Need Traffic? Why Pay?
In Need Traffic? Pay for it! we discussed methods of
driving traffic that required money, but there are some great
free options available to webmasters. For the new webmaster who
have limited start up capital or for the frugal webmaster, these
options will not cost you a dime.
Traffic Exchanges
There are many traffic exchanges on the net. A quick search on
Google for the search traffic exchange term will generate many
results. Some of the good ones that I know delivers are Traffic
Swarm and Autohits247. Traffic exchanges like this take less
than 5 minutes to sign up and set up your site.
The exchanges operate on the premise that you view a certain
number of other member sites so that they can view yours in
return. By so doing you benefit by getting regular traffic to
your site. The only drawback is that increased traffic may not
necessarily lead to increased sales as visitors are not
necessarily qualified prospects. This method is very good for
driving traffic but not sales. But remember that increased
traffic may lead to better traffic ranking in the search
engines, which will in turn lead to improved qualified visitors
and hits fro the search engines.
Some traffic sites allow you up to 1000 visitors per day. Some
sites deal in hits instead of visitors and offer credits for
viewing. Whichever site you choose, you probably cannot lose.
Traffic Software
How many newbies have spent countless hours clicking away
viewing other peoples site. Today there are numerous software
available that will do this for you. Some are completely free
such as Crazy Browser, and will allow you to enter multiple
sites that it automatically browses while you do more important
things. This allows you to receive traffic to your site as often
as you want it.
Article Directories
This is one that many persons are coming to realize has
significant importance to their website development. By
submitting your article to these directories you can get content
for your own website while providing links back to your own
website in the article. This increases the amount of one way
links showing back to your site. The article you submit must
have good content and be rich in keywords, especially if there
is relevance to your site.