How to generate traffic to your website or blog?

[Dominic]

Is there any free method of drawing traffic to a website or blog?

Many companies advertise that upon payment of a $167 fee, they will post your blogs and generate traffic to your blog or website guaranteeing you income in excess of $ 2000.00 each and every month.

These types of advertisements sound like scams.

So, how do one generate traffic to a blog or website?

[Thooyavan]

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[dreams]

Hi,

To generate trafic toward a webpage is more of art than science. Online traffic generation depand upon various factors like keywords that you are targeting, Business Industry, Competitors, Geographical location, Website layout, Content, Other On page factors, Backlinks, Off site promotion and so on....

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Regards
Mohit Goel
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[Canonical]

Anyone who guarantees to make your site rank in position 1 at the search engines or who guarantees you income of $XXXX.XXX is full of crap. Don't fall for that.

The ways you drive traffic to a site is marketing. There are lots of ways to market a site online and offline.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization): You can make your site rank for keyword phrases that people looking for your type of site will be searching for. This is more of a strategic, long-term approach. In general, it will take months, if not a year or more to rank well for even moderately competitive search phrases. But EVERY site who plans to be around for a while should be thinking strategically as well as tactically.

Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, etc. You can promote your site on social media sites. But this is tricky. It CAN drive significant traffic if done correctly. You have to build a community of followers by participating in the community... basically talking about everyday mundane things, being funny, whatever... but DON'T push your product often. Some say 1 of every 100 tweets for instance should promote your company... any more than that and people see through you hard sell and defriend or unfollow you. They begin to see you as a spammer instead of someone interesting to follow.

PPC (Pay-Per-Click): You can buy ads on search engines (like the Adwords ads down the right side at Google). You bid on keywords on a per-click-basis and based on those bids (and other things like quality score) the engines will display your ad when people search for those keywords (called an impression). And if someone clicks through to your site by clicking on your ad, then you are charged what you bid (unless you have a high quality score in which case Google will lower what they charge you).

CPM: You can buy banner or text ads from ad networks. They generally charge you a fixed fee for each thousand impressions. So if you buy 10,000 impressions they will display your ad 10000 times on random sites that participate in their Ad networks.

Custom Deals: You can work out deals to have your ad displayed on various sites like the home page of Yahoo! and MSN ($$$$$$$$) or related web sites that you've identified as being frequented by the type of visitors you are targeting. Typically, these are based on some timeframe like a day, a month, whatever... at a fixed fee.

Off-line advertising: TV, radio, newspaper, business cards.


What you do... which combination of marketing you select... depends on your business, your product, your industry, the types of visitors you want to target. But basically it all boils down to marketing.

[raysor]

Good design and coding, SEO (which includes the first point, I suppose), good original content and keep adding it, patience.
OK so you can try other things as well like getting natural reciprocal links (to sites your visitors will like), networking with people in similar sector to your site's etc.

[tig]

Now days social media websites like ezdia , facebook helps very much in driving traffic to your site. Grow your network on these sites and promote your business

[WebTrafficHelp]

There are many free methods of building web traffic without spending a dime.
You can use social networking websites such as Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, etc. to make connections and find interested people.
You can participate in forums to learn more, share your knowledge, make connections, and tell others about your website.
Creating a lot of content, that is unique and high quality will give you traffic from search engines. Having a website on a topic that is not competitive will help a lot.
Making a youtube video talking about your website and having a link to it can deliver traffic.
Free classified ads websites like Craigslist you can post about your website or service free and may get some leads.
Try submitting articles to article directory websites. They will be seen more and gain exposure to your website by posting a link on your article. Since these websites are ranked highly by search engines, your article will be seen more on there versus on your website.
Submit your website to major search engines.
Submit your website to website and blog directory websites.
Have an easy way to subscribe to your website on your website. This gives an easy way for a visitor to subscribe and come back again. Getting repeat website visitors is a major part of having a lot of traffic to a website.
Keep your website updated so people want to check back often.
Make your website easy to navigate and easy to find what a reader would be looking for.
It takes time and effort to build website traffic but these are all free and mostly easy methods of doing so. I am sure you will find these very helpful and best of luck to you.