All of us Webmasters would love to have massive amounts of traffic stampeding our sites…especially if that traffic was free or low cost. Here are 9 low cost ways to drive massive amounts of traffic to your site. Not all of these methods may be for you, but some may be the traffic generating gold mine you’ve been looking for.
Blog and Website owners are always looking for effective ways to drive quality traffic to their sites. For some this can be a hair pulling effort. For others, it seems no matter what they try, traffic comes rolling in.
Here are 9 Low Cost Ways to Drive Massive Amounts of Traffic To Your Site
Pay-Per-Click Programs - You should try AdWords and other Pay-Per-Click programs such as Yahoo Publisher Network and Microsoft AdCenter, only if you have a good understanding of how PPC programs work. Newbies should not dive into PPC unless you have a large budget. A better way to use AdWords would be to use the site targeted feature of AdWords and choose sites that are relevant to yours. Site targeted AdWords are charged on a CPM (cost per thousand impressions) basis rather than a per-click basis.
Banner Advertising - You can use many AdSense alternatives such as AdBrite, to advertise on. Speaking of AdBrite, I’ve seen them on some very specific sites where AdSense was not used. This could be for a variety of reasons, but it’s worth checking into sites where you’d like to advertise and see which program they are using to monetize their site.
Blog Reviews- Other bloggers reviewing your site could bring in a huge flood of new readers to your site. Not only can blog reviews bring in a load of traffic, if you’re blog review is on a high PR page, the review can give your site a good boost in the search engines.
Private Advertising - You don’t have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to get your ad on A-list blogs to take advantage of private advertising. There are a lot of popular sites on the Internet that have very targeted readers where you can buy an ad for peanuts. You can get a nice banner ad on some of these sites for as little as $25 per month.
Ask and you shall receive! Funny thing. Many Webmasters never think about emailing another Webmaster and asking for a link. Yet, this can be a very easy way to obtain links from other sights. Sure, some will ignore you, but others will consider and even give you a simple link from their site to yours. Try it sometime!
Blog Networks - I’ve never used Blog Networks, but I know a few site owners who swear by the traffic from Blog Networks like Blog Explosion, Blog Advance, Blog Soldiers and the new Blog Rush. With these networks, you get credits for sending traffic to other Network members sites. In many cases, you can also purchase credits at a reasonable rate. In turn, you use these credits to “buy” impressions back to your site. As good as that sounds, article marketing will still bring in more backlinks and traffic.
Stumble Upon Ads- StumbleUpon can send you loads of traffic. But for those who just don’t have the time or expertise to get that rush of traffic from SU, they do have ads and many can be had for as little as 5 centers per click. This is cheap in anyones book!
Hire Posters - This is another method I’ve never used, but know some people who swear by it. This works by hiring a company or person to post on forums and leave blog comments with links pointing back to your site. From the prices I’ve seen, you can get this done for as little as 10 to 20 cents per post. Browse the Marketplaces on DigitalPoint Forums and SitePoint to find companies and individuals who do this type of work.
Automobile Ad Wraps - These can be very effective if you have a product or service that serves a local market. This program works when a broker pays drivers to drive around with magnetic signs or auto-wraps on their vehicles. People pay attention to ads on vehicles and this can drive some very targeted traffic to your site or local business. Places to look are; Ad-Wraps, AutoWrapped.Com and AutoMurals.Com. I know a small businessman in the Northwest that post “Want Ads” on Craigslist, Kijiji and other local classified ad sites looking for driver. He cuts out the Middleman and saves some serious money in the process.
The important thing is to test, test and test more if you want to take full advantage of any of these programs! I think you’ll be amazed at how much traffic you can generate with a little bit of money.
These have worked for other Webmasters but may not work for you. Everyone is different. It all depends on your comfort level and your skill level. Just remember, there are other ways to drive massive amounts of traffic to your site, but some cost more than others!
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