Building traffic is a very difficult thing to do. You want to get
quality traffic but at a low price or free, in order to make a profit on your
website. There are many, many ways to build traffic to your site.
Read below on the many different ways we have found building website traffic for
any site.
1. Submit your site to directories. This is a very effective method for
long term traffic. It may not bring in the traffic tomorrow but this will
be free, long term traffic coming in once your links are established. Some
places that don't require a reciprocal link are:
http://www.dmoz.org
http://www.lii.org/pub/htdocs/home.htm
http://www.femina.com
http://www.gogreece.com
http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm
http://www.worldhot.com/
http://www.123india.com/
http://www.elib.org/
http://www.ezilon.com/
http://www.epooch.com/
http://www.christiansunite.com/
http://www.toronto1.biz/
http://www.canadianeh.com
http://www.aardvark.co.za
http://www.nzs.com/
http://www.aigam.com
Below is a list of directories that do require a reciprocal link.
Submitting them can be a pain and time consuming so if you want a paid service
to do it for you, click
here.
1 http://dir.yahoo.com/ 9
2 http://www.dmoz.org 9
3 http://www.stpt.com/ 8
4 http://www.lii.org/pub/htdocs/home.htm 8
5 http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/ 8
6 http://www.blogwise.com/ 8
7 http://www.open-site.org 8
8 http://www.bloggernity.com 7
9 http://www.podcastzoom.com/ 7
10 http://www.blogrankings.com 7
11 http://www.bloguniverse.com 7
12 http://www.femina.com 7
13 http://www.gogreece.com 7
14 http://www.lanic.utexas.edu 7
15 http://www.polishworld.com 7
16 http://www.nationaldirectory.com/ 7
17 http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm 7
18 http://www.worldhot.com/ 7
19 http://www.123india.com/ 7
20 http://www.kinderstart.com 7
21 http://www.portal.eatonweb.com 7
22 http://businessweek.directorym.com 7
23 http://www.elib.org/ 7
24 http://www.ezilon.com/ 6
25 http://www.yourwebloghere.com 6
26 http://www.epooch.com/ 6
27 http://www.christiansunite.com/ 6
28 http://www.toronto1.biz/ 6
29 http://www.vxbox.com/ 6
30 http://www.canadianeh.com 6
31 http://www.aardvark.co.za 6
32 http://www.nzs.com/ 6
33 http://www.aigam.com 6
34 http://linkcentre.com 6
35 http://www.info-listings.com/ 6
36 http://www.zensearch.com/ 6
37 http://www.bluedir.com/ 6
38 http://www.imegamall.com/ 6
39 http://payvand.com/yp/ 6
40 http://www.globalgateway.com/ 6
41 http://www.canlinks.net/ 6
42 http://www.albanywebsites.com 6
43 http://searchsight.com/ 6
44 http://www.siteranking.com/ 6
45 http://findingblog.com/ 6
46 http://link-ads.com/ 6
47 http://www.directoryforce.com/ 6
48 http://www.gimpsy.com 6
49 http://www.iguide.co.il/ 6
50 http://www.webworldindex.com 6
51 http://www.canadopedia.com/ 6
52 http://indiafocus.indiainfo.com/ 6
53 http://www.americasbest.com/ 6
54 http://www.great-british-pages.co.uk/ 6
55 http://www.somuch.com/ 6
56 http://www.illumirate.com/ 5
57 http://www.christianlinks.com/ 5
58 http://www.click2directory.com 5
59 http://www.axelis.com/ 5
60 http://www.eurofind.biz 5
61 http://www.abilogic.com 5
62 http://www.gandalfdir.com/ 5
63 http://www.josh.nu 5
64 http://www.linketeria.com/ 5
65 http://www.londinium.com 5
66 http://www.jamjaa.com/ 5 |
67 http://www.megri.com/ 5
68 http://www.mavicanet.com/directory/eng/ 5
69 http://www.poddys.com/ 5
70 http://www.pedsters-planet.co.uk/ 5
71 http://directory.portalit.net/ 5
72 http://www.tsection.com/ 5
73 http://www.addurl-free.com/ 5
74 http://www.worldsbiggestdirectory.com/ 5
75 http://www.777media.com/ 5
76 http://www.buzznick.com/ 5
77 http://www.directory.ldmstudio.com 5
78 http://www.evenseek.com 5
79 http://www.forage.in 5
80 http://www.global-weblinks.com/ 5
81 http://www.network-room.com/links/ 5
82 http://www.rdirectory.net 5
83 http://search.able2know.com/ 5
84 http://www.siteinclusion.com/ 5
85 http://www.mddccommunity.com/ 5
86 http://slsites.com/ 5
87 http://www.finditireland.com/ 5
88 http://www.dirdir.info/ 5
89 http://www.my-kerala.com/ 5
90 http://www.a-free-directory.info/ 5
91 http://www.webdirectory-submit.com/ 5
92 http://www.my-india.net/ 5
93 http://www.dramba.com/ 5
94 http://www.worthwhilelink.com/ 5
95 http://allfreethings.com/ 5
96 http://www.eu-directweb.com/ 5
97 http://directory.lonelyway.com/ 5
98 http://www.uk-web-index.co.uk/ 5
99 http://www.infignos.com/ 5
100 http://www.singaporesearchengine.com/ 5
101 http://searchwarp.com 5
102 http://www.zeezo.com/ 5
103 http://sonicquest.com/ 5
104 http://www.aryawat.com/ 5
105 http://www.skoobe.biz/ 5
106 http://www.busybits.com/ 5
107 http://www.unifieddirectory.com 5
108 http://dir.ukwizz.com 5
109 http://www.top5jamaica.com/ 5
110 http://www.thetopsites.net/ 5
111 http://www.trycanada.com/ 5
112 http://www.allshops.com/ 5
113 http://www.anyapex.com/ 5
114 http://www.jtrotta.com/ 5
115 http://www.indiabook.com/ 5
116 http://www.resourcehelp.com/ 5
117 http://www.pleaseretrieve.com/ 5
118 http://www.moldova.com/ 5
119 http://www.annasinkovska.com/fashion-directory/ 5
120 http://www.infotiger.com 5
121 http://www.christianwebsite.com/search 5
122 http://www.lybot.com 5
123 http://www.4ppl.com/directory 5
124 http://www.directorylist.org/ 5
125 http://www.spotjockey.co.uk/ 5
126 http://www.turnpike.net/ 5
127 http://www.searchtheweb.com 5
128 http://www.typicallyspanish.com/html/english/ 5
129 http://www.aha.co.za/ 5
130 http://www.zielony.pl/ 5
131 http://www.amray.com/ 5
132 http://www.best-websites.net/ 5
133 http://en.wedoo.com/ 5
134 http://www.url.biz 5 |
135 http://www.downunderindex.com/
5
136 http://www.dxpnet.com/riot/ 5
137 http://www.data-spain.com/ 5
138 http://directory.bizhat.com/ 5
139 http://www.burf.com 5
140 http://www.landoflinks.com/ 5
141 http://www.hedir.com/ 5
142 http://www.submiturlhere.com/ 5
143 http://www.worldsiteindex.com/ 5
144 http://www.dhundo.com/ 5
145 http://www.infovisual.info/directory/index.php 5
146 http://www.hotlaunch.com 4
147 http://www.add-link.info/ 4
148 http://www.am-directory.com/ 4
149 http://www.apexoo.com/directory/ 4
150 http://www.abifind.com 4
151 http://www.adverts.gr/grsearch/pages/ 4
152 http://www.businesscatalogonline.com/ 4
153 http://www.buildturkey.com 4
154 http://www.biblestudynotes.org/links/ 4
155 http://buycanuck.com/ 4
156 http://www.bugsdirectory.com 4
157 http://blue.daffodil.uk.com/directory/ 4
158 http://www.clasione.com/ 4
159 http://www.directory-free.com/ 4
160 http://www.directoryon.info/ 4
161 http://www.directorystorm.com/ 4
162 http://www.findwhatwhere.info/ 4
163 http://www.directorydelux.com/ 4
164 http://www.englandsportal.com 4
165 http://www.exoode.com/directory/ 4
166 http://www.floridadirectory.biz 4
167 http://www.friendlycanadian.com/search/ 4
168 http://www.fxdir.com/ 4
169 http://www.ir8.net/ 4
170 http://www.iconcave.com/partners/ 4
171 http://www.indexrated.com/ 4
172 http://www.look4business.org/ 4
173 http://www.listmyniche.com 4
174 http://www.linkengine.com 4
175 http://www.nintra.com/directory/index.pl 4
176 http://www.openhere.com/ 4
177 http://www.orangefish-directory.co.uk 4
178 http://www.robolink.co.uk 4
179 http://red-links.com/ 4
180 http://www.redjuniper.com/ 4
181 http://www.rndirectory.com 4
182 http://www.seekabove.com/ 4
183 http://www.searchmaryland.com 4
184 http://www.simpledir.com/ 4
185 http://www.spheri.com/ 4
186 http://www.sgtsearch.com/ 4
187 http://www.ShopShootah.com 4
188 http://www.thames-valley-business.co.uk 4
189 http://www.thesearchbrain.co.uk 4
190 http://www.thelocalweb.net 4
191 http://www.wura.co.uk/ 4
192 http://www.uudir.com/ 4
193 http://www.UKbest50.co.uk 4
194 http://www.urlshack.com 4
195 http://www.velendi.com/ 4
196 http://www.web-central.info 4
197 http://www.worldwidedirectory.org/ 4
198 http://www.wholeworld.com 4
199 http://www.weblinkdirectory.net/ 4
200 http://www.wahlinks.com/ 4 |
2. Exchange links with similar sites. If you own a website about Dogs, you
would want your link on other sites about dogs, not on sites about Ipods.
Then when visitors go to these other sites about dogs, they will see your links
and click on it and go to your site. The following places will help you
find sites about your topic that you can exchange links with.
Link
Partner Finder - from 4th media.
Find
Link Partners – from zebonline
More resources about exchanging links at:
Link
Popularity Check -
Arelis Link
Builder -
Zeus Internet Robot
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OptiLink Software
3. Article submission - Articles are very popular and are all around the
internet. People write articles on a certain topic and put a link to their
website at the bottom of the article. They then submit these articles to
many article sites. These articles are then all over the internet for
people to read. People will read the articles and see your link at the
bottom of the article and click on it and go to your site.
Below are some top places to submit articles:
http://www.awomaninbusiness.com
http://www.a1articles.com/
http://sbinformation.about.com/
http://www.addme.com/nlpast.htm
http://www.advertisingknowhow.com
http://www.allfreelancework.com/
http://www.allmerchants.com/
http://www.allthewebsites.org/articles/
http://allwomencentral.com/
http://www.articlealley.com/
http://www.articlebar.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.articledashboard.com
http://www.articledepot.co.uk
http://www.articlehub.com/
http://www.articlenexus.com/
http://www.articlepros.com/
http://www.articlesphere.com/
http://www.articlewarehouse.com/
http://www.articles-submit.com/
There are many more places but these are the biggest ones.
Writing articles may not be easy for everyone . There are many places
which will write articles for you for a small fee.
4. Submit Press Releases. You can write up something small about your
site and release it to many press release websites and they will post it on many
other sites and drive up the exposure for your website. Some places to
submit are:
http://www.clickpress.com
http://www.webwire.com/
http://www.emediawire.com
http://www.businesswire.com
http://www.prwebdirect.com
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http://www.theopenpress.com
http://www.free-press-release.com
http://www.pressbox.co.uk
http://www.i-newswire.com/
http://www.pr9.net
http://www.pr-inside.com
http://www.newswire.ca/
http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com
http://www.marketwire.com
http://www.urlwire.com/
http://www.prweb.com
http://www.prurgent.com
http://www.prleap.com -
http://www.prnewswire.com
http://www.prfree.com/
http://www.openpress.com/
5. Social Networking Sites - I'm sure you have heard of Youtube,
Myspace and Craigslist. Well these are 3 of the highest traffic sites in
the world and they all allow any user to sign up with them and submit
information which can in turn promote a site or product.
http://www.youtube.com is a video
submission site where you can post or view thousands of videos. Well you
can create and post videos about your product or something similar and post your
website address on the video or near it and drive a lot of visitors to your
site.
http://www.myspace.com allows you to
create a personal page which you can target towards your website. For
example, if your site is about golf, you can create a page dedicated to golf and
put links in it to your site. Then you can create a group about golf or
join existing golf groups to promote it even more. Then you can get
friends with similar interests and once you do, you can post comments on their
page regarding your website.
http://www.craigslist.com -
This is a classified ads site where users can post ads for free in specific
cities. You can go into various cities and post ads promoting your
website. This will bring in more free traffic to your site.
6. Social Bookmarking sites - These types of sites are relatively
new. You can post website links or comments to these sites and they become
instantly available to the world to view. If you post a very interesting
comment or topic, you can instantly get many hits to your site. This will
not give you long term trffic but will be good for quick traffic. Some
sites to submit to are:
http://del.icio.us/
http://www.digg.com/
http://www.blinklist.com/
http://ma.gnolia.com/
http://www.furl.net/
http://www.diigo.com/
http://www.complore.com/
http://www.tallstreet.com/
http://gamingtags.com/
http://indiagram.com/index.php
http://www.goesby.com/
http://teachershare.org/openig/
http://www.chaamp.com/
http://www.a1-webmarks.com/
http://www.tektag.com/
http://www.bookmark.it/
http://www.wirefan.com/
http://www.stumbleupon.com
7. Forums - Posting comments in forums on your topic is a very good way to
get traffic. What you would need to do is sign up with the forum and then
create a signature. A signature is at the bottom of every one of your
posts. You should put something in there about your website and a link to
your site. Then people will read your post and go to your site.
The tough thing is to find good forums. I suggest going to www.google.com
and www.yahoo.com and typing in the type of
forum you are looking for. Say your site is about poker, you would want to
type in "poker forum" and see the results that come up. Then go
into them and see if the site looks good, look if it looks like there are a
decent number of posts and activity. You don't want to post to forums
where the last post was 5 months ago. Then sign up with them, create a
signature and start posting comments.
For more in depth info on making money from forums, click
here.
8. Toplists - Toplists can be very effective in getting traffic. I have
used them a lot and gotten good results. To find them, I would search the
same way as you did for forums. Go to Google or Yahoo and type in the type
of toplist you want. Then go through them and submit your site. You
wil need to add a reciprocal link for all the toplists you join. Then the
more traffic that you send to these toplsits, the higher you are ranked on their
site and therefore, get more traffic.
9. Blogs - Weblogs or blogs are another great source for quick traffic.
Find existing blogs by going through Google or Yahoo and then make posts to them
. Make sure you put a link to your website somewhere on the submission.
10. Pay per click search engines. This will get you immediate
traffic but can be costly. Depends on how fast you want traffic.
Here you go in and bid how much you want to pay per click. Then your ad
will show up on these sites, and each time someone clicks on your ad, you will
pay that much money. This will instantly put you on the top search engines
like Google and Yahoo, but you have to keep track of what you spend and how much
income you make to make sure if the campaign is worth it. The top pay per
click search engines are:
Google Adwords
Yahoo Search Marketing
Those are top ways to get traffic to your site. There are many more but
these are very popular. I didn't get into search engine
optimization. This is by far the best traffic, it is free and very
constant. It also is very hard to get. It is extremely difficult to
get good rankings in many top search engines unless you know many tricks, which
are too many to explain here. I suggest starting with the items mentioned
about to get traffic. If you are interested, however, in learning how to
get free traffic from the major search engines, click here.
Tracking your traffic - Now that you are getting traffic in, you want
to know how effective that traffic is. You might realize you get many
clicks from a certain site every time you post a comment there, but you will
never know that without stats. Getting traffic is a trial and eror
method. I suggest you try the above methods but not all will work for your
site. By keeoing track of statistics, you can see what works and use that
more.
I suggest going to Google
Analytics. They are a very complete statistical tracking
source. They will tell you where your traffic came from, how long they
stayed and even if those visitors purchased something from you. I highly
recommend it.
Webmaster - My final point is to basically say that with promoting
websites, you are a webmaster. You need to stay on top of the latest tips
and tricks for getting traffic. What might work today might not
tomorrow. I suggest you visiting a few webmaster forums and joining them
and continuously read up on them. It is always good to learn from others
who are doing what you are doing. Plus they can give you much help in
whatever you need . A few I suggest going to are:
Digital Point
Name Pros
Sitepoint