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4 Free Traffic Tips to Help Promote Your Website

Whether you’re launching a new website or you need a new way to spread the word, these 4 free traffic tips will give you unique ways of promoting your website in ways you might not have considered - and it!

 

1. Your e-mail signature - Most, if not all of today’s email programs will let you add a “signature”, that is, a few lines that get attached to each of your outgoing messages.Don’t just plop down your name and phone number like most people - add an offer that makes your recipient want to click!

For example, instead of having your e-mail signature read:

John Doe
Real Estate Agent
Doe Agency Real Estate
www.doeagencyrealestate.com
555-1212

Use that same information to create a more interesting and intriguing subject line - like this:

John Doe - The Real Estate Pro
Home prices are going up! Do you know what your home is worth? Find out free at www.doeagencyrealestate.com or call us at 555-1212!

When you present an offer in your e-mail signature, your reader will likely click on it - even out of curiosity, to see what you have to say.This is an easy and free way to get people to your website.

 

2.  Spread the word in forums - Like e-mail, most forums and message boards allow you to have a signature line at the bottom of each post.Most people use these to post quotes or other interesting pieces of information, but you can usually also advertise a new offer, a freebie or a discount for your readers.

Depending on the rules of the message board(s) you participate on, you may only have a few lines to make your offer clear.  Use this to your advantage even in a small space by writing something that will pique your reader’s curiosity, like:

Are you sitting on a fortune without even realizing it?  Find out more at www.doeagencyrealestate.com

With just two simple lines, you’ll be able to garner interest and clicks to your website with every forum post you make.

3. Writing reviews - This tactic is also free, and works best for companies selling a tangible product, or a service company that works with these products (such as a web design agency using different software products).   There are plenty of “review sites” out there that welcome user opinions of different products ranging from clothes to electronics to food.   Register at places like Amazon and Epinions to make your opinion count while getting some valuable traffic to your own site.

Obviously, you shouldn’t try to sell your product or service in the review itself, but you can let people know what you do without a sales pitch.  For example:

I show the XQ800 Fusion Power Generator to customers at my electronics store all the time.  They love the fact that it needs no recharging, doesn’t skyrocket the electric bill and is virtually maintenance-free.  I sell them on my website at 20% less than retail stores - so they’re always flying off the shelves.

That will get people to come to your site, and if you can include it in a viewable profile or in your username - that’s even better. 

 

4.Writing articles - just like this!  It’s free, takes little time (especially once you’ve been writing for awhile), and just like with e-mails and forum posts, you get a resource box at the bottom that you can link to your website with. 

Articles should generally be around 400 words (about a page and a half in Microsoft Word) to be accepted by the majority of article directories.  Above all, make sure you have something interesting, unique or helpful to share — no one wants to waste time reading a sales pitch or some vague tips that don’t have examples to share. 

Plus, with article writing - not only does it get easier the more you do it, but your articles are also picked up by other sites that syndicate them across the web, meaning greater (free) exposure for you!

P.S. If you enjoyed reading this article, you can find even more web design tips at http://www.iElectrify.com

iElectrify specializes in creating professional, affordable and creative websites that get results.  With a strong background in internet marketing and niche marketing, iElectrify.com works with small to medium-sized businesses to help them easily create and manage their own websites.

Six Effective Tactics To Generate Traffic For Your Website

Traffic, they say, is the lifeblood of every web business.  Let us discuss six surefire techniques that will help you generate the traffic that your online enterprise will need:

1.    Search engine marketing (SEM.  It cannot be denied that eighty percent of the traffic that you will be able to get for your homepage will directed by the search engines.  Therefore, it is absolutely essential that your web pages will be methodically arranged for easy filing by the big search engines on the internet.  This can be done via proper keyword research and usage.  By finding attractive keywords relevant to the subject of your undertaking, you can attract the attention of search engine spiders and effectively compete for a good position in SERPs.

2.    Article marketing.  Come up with articles relevant to the topic of your website.  Include a resource box talking about yourself or your business, and more importantly, including a link to your website.  Publish this article and resource box to popular article directories like eZinearticles.com and ideamarketers.com.  Commit to this many times per week and in no time you’d have hundreds of back links leading to your website.

3.    Yahoo Answers.  Yahoo Answers is one of the best techniques that will help your website get classified by search engines in a matter of hours.  Just search for open questions related to the subject of your business, answer them to the best of your abilities, and write down your URL when asked to city your source.  Yahoo Answers will bring direct traffic and it will build for you important back links from what Google sees as an authority website.

4.    Blogging.  Google, Yahoo, MSN and the big search engines absolutely adore blogs.  By building a blog and regularly updating the same with posts that mention your website’s URL, you will be able to get more back links for your website and you’ll be sure that it will beeasy for search engines to find and fetch your web pages.

5.    YouTube marketing.  Change your text-based content into a simple video and publish the same over at YouTube to instantly garner the attention of millions of internet users who are regulars of one of the web’s biggest and most popular destinations.  Plus, Google loves YouTube videos!

6.    Press releases.  Several internet and offline publications are always looking for news items to republish.  They scrutinize newswires where various parties distribute newsworthy content.  By writing a factual and interesting piece about your website and submitting the same to an established web newswire like prweb.com, you’d be able to position your online businessto get a lot of visitors.