Here’s what I do for traffic, free promotion is crucial for your financial state, make sure you do enough of free promotion rather then paid promotion, here we go, free promotion 101:
Social Traffic
- Stumbleupon : Really effective and massive traffic if used on good content, relvant traffic.
- Digg : This one’s good for lists and creative sites, all you need is something unique to make it here.
- Twitter : You can get really awesome results if you have good content hand and an addictive life.
- Delicious : Bookmark your sites, if they are really good, they’ll get huge traffic.
- i89
- AllMyFavorites
- Backflip
- BibSonomy
- BlinkPro
- BlogMarks
- Bluedot
- BmAccess
- BuddyMarks
- Chipmark
- Complore
- Connectbeam
- Connectedy
- Connotea
- Diigo
- Excites
- GetBoo
- Givealink
- Hyperlinkomatic
- IKeepBookmarks
- Lilisto
- Linkroll
- Ma.gnolia
- Mister-Wong
- Netvouz
- Nextaris
- Shadows
- SocialBookmarking
- Unalog
- WireFan
- Xilinus
- Yahoo! My Web
- BlinkList
- Clipclip
- Clipmarks
- Fur
- Linktopia
- RawSugar
- Simpy
- Spurl
- SyncOne
- URLex
- Blog-buzz
- Netscape
- Newsvine
- Shoutwire
- Thoof
- Using relevant forums to get some traffic your way is a good way to get traffic as well, even if it’s a signature link.
- Myspace/Facebook could be optimized to send traffic your way if you are a big mover and shaker on there, it’s all about your influence on your target audience on a given medium.
- Contests are always a good choice if you can pull together some noticable sponsors, everyone benefits from contests, the author, the applicants and the sponsors, it’s a perfect win/win situation.
Mass Social Bookarmking - Check out my post on hellotxt, it’s really helpful.
Link based
- Link exchange is a good way to get some traffic coming in - long term.
- Article submission, guest posts and various other methods can be used to get traffic as well.
- Any/Every link counts, so never stop link building, every link sends atleast 10 uniques a month avg, the more unique links you get the more overall traffic you’ll have.
Resources
- Free tools and resources are really popular among our community of webmasters, free resources get links and traffic at the same time.
- FAQs, Descriptions and Instructions also get alot of references in other sites/blogs, these are a good way to get pr along with traffic and links.
- How-to type articles are something that seem to be on a rise these days, from technology to food to music, anything you can think of, if you’re good at it, explain it, you just might make it!
