Traffic is one of the most essential elements of your success. Traffic can be generated in many ways and below you will find most typical and most reliable methods.
As the title explains – in this post we will talk how to find free traffic. So if you’re starting out and have little or no budget, these methods will be most suitable for you.
Starting a blog – there are many ways to start a blog. The most recommended way is to get a domain name and hosting and install a WordPress blog there. While the blog and hosting would cost you a couple of dollars per month, the traffic generated trough blog will be 100% free. Submit your blog to various directories and feed sites to gain extra exposure and links. Communicate with other bloggers in the field, comment on their posts.
Submitting articles – is one of oldest free marketing methods. The principle is simple – you write an article and submit it to multiple article directories, like ezinearticles.com. At the bottom of each article you can include short author’s biography or little ad taking the article reader to your affiliate offer. Article directories are well visited so people will read your article and will follow the links you provided.
Being a guest blogger – is another option if you are comfortable with writing. The key idea here is to find relevant blog that suits your offer, e.g. weight loss blog if you are promoting Proactol. Contact the blog owner and offer to write a great article for him. In return ask for a chance to have few lines promoting your site or offer. Using this approach you instantly will be seen as authority as well will have opportunity to tap into readership of that blog.
Optimizing for search engines – is one of best methods to get lots of free targeted traffic. Huge percentage of all internet users uses Google and other search engines to find information and if you can optimize page for popular keywords that describes what you are promoting, e.g. “weight loss pills”, then visitors who lands on your site will be likely interested in your site and % of them will purchase trough you. While SEO might seem a bit complicated, over longer term the returns can be tremendous.
Classified ads – again this is popular method between beginners and also seasoned marketers. There are many tactics and tips, but basic idea is to find classified sites like craiglist.com and post your ads following their guidelines. Some sites will allow posting your link, if they don’t – ask people to email you in so once you have the email, you can respond with detailed reply including your affiliate link.
Submitting videos – is another way to generate traffic. Principle is simple – create or edit existing vides (e.g. ones provided by Proactol), put on them link to your site where you promote Proactol and distribute to various video sites. Quick tip: make sure you use unique text description for each video submitted even if its same video just to different sites. Also ensure that in the description you include many keywords as this can attract traffic not only from the video service users itself but also from the search engines.
Create a viral campaign – viral in a term as something others would like to pass over. For example a funny video, useful tips, or crazy story, joke packed power point presentation about certain problem. Just make sure you include a link at the end of the video or presentation pointing to your site.
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March 26th, 2009 at 5:55 am
Hi Sandis,
I fould your “Tips on How to Generate Traffic for Free” very informative and useful. Thank you.
At the moment I am looking for experiences affiliates to run traffic via PPC or from their own website to promote my company’s online pharmacy store. (traffic for US and UK)
Would you please advise me on what online resources should I use to find such affiliates.
Thank you in advance,
Clara
March 27th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
sorry dont have our owen web page but we will have soon .athought we have just stated i would be very great full to advertise for you thanks james .
March 28th, 2009 at 5:51 am
Sir,
Am i want free trafic because am new member.
March 29th, 2009 at 5:42 am
@Clara – James,
How do I get in taught with you so I can give you more info on online pharmacy affiliate marketing.
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April 4th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
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April 8th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
thats for the informative article,but what about free blogs like blogger instead of paying for one?
April 13th, 2009 at 2:32 am
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April 17th, 2009 at 4:13 am
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April 17th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
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August 25th, 2009 at 9:58 am
I’ve done this in the past and it works great for targeted traffic!
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February 2nd, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Great tips on site promotion. The warrior forum is equally useful in this regard. So also is facebook, twitter, and sqiddoo lenses.