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Old 09-12-08, 12:41 AM
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Default 101 FREE Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website

1) Yahoo Answers.

2) Myspace.com

3) Yahoo Groups

4) Stumbleupon.com

5) Forums

6) Craigslist.org

7) Site maps

E-Book Giveaway

9) Website Design

10) Submit To Directories

11) Tell a Friend

12) Search Engine Optimization

13) Squidoo.com

14) Social bookmarking sites

15) Article Promotion

16) Site Explorer

17) Epinion.com

1 Alexa.com

19) Newsletter Box

20) Scribd

21) Get Links from Relevant Websites

22) Increase the Size of Your Site

22) Send out Press Releases

23) Advertise On Online classified Ad Sites

24) Use Firefox Plug-in

25) Add a Forum to Your Site

26) Add a Blog to Your Site

27) Optimize Your Blog for The Search Engines

2 Comment on Other Peoples Blogs

29) MySpace News

30) Digg

31) Banner Exchanges

32) Traffic Exchanges

33) Pop Unders

34) Technorati and ping it when your blog content changes

35) Use a ping service like pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators

36) Submit your blog to all of the RSS directories

37) Link to other blogs in your posts

3 Use Stumbleupon to stumble your posts.

39) Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, etc.)

40) Start a group blog.

41) Join SpicyPage and promote your blog

42) Join a webring.

43) Sign up for BlogWoods and promote your blog

44) Exchange Ads (not blogroll links) with complementary blogs.

45) Trade blog roll links with related blogs.

46) Use Twitter

47) Publish videos on YouTube

4 Search for Wikis related to your.

49) Join Hub pages and post links to your blog from articles you write.

50) Pray.

51) Create a MySpace Page. Put your blog on it, and get some friends.

52) Tell people you will link back to them if they review your blog

53) Most brands are not well established online, you review related content and it will rank well.

54) Review relevant products on Amazon.com.

55) Create product lists on Amazon.com

56) Review related sites on Alexa

57) Review products and services on shopping search engines.

5 Swap some links.

59) Try to get links from within the content of relevant content pages.

60) Sell items on eBay.

61) Target niche social news sites like DZone, Sphinn or Hugg

62) Whenever you send an email to someone, always add your website url as a signature.

63) Do email signature swaps

64) Tag blog posts at social bookmarking sites

65) Add photos to your blog with appropriate keywords - Google Images generates traffic too.

66) Tag blog photos at Flicker

67) Make a custom 404-error page for your website. You can provide a link back to your main website or even try to monetize it by offering a related affiliate program within your niche.

6 Outsource grunt work.

69) After someone orders from you offer a one-time offer that compliments your product.

70) Participate in Blog Carnivals

71) create a network of blogs in different niches, and then link them together

72) Give away stock images with a wee watermark of your URL

73) Find and discuss memes

74) Create a Yahoo Group in the niche your site sits.

75) Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us and if you’re really keen, add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage.

76) Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree.

77) Syndicate your site’s content by using an RSS feeds.

7 Submit your RSS feeds to aggregator sites.

79) Don’t worry about PageRank - worrying about PageRank is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.*

80) Get a custom t-shirt made with your website URL on it, and wear it often.

81) Get a custom t-shirt made with your website URL on it, and wear it often.

82) Send out a newsletter!

83) Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site.

84) Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products.

85) Add a “Tell a Friend” function to your site, so people can easily recommend you to their mates.

86) Share your banners on banner exchange sites.

87) Create a “lense” for your site on Squidoo

8 Do you have really hot content on your site that geeks would love? If so Slashdot will bring you a mass of traffic.

89) upload a favicon.gif file so that your users have a nice icon when they bookmark your site.

90) Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search

91) Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.

92) Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.

93) Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts.

94) Increase the list you ping

95) Use Facebook

96) Social Networking

97) Micro

9 Email Marketing

99) RSS Feeds

100) Get outside links to internal pages

101) Use free hosting and build sites and link them back to your main site.
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Default Re: 101 FREE Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website

Nice.. Thanks for the list. But im wondering what's the "20) Scribd "??? I never heard this one..
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Default Re: 101 FREE Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website

Some tips are way off the topic men but thanks for the tips. Maybe I should wear a T-shirt having my URL printed on it.
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Default Re: 101 FREE Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website

Excellent list of ideas!

I do a lot of these and it's really nice to see some more that could help with a couple of my sites.
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for some reason I can never find any yahoo webmaster groups, what am I missing. I do the search but come up with some junk.
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Good list of ideas, although some of these services get slightly mad if you advertise too much.
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No one still replying on my post... What's the number 20??
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Scribd

Seems to be some sort of article sharing service.
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Thanks Will for the info... I might used this one...
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Thanks Will for the info... I might used this one...
Sure thing, I was exploring the site a bit and am still confused on some of the services they provide. If anyone has anymore information on them I'd greatly appreciate it
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Nice thread, although a bit broken. +1 rep!
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Default Re: 101 FREE Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website

hhhmmm... Well, I see this thread helps not only you but also me in driving traffic to our sites... thanks for the replies.. especially to the staffs and leaders of this forum. i'ts a great privileged for me...
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Default Re: 101 FREE Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website

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22) Increase the Size of Your Site
How is this? like add more page or something?
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24) Use Firefox Plug-in
which ones do you suggest?
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32) Traffic Exchanges
would this really benefit you? how would you do it anyways? ain't targeted traffic better than that?

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Not tried yet how to use this one.
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Thanks for the effort of posting this wonderful list... I might use some of this...
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A lot of those have done nothing for me. =[
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just got your tips bookmarked
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32) Traffic Exchanges
this won't benefit your site. I don't think it is worth the effort
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I will not also recommend this one.
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