Howdy,
Lately I've been hearing alot of noise from the "gurus" that there is no such thing as free web site traffic. Sure, I understand that they are trying to make a buck and they need to make their products appear bigger, badder and louder... but it got me thinking beyond that...
How many free ways to get web traffic are there exactly? And how well do they perform?
My first thoughts were that there are probably about 10 really effective ways to get web traffic for free. Fifteen tops. But the more I started examining it, the more I came up with. (You're probably thinking 50 based on the title above but you'd be wrong. It's actually closer to 100... and counting :)
When it comes to generating traffic, many website owners and bloggers tend to get stuck in a comfortable rut. We often use a small number of our favorite techniques and rarely, if ever, look beyond them.
I'm hoping that by exploring 50 ways to get traffic for free together, we will encourage each other to look beyond the techniques we are currently using and try a few new ones. This in turn will hopefully help us attract new visitors from new places and build meaningful and profitable relationships. And hell, other websites and blogs use these techniques successfully, why shouldn't we capitalize on it?
Ok, enough babbling, let's dive in...
Free Traffic Tip #1: You MUST have high quality, unique content if you want long-term, free search engine traffic. I chose this as number one for a reason. It is the MOST important and, sadly, the most ignored. You must must must provide ALOT of information-rich, keyword-rich, useful content for the
search engines AND humans to find.
The number one excuse folks use is "I can't write well." My answer to that is BULL. If you can write an email to one of your friends, you can write small articles about your niche. Heck, that writing style works GREAT.
Another method is to re-write FREE PLR (Private Label Rights). There is tons of free PLR available on the Internet. Go grab some and re-write it. Fast, simple and FREE...
If you need more information about this first tip, you can click here to view one of my older posts.
Free Traffic Tip #2: KEEP adding high value, unique content! This goes hand in hand with the first tip. KEEP doing it. At MINIMUM you should be adding one fresh article per week. If you can add fresh, HIGH QUALITY content several times per week, even better!
This tip is equally as important as the first tip. They could easily be labeled 1a and 1b. As Nike would say, just do it!
Free Traffic Tip #3: Do some SERIOUS Keyword research. Look, the bottom line is that if you want to get TONS of traffic from search engines, you need to find out the exact phrases which people are typing into search engines. Ideally, you should target the long tail keywords for maximum effect. There are free tools available for this, but they're not nearly as useful as the more comprehensive paid tools.
Ouch! Yes, I know, I know. I said PAID tools. But here's the deal. You can usually get full access to these tools for FREE. Yes, it's a trial version BUT... with products such as Micro Niche Finder and Market Samurai the keyword research function stays FULLY FUNCTIONAL even AFTER the trial period ends! Why? Because they are competing against free tools such as Google and their sales angle is the OTHER functions they offer. Great deal for us ;)
(For more information on these tools, please click here)
Free Traffic Tip #4: Use good keywords for your image files. I have to admit, this is one of those tactics that is fast, easy and definitely overlooked. I was actually a little shocked when a couple of people I know told me that they get up to several HUNDRED visitors per month from people searching Google images. Crazy. I'm taking a serious look at my image files right now and you should too.
Free Traffic Tip #5: Tweak your page title. Here's a good way increase your traffic that I learned from the same folks who gave me the tip on images:
Go to Google and type any phrase into the search box. Look at the titles of the websites in the top 10 rankings. Really look at the ones that catch your eye and tempt you to click on the link. You'll notice some are boring. Some are merely a long list of keywords. Some are good and still others are pure crap.
Good titles are written for search engines AND humans, this is our goal.
Now it's time to look at the titles on your site. Start with your most important pages. Now go to Google and do a search of YOUR site like this:
site:yoursitehere.com
Study the page titles. You may be horribly embarrassed at just how BAD some of your page titles are. Simply re-write them in a style like the ones you liked from our search a few minutes ago. Need more examples? Simply go to Google and do some more searches. You don't even need to stick to your niche(s).
Type in all sorts of different phrases and study the titles in the top ten listings that entice you to click on their link. It's a quick way to come up with some great ideas for changing your bad page titles. Checking the information in your meta description tag can help, too. Some search engines display this information in their search results.
I hope you can see from just these first 5 tips how some small, simple tweaks can increase web traffic. (Free versions of the keyword tools and the image file tactic still have my head buzzing!) I also hope you realize that using free tactics doesn't have to be time consuming or difficult like some gurus would have us believe.
THESE TACTICS WORK. I can't stress that enough.
I'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on these tactics. You can reach me by email at: pauly[dot]kaiser [at] gmail[dot]com ;)
To Bigger, Faster, Stronger Traffic
Always!
~Paul Kaiser
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