Boosting your website can be done without having to spend a lot of time, money and effort. Most online entrepreneurs actually start out using only free websites and social networking sites to display their products and have others get to know their company more.
Quality free traffic is available in different places, provided you know the right methods and techniques. It’s good to build contacts from the very beginning to stay ahead and make sure you always have visitors every now and then.
3 Quality Free Traffic Tips
1. Stay visible.
It’s important to be visible to your target market. People will only get to know your site or get interested to know more if you build your reputation in the marketplace and establish yourself as a reputable and honest marketer. Some of the best places to stay visible are in blog sites, social networking sites and online forums and discussion boards. Take time to read comments, concerns and questions from frequent visitors then answer these properly and accurately by doing some research or applying some of your own personal knowledge and experience.
Staying visible will also mean knowing how to work SEO or search engine optimization methods that will keep you at the top of the list when potential customers are browsing. The key to successful SEO is by providing rich and informative content that cannot be found elsewhere. Use the right keywords and related keywords that your potential traffic might include in the search bar.
2. Work with other professionals.
There will definitely be hundreds of other online marketers and business owners who will use different marketing techniques to get the right amount of traffic. The best way to maximize quality free traffic is by exchanging or sharing relevant traffic that will mean the most to each others’ businesses. It’s important to consider the type of traffic entering your website, if some of these are most likely not interested, you can refer them to your contact’s website instead and vice versa.
Exchanging links is also another great way to stay visible and get quality free traffic. Ask a number of online website owners if you can put an article or blog in their site, with a link leading to your own site at the bottom. In exchange, they will also showcase some of their offerings complete with a link leading to their page.
3. Free online tools.
Using the different available internet tools will drive the right people to your website. There are free banners, free advertisements, free website directories and free social networking sites where you can display all your offerings and discuss the benefits of investing in your company. It is important to stay updated with the recent developments on the web so you can represent your products and company in the best light. Feel free to use various features and options that will make your page very easy to navigate and attractive.
Update the information and content on your site every week or so, to maintain your credibility and good reputation among clients. Always have some related sites ready where you can get the freshest information to keep you at the forefront of the market when it comes to getting quality free traffic.
Quality Free Traffic Wrap Up
It can take some time to build up quality free traffic. Often people come online to make money and don’t have the patience to take things slow. What usually ends up happening is you end up spending to much money or you end up getting labeled a spammer.
Do you have any quality free traffic methods you are using? Which ones are working best for you? I look forward to reading your answers 🙂
Great article. It’s all about connection. That’s what the internet has become, a way to connect. So staying connected with your industry through the internet is a key strategy to developing a solid flow of traffic.
Hi Jon, I try and respond to all my commentors as much as I can. I think that my readers appreciate the fact that I take the time to respond back to them.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Excellent information. Keep it coming. We need good quality content these days, and from what I have read here so far you are right on the money
Thanks! Ya it does seem to get harder and harder to weed out the quality content from the garbage..
Staying visible sums up all the off page optimization techniques. This includes forum involvement, blog commenting, guest posting and participating in Question and Answer websites like Yahoo Answers and Wiki Answers. Social Media sites is also a great way to stay visible online. It’s a good website to build your online reputation and a great way to look for potential customers. My favorite site is Facebook. Obviously, Facebook has the most number of registered users and i think nowadays, Facebook is already part of your lives. With that being said, it just clearly shows that internet marketers should utilize this site.
Hi Gary, thanks for sharing your thoughts.. I agree with you, internet marketers need to use everything at their disposal.
Getting valuable traffic is not easy. You have to put effort on it. Especially utilizing social media since many people are using it. Also, make some time to build and create high quality contents. This will help you gain more visitors. Also try article marketing and guest posting which is also effective.
Hi Juphet, thanks for stopping by and sharing..
It seems to me that by working with other professionals online, the end result would be a win-win relationship. I could honestly say that this is sure a good thing, so it would certainly be also excellent if we will put this idea into action.
Hi Candice, at the heart of it all is good networking skills. Whenever the opportunity to work with other professionals presents themselves you should jump on it.
That’s one reason why I like network marketing, it gives me the opportunity to work with other leaders….
very good article. interaction is the key to success. if you just focus on your website and don’t consider interaction, it’s better to close your online business.
Hi Manuel, your absolutely right. When I first started blogging around 2006ish I got comments but I never commented back. It wasn’t because I felt I was better than anyone, I didn’t realize how much people would really appreciate it if I did.
Now I try and always comment back and visit my commentors blogs..
Thanks for stopping by and commenting..
It took me months before I started quality traffic. It involves a lot of hard work in putting up quality content, a bit of SEO, connecting with other bloggers and Social Media. I also got a reasonable traffic from my participation in yahoo answers. Larry, Happy New Year!
Social Media has a big effects in our lives nowadays specially in our business.. We can promote our business through social media that our friends may see it. Social media also is one way to connect to our readers and to our fellow bloggers.