but what
they won't tell you (usually because they don't know) is how to
get free traffic that will actually convert into more revenue
than the paid traffic!
There is only one catch - these traffic generating techniques
will cost you your time instead of your money. Now you could
easily make it cost you money instead by hiring someone else to
do it for you, but that is your prerogative.
If you apply these simple techniques you will get more target
traffic to your website.
Here are six easy ways to get quality targeted traffic to your
website free of charge.
Note: These are steps 4 through 6. View the first part of this
article for the first three steps.
4. Submit your articles to article announcement lists.
After you have submitted your articles to the article
directories you need to also submit them to announcement lists.
This is a great way to get an immediate boost to your website
traffic.
An article announcement list is simply an email list that
webmasters subscribe to so that they can receive free content
for their websites. Webmasters such as yourself send their
articles to these email lists. This benefits both sides.
You can go to http://groups.yahoo.com to find such lists where
you can publish for free. Just type in "article announcement" in
the search bar to locate those email lists that accept article
announcements.
5. Exchange links with other webmasters.
You have probably heard this one before. It is by far the most
misunderstood and misused Internet marketing technique on the
net today.
The idea is simple - offer to link to another website if they
will in turn link to yours. This helps to boost your search
engine rankings and also gets you visitors to your website.
When done properly this can do wonders for your website traffic.
Unfortunately most link building campaigns turn into a
free-for-all link farm building campaign where all webmasters do
is get as many incoming links as they can, even if they are
completely unrelated.
By getting unrelated links into your website and posting
unrelated links out your links page will simply become a myriad
of anchor tags that nobody will bother using, thus destroying
its principle purpose.
To learn how to run an effective linking campaign, I strongly
suggest visiting the site http://www.linkingmatters.com. They
have a great free tutorial on how to run an effective link
building campaign that will actually give you results.
6. Create a free re-brandable e-book or PDF report.
This method has the potential of getting you thousands of
visitors within a short period of time. Similar to submitting
your articles to directories, you can also create a free 10 to
20 page e-book about an important subject related to your niche
market.
Within this e-book you can have a couple of affiliate links to
products that you recommend. Make sure that these products are
actually worth while as the intention is not to make money but
to get your e-book spread as far and wide as possible.
How do you do this? You allow others to re-brand your PDF report
or e- book to include their affiliate links instead of yours! I
recommend using a service such as http://www.viralpdf.com to do
this.
Why would you allow others to do this? Because they will send
the PDF report to as many people as they can in order to make
money! Of course the URL to your website will still remain
intact, so you will benefit from others doing all of the work!
If you don't want to spend any money, then you can just create a
really good report that has no affiliate links and allow others
to reproduce this on their sites. Tell others that they can give
the report or e-book away as a free gift to those that subscribe
to their newsletter. This will add quality to their websites and
will generate more traffic to yours.
In conclusion...
I hope that by reading this article I have opened your eyes to a
few new possibilities to generating traffic to your website
without spending a lot of money (or any for that matter).
In the end word of mouth is the most powerful marketing
technique. All of the methods listed above are basically ways to
get other webmasters to tell their users about your website. It
is always a win-win situation.
Matthew Glanfield is an Internet marketing veteran of 3 years.
Receive his free email course on how to start your own Internet
business by visiting http://www.internetbusinessformula.com.