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!
October 6th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
This list is formidable. So I am sure will be the time one needs to spend on this project. How does one manage that?
October 6th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Do you outsource this work or is there a tool to hit them all quickly? what do think about tools like socialmarker.com, BMD, etc.?
October 6th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
well i am an active user at all these anyways thanks for the post a gud help for people
October 6th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
This is something I was looking for. It looks like it requires a lot of time and commitment. It pays off at the end. Thanks for these new traffic generation methods. Have to bookmark this.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Great List! Thanks for sharing, I’m going to work my way down through them.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:03 am
This is a great list, thanks for sharing, It will probably take a while to submit to those sites but I’m sure its worth it
October 8th, 2008 at 3:21 am
It is a great list. However, I just wondering that do i need to subscribe the link to all social media that you list. I will take me hell long.
October 8th, 2008 at 5:00 am
Thanks for the list. It is a great list and very useful to an website owner.
October 8th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Wow That’s an impressive list you have built up.
October 8th, 2008 at 6:08 am
When you talk about Social Media how do you build your networks on facebook and such sites?
October 9th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Indeed a usefull post cheers
October 10th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Oh good some sites I haven’t used yet. I usually narrow it down to about ten and work the ones that work.
October 11th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Wow, that’s one heck of a list you put together! Thanks for sharing. I’ve always been a little dubious of link exchanges but I’d love to know your thoughts on them.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
There is an overabundance of sites listed here, and those 4 main ones are listed at the beginning. Possibly in the near future, one of the others on the list will fit into the category of those top 4 as it becomes useful.
October 18th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
wow, how long does it take to submit a post in all into these. amazing, are there any way to do all of these submissions automatically?
June 24th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Just wanted to say thanks for the great post ! Found your blog on Google and I’m happy I did. I’ll be reading you on a regular basis ! Thanks again
Thanks,
Donna