Despite what some people think there are ways to drive traffic to your website for FREE building up a steady flow of traffic. Read on to find out how…………
Public Post Boards
One of the easiest ways is to place an ad in your local community. Think about your local stores, college, community centre etc. They all have one thing in common, Public Post Boards. You can post whatever advertisement you wish, all for FREE. Print out a flyer (about A5 size or smaller depending on space available – too big and they may not have room for you). The idea is to use black writing on a bright coloured card to make it stand out. You could even make the card circular to make it stand out further from the other adverts.
Link Exchanging
Look for websites with similar content to yours. Contact the owner and ask them if they would be willing to place a link for your website on their site in exchange for you doing the same. Some websites actually have a button called ‘link to us’ on their home page. You simply click this button, fill out your details and press submit. Some may require approval from the site first.
Doing a google search for ‘free link exchange’ will also bring up 100,000’s of sites that will do exchanges.
Viral Marketing
Send a funny picture, joke, poem etc to a friend/family member and somewhere in it add a catch line (make it good) and your website link. This in turn is sent to their friends and their friends and so on. If you haven’t got one to send just wait until the next time someone sends one to you and add your link to it before you pass it on. It’s that simple!
Blogs
Do a google search for websites relating to the content on your website. Have a look to see if that website has a blog. If it does leave a nice reply on the blog saying for example that you found the website informative and easy to use. Also say that you found some great information also at this website (and add your website address).
Alternatively search for blogs in your topic and leave posts on it related to the content on the blog. For example if the blog had content or comments about trying to lose weight you could leave a post saying “I’ve also had trouble with trying to lose weight but found some great tips at this website” (again insert your website address).
Business Cards, Flyers and Stickers
This great advertising tool can be left almost anywhere. Carry them with you and were ever you see an opportunity to leave one, voila!
Offer an incentive
Create a quick 1 or 2 page report to offer as a free gift. For example if your website is about weight loss, create a quick report offering ‘20 quick weight loss tips’ or ‘weight loss secrets revealed’. If you can’t think of something to write do a bit of research in magazines, newspapers or on the internet for content that you could quickly write up in your own words. You could add the report to your website to encourage visitors and on your flyers, business cards or stickers put ‘Free report on weight loss secrets revealed’ read it for free at www.yourwebsite.com. You could also post the report on free article directory sites with your website link in the ‘about the author’ box. Do a google search for ‘free article directories’ and register with a few. Follow the simple instructions for uploading your article to these sites, not forgetting to put your website address in the ‘about author’ box.