Monthly Archives: January 2009

How To Get A Lot of Human Real Website Traffic

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You need real human traffic. Not, fake untargeted traffic, furry bears or bots or whatever! But real humans that are interested in your product. Getting website traffic for your site can be a difficult task unless you know exactly what works and what doesn’t. There are a few things you should consider before you start generating website traffic yourself.

Consider Your Target Market

You should target your niche only. Don’t waste time outside your niche. You are wasting valuable resources.


No doubt you are busy and you need to make the best use of your time.

So, just target your audience that you know are ready to buy.

Go For Quality Over Quantity

Quality makes a huge difference. You only need a small number of quality visitors that are actually trying to solve a problem and this can be more profitable than a large number of untargeted visitors.


So find out where your target market hangs out and go there and participate.

Quality will beat quantity every time as these people are ready to buy and not simply looking for entertainment purposes.

Ensure Your Website Is Ready To Sell

The last thing you want to do is send people to a website that is 80% complete or has a poor image or sales page. Simply, you are wasting your time and your chances of converting are much lower.


So review your work, make sure it is professional and up to date.

If necessary get someone else to review it and give you an honest opinion.

This will make a huge difference as then when people visit your site they will actually engage with it and then are more than likely to purchase your item.

Implement These Free Methods To Drive Real Traffic

There are thousands of ways to generate free website traffic. The majority of these techniques give you a dribble of traffic. You can spend hours and hours trying these methods and only receive average results.

Some of the better ways to drive website traffic are to comment on other people’s blogs in your niche, participate on forums in your niche and have a signature that links to your products or collect email addresses using some opt in software and email your subscribers. These will all generate traffic.

Forums For Free Traffic

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Forum Marketing or participating in forums is the ideal way to get highly targeted traffic.

This type of traffic generation method is an active method though. You need to participate a lot to get traffic. Obviously it is not a set and forget passive method.

There is usually a lot of tips and questions exchanged in any forums. So start getting active and contribute to the forums in your niche and members will appreciate your input and visit your site on a regular basis if you have valuable material to discuss.


The best thing you can do is make sure your link in your signature goes to something of value that people are likely to return to.

Where Can I Find These Forums?

There are thousands of forums that you can advertise your website and receive traffic, however what are the best sites to advertise my website?

Check out Market Opinions for more information about forums.

They provide a list of forums that may be suitable for you to participate in.


You need to participate a lot in forums to get traffic. This is not a passive traffic method, but an active one.

Warrior Forum is one of the best places to find information regarding getting more traffic and internet marketing in general.

Free Traffic to My Website

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If you have a website then you must be aware of the difficulties one may face in generating traffic for your website. As a website owner you may be often asking yourself

‘how do I divert free traffic to my website?’

But now you can put all your worries to rest as I will share with you a few methods that helped me get free traffic to my website.

SEO
The first thing I did to get free traffic for my website was to optimize all my web pages. And now, a lot of my traffic comes through search engines.

By optimizing my web pages, I achieved a decent ranking in the search engines which led to diversion of visitors to my website. These visitors were genuinely interested in the information and services offered by my site.


By optimizing my web pages, I achieved a decent ranking in the search engines which led to diversion of visitors to my website.

Even though it is a time consuming task which needs to be done continuously, it does offer wonderful results. While applying this method you will need to follow the Search Engine ethics.

Link Building
As I was a newbie and didn’t have enough money, I opted to work hard and find marketing methods which didn’t require any money. I tried a number of methods, but Link Building was one tool which contributed in generating free traffic for my website.

I posted comments on relevant forums and blogs to get generate traffic for my website. I also added my website backlink in my profile and left information which added to the discussions taking place in the forums. This led to free traffic generation for my website.


I posted comments on relevant forums and blogs to get generate traffic for my website.

I also participated in link exchange programs which allowed me to exchange links with websites that had high Page Rank and were related to the subject of my website.

These were two methods which helped me in generating free traffic for my website and I hope they help you as well in generating free traffic for you website.

Viral Pictures & Photos For More Traffic

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How many times have you received a funny photo in your email box? Chances are the funny photo had a web address embedded on it.

This is a great way to pick up some viral traffic. Yes, you will need to spend sometime finding some funny photos that you can use, but if they are unique and have not ‘done the email rounds’ before then chances are you could be on a winner.


This is a great way to pick up some viral traffic.

This is very easy to do, and if you have enough contacts to send it to, it will bring in some traffic. The contacts you send it to will forward it to their contacts and eventually it should spread.

Viral is something that spreads easily. Everyone likes funny pictures and they don’t mind sharing it with others. You can see how easy it is to generate some interest in your website or blog.

Yahoo Answers For Free Targeted Traffic

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Have you checked out Yahoo Answers yet?

Yahoo Answers will send you targeted free traffic daily. But, you must post correctly to avoid getting banned and also, don’t expect a massive flood of traffic.

Really, it is difficult to find a place online that will send you a ton of free targeted traffic in massive amounts. This is why it is important to apply your skills to many methods.


Really, it is difficult to find a place online that will send you a ton of free targeted traffic in massive amounts.

However, if you are just starting out, it is easy to become overwhelmed by all the information about driving traffic to your website or blog. That’s why it is important to try one method first and then measure your results.

Yahoo Answers is effective in driving a small amount of traffic to your site. If you haven’t already, go ahead and check the site out. You can easily find questions on most topics. If you can’t find any questions on your topic in your niche, then chances are you are in a very narrow niche and there are not many people wanting the information or willing to buy products that are relevant.


If you can’t find any questions on your topic in your niche, then chances are you are in a very narrow niche.

It may be better to change your niche before you go too far.

Check out these rules for ensuring your answers stay online and you don’t get banned.

Rule 1:
Relevance Is The Key
If you are posting answers on Yahoo Answers, just make sure you only post answers that are totally relevant to the question being asked. If you don’t – you will get banned very quickly.

This is the golden rule for Yahoo Answers, and if you follow it you should get some steady long term traffic quite easily.

Rule 2:
Add Good Content
Like posting comments in blogs, add good quality solid content. Content that give enough information and that encourages the reader to click your link.

Obviously the aim is to get them to visit your site – so you need to add quality, attractive information.

Rule 3:
Use the search tool
Use the Search tool to find relevant questions. There are several ways to find questions using the search tool and obviously you need to find open questions so you can answer them.

Play around with it and establish how it works.

Rule 4:
Try to get the best answer
If you answer a question and your answer becomes ‘Best Answer’ Your link answer can stay in the highly visible place of best answer for a long time.

Check it out – have a look at some of the best answers. Some have been there for a year or more.

Aim for best answer and you can get a long term link of highly targeted traffic direct to your site. Well worth the effort !

Rule 5:
Read Rule 1 again
It is essential for success.

A few good things about Yahoo Answers is that it is easy to use and it sends you highly targeted traffic. Good Luck!