One of the quickest and most effective ways to boost the revenue from your website is to get free traffic hits. Getting more traffic without spending more money is a very smart way of increasing your bottom line. Unfortunately there is a common misconception about free traffic. Many website owners see some of these free traffic sources as inferior and they focus their efforts almost exclusively on search engine traffic.
It is important to realize that search engine traffic is not really free - although it could be. Websites that get the top rankings in high volume search terms have to pay top dollar to get their rankings and many companies specialize only in getting you top rankings (at a price). There are however some excellent sources on the internet that can get you a lot of free traffic hits.
In many ways, free traffic is the best traffic and money can't really buy it. Free traffic is much more legitimate as it tends to come from recommendations and advice whereas paid for traffic is usually in the form of advertising. Nine out of ten people do not like to be 'sold' and are much more likely to buy on a recommendation than on a sales pitch.
Here are 2 great little strategies for getting free traffic hits to your website:
1. Viral Guides - With A Twist...
Ok, so the concept of viral guides are well known and widely used, but here's the twist. Put together a 20 to 30 page guide on a topic that has quite a wide appeal. As an indication, pick a keyword phrase that gets at least 1,000 searches a month in Overture. It is important to focus the guide on information that you provide in your site and to only link to pages on YOUR website. Don't try to make affiliate sales with your viral guide. The simple reason is that when your guide goes viral it will continue to be distributed for years to come and since all the traffic will be coming to your site, you can always just change, alter and test pages on your site. The sole purpose of your viral guide is to get traffic to your site.
The important thing is to get your guide widely distributed and since you picked quite a wide topic this should not be difficult. You need to contact as many websites in your (wider) niche as possible and send them a direct link to a page where they can immediately download the guide plus all graphics and a short 'blurb'. You need to make it extremely easy for someone to offer your guide as a bonus to the products they are selling. Here are the stats: suppose someone sells 1,000 of their products with your guide as a bonus - then that's 1,000 eyes on your guide with 10 or more links back to your site. You also want to encourage people to give the guide away for free and always make sure you add a distribution disclaimer on the very first page of the guide that encourages responsible distribution by your readers..
Although this does not sound like it at first, it really can get you a lot of traffic. It's extremely powerful and if you get picked up by 2 or 3 big sites you can potentially get millions of free traffic hits with just one guide.
2. Video Gagga...
Ever since Google Video and YouTube hit the internet, the world has been going gagga for video. It seems like there is something very appealing about video on the internet and for the first time in history anyone can reach a mass audience with their very own videos. No surprise then that YouTube became one of the biggest websites online and Google even has their very own search engine dedicated to videos. The wonderful thing about this new fascination with video is that you can use it to generate masses of free traffic hits to your website. You need to be a little creative though and depending on your niche, if you can come up with your very own video or even a video series, you can get massive amounts of very targeted traffic back to your site. Although it takes some time to make a video, you can upload it for free and effectively get free traffic for years to come.
The traffic potential of video is huge and the fact that you can pretty much promote your site freely in your videos, this really can boost your website traffic way beyond what's possible with more traditional traffic building methods.
With video it's got to be entertaining, informative and interesting. Try and think outside the box. An interesting video can quickly attract a storm of traffic as the news of a 'cool video' usually spreads like wildfire across the web. Apart from that, many Blog owners and websites have video feeds on their sites, which means that your video can potentially reach millions of eyes. Video is definitely here to stay and tapping into this source for free traffic hits is something you want to get into sooner rather than later.
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