How do you get more traffic to your website?

Well there are two main sources of getting traffic to your website, they are:

Paid and Free.

Paying for traffic can be Pay Per Click Adwords Yahoo, press releases, Ezine advertising, solo ads or renting email list. Now there are courses for this but I’m not going to get into Paid traffic today.

How to Get Free Website Traffic

There are many ways of getting free website traffic and it is easier than you think, as long as you do it the right way.

Forum Posting

Posting useful information in forums can lead to great traffic to your website.
If your not familiar with forum post then all you need to know that in most forums you can add a signature in your profile now quite a few forums will not let you post affiliate links and doing so might get you banned so always check before you post but you can add your own website link.

If you are a regular poster and contribute to the forum not only the established members will take a look at your site but many new users that are looking for help will check out your website. In other words the more you can help others the more website traffic you will be getting and at the same time building backlinks to you website.

Two great forums to visit and not only catch up with some of the big guns but also get help if you need it are
http://www.warriorforum.com/
http://www.conqueryourniche.com/

Blog Hopping

Blog Hopping is basically taking time to visit other blogs in your niche and leaving comments, now you may be tempted just to visit as many blogs as you can and just put in a comment like, nice blog I will be back or I really liked your blog.

If you do this it is more than likely they will mark your comment as spam, I know I do it enough.

You have to take time to read the blog post and I would suggest if you don’t have anything useful to say then don’t post a comment.

You should try to take your time and not just post the first thing that comes into your head, by doing this and if you can give a good comment and and some value then not only will the visitors to the site visit YOUR site but you will be creating great links back to your website.

For a great example of this I am able to use myself and Alex Jeffreys.

I posted a comment on Alex Jeffreys blog http://marketingwithyou.com/ and he not only liked the post and sent me a thank you by way of dm on twitter, he did more than that.

HE PUT ME IN HIS REPORT. NEWBIES NIGHTMARE

Hell it was only my comment but, my comment had my twitter link in it and I managed to get quite a lot of targeted followers. These are not any old folks who have joined a “get 400 followers a day” site these are people who have read or were in the middle of reading an internet marketing guide and clicked my link to follow me. You can’t get much more targeted than that.

He asked me about it on Twitter last Monday in fact. That brings me to another great Traffic and back link generator, Twitter but that’s for another post my friends.