simple ways to drive traffic to your website or Blog

21 - Blogger Blogs / Free Blog Sites
This strategy works like the content hub strategies above, however differ in a few ways.
With the Squidoo/HubPages style of getting visitors, you are able to post content on these sites,
without you having to actually "own" a site or space online.
With this "free blog sites" strategy, you are instead signing up for and publishing dozens of blogs
(for free) - some one WordPress, some on Blogger, as well as other free blogging sites in existence
(again, there are THOUSANDS).
By now, you should already know the importance of having your own domain name. So instead of
CoolestSiteForRagDollMaking.WordPress.com, you have CoolestSiteForRagDollMaking.com - see
the difference?
If you want your own domain name, it costs money. I would suggest that for your main blog or site,
you should absolutely 100% buy your own domain.
However, for this strategy, you will create dozens of "micro-sites" or "super-niche-sites" as I like to
call them, and you will publish them for free right on these blogging platforms.
If your site is called "BestBreakdancingTutorials.com", you could make a list of niche sites like:
- bestbreakdancingtutorialsever.wordpress.com
- breakdancingfordummies.wordpress.com
- the-breakdancing-site.blogger.com
- bboys-and-bgirls.blogger.com
- superdancevideos.wordpress.com
You get the picture. Set up these sites, add some content (don't go crazy, just a few articles will do for
now), and link to your main website from all of these sites.
Then, from time to time, post an article, or embed someone else's YouTube video to these blogs, and
continue to post links to your main site(s).
This does so many great things for your website. It gives you LOTS of incoming back links, brings
in lots of direct visitors that view these niche blogs/sites, and also brings you higher site rankings and
more search engine traffic.
The more blogs you create, and the better each one is, the more traffic you could essentially bring to
your website.
22 - Ask/Answer Sites
People have questions, and people want answers!
That's where sites like Yahoo Answers and Ask.com come into play. Sites like these allow people to
post questions, and allow others to answer these questions right on the site.
Most of these sites also allow users to post "sources" in their answer. This means if someone wants to
know how to purify water, someone can provide an answer, and then provide a link to a website
saying "this is where I found some of this info".
These sites are getting smarter every day.
Now you have "answer rankings", and "levels", and a whole bunch of other stuff that basically says
"this person usually has really good answers to questions."
So, here's what you need to do in order to get a lot of traffic from ask/answer sites:
- First, join about 5 or more of these websites.
- Then, search for questions in your niche/topic area.
- Find questions that relate to your website (or that your website has information about).
- Answer these questions thoroughly, and post a link to one of your articles that could "help them out
further".
You don't even have to say it's YOUR site. Just say "I found this website helpful". And one note:
Instead of posting a link to your website EVERY single time, try including links to other websites, to
avoid the communities on these answer sites calling you a link spammer.
The point is, if you respond to a question with a valuable answer, and people pick your answer as the
best one, it goes a long way. So add value, answer the question in full detail, do this from time to time
consistently, and you'll have more traffic each time you answer a question.
One more thing to note: This traffic does come instantly and quick, but is also residual traffic.
Because now when someone types into a search engine "how to.... --question you've answered here--",
that question will come up in the search results with an ANSWER. And when someone reads your
answer, and it actually helps them, they'll be happy to find out more about you and your website.
23 - Audio and Podcasting
Like other types of media, there are websites and services that LOVE to promote audio and podcasts!
Okay, here's how it works:
Podcasts are EASY to make. Simply find a topic (like you would if you were going to write a blog
post), write a couple of key points that you want to talk about, and make the podcast! Also make sure
you vocalize your website name (important!).
Most computers come equipped with microphone and recording ability. If so, use your computer mic
and your favorite audio editing program (for starters, Mac users use Garageband, and PC users use
Audacity - although this could change) to make the audio. Then export it to mp3.
If you have a nice microphone, that works even better! If you have neither, use a video camera, or
camera phone, to record a simple video (you won't use the video). Once you are finished, use a
"video to audio" conversion website to convert your video into an audio file.
Once you have the audio file, it's time to publish your podcast. If you use Wordpress, you can upload
this directly to your account in "media". Or, you could also just upload your file to your file manager
or via FTP - whatever your blog/site/hosting company uses.
Your URL for your podcast should look something like this: http://website.com/podcast1.mp3 OR
http://website.com/podcastfolder/podcast1.mp3 if you make a folder called "podcastfolder".
Now comes publishing and promoting your podcast:
I find it best if you find a nice "plugin" on WordPress (or even just for any static site) that has an
audio player, and it's even better if the plug-in is made specifically for podcasts (do your research). If
you don't have access to, or don't want a plug-in, search for "html code audio player", and use the
instructions to get your audio published!
Once your podcast is published, it's time to promote it.
First, use iTunes to publish your podcast there. Millions of people LOVE free podcasts. And since
your website name is in the podcast (you DID mention your website, right?), you'll get a nice flow of
visitors right from iTunes to your website.
Once it's on iTunes (the 8 million pound gorilla haha), it's time to promote your podcast in other
places. Search for "podcast directory", "podcast promotion", "podcast submission", and other similar
keywords.
There are thousands of sites that want to promote your podcast - take advantage of them. Post it to as
many sites as you can. Most of these directories/promotion/submission platforms allow you to post a
link to your website as well, so in the process of getting people listening to your podcast (and then
visiting your website after), you will also get people just clicking on your website.
As you can see, the more media types you implement in your website, the more people you have
access to. Jane might love listening to podcasts. Frank only likes long books. Billy likes short blog
posts. Karen likes videos. If you have them all, you have that much more access to people, therefore
bringing you more visitors.
Plugin24 - Use the Facebook Comment
Ahhh yes, one of those things you see all over the place, but you probably haven't used, yet.
This is more for blogs only, but if you have a website or other type of site that has a comment section,
you can very well use this too.
Long story short: Boring comment sections are boring. Spice it up with Facebook Comments!
No matter what blog platform you use, you can install facebook comments - However, I would
recommend that you use Wordpress (it just makes your and everyone else's life easier).
Instead of going into all the details about installing the plugin or getting facebook comments on your
blog (since it's super easy to install, and this aint no installation guide!), I'm going to tell you why this
is so effective and brings a huge community to your blog.
I think it's easiest if I show you examples of how each type of comment system works:
Regular Boring Comment System:
- People find your blog, and start reading one of your posts.
- Maybe half of these visitors (or less) will get to the end of your post and see the comment section.
- Everyone will see it is a basic comment plugin, with no true interaction. Heck, most can't even
display an avatar or picture, and some won't allow links in the comments.
- A very small percentage will comment. This will be small because there is no interaction besides
them leaving a comment and then leaving your site.
- And... the comment stops here.
Facebook Comment Plugin System:
- People find your blog, and start reading one of your posts.
- Again, half of the visitors get to the end of the post and see your facebook comment section.
- When people see "facebook", they think "friends, interaction, talking, communicating, sharing".
They see pictures, "likes", replies, and they are already used to commenting on facebook, so it makes
it easy for them.
- You now get a higher percentage of people commenting. People are able to comment on your post,
interact with you, get responses from others, and feel more inclined to come back.
- And... the comment DOES NOT STOP HERE.
- Some facebook comment plugins do this automatically, others give the visitor the option - When
someone comments on your blog using the facebook comment plugin, a status update is posted to
their facebook wall, for all their friends to see! If this person has 500 friends, that means 500 people
now have access to your blog post. And if those 500 people comment, you could have virtually
thousands, even millions of potential visitors.
Do you see the viral effect these types of traffic generation tactics have? Let others do the work for
you!
25 - Share On Twitter and Gain A Community
Most people use twitter the wrong way.
Sure, most people who want to get traffic to their website have a twitter account. Heck, lots of people
have 2 accounts! Few have even more than that.
However, most people use their twitter accounts the wrong way. They sign up for twitter, put their
"follow me" button or link on their website, and then post links to their website non-stop on their
twitter account.
Here's how to use Twitter the RIGHT way:
First of all, it's all about SHARING on twitter. You've got to gain a community of followers if you are
ever going to get anywhere. The best way to get followers is by interacting with people on twitter.
Reply to someone's tweet. Follow tons of people. Guess what? The message feature is there for a
reason, MESSAGE someone!
Next, you've got to get your follower count up. It's been proven by many people that the more
followers you have, the easier it is to continually get more followers. It's like the saying goes, "the
rich get richer and the poor well... are still poor" - it goes something like that ;)
Follow dozens of relevant twitter accounts every day (hundreds if possible). Find people that talk
about the same thing as you (that's what the search feature is for). Tweet these people, message them,
follow them.
Then, go to sites like twiends or other "get followers" or "follower exchange" sites. You can follow
100 people in 5 minutes, and have 100 new followers 10 minutes later. I've used this strategy of
following 500 people, waiting a day for my followers to roll in, then I unfollow people (100 at a time
so twitter doesn't hate me) until my "following" number is low, then I go back and follow more
people using sites like this.
On top of that, you must provide valuable content. Don't spam your links all day. Post some
inspiring quotes, post links to free stuff, fun videos, great articles, and occasionally one of your own
promos - later on when your follower number increases to the thousands, you can start promoting
offers and make money right away!
26 - Facebook Pages and Timelines
Yes, facebook changes all the time. Instead of bitching and moaning about the change, it's time to keep
up with the change.
First of all - timelines. You should have timeline enabled (I still see old ugly facebook
accounts/walls). You should also be constantly publishing and promoting your content on your
timeline.
Next is friends. Sure, we may not really have 5,000 friends in "real life", but heck, if these 5,000
friends are all people who would love to see the next piece of content you post, then add as many
friends as you can.
It's easiest to friend request people who have more than 1,000 friends, so start there. Then, find others
on facebook interested in the same stuff you are. Add them as a friend as well.
Keep building up your friends. If you get to the maximum amount, get rid of the "friends" that don't
contribute much, and add new ones.
Okay, now about Facebook pages. You absolutely must have a facebook page for your website. I'd
even have another facebook page for your personal life/friends. That way, if you hate deleting
friends, you can forward them to your page which can have literally millions of "fans".
Did you know you can "use facebook as your page/website"? Yep, then you can scroll around
facebook, finding people talking about things that you write about/post/do, and then you can provide
them with your link to your website.
And besides your own pages, go search for other pages related to yours. There are so many facebook
pages out there that allow the public to post content. And some of these pages have over 100,000
likes/fans! Post your link/article/freebie etc. to these pages, and your link could be in front of
millions of eyes.
Don't underestimate the power of Facebook. Make more friends, get more likes, add valuable content,
promote like crazy, and think outside the box.
27 - Posting YouTube Videos
If you haven't started making YouTube videos, you need to start doing so immediately.
YouTube has been around for too many years now, you must start a YouTube channel today. Since
Google owns YouTube, you can bet that it's going to be around forever (so we hope), and there is
only going to be more people watching videos in the future, and those people could be watching your
videos instead of some other guy's.
I could write an entire book just on YouTube traffic, so I'm going to list my top strategies for getting
traffic from YouTube:
- Don't make videos purely for just views. Focus on a clear CTA (call to action) at the end/start/middle
of all your videos. What do you want them to do? Visit your website! So instead of telling them to
subscribe or comment on your video, tell them to go check out your "newest cool thing" on your
website.
- Give stuff away for free. Make a video telling people about the free stuff you are giving away.
Whether it is a book, a free report, a piece of music, or any other free piece of content, go ahead and
put it on your website, then make a video about it, and link to your website page where the freebie is.
Put it this way: Make a useless video with no CTA, and get 1,000 video views and 0 website views.
Make a nice video with a CTA, and get 1,000 video views and maybe 10 - 50 website views. Make a
great video with multiple clear CTAs, AND give away a freebie, and you can expect even more views,
and up to a 10% - 50%+ click through rate to your website.
- Always make sure there is a link to your website (even if it's to a blog post/freebie/etc.) at the TOP
of the description. People can see the beginning of the description in search results, and when
someone shares your video. Make use of this. Sometimes people don't even watch my video, and go
ahead and click on my website link. Sure I don't get a video view, but I just got a website visitor,
possibly multiple pageviews on my website, and quite possibly a return visitor.
- KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) - You don't need to have the most amazing quality in the world. You
don't need fancy equipment. You don't need special editing tricks, or even talking oranges! You can
get more website visitors than any other person on YouTube just by creating clear CTAs, linking your
website, and always encouraging people to continue the discussion and FUN on your website.
One more tip: If you are scared to get in front of the camera, don't worry. You can do a slideshow, or
powerpoint style presentation, just text on the video, or even an audio recording with an image of
your website. The possibilities are endless. Just get out there, make great content, subscribe to others,
comment on other videos, and don't worry about the video views. There are people getting over 1
million video views, and only getting 100 website views out of that traffic. Then there are people who
get a mediocre 1,000 - 5,000 video views, and get almost the same amount of website pageviews from
this traffic. Sure, there may be only 500 people who came to the website. But when they visit a page or
two (or 10!), all of those website page views start to add up.
28 - Take Advantage of Other Video Sharing Sites
This should be a continuation of posting YouTube videos - all should coexist in your traffic plan.
Do you know about any other video sharing sites out there? Maybe a few? There's hundreds of
popular ones, and thousands more on top of that. If you want to get more traffic, and you post videos
to YouTube telling people to visit your website, why would you NOT post your video to other video
websites?
Yes, to start, it might take a few hours to get dozens of video accounts set up. You'll probably also
want to add your website link to your profile for starters.
But once all your video accounts are set up, you can make a video, and instead of publishing it just to
YouTube, publish it on every single video account you have set up.
Tip: Use a browser that allows tabs. Then, open all the video sites in separate tabs. Log-in to all.
Publish each video one at a time, and have a description with your website link handy to copy+paste in
each description/info box. Once you've submitted to all the sites, wait until they are all processed and
uploaded, and then sit back and enjoy.
You can post your video to 20 or 30 sites in the matter of 30 minutes (or longer if you have HD or
very large files). Of course this brings direct visitors to your website, but it also does something else.
By having 20, 30, 100+ video sharing sites linking to YOUR website, you better believe the search
engines will start to take notice. Remember what I said earlier, keep focused on building links to
ensure residual traffic each day.
And if you think this will take too long - there are websites and services that make things easier.
I won't name a bunch of companies, because these tend to come and go quickly at times, but just
search around for "video distribution", "post video to multiple video sites", and similar searches like
that. You will find dozens of great companies that will tie in all of your login info to tons of different
video sharing sites, and then allow you to upload your video through their server ONCE, then their
server takes care of uploading the video, writing your title, tags, and description, and any types of
links you want. Some of these services cost money, others are free. The free ones are great if you
have no budget at all. However, the paid services in this area are always better as they are able to
publish your video to more sites, post multiple videos at the same time, post your video to quality
video sites that some other automated services don't have access to, and other goodies.
The point is, if you are posting videos to YouTube, you need to start posting them to other sites.
There's other people out there that love other websites, and don't go on YouTube for certain reasons
(maybe it's too many ads, maybe it's the lack of true community, maybe it's because they hate what
Google has done to YouTube). Take advantage of this opportunity. Sure, YouTube may have "90% of
the video traffic" or whatever their stats are nowadays, but YouTube is also saturated with crap.
You know it, I know it, there's just way too many 5 year olds who know how to use YouTube - heck,
you can upload videos straight from your phone, via email, and texting! These other video sites have
way less competition (even if your competition is crap), which makes it easier for you to continue to
multiply your visitors from many sites instead of being lost in the big world of YouTube.
29 - Submit Your Site To Directories
Good old directories. These have been around since close to the start of the internet.
As soon as people started searching for webpages online, directories were built to make it easier for
people to find websites that match a specific category.
Well, they still work today. Do a search for "your website topic / main niche" + "directory". You now
have thousands of directories you can submit to. Do a search for "directory" alone, and you have
millions.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's how a directory works: You go to a directory.
You navigate to the closest topic to your website. You click something like "submit url/website". Enter
in your website details, and SUBMIT.
If you do this once, you won't see much of a difference to your site at all. But do this with 100
directories, and you could see some clicks and visitors coming your way. Continue to do this with
other free directories, and build your back links up to 1,000+ with directories alone. You'll build up
your search engine ranking, your page rank, and your visitors.
You can find many lists of free directories just by searching "free directories best list", or "free
directories high pagerank". Some websites post updated lists of the best directories to submit to.
For getting traffic, there are really 2 types of directories you need to use:
1. High Page Rank, High Quality "All-around" Directories. These types of directories are like
dmoz, where they have lots of visitors, high page rank, are a reputable website, and offer
hundreds and thousands of different categories and sub-categories. For directories like this,
make SURE they are quality websites - because you will be focusing more on the quality of the
back link, and not the direct visitors you will get from the directory.
2. Any Page Rank, Any Quality NICHE Directories. With these niche directories, you aren't
worried about page rank or quality of the site (as long as it's not horrible), and are only
interested in the direct traffic it can bring (and also relevancy between your site and theirs). First,
search engines will see that a site similar to yours that has similar keywords is linking to you,
and will rank your website accordingly for similar keywords. Also, the people who visit these
one-topic, niche directories are obviously interested in this one topic greatly. So, you will
probably see more traffic from these niche directories than you will in even the most popular
directories with millions of links on them already.
The more directories you submit to, the more back links you'll have. The more back links you have,
and the better the quality, the more visitors your website will have.
30 - Freebie Sites
People love freebie sites for one reason, and one reason only - because there's free stuff there!
Freebies have been one of the best ways to build a community fast, and it works even better once you
have a community to promote the freebie to.
That's where freebie sites come into play. Some freebie sites allow you to post a link to your website
page where the freebie is located, while with other freebie sites you must give the freebie to them to
place on their website (instead of your link, or both sometimes).
Choosing Your Freebie: PDF books/reports work great. So does free audio files/music, mp3,
podcast. Free video, free mini-course, free anything really (make sure it is digital and able to be
downloaded immediately multiple times).
Besides the type of freebie you offer, make sure you provide lots of value. Just because it's free
doesn't mean everyone is going to download it! You must provide value in your freebie (remember,
you are using this freebie to get people to your website by linking/mentioning it).
Posting To Freebie Sites: Search "freebies", "free stuff", "promote free stuff", "just free stuff", "free
giveaways", etc. The key point in making this work is to create a viral effect. Don't post to a few
freebie sites and be done. Post to 100 or more, get your freebie out there! Then, make it known to
these people that they can share your freebie with whomever they want!
You can even find freebie directories, freebie facebook pages, freebie groups - just get it in front of
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