Getting Traffic

What are the possible ways for traffic?

[kashifkb]

Hi all,

Can anyone tell please what are the possible methods of drving the traffic.

Please mention as many as you can.

thanks

Kashif

[Zygoot]

- PPC (pay per click) like AdWords and Overture
- search engines
- word of mouth
- other websites that link to you
- ...

[buckworks]

- links in newsletters (your own or someone else's)
- offline promotions

[ClosedGL]

providing incentives (make your visitors come back with a reward, and they'll bring their friends too!)
producing entertainment
useful information

Unorthodox methods include:

web rings / link exchanges (don't generate the kind of return you'd expect)
email spam / website spamming (the fastest way to get your site shut down and legal action taken against you)
doorway pages (relatively harmless but Google and the such like can punish heavily for these)

[Franchise]

what are doorway pages?

[ClosedGL]

I'm probably calling them by the wrong name, but as far as I know, creating doorway pages involves buy up a load of domains relating to your given topic and create a page which contains similar content to your main site; this content can reach a broader spectrum of visitors simply because of the different content. Then have most of the links on these doorway pages leading to your main site.

Its a lot of work, and I don't think the return on them is that spectacular. Plus they tend to annoy and pollute your niche and potentially dilute the ad-earnings available.

Think 100 standard light bulbs rather than a single focussed laser beam and you have doorway pages.

[bts111]

Build sites that are nice looking, easy to use, informative and useful.

Just think about the sites that you visit and why.

Quality = traffic

Good Luck :)

[jenkers]

one that hasn't been mentioned yet:
submit articles to sites that will link back to your website.

[Sobriquet]

submit articles to sites that will link back to your website.

where do we find such websites? can u suggest a few please? ( if not allowedin forum, can u give a few in the sticky? )

[alika]

Do a search for "article submissions." Be sure that (a) your article is relevant to the site; (b) check if the site indeed links back to the author's website (many big websites that accept article submission do not do this); (c) check for grammar and spelling errors. My pet peeve is the failure of "authors" to read the article submission guidelines and just immediately fill up the form. They're supposed to be "authors" but they do not know how to read and follow instructions.

[infect]

"providing incentives (make your visitors come back with a reward, and they'll bring their friends too!) "

This is the best way by far in my experience. I've been online since June and its worked wonders.

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Those are from yesterday for the month of July.

My alexa rank today is 19,000 something. Thats in roughly 1 month of being online.

Word of warning - some people on this site believe my stats, some have suggested im lying, some think i must be spamming (for the record, again, im not in any way), so draw your own conclusion. I will say that if you create an incentive for people to come back and bring more people back with them, your site will grow.

[JoeT321]

What did you do, have a give away for an expensive prize?

[infect]

See post #35 here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

I try and describe the reason the site has this kind of traffic in response to someone's post.

My gripe today? Almost number of clicks as yesterday, 1/5th the income. I hate how this fluctuates so dramatically even with regular hits.

[jenkers]

<-- where do we find such websites? can u suggest a few please? ( if not allowedin forum, can u give a few in the sticky? )
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sorry didn't answer - been busy working. Alika's answer covers the question perfectly.

[martingale]

I find forum sites related to my topic, browse for questions, and try and give helpful, informative answers. I include a link to my site in the signature. It's a win-win for everyone: The forum gains value from my adding useful information; the users gain value from the answer; I get a link, and people who see my link can see the quality of my information before they even click.

What I do NOT do is post needless spam to forums with a link to my site. Providing informative material is an important part of building trust not only with users, but also with related site owners who also tend to link to me in other ways over time.

[ClosedGL]

martingale: I reward this type of activity on my websites. When somebody puts continued, genuine effort into my site through responding to forum posts helpfully, I link them up to drive traffic to their websites; even when they are not selling anything or advertising. I ignore all link exchange email because I know full well that the other party will get more from it than me.

[ClosedGL]

<comical>You could always write 500 pages of solid unique content in an afternoon that nobody has read before like some people claim they do.</comical>

[universetoday]

I look the other way when people are helpful in my forum too. It's great to get questions answered, and I don't mind if it sends the person a little traffic.