What are the best ways to get traffic to a website?

[me]

I'm starting an amazon affiliated website that sells electronics, what are the best paid and free ways to advertise? What has worked for you in the past? Can you please list them, and i would like as many free ideas as possible to get started.

[lordlop]

I would say that Google Adwords is the best way to advertise paid. Find some low cost keywords, and you could end up paying about 11cents per click.

Free would be optimizing your site for the search engines. Not much there, takes a long time.

[Rus]

To get free or "natural" traffic to your website, you need to generate buzz about your site and the products that you sell.
You should set up facebook and twitter accounts for your business and regularly post on them. Get as many people as possible to follow your twitter account and become fans of your facebook account.

You absolutely have to blog about your business, preferably on several blogs. With blogging you are not restrained with content and character limits. You could go as deeply as you wish describing your products, comparing them to competition, posting customer testimonials and so on. Blogging is free if you use services like http://www.v6transition.com

The key is to write original content as you conduct your marketing. If you have the time and aptitude for writing, you should write yourself because who else can do a better job writing about your business.
If the time is scarce or writing is not your forte, you can always get some college students to write for you for cheap.

[Eric T]

As far as paid traffic, you can use PPC such as Google Adwords.

When starting out though...depending on your budget you may want to work on free methods.

Go to relevant forums and post helpful comments. Also you are already on a great resource here with Yahoo Answers. Find questions relevant to the products on your Amazon site and answer them. Leave a link to your site if it is relevant in the source box.

Hope that helps.

[schwarzenegger]

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[Mona]

SEO and SEM will help a lot.

[Veloz]

For Free Traffic:

1. Open an ezinearticles.com account (it is free). Write and publish articles about your market on a regular basis. Ezinearticles com gets a lot of traffic and the article pages rank good in the search engines. Be sure to put a link to you site in the author resource box but not in the article itself.

2. Bookmark/list/link-to your site at as many of the popular places you can find: Digg, StimpleUpon, delicious.com, diigo.com, facebook, twitter, etc

3. Submit your site to 50 - 100 free directories. You probably don’t want to do this yourself as it takes a long time. Use a service that does it manually. I like Directory Maximizer. For about $7 bucks they will do 50 or so. The Yahoo Directory is good and carries a lot of weight in the search engines but it may be too expensive to start with.

4. Participate in forums with a link to your site in your forum signature.

5. Make good comments on blogs about your market where you can enter your website.

6. If your site has a page that answers a specific question here at yahoo answers, answer the question with your site as the source.

Be sure to participate with good relevant information and not spam.
All of this will add up to search engine rankings and traffic.

Good Luck

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