More Traffic For Less Money

How To Generate More Website Traffic Without Spending a Lot of Money

Promoting your Website does not need to cost you a lot of money. There are many ways to drive qualified traffic to your website for free. There are simple but often forgotten things that you can do that won’t cost you a cent but can lead to hordes of site traffic.

If you have no money or if you have a shoestring budget for driving traffic to your Website, you can use these tips to generate traffic to your website for free: 

• RSS Feeds — Create RSS feeds for your site and submit the feed URLs to the major RSS feed directories online. This will generate a lot of traffic to your Website.
• Press Releases – No, I’m not talking about a conventional release, that’s so yesterday! The Internet has completely changed the old rules of PR. Get hold of a copy of “The New Rules of Marketing & PR” by David Meerman Scott. This book will help you learn about the various ways of using news releases to drive traffic to your site without spending a fortune. If you want to write and distribute your own press releases, check out All Press Content by Alice Seba, Mila Sidman & Shannon Cherry. 
• YouTube – self-made videos are hot right now. If you have a Website, sell a product, write a blog, or consider yourself an expert in a certain field, you can create a video on YouTube that supports your site content, and use it to drive traffic back to your site.
• Joint Venture (JV) — Form a JV with other online businesses and list owners and ask them if they would advertise your Website to their list. Of course, you have to offer them something of value in return. This does not cost you anything and all you need to do is to contact some list owners and present your request. See The Loss Leader Strategy.
• Link Exchange — Exchanging links with other webmasters is a powerful way of generating traffic to your website for free. All you have to do is to identify webmasters with websites that complement your website and exchange website links with them. This means more traffic to your website from these external links.
• Blogging — Create a blog on your site and regularly post new content on it. Search engines love fresh content. Use the Google Blog Search Pinging Service to ping your blog whenever you add new content. This is a way to inform Google Blog Search of weblog updates. These updates are then published and shared with other search engines to allow them to discover the changes to your blogs. In addition, Google Blog Search will add submitted weblogs to the list of blogs it needs to crawl and index.
• Forums — Include your web address to your forum profile signature. That way whenever you post or respond to questions on the forum, your Website URL is seen by the members of the forum, which can lead to a lot of traffic.
• Email Signature — Include your website address in your business email signature. Anyone you communicate with can potentially be your prospect, so you can therefore be promoting or branding your Website every time you send an email.
• Article Marketing — Write articles or free reports for other webmasters to publish and put your website address in the author’s resource or biography. If your reports and articles are of good quality, your articles will be published and many readers who will read your article will also visit your website.

By following these tips, you can generate a steady flow of traffic to your website without spending any money. All you need is to act on these tips and you are sure to see an increase in your Website traffic.