How To Easily Get Free Traffic To Your Website
Posted by: Gary Ruplinger, in SEO Lessons, Search Engine Optimization, Traffic GenerationI see posts in forums just about everyday from somebody new wondering how they can get free traffic to their website or how they can get high search engine rankings.
They want to know all the magical little “secrets” to getting tons of traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
I used to reply to all of these forums posts with my answer, but it always seemed that someone would pop up the very next day asking the same question, so I’m going to cover some very simple things you can do to get traffic to your website right here in my blog instead.
But here’s the key…
You ready?
You sure? You might not want to hear this.
Okay, if you’re really sure…
The key to building up massive amounts of free search engine traffic is to take ACTION.
It’s not some silly little automated system that just sucks up your money, or the latest search engine “loophole” for you to exploit that will actually accomplish the opposite of what you want.
The key is to take action so if you’re expecting to sit on your butt and traffic will magically appear, then free search engine traffic isn’t for you. It’s great traffic to get, but it takes a little bit of work to get it.
Okay, if I’ve got you convinced that taking action is what it’s going to take to get a lot of free search engine traffic, let me give you some simple actions you can take.
Daily Actions
Here are some actions you can take on a daily basis, and once you get the hang of it, you’ll be able to do this all within 15 minutes. Some things you could do: make a post everyday in a niche related to your website with a simple link in your signature linking back to your website; make a post on your website’s blog; you could also comment on other people’s blogs leaving helpful feedback or commentary and also including a link back to your site.
Obviously, that’s not an all inclusive list of things you can do to build traffic on a daily basis, but it should help you get the wheels turning in your head to come up with even more ways.
Weekly Actions
For your weekly actions, you could take an hour or two out of one day and get these done. You could write an article or two on a topic related to your website, and submit it to popular article directories like EzineArticles. You could also submit your website to 5-10 directories. There are literally thousands of directories out there. You could even record a video and put it up on Youtube and other video sharing sites, and drive traffic to your site with video.
Monthly Actions
Every month you could take an hour or two to write and distribute a press release. Press releases are actually easy to write, and a good press release can drive a ton of traffic to your website in addition to getting you a lot of high quality links.
So there you have it, some simple actions you can take on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Just make sure you pick something you can do on a consistent basis and watch your website traffic keep on going up right along with it.
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February 25th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I agree re: taking regular and consistent action.
Unfortunately, people who are looking for “Free” traffic don’t get it.
Traffic comes at a price - you either pay for it with time and effort, or with money (PPC advertising etc).
If you can’t affort the price, then traffic isn’t the problem - it’s your conversion rate (monetizing the traffic that you’re getting at a profitable rate).
Once people get this under control, they invariably are able to dominate their industries - because they’re more profitable than their competitors, and can afford to *buy* all the traffic that they need.
Brent
March 21st, 2008 at 3:01 am
And don’t forget to be patient!
March 29th, 2008 at 3:10 am
Nice and quick to the point. That I like and I do appreciate it. Where can I go to sign up for your blog?
April 6th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Great article and very useful.
July 4th, 2008 at 2:30 am
Great post, i really didint know that postin in blogs and video site can help you bost you trafic. Thanks for sharing this info.
August 12th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Thanks for this Gary. Great advice which I will start using straight away!
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Great and useful post, but one thing is it necessary to post in related site?? Does the page rank of the site in which commenting is done matters……
November 29th, 2008 at 4:38 am
Nice tips. People are just looking for an automated system that will do everything for them so they just collect the revenue from the websites. And That ain’t gonna happen. Because you need to put hard afford into what you’re building in terms of content creation, sindication and promotion.
December 7th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Very nice post, really worth to read this blog. The tips are also so nice and i like it!..
January 5th, 2009 at 11:35 am
I love what you’re saying here!!
There is no success without effort and sacrifice.
I talk about that a lot in my blog as well.
I bought your UTB and was VERY happy with it. Now using the techniques to keep a J.O.B away.
February 25th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Once I found your blog from Google. I’m reading your post several times because it introduces a fresh idea for my business.
March 7th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Great tips. Those three tips on daily and weekly actions to take are helpful. Are there any suggestions for places to start?
March 12th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
This is not bad advice, unlike a lot I have come across.
April 11th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Awesome and to the point, I tell my readers all the time that owning a website or a blog is all about Time, Hard work and effort. There is No easy way to get traffic and back links. I hate seeing people waste time and money to get it the easy way ” they usually just give up”
Thanks For the great post
Wordwiz
December 20th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
I just had to write and say what an outstanding job you did on this. Clearly, you have put a lot of work into it.
December 24th, 2009 at 8:22 am
great post but what i miss in the post is when you do all this work, specially when you do article posting is that people forget to PING the article to the search engine with PingOmatic for example. When they start doing this little thing extra they will have most of the time must better result in a short time. This little more effort will notyfy the search engine that ther is a new post and shortly after that the crawler will visit the article so post can resieve nearly instantly traffic on it.
January 5th, 2010 at 5:52 am
Very interesting to read it
January 7th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
I agree with what you say not taking action is the biggest killer for beginners without a shadow of a doubt.
January 25th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Hey, This is a great thread. I found you on yahoo. Keep up the work.
February 16th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Hello just thought i would tell you something.. This is twice now i’ve landed on your blog in the last 2 days looking for totally unrelated things. Spooky or what?
February 27th, 2010 at 2:01 am
I couldn’t agree more: A very well explained point! Thanks for bringing it up on your post.
You’ve covered both aspects of people who are looking for free traffic:
The ones who know what to do & how to do it but somehow fail to act (Action); and those who have the determination to act but actually don’t know what or where to start (the daily, weekly & monthly tasks)
Sometimes it takes just a simple explanation, like your post, on what to do to ‘easily’ get free traffic; mind here the word ‘easy’ doesn’t necessarily mean ‘effortless’.
Ivan S.