Many if not most small businesses have websites to either display their products or services or to take orders. Just like everybody who has ever built a website they want more visitors because more visitors means more business. There are lots of ways to get traffic to your website but we often tend to concentrate on just a few methods like search engine submissions and pay per click campaigns. Take a look through this list of methods to see how many you are ignoring. I’ll update as I think of them or see any comments with more.
- Have you bookmarked your site at several social bookmark sites and added icons to allow others to bookmark too?
- Have you written articles relevant to your subject and posted variations on them to the article directories?
- Have you created pages on Hubpages and Squidoo?
- Have you thought about adding a blog and submitting it to the blog directories? How about an RSS feed on your blog?
- Do you offer a newsletter to your surfers? Your email list can be used to generate traffic.
- Have you placed ads on classifieds sites like USFreeAds.com?
- Have you tried purchasing links in relevant ezines?
- How about selling something on eBay with a link to your site in your listing?
- Can you give away a freebie on your site, it could be a report or something like software, desktops etc? Offering something for free with more to come is a good way to get return visitors.
- Are there any web directories that cover your particular niche? Have you listed there?
- What about other sites related to your niche – can you maybe exchange links?
- Have you looked through Yahoo Answers recently and answered someone’s problem with a link to your site?
- When was the last time you posted something in a relevant discussion forum?
- Do you read and comment on other folks blogs with a link back to your site?
- Is your product suitable for affiliate marketing? Let the affiliates send the traffic!
- Have you introduced a new product or service and not written about it at PRweb.com?
- How about placing an ad on Craigslist.com?
- Have you added a link to your website in your email signature?
- Have you registered the variations and misspellings of your own and your competitors domains?
- Did you explore the offline possibilities like putting your url on car stickers, noticeboards, local newspapers?
Try exchanging blog posts with someone in the same niche market. This gets you many back links while giving you fresh content for your blog.
Peter Lee
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