Published on 05/12/2008

Gaining website traffic does generally take some time and effort on your behalf, but it doesn’t always have to be expensive and quite often it can even cost nothing. There is an abundance of so called traffic generating websites that usually charge fees for their services, don’t get lured in by their promises as they could turn out to be a very costly mistake.... Read more

Here’s 10 ways that will assist to increase traffic to your site:

1/. Article Marketing: writing your own unique articles about topics within our niche and including a link to your website can dramatically increase your traffic. Webmasters are hungry for content to use on their websites, blogs and in newsletters. Free reprint article directories provide this much needed resource.

2/. Newsletter: keeping in regular contact with your mailing list via a newsletter or ezine can increase your traffic if you include articles that link back to your site or make special offers that are also only available by visiting your website.

3/. Message Boards: use message boards to build your expert status in your field. Many message boards allow members to include website links in their signatures. This offers one way of free promotion for your website every time you post to the board.

4/. Keywords: by doing keyword research and trying to figure out the search terms visitors are using and then including those search terms within your website can increase the level of traffic coming to you from search engines.

5/. Blogs: are a great relationship building tool and the fact that they are generally regularly updated makes search engines return to them over and over. Be sure to include links back to your website within your blog posts.

6/. Affiliate Programs: establishing an affiliate program to your digital or tangible products website will give you an array of online sales reps promoting your products and website.

7/. Viral Reports: people use the internet to find information, why not provide that information in the form of a short report and allow others to forward it to friends, thus making the report viral. By ensuring that you include links to your site within the report you should see some extra traffic generated from it.

8/. Interviews: being a guest on the new and popular internet radio shows and podcasts is just another way to establish your expertise and raise the profile of your website.

9/. Press Releases: are an inexpensive, effective way to promote your site to the media. If your website genuinely has something to promote and the release is not just a sales pitch.

10/. Teleseminars: holding a teleseminar or conference call covering a hot topic within your niche will create buzz and excitement and stimulate extra traffic.

There you have it, 10 ways to increase traffic to your website and all of them are relatively inexpensive to implement.