How to Generate Traffic Using Free Methods?
Starting an online business needs a well planned strategy, similar to launching a new business in real life. The only difference is that to make an online business successful, you don’t need huge initial investment!!! All you need to do is a little smart work and you can find everything for FREE on the internet.
Using the FREE tools and online marketing strategies, you can drive targeted traffic to your website and reach out to the potential customers. If you have a big budget then you can use the paid online methods and get instant traffic but if your budget is low –not to worry!!! You can take help of the FREE online marketing methods available.
There are many FREE ways to improve traffic flow, yes! You heard it right FREE… Well, now you need not spend a penny for the launch of your online business and its marketing; these methods will improve traffic stats for sure.
But to be honest, all this free stuff can take time, so be patient!!! All you need is a proper mindset and zeal for promoting your website. You just have to work hard and need to be regular on the promotions and marketing front.
As Anything for FREE is good? Let’s get started
Write good content on your site.
Search engines track down your niche keywords and keyword phrases from your website content. You must make your content entertaining, informative, and easy to understand and read but also include targeted keywords to get ranked for right keywords.
Blog Commenting
Search for a relevant open comment blogs and sites, discuss the sensible and solid matters for your business products or solve users queries by followed link to your website. Make sure you do not spam by just placing comment/info on blogs.
Take advantage of forums and online communities.
The great thing about forums and online communities is that you can target a certain group to regulate what users are looking for. You can discuss many things about the niche that you represent or offer; since, you have deep knowledge about it you can answer user’s FAQs certainly. Keep your vision to building your reputation, show users what you are, dazzle them with your level of knowledge about the subject, help them so you can build a reputation and users trust on your product and recommendation.
You can make use of newsletters signups.
Provide a regular update to your subscribers by sending newsletters and interesting articles of your products and services. If you make them really interesting and entertaining, more people will share it with others and great chances to have more sign ups for your newsletter subscription. More you send newsletters to users they will turn back to your site which will gradually increase the traffic and popularity.
Another great idea is trading links with other sites.
Don’t worry, trading doesn’t means you have to spend, you are not require to spend a dime. All you have to do is search for relevant sites and request their webmaster/owner to exchange a link. With exchanging links efforts both sites will have benefit, if someone goes to that site that user can possibly click on your link and visit your site too. This works well especially when both sites feature the relevant niche.
Write Articles
This can attract the attention of people who have interest in your product. Try writing articles with tips and guidance of your products and share them in mass article directories. Many sites offers free posting of your articles. When people find interest in your articles then they want to know more about the product or company and that curiosity drive user towards the link of your site in article and there will be a great opportunity that user will visit your site.
Share your business success through press releases networks.
This could be a reputation building machine for your company. All you have to do is just think like a reporter and then just write about company’s success, talk about progressive steps of your company and deliver the sharpness of product, as soon as it reaches to net users they will surely like to know more about it and therefore that will make them to click on your website link placed in bottom press release.
Stay active on Social Networks
You might be aware of “Facebook”. If it was a country it would have been a 4th largest populated country the world. It’s a 2nd most visited website over internet, so don’t miss to join and integrate your company’s social networking account with your website. Make your products fan page, represent your niche and inform users how your business product can help them, and obtain some testimonials.
Use Twitter for company or products updates,
Follow the users listen them what’s being said about your product, your industry, your company, your business. Get connected to discussion by becoming a part of the community, and when users accept you then only flash your occasional marketing message followed by tiny URLs towards your website which can be re-tweeted by users.
Post classified ads
This really works when you have very low competition on search engines ranking, usually few of good classifieds sites come up in search engines when users searches for products with location, perform regular free posting of your site with rich keywords.
Submit your site to search engines
Search engines are great source of free traffic, though search engines like Google, Yahoo & Bing are fast enough to track down your site, but submit your site as soon as you launch it for fast indexing of site for targeted keywords can be.
All these methods and more (I’ll discuss them later) will drive more traffic to your website for free. All it takes is a little effort and time but it works and the best part is – it is for FREE!!! I suggest learn everything gradually and professionally about methods written here and you will soon have a site with a great traffic without cost.
