You’ve created your blog or website, written the content, designed the graphics and published it. And now you wait for all of those visitors, who don’t come! It can be a little disappointing, to say the least. So many webmasters create great looking websites, but don’t pay anywhere near enough attention to getting traffic.
Of all the many strategies, tips and techniques for optimising your site to get listed on the first page in google, and therefore get lots of traffic, link-building campaigns are the best way of getting traffic from the search engines. But the links you build must be one-way; to your site. And they must build naturally. The way an authority site would grow links to itself from a broad base of Internet sources and websites.
Here are 5 simple, highly effective and free ways of getting traffic to your site quickly. They are all based on making your website an authority. All it will cost you is time.
Adding a wordpress blog is a great way to attract the google search engine ‘bots’ and google loves wordpress. A blog is a way to add regular content to your site and it can be installed in a sub-directory. WordPress is open source, so it’s free and it’s also easy to install. There is plenty of written help and assistance on the wordpress website. If you don’t feel comfortable with installing and configuring it yourself, there are plenty of developers who can do it for you.
Social bookmaking is another excellent way of getting one-way links pointing to your site. Digg is the biggest bookmarking website, but there are many others. Many thousands of articles feature on digg every day and readers vote on the best ones, which get the most ‘diggs’, so they show up on the front page, get a link pointing back to where the article is published and lots of visitors to boot.
Article writing has always been a solid strategy for getting traffic. It takes a little work as you should write articles often to get enough traffic. And ezinearticles is by far the biggest and most popular article directory on the Internet. If you choose just one directory, it should be ezinearticles. As well as a link from, what google regard as, an authority site, your article will get picked up by other webmasters and added to their website content. If you include an author bio, this gives another link back to your website.
Squidoo is a very popular, web 2.0 content site, owned by the infamous marketer Seth Godin. His inspired idea was to create a mini-content site for everyone to add whatever they liked into a sort or mini-site called a ‘lens’. You can create as many lenses as you like and there are thousands of them on every subject under the sun. Squidoo is ranked very highly by google and each lens you create can add another link to your website.
Now that you have a squidoo lens, how about building a hubpage. You can publish your expert content quickly and easily with hubpages. It’s rather like a wiki. There is an active community of visitors and readers, and once you have published your gems of wisdom, it can point back to your website, creating another link.
Watch the featured video for a tour of the 5 techniques and the websites. And if you want to find more ways to get links back to your website, read the article by Greg Shuey on 10 linkbuilding strategies for new website or business owners.
