Best Free Sources for Traffic Generation and Web Marketing

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Anything you do online is almost worthless without search engine visibility that allows more people to visit your website. It doesn’t matter how many web sites and blogs you make, how much time you spend writing quality articles if you never get enough traffic.

Web Traffic = Potential Customers = Money and Profits

 There are a lot of paid and free of cost different ways of obtaining targeted traffic to your website. In this article I briefly point to a few quick and easy ways to help you instantly flood your website with a high amount of targeted traffic quickly and easily, thus optimizing and increasing your search engine ranking and visibility as follows:

Search Engines

When anyone is looking for something online, the first place he searches is the search engine. The search engines are probably the first and most reliable navigation method of choice. The only change is the popularity of various search engines over the years, with Google currently dominating by huge market share of 82, 62 %.

Directories

Directory submission is another very popular method of generating back‐links in a short time. With online directories, you can add your website manually or using specific software into categories and instantly increase traffic to your website. The best approach is to increase gradually the number of back‐links that are featured within each directly.

 Article Marketing

Many people receive tens of thousands visitors every month just from their articles, thus making substantial profits from that traffic! Articles won’t usually get a lot of traffic directly from article directories. Their importance as a marketing tool comes from the authority and the rating that the major directories receive from the search engines. In addition, having in mind that most article directories allow for other webmasters reprinting your articles (retaining your author’s resource box), you can generate an additional traffic from all websites featuring your content.

 Forum Marketing

There are lots of online forums around where people participate in order to discuss the issues that interest them. This way, the forums represent a base for additional traffic. Used properly, this marketing SEO tool can be extremely successful if done correctly. The trick to using forum marketing effectively is to be patient. Make sure to post thoughtful, helpful and competent messages. Reply to questions and give people efficient answers.

Tutorial Sites

Surprisingly many people visit these sites. If the goods or services you sell involve anything that can be linked to a tutorial, then it is useful to use this web marketing tool. Create a small tutorial, related to your niche/product if there is an area, which needs additional explanation or learning.

 Blog Commenting

In order to receive more back-links from blogging, you must simply develop an article or content that offers helpful advice, or information, rather than referring them directly to your sales page. It’s also important to use anchor text within your blog comments, especially if you want to rank for various keyword phrases.

 Video Marketing

Video marketing is another comparatively new marketing strategy that many site and blog owners consider useful. It is possible to make a simple video very quickly by putting together a slide show presentation with Microsoft PowerPoint or Publisher and exporting it to video format. It only takes minutes to submit your video to YouTube and some of the other video sharing websites.

 Social Marketing

Although social marketing can be an efficient SEO tool, it is also a complicated one. It is not enough to just to build large lists of followers and send your links to them. You must post them interesting and useful information on a regular basis.  If your comments and posts are considered efficient for the subscribers in your list, your site or blog will receive more traffic and this will make your efforts much more effective. The two best sites for general social marketing are Facebook and Twitter.

 Safelists

A safelist is an email marketing list that is usually free, but may be paid. You join the list, and you are allowed to send your own mailings out to the other people, and they can send their offers to you.

 Feeder Sites

Feeder sites are pages that are hosted on various free hosts and web 2.0 sites around the web that can attract search engine traffic and funnel it to your site in the same way as article marketing. These sites can be very useful for pulling in search engine traffic and funneling it through to yours. 

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