So you have built your website installed your Google Analytics code and now you are waiting for traffic but it never comes. Don’t worry you are not alone the majority of websites hardly receive any traffic from the search engines. But unfortunately it won’t magically appear. You have to promote your site in the right way to open the traffic flood gates. These 5 tips show you some of the effective methods I use to promote my website for free.
1. Article Writing
This is still a powerful promotion method and traffic generator. However things have changed in recent times. Submitting articles to multiple article directories does not appear to generate large amounts of backlinks to your site. It would appear that Google ignores multiple identical articles with identical backlinks. However if your articles are good enough they will be reprinted on other peoples sites providing a useful backlink and the potential for direct traffic.
2. Writing Unique Articles For Other Web Sites
This great strategy is all to often overlooked. The objective here is to publish unique articles on other peoples blogs or websites with of course a backlink or two to your own site. The best way to do this is to write some good quality articles and get them published in ezinearticles.com. Then wait to see who reprints your article on their website or blog. If their blog has a good pagerank/traffic then get in touch with the website owner and offer to write some more unique content for them for free.
3. Off-Site Blog Posting
Find a few relevant blogs and start writing comments on them on a frequent. This will in itself produce valuable backlinks to your site. Remember to use your main keyword as your name when you submit comments. Make sure your comments add value and even provoke further comments. Then ask the blog owner if you can write a couple of guest posts for him. He will already know the quality of you writing from your previous contributions and is unlikely to turn down your request.
4. On Site Blog Posting
Blogs are really powerful tools with the search engines. So add one to your website and start posting good content every other day. If your blog is set up properly new content will be indexed quickly by the search engines. Make sure that you only write with your keywords in mind. Write a keyword rich title include a link back to your main website within the article body. This will help with your search rankings.
5. Web 2.0 Sites
Use Web 2.0 sites such as Squidoo, Hubpages and Wetpaint to generate off-site unique content which you can then use to provide great backlints to your main website. You can also use the RSS feed features of these sites to link them all together. This will really boost your rankings and search traffic.
These techniques can be used in many ways to generate healthy search engine rankings as well as traffic to your web site. These are just some of the methods that I routinely use to promote websites online with great effect.
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This post was written by Robjohn on August 28, 2009
