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Drive Free Traffic To Your Site

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I’ve been doing some more research lately. Specifically, about driving more traffic to your site. Everyone knows that the most difficult part of having an online business is getting visitors to your site to view what you have to offer. With the billions of pages on the internet, there are a lot of places to visit. How do you insure that you can attract people and hold their attention with so much competition? How about enticing them to come back a second time or maybe more in the future?

There are many books written about this subject, some of which I happen to own. But some assume that you have a monthly budget to spend to drive traffic to your website. Well, I want to focus on a few methods that are free. That’s right, FREE. Everyone loves to receive free things, including me. I’ve signed up to many sites to get a free ebook or report, as well as some good advice. In  these uncertain times, and especially with the incredible resources available on the internet, there’s little reason to pay for most types of advice or information these days. So, that being said, let’s explore a few ways.

One of my favorite ways is to go to www.youtube.com and do a search on whatever topic you like. The amount of resources solely on this one site could fill an entire library. I just did a search for free traffic and it returned 21,300 results. That doesn’t include any variations on my search wordings. Now, take probably half of those, which will be promotions for someone’s product, get rid of them, and you have 10,650 left. Take another half of those, which may not be relevant to you or may be miscategorized, and you’re left with 5,325. So over 5000 videos that would directly teach you to generate traffic to your website, for free. You could watch videos for a year and probably not watch all of them, at which point there will be another several thousand added.You could also post your own videos.

There’s hundreds, if not thousands, more video sites with the same types of info available. Now, you could write and submit articles to the article sites. I personally do this on a regular basis and it seems to work. If you look at all of the big marketers, this is one tactic that they all recommend. It: Costs nothing, links to your website (don’t forget your sig), helps with the search engines, gets your sites viewed by people that would otherwise not know you existed, and brings you a long term stream of potential customers, all for free.

Once they get to your site, give them a freebie. That’s right, give it to them. An ebook or two, a report, some useful advice. It could be anything. Information products work well as they don’t cost anything after the initial purchase, and can be given instantly. Ask that they sign up to your list to receive it, then send them a link to download it. Now, you have a potential customer.

Another way is the social networking sites like Myspace, Facebook etc. They all have forums and groups which you can join for free and post ads or submit articles or comments, and include your web address in the signature. Checking out other peoples blogs and commenting works well also. Then, when someone else reads their blog and sees your comment, they may decide to check out your webpage also.

There’s also Twitter, which seems to be all the rage for free traffic generation these days. Just send a tweet after joining up to several of the groups there, and you could have several hundred or thousand people viewing your site afterwards.

How about Craigslist or the thousands of other classified sites. They all have a free advertising section.

As you can see, there are many ways to get your site out there and advertise for free. Get creative. Think outside the box, although the established methods are already working for many.  It doesn’t have to be hard. Once you start, it’ll get easier. It’s the initial phase or learning curve that’s the hard part.

So, I’ve given you some ideas to get started on. These are just a few ways out of the hundreds or thousands available. Try to work on two or three per week to start. After a month, you should have at least 8 or more potential traffic builders established. Then, the residuals of your efforts will start to trickle in.  As always, strive to be the best you can be. Your efforts will pay off for you in the long run.

Feel free to comment and if you like my articles, why not sign up to receive updates when I post here. Take care and have a great weekend. As always…

Be More

Patrick

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17 Responses to “Drive Free Traffic To Your Site”

  1. Hi Patrick (Padraig) , good post about a huge topic, with some good tips on freebies. Like planting seeds. Will watch your blog with interest.

    May the Masterclass force be with you :o )

    John(Sean)

  2. Patrick Wooley on March 24th, 2009 at 1:26 am

    John,

    Thanks and I agree. I’ve just scratched the surface of the topic and will go into more detail in future posts. I appreciate the feedback. Take care and good luck with your classes also.

    Patrick

  3. Hi Patrick,

    The post is fantastic. Full of tips and practical information about how to get traffic.
    Keep bringing us good stuff.

  4. Hi Patrick,

    Yesterday I spent the entire afternoon putting all the masterclass blogs into bookmarks in alphabetical order so I can be more organised about commenting on blog sites and not leave anyone out. You are in ‘w’ and the person next to you is Ken Woolcock. The reason I mention this is that I have just commented on his post ‘meditation from the beach’, and then I opened your blog and see a hammock and a palm tree!

    Anyway, just a bit of fun there. Great post, I just joined twitter and already have 15 followers, only 2 are masterclass students. No freebies to give awa yet though – I’m hoping at some point when we have developed a product that we will learn a lot more about traffic and free bonus material etc.

    Enjoy the journey!

    Mandy

  5. Patrick Wooley on March 25th, 2009 at 9:49 pm

    Mandy,

    Thanks for your comment. Yeah, I spent my life in the last to be called line. Alphabetizing the blogs is a good idea, maybe put them in reverse and I’ll be first, ;) . I also joined Twitter a couple of weeks ago but haven’t had time to explore it yet. Already 15 followers? That’s great. If only it were that easy for the list building.
    I grew up on the water on sailboats and the hammock is a natural for relaxing. I did spend some time in them. So, good luck in the Masterclass. I’m having a great time and learning a lot. All the best to you and stop by anytime. Patrick

  6. Patrick Wooley on March 30th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    Mostafa,

    My reply didn’t post and I missed it. Thanks for the praise. Equally, I like your blog, keep up the good work. Take care. Patrick

  7. That’s great, lots of useful information. Can’t wait to see what you write about. Go for it!

  8. I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

  9. I do wish there were more people like you around on the interwebs. Not many people are careful with their words, including myself sometimes. I have written things I would love to take back, good work, keep it up.

    (Thanks for your comment and for stopping by. Please return again in the future. Take care. Patrick)

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  11. Just thought i would comment and say neat design, did you code it yourself? Looks great.

    (Thanks. No, I didn’t code myself. I’m a little technically challenged. Take care. P)

  12. Great information! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Thanks!

  13. @Marco I know what your mean. In todays economy its hard to find a company to work for that pays well and is consistent. I have found that if you just work hard and are consistent you can succeed. Look at the author of this page , they are oviously hard working and have just been consistent over time and are now enjoying at least what would appear as somewhat of a success. I would encourage everyone to just keep hustling and moving forward.

  14. Ismael Meineke on April 4th, 2010 at 1:52 pm

    Thanks for the post! SEO is great, but buying traffic in bulk is to :)

  15. Just killing some in between class time on Digg and I found your article . Not normally what I prefer to learn about, but it was absolutely worth my time. Thanks.

  16. Keep the good information comming, we need more authors like you!

  17. With all the doggone weather we have had recently I am stuck indoors, fortunately there is the internet, thanks for giving me something to do. :)

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