5 Tips For Increasing Your Website Traffic On A Small Budget
When people are starting their online businesses, they need to drive traffic to their websites. However, in most cases, people do not have the money to pay for advertising.
There are many ways to driving traffic to a website, depending on your budget and the time you have available to work on building your online business.
This post lists some of the most powerful and low cost ways to generate traffic to your website. There are many more options and we will be talking about additional ways of generating traffic in upcoming posts.
1. Offer free reports and content. Giving away some freebies and including your website URL in those freebies is an effective and low cost way of building traffic to your website. You can write some useful short reports with your website link in them and offer those reports for free on a website where you ask visitors to leave their email address before they download the free reports or articles. This means you can give away the report with your URL and also build a list.
2. Posting to your blog. Blogging is a very effective way of building traffic to your website. On your blog, you can discuss your website’s products and services, and add some links to your website. You can also answer any questions your prospects and customers may have. By blogging regularly, you will have fresh content that will get your website indexed by search engines and rank high on these search engines. This in turn increases traffic to your website.
3. Publish your own newsletter. Having your own newsletter where you offer free tips and content on a regular basis can help to increase traffic to your website. Your newsletter will have links to your website, so many people who will read your newsletter will also visit your website.
4. Starting a forum. Start a forum related to the products or services you sell on your website. By having a forum on your niche, you establish yourself as an authority in your topic. By answering questions and helping people in your niche on your own forum, you drive traffic to your website since you will have your website URL in your signature in the forum posts.
5. Link Exchanges. Exchange links with websites that have high popularity (PR) rank. All you need to do is to find websites that are related to what you offer on your website and exchange links with these sites. This is particularly effective if the websites have high popularity rank on search engines. By doing this, some traffic will come to your website through the websites you are linked to.
These are some low cost ways you can use start driving traffic to your website. More traffic means more sales and profits for your online business.
Until next time…
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March 23rd, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Great post, Brett – but I’d replace starting a forum with using web 2.0 sites like Twitter and Squidoo. Starting and maintaining a forum CAN be very profitable, but it’s an awful lot of work at first getting it up to speed and keeping it active.
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March 23rd, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Starting out on shoestring takes a bit longer, but with the tactics you suggest and some dedication, you can build a following relatively quickly and the members you do have will be there because they are interested in what you have to say. In many ways they are an even better population than those you attract through ads.
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March 23rd, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Great tips!
Not only can these ideas bring you more traffic, but 4 of them also can boost your credibility/authority in a niche, which can then build long term traffic!
The more times people hear from you and see your name, the more traffic your site will receive.
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March 24th, 2009 at 6:06 am
Five good tips Brett. There is no single way, combining different ways at the same time makes traffic grow faster.
These five ways are great for those on low budget, just your own effort.
Maybe some more tips coming…
Fred
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March 24th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Great tips on generating more traffic for your website Brett. If people spent more time with these and other methods they could get a lot more traffic.
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March 25th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Brett,
You did an excellent job of doing exactly what your title says.
Generating traffic to your website is one of the keys to success. Following the 5 tips that you presented will bring traffic. All of us, and newbies especially, need to put forth the effort that getting traffic takes.
Were you aware that you just mentioned the W word? Its interesting how we seem to forget that Work is envolved.
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