The Web Traffic Quest
We worked with a team of professional internet marketers to come up with a list of web site traffic building techniques. There are so many ways to generate traffic you could spend years and never run out of ways to increase your web site stream. In this article we investigate the many techniques used to build traffic by internet marketing professionals
The Definitive list of Traffic Building Techniques
Content - Unique, Quality, Regularly updated
Youtube
Forums
Pay Per Click / Adwords
Search Engine Submittal - Big Three (Google, Yahoo - page list, MSN)
Search Engine Submittal - Others (Ask, AltaVista, Alexa, DMOZ, JoeAnt, any other free search engine)
PR Directories
Articles (Ezinearticles, Goarticles, etc)
Email Lists (homebrew)
Email Lists (third party)
Social Bookmarking (twitter, flickr, facebook, myspace, socialmarker.com)
Backlinks
Yahoo Answers
Newsletters
Domain name related to keywords
Aged domain name
Well chosen page titles
Meta-tags with your keyword (Meta Title, and Meta Description)
Use header tags appropriately (H1 > H2 > H3)
keyword optimized content
Reliable Hosting
Link exchanges preferably from sites in your genre
Free links preferably from sites in your genre
Free Ads
Paid Ads
Safelists
Traffic Exchanges
Promotional Sweepstakes
Hub pages (Squidoo and Hubpages - examples)
Pingomatic
Long tail keywords (3 words or more)
RSS feeds (submit to google reader and my yahoo)
Buying forum signatures
text link exchanges
banner exchanges
Groups (yahoo group, google groups, MSN live)
Create a human sitemap
Search Engine friendly: Do not use inaccessible site navigation (JavaScript or Flash menus), Keep your pages under 100K in size, Keep the number of links on a page to less then 100
Make your site easy to link to: Provide them the relevant HTML to create their link to you (make sure the anchor text contains keywords), Provide them with any images you may want them to use (although text links are better)
Submit your site to relevant directories (Directory Critic, Directory Rate, ISEDB)
Submit your site to pay directories (Yahoo, GoGuides)
Doorway pages
Ebay marketing
Listbuilders
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