50 Traffic Strategies For All

1. Trade an adequate amount of Stumbles to improve your site’s Stumble Ranking. StumbleUpon is a feasible option, where-in better the content, higher the hits. Also, Diggs can be utilised to get your site indexed quickly.

2. Backlinks can be substantially incremented through sites such as Propeller, OnlyWire and SocialMarker, which serve the purpose of improving indexing and rankings.

3. A suitable press release publicizing your site can be submitted directly to PRWeb.com to attain a good flow of traffic and even rankings.

4. If a competitor with high traffic-site uses Ad Sense, then you can use Google’s Site Targeting Program to get your ad directly to your competitor’s site, evading hassles of contacting the owner.

5. Advertise your site with certified and commonly visited classifieds such as the centralized network on CraigsList.org.

6. Posting quality content through constant offerings on groups, communities and forums with common interests will help attract a good amount of traffic.

7. LinkedIn.com has a widespread online business social networking forum which effectively helps increase your contacts and repo amongst other online marketers.

8. It is essential to keep updating and modifying your site in order to make it seem more dynamic. This will attract more visits from popular search engines.

9. Publishing brochures or even a mini-book based on what your site is all about can assist in creating huge publicity spreads.

10. Posting regularly on your blog and then pinging each time you write in is of great help. Also, each post must contain apt keywords concerned with the business in order to initiate better search results.

11. Writing eye-grabbing reviews about products that belong to the same niche as yours on blogs in your own niche with a link back to your site.

12. Helpful suggestions or comments can be left on other people’s blogs, with a backlink to your site attached at the bottom.

13. Options such as social bookmarking, Refer to a Friend and other such viral techniques will enable a widespread of your site’s popularity.

14. Sites such as OnlyWire.com help in automating social book marking, which enables you to generate more backlinks automatically, thus resulting in traffic from affiliated sites.

15. Offering free items on your site, such as free courses, affiliate products or e-books will help gain a higher number of subscribers and repeat traffic.

16. Attaining membership to the Better Business Bureau will not only help you develop marketing skills, but also enable you to have your site’s link posted on their website.

17. Submitting articles with qualitative contents to popular article directories and blogs and forums.

18. Business cards are also an effective method to create contacts and expand networks.

19. At times, you can get to advertise your site on the Thank You and Reference pages of other Sales websites in return of a nominal charge for the site owner.

20. Personal profiles on popular social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter can prove heavily beneficial to circulate your site’s information and backlinks.

21. A video-clip containing informative footage regarding your site can be uploaded on common video hosting sites such as YouTube. The link to your site must be included primarily in the About Video/Information section of the clip.

22. Buying advertisements on EBay or using PPC techniques is a way of spending your way into luring customers.

23. Some local Radio stations often accept advertisements at relatively affordable costs. So, investing some amount in advertisements on Radios in another medium of mass-communication with a large reach.

24. Also, sponsoring a small segment on a local News channel is a viable long-term option to spread word about your site.

25. Niches impact traffic flows heavily. Picking the correct niches to venture into and combining them with properly researched keywords thus becomes important for long term traffic.

26. If the content is able to generate enough heat, encouraging people to subscribe to your RSS feeds will become easy, which is an efficient method of building a loyal base of visitors.

27. Many readers who use backlinks to reach your site may not necessarily enter your index page. Hence, each standalone page of the site must be intriguing and attractive enough to make them navigate further and read on.

28. Multiple blogs can be created with one parent site to backlink to. Since all of these blogs act as channels leading to the same parent site, continuous traffic inflow is ensured.

29. Giving out attractive bloggers’ awards or rewarding the best blog entries in cash or kind can prove to be a healthy way of attracting a constant inflow of bloggers.

30. Posting backlinks on websites in similar niches and higher Page-Rank will assist in getting your site’s ranking up. Higher the Page-Rank, better the rankings on Search Engines.

31. If you use Yahoo, then it is a common trick to set up a feed on MyYahoo. This will help Yahoo keep automated track of the updates on your site and blogs.

32. Web campaigns either earn money or cost money. Thus, it becomes vital to keep track of your site’s campaigns from time to time through effective tests of their feasibility.

33. An effective offline strategy, which is slightly expensive and lesser known, involves bringing forth your advertisements in front of the common public via modes such as posters, t-shirts, publishing in magazines etc.

34. Also, public places such as alleys, bus stations, cafes etc. are apt sites where you can put up paper Stick-Ons to promote your URL amongst the common masses.

35. The Alexa Tool Bar is an efficient tool to monitor traffic reports and acquire traffic rankings after searching profitable niche keywords on search engines like Google.

36. Hosting Tele-seminars or Webinars with other marketers of your niche can prove to be critical tools in enlightening members of your network with information about your site.

37. If you can’t get famous, get infamous. A trick to attract more eyes is to generate a controversial idea, against the popular beliefs common in the market, and then spread it around through articles and e-books.

38. There could be sites with misspellings or variations of your domain name floating on the web. Try and purchase some space on them in order to forward your URL.

39. Buying an authoritative site and getting high powered people to use it adds to your reputation. Following that up with a few press releases helps attain publicity.

40. Every time you make a presentation to a club, forum or local society, it is highly advisable to mention your site as many times as possible and expand your contacts amongst other online marketers.

41. Write articles and submit to E-zine articles and build backlinks to them if necessary(for quick google rankings), link back to your main page.

42. Use twitter to direct traffic, use automation software to add followers.

43. Add valuable articles to forums in your niche and have a link in your signature.

44. Write guest posts on high traffic blogs in your niche. Do a domain whois search for getting the details of the owner or write a comment telling that you have an offer that can be of mutual benefit.

45. Build a list and send them quality information once a week, soon you can have them come to your site just by requesting.

46. Build relationships in your niche. With fellow webmasters and more importantly the traffic. Make lists and satisfy them with good information.

47. Make video files watermarked with your URL and upload to torrent sites and other sharing hubs (mediafire,rapidshare). Give links to these download pages in forums.

48. Make linkwheels and keep at it consistently.

49. Ping, social bookmark and submit your RSS feeds to rss feed aggregators to get a steady source of traffic each time you update your site.

50. GET TO WORK AND STOP DAY DREAMING.

Social Networking 101: Basic Tips For Online and Offline Social Networking

Guess what? Social networking online is very similar to social networking offline (in the real world)! Big surprise? Believe it or not, for some, it really is a surprise. Whether you are looking to grow your network, influence, awareness and reach or advancing your professional and personal goals it’s important to recognize that being successful in social networking online and offline are very similar. Most of us know the rules for networking in the real world, but it’s important to remember them for online, particularly if you are making your first moves into online social media and social networking. The following are tips to become a decent social networker in either medium. Most tips apply in both scenarios.

Know the organizer: Make it a point either when you arrive at the event or prior to leaving the event to thank the organizer for putting the event together, let them know that you wish to attend future events and that you met some great contacts. Knowing the organizer and letting them know you appreciate the hard work needed to put together an event may put you in position to share the highest level of invite status in the future. Find out who runs things and take the mindset that you owe them something.

Offer assistance: If you really like the event/group, offer that you’d like to be a part of helping to organize future events by volunteering time and some of your core capabilities. Help your fellow social networkers by advancing their goals, sharing their goals with others or by introducing them to a new contact in your network. Make a solid public recommendation if you honestly believe in what they have to offer.

Be polite: Enter conversations gently and in a meaningful way with something to add. Don’t interrupt existing conversations in progress, but work you way into conversations. As a conversation hits a lull or comes to a conclusion, start it again, this time with a twist. Avoid cursing. There is no need to curse and swear to make your point. If you’re succinct in your discussion, people will get the point. Use of words like F*&K and SH%T become very unattractive after a while and show a certain lack of professionalism after some time.

Smile: No one likes a all the time. Stay away from negativity, and don’t dwell on bad news. Bring uplifting anecdotes and share in the positives. Clean yourself up and dress well. Represent yourself with a decent looking avatar / profile image. Ask some of your closest friends and contacts what they honestly think about your profile image.

Meet the influencers: Take time to understand who the influencers are in the room, who are long time members and pay deference to their contributions to the organization. Share your experiences with them about the group. Ask questions of the influencers as they know a ton about the group and how to become established within the group. Perhaps you can help an influencer in some other area of life and they can help you within the social network group?

Meet the newcomers: Show a bit of bi-partisanship and don’t put all your focus on the influencers or the organizers all the time. A newcomer could one day become an “influencer”, so you should try to meet some of them. It’s important to show the rest of the group that you are not just looking to network up, but that you care about the development of the entire group. After all, Susan Boyle was a newcomer, right? Good for those who introduced themselves to her before she went on stage!

Follow up: Follow up with the people you’ve met in the network and at the event. Don’t leave your new contacts hanging. Make sure to follow up with some form of contact (phone call, email, hand written note) recognizing that you’ve met them and showing them you care about their work. Help them in their endeavors and help them reach their goals first, and they will be apt to help you.

Don’t sell and don’t spam: Tread lightly on the commercial approach. Don’t blanket the party with your pitch, your business card or with how great you are. If you try to sell things to your social network and you constantly GLOAT, chances are you will be rejected in some way. This reminds me of a social marketing post we made some time ago where we said:

” [social marketing] is about acting like a human and networking in it’s traditional form; being a part of the discourse, part of the conversation, meeting people and not sucking people into an E-commerce funnel.”

Bring a gift: Bring something to share at the event. Bring insights, a new contact or bits of information that others can benefit from. Don’t come empty handed. Bring an actual gift or bring your knowledge of a subject to contribute to the group discussion.

Find new events: Find new events, go to them and cross-connect the contacts you meet at one group with the contacts from another. Turning your friends on to new events helps them understand that you care about their development.

Introduce a new person: Bring a new person to the group who you think will add value for the rest. You’ll be in the good graces of the new attendee and likely the rest of the group for expanding the network in a meaningful way.

Relate: Make sure you remain relatively on-topic in discussions. Speak about the industry and if the conversation veers into the personal or off-topic, at least make sure those you’re speaking with have a remote interest in what you’re discussing. If they can’t relate, you’re done!

What are some of your social networking tips?