What Are You Doing For Traffic?
What are you doing to get traffic to your website, product page, or blog?
Sometimes people fail to drive traffic to their websites because they’re putting all their focus into the wrong source. What you should be doing is looking for as many ways possible to drive in traffic to your website. Here are a few things I do to drive traffic to any of my sites. Each of these are proven to work, and aren’t frowned upon. I don’t like tricking search engines or doing any of that silly stuff.
Post A Blog Entry
When is the last time you did this? I don’t post as much as I like here on my own blog, but after doing this, here are a few things I do.
Write an article to submit including a link to your new blog post. This will ensure your new blog entry gets read.
Post a comment at another blog and mention your new blog entry. Do not spam. Write a comment about their blog entry, and tell them you just finished writing a similar blog entry on your blog. Include the link. Their entry must be similar to yours.
Include a good blog or blog entry of another website to link to. If using a blog like WordPress, a trackback will automatically be created. If the website you mentioned accepts trackbacks, a link back to your post will appear in the comments area of that blog.
Submit a Press Release
Want some extra attention for your blog or blog entry? Why not submit a press release. Often times people think a press release is only for those large businesses who have something really newsworthy to talk about. In fact, that’s not true. You can submit a press release about whatever you want. Whether it gets attention has to do with your topic and story. Maybe you now have enough data from a split or multivariate test and can release that information for others to use. This would be excellent information to use in a press release!
Submit Your Link Somewhere
Search for a link directory by searching “add link” “submit link” “add url” “submit url” along with the keyword for your sites topic in the search engine. This isn’t the best way to get links to your site, just a way which can slowly help your search engine rankings. Don’t kill more than five minutes of your time doing this. That’s all that’s required.
Aaron, I’ll implement all these suggestions. Great post. Love the look oof your site.
Sheppard
Comment by Sheppard Salter — March 21, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Hi Aaron -
There was a link to your blog on the Internet Business Blog so that’s how I got here.
I’m taking your advice and posting an entry on your blog with a link to mine…and I’ll answer the question “What are you doing for traffic?”
Actually I’m using James’ tools. Nemeas for the domain/url factors. that’s about 20% of the se algorithm.
RaSof for on-page optimization. that’s about 40% of the se algorithm.
And building up links for the the rest of the algorithm. i’m using artemis pro to submit articles. i’ve also used hermusa. and make comments on blogs too. i seem to visit maybe one per day and if it’s possible and i can make a relevant comment with a link back to my site. i do it.
it’s all working slowly. i started my blog less than a month ago and i’ve climbed from an alexa ranking of about 1,600,000 to about 400,000 in a few weeks. from 0 to about 65 visitors per day. we’ll see where i stand in another few weeks.
Comment by Robert — March 21, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Comment by Aaron Brandon — March 21, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Those are all great tools. Don’t stop using them.
Keep your blog rolling!
Comment by Aaron Brandon — March 21, 2007 at 10:57 pm