Advertising is everything some people say.
Regardless if you have a product, a service, a hobby website orjust want to share pictures of your wedding, you have toadvertise somehow to get the Traffic to your site or blog. But not all traffic is equal. There are services that can help you drive tons and tons oftraffic to your site and it won't do you any good at allbecause it's not targeted traffic.
Take for example all of the many different 'surf for traffic'or 'traffic clicking' programs that are out there. If you havea website that is about your hobby, say model airplanes, thenwhat good is this traffic really going to do you? Who's usingthese services?
Webmasters and marketers that want traffic on their own site.
So they most likely won't spend any more time on your page thanis required by the little timer these services use and then theyare gone again. Even if your site is about these trafficservices (this is about the only time you will see very muchbenefit from using such a tool) you will still have to spend aton of time just surfing and clicking around to get a realbenefit from these programs. Once marketers realized that they switched gears. They startedpromoting all the different programs to a lot of othermarketers to get them in their downlines, so they could getsome traffic as a bonus and that was their new focus. Problemis that that is exactly what everyone else did, so not a lot ofpeople were surfing anymore. Bottomline is, you want traffic, but you need targeted traffic,so here are some tips on how you can generate exactly thetraffic you need and bring the visitors you want visiting yoursite to you instead of chasing after them.
1. Content
What is your website about? Do you just have a page with a lotof links and not much else? If that's the case, think about adding some content to yourwebsite that will be of value to any potential visitors. Youcould write articles or find articles at one of the manydirectories that you can reprint on your site.
2. Talk about your experiences with your subject matter.
You don't have to put up some kind of resume (although that canwork too), but rather try writing about what you are doing, asit relates to your topic of choice. Let's look at the modelairplanes again briefly, you could talk or write about thelatest plane type you built, how the last time flying yourplane went, what challenges you run into or perhaps even postsome pictures of your plane or of you flying it.
3. Forums and Bulletin Boards.
You could add a forum or bulletin board to your website whereyour visitors can interact with each other. There are a lot offree services available out there that you can use to eitherremotely host a forum for you, or even software you can installon your website's server. To find some of these, just head overto your favorite search engine and you will definitely findplenty to choose from. And while you are visiting the search engine, why not run asearch for any bulletin boards and forums that are already outthere for your chosen topic? You could visit those and interactwith the visitors there and since many allow you to post asignature or a profile, you could add a little line about yourown site with a link (just check the rules of the forum firstso you don't violate any of them).
4. Start a blog.
Blogs are very popular and search engines love them becausethey provide constantly new and fresh content. Your blog wouldbe a great place to talk about what you are up to that day. So if you spent some time today buying new parts for your planeyou could write about where you found them, how much they costyou, why you chose those parts, anything really goes. The really great part about this is that you can point linksfrom your blog back to your website, so when the search enginestops by to grab and index your latest content, it will alsostop by your website and you will start seeing very targetedtraffic heading your way.
5. Write articles.
Writing articles isn't hard and can be a great source of fresh,new traffic to your website. There are a lot of ezines on any topic out there and there arealso a lot of directories just to share your articles at. Basically what you do is to write an article and then add asmall resource box that links back to your website (just like asignature) and then let other ezine publishers know that you areallowing them to print your article in their ezine. And manypublishers go to the article directories to find new contentfor their newsletter and even their websites. And since thereare websites and ezine newsletters on any imaginable topic outthere, you can't lose. Write an article every couple of daysand post it in the directories (even one a week or every twoweeks will start getting you traffic) and you will all of asudden find new traffic coming from search engines, newslettersand websites. Best of all, these 5 simple tips will bring targeted traffic,meaning the visitors are coming to you because they areinterested in what you wrote about. So there you have it, 5 easy and simple ways to advertise anddrive traffic to your website at absolutely no cost at all.
About The Author:
Sandra Stammberger is the owner of InsiderScripts. At Insider Script's programmers are working around theclock to develop affordable, powerful money making scripts thatwill help you drive traffic to your business.http://www.insider-scripts.com
Regardless if you have a product, a service, a hobby website orjust want to share pictures of your wedding, you have toadvertise somehow to get the Traffic to your site or blog. But not all traffic is equal. There are services that can help you drive tons and tons oftraffic to your site and it won't do you any good at allbecause it's not targeted traffic.
Take for example all of the many different 'surf for traffic'or 'traffic clicking' programs that are out there. If you havea website that is about your hobby, say model airplanes, thenwhat good is this traffic really going to do you? Who's usingthese services?
Webmasters and marketers that want traffic on their own site.
So they most likely won't spend any more time on your page thanis required by the little timer these services use and then theyare gone again. Even if your site is about these trafficservices (this is about the only time you will see very muchbenefit from using such a tool) you will still have to spend aton of time just surfing and clicking around to get a realbenefit from these programs. Once marketers realized that they switched gears. They startedpromoting all the different programs to a lot of othermarketers to get them in their downlines, so they could getsome traffic as a bonus and that was their new focus. Problemis that that is exactly what everyone else did, so not a lot ofpeople were surfing anymore. Bottomline is, you want traffic, but you need targeted traffic,so here are some tips on how you can generate exactly thetraffic you need and bring the visitors you want visiting yoursite to you instead of chasing after them.
1. Content
What is your website about? Do you just have a page with a lotof links and not much else? If that's the case, think about adding some content to yourwebsite that will be of value to any potential visitors. Youcould write articles or find articles at one of the manydirectories that you can reprint on your site.
2. Talk about your experiences with your subject matter.
You don't have to put up some kind of resume (although that canwork too), but rather try writing about what you are doing, asit relates to your topic of choice. Let's look at the modelairplanes again briefly, you could talk or write about thelatest plane type you built, how the last time flying yourplane went, what challenges you run into or perhaps even postsome pictures of your plane or of you flying it.
3. Forums and Bulletin Boards.
You could add a forum or bulletin board to your website whereyour visitors can interact with each other. There are a lot offree services available out there that you can use to eitherremotely host a forum for you, or even software you can installon your website's server. To find some of these, just head overto your favorite search engine and you will definitely findplenty to choose from. And while you are visiting the search engine, why not run asearch for any bulletin boards and forums that are already outthere for your chosen topic? You could visit those and interactwith the visitors there and since many allow you to post asignature or a profile, you could add a little line about yourown site with a link (just check the rules of the forum firstso you don't violate any of them).
4. Start a blog.
Blogs are very popular and search engines love them becausethey provide constantly new and fresh content. Your blog wouldbe a great place to talk about what you are up to that day. So if you spent some time today buying new parts for your planeyou could write about where you found them, how much they costyou, why you chose those parts, anything really goes. The really great part about this is that you can point linksfrom your blog back to your website, so when the search enginestops by to grab and index your latest content, it will alsostop by your website and you will start seeing very targetedtraffic heading your way.
5. Write articles.
Writing articles isn't hard and can be a great source of fresh,new traffic to your website. There are a lot of ezines on any topic out there and there arealso a lot of directories just to share your articles at. Basically what you do is to write an article and then add asmall resource box that links back to your website (just like asignature) and then let other ezine publishers know that you areallowing them to print your article in their ezine. And manypublishers go to the article directories to find new contentfor their newsletter and even their websites. And since thereare websites and ezine newsletters on any imaginable topic outthere, you can't lose. Write an article every couple of daysand post it in the directories (even one a week or every twoweeks will start getting you traffic) and you will all of asudden find new traffic coming from search engines, newslettersand websites. Best of all, these 5 simple tips will bring targeted traffic,meaning the visitors are coming to you because they areinterested in what you wrote about. So there you have it, 5 easy and simple ways to advertise anddrive traffic to your website at absolutely no cost at all.
About The Author:
Sandra Stammberger is the owner of InsiderScripts. At Insider Script's programmers are working around theclock to develop affordable, powerful money making scripts thatwill help you drive traffic to your business.http://www.insider-scripts.com
