Create And Increase Free Web Traffic

By FTS | September 5th, 2010

Having a website is one thing, it is very important and it may cost you money or hard work, but the main task will be creating website traffic to that website. Marketing your website to generate traffic is the hard part of running a website online.

No matter what is the purpose of your website, you must be found online, and make people visit your website in order to reach your goal from this website Like making money with it or build a customers list.

So the important question you need to have an answer for is: How to create traffic to your website?

To answer this question I want to present for you some traffic generation strategies, you need to go through them then choose the best strategy for you and your website. It will be great idea to make a plan of what you will do to create a steady stream of traffic to your website using one strategy then using the other strategies to increase website traffic and having more expositor.

To understand the traffic generation strategies we must at first understand the sources of traffic.

The main source of website traffic is the search engines, and to get traffic from this source you need to know the basics of search engine optimization. So our first strategy will be search engine traffic.

By knowing the basics of search engine optimization you will find more sources of traffic that will also support and increase your search engine traffic.

To get website traffic from search engines you need to make your website indexed by the search engine then optimize your pages so search engines will like them and rank them high for related search terms, then you must build links pointing back to your page as votes to how important your pages are. This process will take time, long time, but it’s very necessary and important. The next traffic strategies we will discuss will help you increasing the traffic you generate from search engines because they will help you build those back links.

The second traffic generation source will be links on other websites that points to your web pages. The idea is simple, you need to put links that points back to your website and all your pages on other websites, related website will be better, so you can divert some of the traffic that website generate to your own.

This is a very huge topic that we cannot cover in this short article, so you need to make your own research on this topic, however I will point you to a very good report about building your back links fast and effective, the report is One way link building.

When you start to build links to your website, you will generate traffic from those links directly and you will increase your search engines ranking, that mean you will increase your website traffic directly and increase website traffic from search engines.

Here is a list of strategies to build links and create traffic from other websites:

Article marketing through the free article directories, and word press blogs.

Create videos on my niche products, post those videos to video sharing websites and include your link on the description of the video.

Make blog posts on your subject, you can run your own blogs, free blogs, or try to submit to related blogs that allow it.

Do press releases.

Participate in related online forums with my sig links added.

Use bookmarking sites, and social media sites to build links and attract some of the users of those sites.
Finding some related websites and ask for exchanging links with them.

Search for related blog posts and comment on them.
Other than those strategies, there are some tools and software that uses secret traffic sources that are not known to the public, those tools like ATA Traffic Software are very effective to generate high amount of traffic from free sources without the need of hard work and time.