Top 5 Ways To Generate Low Cost Website Traffic

[ThePollGuy]

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[ThePollGuy]

Top 5 Ways To Generate Low Cost Website Traffic

There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn’t take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the Top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.

Exchange Links

This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.

Traffic Exchange

This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.

Write and Submit Articles

There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets pass around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

Bye and take care of yourself

Alex

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[MrCat]

Interesting thoughts!

I would go for a combination of PPC, targetted back links and forum postings on similar niche for targetted traffic. I find these very effective.

For other ways: article marketing, directory submissions, blogging, social bookmarking, etc. ;)

[XuryaX]

A fun filled website always brings members. Add it in your signature be popular and the traffic would come. You shouldnt depend on it but it should be a side by side traffic campaign.

[lkine]

my english is poor , what should i do? Write articles is hard to me..

[destiny110]

I find PPC and articles very effective. There have been some very useful suggestions here. I suppose it's a matter of finding the right ones for you.

[markustm]

Why not outsource the writing of articles to a freelance article writer? I'm assuming of course, that you're able to pay for the cost.

Quite a few people don't have the time or patience to come up with new articles for their blogs/site on a consistent basis. I'm thinking of hiring an article writer for my site.

I've heard of rentacoder.com, elance.com and getacoder.com. Anyone has any recommendations on where to go?

Thanks in advance!

[IworkfromHOME]

Thanks for the insight. If I can write good articles that would be my main source of low cost traffic.

[_christina_]

my top 5 would be article marketing, blogging, forum posting, social bookmarking and blog commenting:)

[ibuzzmentor]

My two that have made me a fortune the past five years are Joint Ventureships and Voice blasting. Voice blasting is so cheap now and every time I do it my ROI is tremendous, either pointing people to a website or to a live person.

[qualitytw]

ibuzzmentor:
How do you do voice blasting? I never heard of that. Is that similar to social marketing?
Thanks!

[krunk]

Those are almost all slow forms of traffic generation, but they work after you get enough links out there. You have to have short term strategies to traffic generation as well as long-term strategies that work passively. For example I do this:


Short-term
Paid Ezine Solo Ads
Paid to Read Email Sponsor Links
Paid to Click Traffic


Long-Term
Free Traffic Bars
Article Marketing
Forum Links

When I say short term I mean anything that provides you with a legitimate targetted fast spike in the amount of traffic to your website.

Long Term Strategies take a while to build the links or downline members in the case of trafficbars but over time they become a strong source of high quality traffic.

[moneyman]

Where do people rank directory submissions in their marketing mix these days? Is it something you spend time doing?

[rajshree]

1. free directory submission
2. Article submission
3. Social bookmarking
4. Link exchange
5. Forum and blog posting

[bryan conway]

some good tips on here, thanks for sharing

[Member8200]

Nice tips, good information. I'd like to add that though it's not a direct traffic generating method, consistency should be applied to your efforts as well.

[enam]

Following is my favorite methods of getting traffic:

1. free classified advertising
2. Social bookmarking
3. Yahoo answers
4. Link exchange
5. Forum and blog posting

[tonyd13]

This was a pretty good article. In my experience its all about articles, forums, lists, and social marketing. Just my $0.02

[srik]

My favourate online Marketing Ways are.
ppc
forum Participation
articles
seo

[rajshree]

Yahoo answers are also very helpful in getting more and more traffic

[dave2k32000]

if you are very impactive in a forum, it is a sure way to drive traffic to your blog without having to spend a dime.

[Member8200]

There's a lot of traffic to be had on YouTube!