to do this.
2. Search Engine Optimization. Make sure you optimize your site for search engine. SEO is a very vital part in driving
free targetted traffic to your site. If you know the correct keywords to target and know how to do it on your pages then it will
pay off.
Check your meta tags (title, description and keywords), also the content of your page and also make sure that you target the right
keywords. Targetting the right keywords on your SEO will drive a lot of traffic to your site. Make sure to do your research
especially with your competitions, research on which keywords they are using and which one are making money.
Softwares like SEOElite makes this process fast and easy, it can give you a quick glance of your competitions ranking, what keywords
they are using, why their site is ranking high. Using this vital information you will be able to duplicate and improvise.
There is also a
Keyword Tool that you can you to help on your Effective Keyword Research.
3. Link Building - One of the old and still working ways to get a free
traffic to your site is Link Building, you have to build linking to your site,
the many inbound links there are linking to your site the better.
Search engines looks at links as votes to your site. If they see that there are
many sites linking to your page that means that page is important. This is also
a part of your site's Page rank calculation. There are many ways to build your
links, you can do article submission, link exchanging with other websites, or
you can also use link building softwares and other link building services.
Link Market is one of the Link Building site that I use. They have a lot of
companies that have 5-7 Page Rank that you can request for link exchange.
4. Media Marketing - the internet is now full of media ways of marketing,
you can create your own video upload it to youtube and you will be able to get
all possible free topic.
You need to know what topic you want to target and make sure to add a link back
to your website.
5. Social media marketing - facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon. these
are just few of the top social media networking that all of us are using now. If
you have a lot of followers on this social media you can use it to actually link
back to your site or every page that you have in case you update every time. You
can use your followers as your audience.
6. Make Use of Forums - Forums are flooded with people that are actually
looking for answers about the topic. Go find a forum that is targetted to your
topic. Create a post or comment on some of the topics. But make sure that you
are actually helping and not just to spam the forum of your advertisement. You
will get banned from the forum if you spam them. Forums are one of the best way
to get traffic to your site.
7. Paid Advertising/Pay Per Click - You can use Pay per click campaigns
to bring targetted traffic to you site. You will need some budget to do this,
but this is a proven method to actually drive traffic to your website.
The popular Pay Per Click is Google Adwords, there are many ways to be
successful in google Adwords, but if you don't do it right you will loose money.
Find out here on How to really make money on Google Adwords. Here are some
information about Google Adwords.
Google Adwords Made Easy and other resources
Google Adwords
Profits
8. Blogging - Blogs are one of the best way to drive traffic to your
site, you can either link your site to your blog or have a blog within your
website. Make sure that you post at least everyday about any information that
your readers will be interested into.
Blogging has been around so long that there are so many ways to monetize from
it or even to drive traffic from it. This
Blogging to the
Bank includes all the information that you need to know about blogging.
Start Posting now and you will see the traffic will come in.
9. Free Advertising - well some may not suggest to use free
advertising, but i guess my question is why? It's free it's a backlink to your
website why not?? right?
10. Get Listed in DMOZ - DMOZ is an open directory that includes sites in
all different categories. Try to get listed on this directory because it really
gives your search engine ranking a boost.
There you go, now you know the top tips to drive traffic to your website.
Hopefully this information will get you start going :)