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103 Ways to Build Traffic and Monetize Your Site

Here are some of the best ways to increase your traffic. Pick the best ones that will work for you.

1) Write articles and submit them to article directories. This can be time consuming but is one of the best ways to build up your links. Whenever you write an article for your site, write a similar one to submit to article directories. This will give you links and searchable content.

2) Make use of press releases. Sites like PRweb can be great for generating traffic. Automate the process if you can.

3) Comment on popular blogs. Make sure that you have the link back to your site at the bottom of your comment.

4) Make sure your site is listed in every available directory. Directories such as the DMOZ can drive tons of traffic to your site.

5) Make posts of free sites such as Craigslist. If you are going to take the time to do that, make sure that your posts are in the most popular cities.

6) Post on forums that are related to whatever site your niche is in. Put your links in your signature. Increase your post count. Look for the most popular posts and post in them.

7) Review similar products on such sites as Amazon.com. No point letting your competitors get all of the customers.

8) Review other websites that are similar to yours where ever you can. Sites such as Alexa are a good place to start. Put your link in your review.

9) Another good site to review similar products at is EOpinion

10) Put your link in your e-mail signature. Free advertising for something you do anyway.

11) Make sure that you update content on your site regularly. At a minimum aim for once a week. Search engines prefer constantly updating sites.

12) Make use of social networking. del.icio.us and Myspace are money waiting to be tapped. - Read More, Top 20 Social Networking Sites

13) Tag blog photos at sites such as Flickr.

14) Make your content available as RSS feeds. Ask your readers to subscribe to your feeds.

15) Coin your own phrase. You may think that Colbert got where he is by being funny. I say that it was Truthiness.

16) Build a best of list. 103 is a great is a great number. Lists such as these get Dugg frequently.

17) Make sure that your page is Digg enabled. Getting on the front page of Digg is money in the bank. Read More - How Some People Game Digg and Form a Digg Circle

18) Give your users the ability to add comments at the bottom of your articles. If they can participate, they will come back for more.

19) Write about something that you are passionate about. Passionate writing shows. If you enjoy doing it you will be more willing to put in the hours it takes to develop a great site.

20) Put up truckloads of content. The vast majority of hits you will get are from search engines. Most of the others are from returning visitors who found you through a search engine. Give them something to search on.

21) Create a 10 easy tips to help you [do whatever your site is about. This kind of sites are extremely easy to link to, searchable, quick to make, and are gold for your site.

22) FREE. Offer something for free. Offer free games, free videos, free samples, free programs, free always attracts the visitors. - Read More, 5 Reasons Giving Something Away For Free Can Make You Money

23) Calculate the amount of money your site makes Per Page, Per Month. ( Monthly income / Total # of pages) The critical value is approximately $2/page/month. Once you start to make more money than that you can afford to buy articles from people for $5-$10 a pop. Read More, How To Make a Killing Buying Articles and Publishing Them.

24) Automate everything that you do that is repetitive. Especially good things to automate are things like link trading and site map building. Automation will make sure that it gets done, and will save time for you to work on more profitable things.

25) Split your time up and make a schedule. Devote the time that you have scheduled exclusively to what you have budgeted it to. A good time budget could be something like, 40% To creating new content, 20% To getting new traffic and new inbound links, 10% To new, big projects, 10% To testing your advertising and site in order to optimize it, 10% To looking for new advertisers, and 10% to automating every time consuming repetitive process that you have.

26) Create a list of the gurus/experts in your field. If you can make your project seem to be official, and you can get the gurus attention, they may find some way to thank you.

27) Make your content easy to understand. You are trying to appeal to as many people as possible. Try to write things that are catchy so that people spread it around naturally.

28) Understand your audience and who you are marketing to. Are you trying to write something that 20,000 people will find worth 10 cents? Or something that 200,000 people will find worth 1 cent?

29) Take the effort into fixing all of the spelling and grammar errors on your site. If you want authoritative people to link to it, your site has to seem to be authoritative.

30) You can make your site seem to be more trustworthy by including a picture of yourself on it. Additionally, taking the time to include and about section and a privacy policy on your site can make it seem more official.

31) Try creating duplicate pages of your site in other languages. Only a fraction of the world's population speak English. If you really want an up and coming language, pick Chinese.

32) Sponsor a charity. The best charity to pick would be a high profile one that doesn't get very much money. In that case you can contribute a little money, and they will link back to your site. Also you're doing a good deed.

33) On the topic of charity, pick the newest hot topic out there and try to make a name for yourself in it. Global Warming is ideal. If you can create a "Green Site" you can attract attention.

34) Start and continue a low profile publicity campaign. Tailor your campaign to something that people in your niche will notice.

35) Get a logo and a catch phrase for your webpage. You want people to remember it, and little thing can help. You may not be Brown, but branding works for the big companies, it can work for you.

36) Hold some kind of crazy contest. Make it something that people will take note of. It doesn't have to be expensive, but if you can think of something new, you can get links.

37) Build a great tool that people in your domain will love. Then give it away, completely free. The creators of this site intend to build a free Article Submitter tool, something that will be very useful and compete with the ones that you can buy for $100's of dollars.

38) Collect people's e-mail addresses, with their permission. Set up a double opt-in, and once people have opted in, circulate a newsletter. Make the newsletter short, succinct, and funny. Make the readers want to check your site for updates.

39) Make friends with the editors of publications, either online or offline. They will then have the ability to help you out.

40) Network with people offline. Nothing beats face to face contact. Get to know the other webmasters in your niche. Get them to link to you, and link back to them.

41) Make sure that you have a GREAT product. You need to be able to get repeat visitors. No matter how much advertising you do, once you attract people to your site you have to be able to get them to stay.

42) Make sure that your site is unique and innovative. Ask yourself, what can your users get from your site that they can't get from the bookstore, or from half a dozen other places on the web.

43) Put something on your site that people will have to talk about and tell their friends. Think viral marketing.

44) Carefully buy targeted pay per click traffic after you have developed your site. Whenever people get to your site, regardless of the method of entry, the have the opportunity to buy your product and link to you.

45) Write and article and submit it to the news site in your industry. There are dozens of webpages on the internet about everything. Pick the most authoritative of them and try to get published.

46) Subscribe to popular newsletters. Once you get the flavor of the newsletters, write the editor and offer to write a column in the newsletter. If you get a chance to do so, write insightful articles. Be sure to link back to your site somewhere in your column.

47) Be sure to track the people who are using your free articles or press releases. Offer them exclusive content in exchange for a prominent position on their site.

48) Make use of your friends. If you put up important or relevant information, e-mail them and ask for feedback. Ask them if they would mind referencing it if they found the information useful.

49) Look for companies that have "in the news" sections. Many companies like to link back to, and blog about people who cover their happenings. If you have trouble finding companies, just search for Your Industry + "in the news"

50) Write sites that spark emotions. Find something the people either love or hate and take the opposite stance. Anything that sparks emotions causes people to talk about it and share with their friends.

51) Get custom t-shirts made with your website on it. Where it often. T-shirts are cheap. Offer t-shirts as prizes for various things on your site. If you have a forum, give T-shirts to the most frequent posters, whomever sends the most new members, etc.

52) Make your site interactive. Give people polls to vote in. Places to comment, ways to reach you. People who interact with a site visit time and again.

53) Put up a forum in your site. Put in enough work to get the forum started. Once you get a forum going, it generally feeds itself. Not only does it keep old members coming back, but all of the new content the forum generates is great for searches.

54) Add a bookmark option to your websites. If people want to save your site, why not make it easy for them.

55) Try getting a link from your local better business bureau or the local chamber of commerce.

56) Make sure that your domain name is memorable. The worst thing that can happen is if people would like to come back to your site, but can't remember what it is and can't find it.

57) Buy up the various misspellings and .org, .net variations of your page. Have them redirect to your main site. No point building up a valuable page and letting someone else profit off of it.

58) When linking back to your page, make sure you seed the anchor text with the appropriate keywords.

59) Make sure that your site is as clean as possible. Take care of the little annoyances such as grammar errors, spelling mistakes, broken links, missing images etc.

60) Use CSS whenever possible.

61) Use keywords in the alt tags of your images. In some countries alt tags are required by law, might as well get some good text out of them.

62) Once you start getting some cash flow from your page, outsource as much of the grunt work as possible. What is the most time consuming processes that keep your from expanding your business? Track your time, figure out what is holding your back, and outsource it. Time is money.

63) Perform studies and surveys that make people feel good or important. If you make people feel that you appreciate them they will go out of their way to help you for free.

64) Tag related webpages on directories such as Del.icio.us. If your tags become popular, and the people find them useful they may trace the tag back to find out who did it, leading them back to you.

65) Submit a story about your webpage to the local newspaper. See if they will do a personal feature on it. Newspapers are as hungry for content as webpages.

66) List your webpage on the local library's website if you can

67) Contact your business partners, manufacturers and retailers. See if they will be willing to link to you. The bigger your site becomes, the more of their product you can sell.

68) Go to other popular pages and write reviews of whatever product you are selling. Make sure to link back.

69) Launch an affiliate program. Get other people to sell your product for a portion of the proceeds. Having other people work for you is one of the secrets of getting rich.

70) Develop a relationship with non-competing businesses both online and offline. You can leverage these relationships and help each other out. Link to each other's sites and distribute each others business cards. Networking is important in every industry.

71) Craigslist is a great cheap classified service. Make sure that your product is listed there.

72) Become an expert on sites such as Yahoo Answers and Google groups. Answer questions for people and be sure to link back to your site.

73) Once your page becomes large enough, try creating a topic about it on Wikipedia. If you find that it keeps getting taken down you can add links to the pages that send the most visitors to your site.

74) Join a visitor trading network. Send visitors to the sites that send the most people your way.

75) Make sure that you are spending your time wisely. Invest your time in areas where there is profit to be made. A good way to tell if an area is valuable is to look up how much the keywords for it go on adwords. - Read More How To Determine How Profitable Adsense Keywords Are

76) At the end of every page in your site include links to other pages in your site. After a visitor is done with one page, you want to make it easy for them to stay on your site, and not go someplace else. Unless it is to your advertisers.

77) Study advertising heat maps to determine where to best place the ads to get maximum revenue. Make sure to understand the relationship having too many ads, and annoying visitors, and having too few ads and not maximizing your revenue. - Read More A Heat Map on Where to Best Place Your Ads

78) Constantly test your site. If you don't know what campaigns are working and which are not, how can you improve? With testing your can focus your resources the most effectively. - Read More A Case Study on How Much You Can Make With Pay Per Click Advertising

79) Keep up to date with the latest happenings in the world. You can try to monetize the hot trends before they become over saturated.

80) Give away a free e-book. Focus on quality over quantity. Writing the e-book will help you generate great content for your site, and vice-versa.

81) Add social book marking and refer-a-friend options to your site.

82) Be funny and entertaining. If people are amused by your site they will spread it for free.

83) Offer RSS feeds for you page.

84) Make sure you put your link back in every profile about you on the internet. Ebay is a good example.

85) Make and upload a viral video on You Tube. Put the link to your site at the end of the video.

86) Find a guru in your niche. Take them out to lunch. Pay for it.

87) Start an organization or club. Yahoo and Google groups are a great place to get new members.

88) Make a site map for your site. Submit the site map to Google, Yahoo, and the other search engines. This will ensure that all of the pages on your site get linked.

89) Research other sites that are related to yours. Find out how they are getting their traffic and see if you can duplicate their methods.

90) Review other, related sites, on Alexa. This will draw in traffic streams of targeted visitors.

91) Link to blogs from your site. Most blogs track who is linking to them, so if you send them some traffic they will take notice and potentially check out your site and link back to you.

92) Use shopping search engines such as ePinions to review products and help build your reputation and your brand.

93) Spend the time or the money to get a beautiful looking webpage. A little eye candy never hurt anyone.

94) Verify that your site appears correctly in all browsers that you can check.

95) Conduct surveys about your niche and publish them. This can generate links and make you appear as an expert in your field.

96) When writing articles, be sure to spend your time wisely. The best articles are between 400 and 1500 words. This in long enough to be useful, attract links, and get search hits, but short enough that you can turn them out.

97) Concentrate on getting one quality link a day. Search for quality sites that are in your niche and see if you can find a mutually beneficial arrangement to propose. But Don't just start spamming every site you find.

98) When writing content, focus on the keywords that you want people to search for. Use those keywords and all variations that you can think of.

99) Whenever you update your page, send a ping to PingOMatic.com

100) Moderate the comments on your website as well as the forums. No sense letting a good site go to waste because people are spamming on it.

101) Distribute bumper stickers and other merchandise with your URL and Tagline.

102) Regularly update your site. Everyday is the best. People should see something new every time they visit your site.

103) Recycle your old posts. Bring things that become buried deep in your site back up to the front. This is especially useful if you get lots of new traffic that may never have seen your old pages.


 

 

 
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