Untitled Document
Top 5 Ways For Inexpensive Website Traffic
Scott Allen Barker
|
Mar. 02, 2008 |
|
There is one hard and fast rule in making profit for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one comes to your website, it hardly stands a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so. It takes money to maintain an profit making website; it also takes money to make money.
BUT, it doesn’t take a whole lot of cash to generate website traffic for your website.
Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic to 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 gimmicks. 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 inexpensive 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 inexpensive website traffic that could really help your site. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors into 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 will you see a website where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they can produce more public awareness about their websites. 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 websites 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 can be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can earn those credits when viewing other websites.
Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your websites content and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other websites 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 write 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 websites 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 passed around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your website.
*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.
Author: Scott Allen Barker
Email: scott@valuedinsights.com
For Easy Money--Go Here>> http://www.BarkingGoldfish.com
|