website traffic

[Mooseman2181]

I know that there was recently a thread similar to this, but I wanted to know what are some good ways to get more website traffic?

[Starlor]

There's tons of ways. Depending on what you're looking to spend (if anything), and how much traffic you're looking for. Assuming you're talking about purely online methods...

-Making (helpful) posts on forums, with a link to your signature included.

-Writing articles and submitting them to directories, with a link to your site in the resource box at the end of the article.

-Search Engine Optimizing your site so that it shows up in search engines.

-Posting ads in online classifieds like craigslist, backpage, etc...

-Pay-Per-Click advertising (ie: google adwords, yahoo search marketing)

-Making tutorial videos and posting them on YouTube.

-Social bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumbleupon, etc..

That's just a few off the top of my head. Hopefully others will chime in with more.

Best,

-Starlor

[samtlich]

You can buy traffic from expired domains. Visitor to this expired domains will be directed to your site. This method much cheaper and and more effective comapre to adwords.

[consumertreehouse]

Samtlich, great info, never heard of that, but will be looking into it.

The traffic to my site has been going up on a weekly basis. I include a link to my website in my signature on everything, e-mail, forum postings, craigslist, etc....I also printed up business cards and sent them to my friends around the US (SF, NY, MIAMI, DALLAS), they in turn passed them out, left them at coffee shops, etc...

I also contacted my home town newspaper and asked them to put a little write up in the paper about my website, they agreed and this in turn was picked up by numerous other newspapers around the state. I also contacted all the blogs that are based in my home state and asked them for their support, at least 95% of them agreed to do a little write up and include a link to my site on their blog.

I promote my site anyway I legally can.

Good Luck.

[jennyyu]

Experienced webmasters know there are special sources or places on the web which will send massive amounts of traffic to your site. They also know, if harnessed properly, these mega traffic sites will supply any web site with a steady stream of visitors. Perhaps the best source of web site traffic is Google. That's not exactly a Newsflash, but the key to getting massive amounts of traffic from Google is to go wide and long.

With this strategy, instead of targeting highly popular keywords which may be too competitive for your site to win, you create a whole multitude of lesser known long tail keyword phrases to bring in the traffic. This traffic takes longer to build but because very few webmasters bother with these longer phrases, your keywords will be more stable and secure. Develop a whole list of these traffic generating keyword phrases and Google will reward you with a whole flood of targeted visitors stemming from these thousands of small dribbles of long tail keyword traffic.

Turning these dribbles of traffic into massive amounts is not a difficult task, one very effective way to tap into the entire search engine source of traffic is to tag everything. Tags are just another name for keywords. As Web 2.0 or Social Bookmarking sites become more and more popular, tagging will become extremely important. You must be especially careful of how you tag the content on your site or sites. If you're using a blogging system like WordPress, all your categories will be considered tags automatically. If you're creating URLs, be careful to place your keyword phrase in your links.

Another effective way to tap into the whole keyword traffic system is to include your keyword phrase or variations of it in your articles while promoting your site. Place your anchor text in your links in the resource box at the end of each article. Over time, as these articles become distributed all over the web, they will create a steady stream of targeted visitors to your site. Simple, effective and very powerful.

You are probably tired of hearing about Web 2.0 and the new Social Bookmarking sites but they are some of the best places for massive traffic on the web. Any webmaster who has been Slashdotted already knows this fact all too well; if you get a listing on the homepage of Slashdot.com you will immediately start receiving thousands of visitors to your site. It can be somewhat scary.

A similar experience is getting one of your articles published in ezines run by Addme.com, SiteProNews.com, WebProNews.com, as well as others. These ezines go out to hundreds of thousands of readers and can produce massive traffic back to your site. However, much of this sudden traffic is only temporary and most savvy webmasters know it would be wise to try and capture the contact information of these temporary visitors for follow-up targeting. Turn that temporary visitor into a patron of your site by offering a free ecourse or an email newsletter.

[jennyyu]

The same marketing technique should be applied to traffic coming from all these social media sites. Don't think of your traffic as just numbers in your website's stats, but rather as potential customers who will return to your site again and again. Keep this strategy in mind as you target some of these Top Sources of massive traffic on the web:

1. Digg.com
2. Netscape.com
3. Ezinearticles.com
4. Del.icio.us
5. StumbleUpon.com
6. Reddit.com
7. Slashdot.org
8. BlinkList.com
9. Furl.net
10. Squidoo.com

You should be actively promoting these social bookmarking sites by allowing your visitors to easily bookmark your content. You should be creating your own content on sites like Squidoo and placing links back to your site. Of course, there are countless other sources of massive traffic on the web.

[jennyyu]

Press releases is another effective way of quickly drawing in massive traffic to your site. Sites like PRWeb can deliver targeted traffic very quickly and efficiently.

Another very effective and high converting venue you should try is Yahoo! Answers, a simple process where users post a question and other members/experts offer answers. Used correctly this can be a good source of targeted traffic. Don't forget other important search engines such as MSN Live, traffic from MSN has earned a solid reputation for converting very well. So optimize your web pages for MSN Live Search and you will probably see an increase in your sales as well as your traffic.

Always keep in mind, the underlying key factor running through all these sources of massive traffic is unique quality content. You must create good original content on your sites as well as in your articles and posts. Your content must be informative, useful or entertaining. For in the end, it is this quality content that will create the interest, the links and the massive traffic to your site. Don't ignore this factor or your quest for massive web site traffic will be extremely difficult, if not impossible to achieve.

[MikeAnd]

Have you thought about starting a blog that is relevant to your industry?

[Dylan Phelan]

Ok, I didn't have a chance to read all the info that was given above, although i scanned over it and they seem to have covered most the basics.

One thing worth mentioning that you may not have thought about is getting visitors to return to your site. There are many approaches that you may follow - come up with a creative solution that works for you.