Daniel Scocco from daily blog tips has written a great article on 100 ways to increase your website traffic. Daniel’s blog is very popular and I’d say he knows a thing or two about getting traffic and readers. His blog has just under 50,000 RSS subscribers. Let’s face it, as website owners and webmasters we need all the traffic we can get, and there are some ideas in this list I’ve never seen before.
Writing guest posts can have amazing results. It isn’t the easiest way to boost traffic, but Johnny B Truant reckons getting guest posts published on ittybiz gave his blog a massive increase. Networking with other website owners, bloggers and webmasters is another time-consuming but potentially very rewarding activity. If you run a blog you could join blog catalog or my blog log and talk to lots of other blog owners and publishers.
Find an expert, or even someone with something interesting to say, and record an interview. Turn it into a podcast and publish it on podcasting directories and itunes. Interviews are always very popular. Paul Boag publishes regular interview podcasts on web design and it helps to make his website very popular.
Create a ranking of people is a new idea I’ve not seen before. I can see the potential though. A ranking of people could make an excellent twitter list and be listed on listorious, which can also be used to find experts you can interview. And create a free wordpress theme is something I’m considering doing. If you don’t have the skills you can outsource it. There are plenty of HTML/CSS/PHP developers who could do it for you. Your theme can be listed on the wordpress theme directory. Just consider wordpress is now one of the top traffic sites on the internet.
I would never have thought adding images to your articles would have generated traffic. But it makes sense. Give your image a tag and it will appear in google image search and therefore help your regular article search ranking. Creating squidoo lenses and hubs on hubpages is a recommended traffic tactic I’ve seen before. But it does work. Squidoo and hubpages get huge amounts of traffic and readers.
I keep hearing about facebook ads. It’s reckoned they are cheaper than google adwords but with a greater reach. I think it will depend on what you advertise. Facebook is all about social networking so your ad will need to strike the right note with site users. Ads for games work well on facebook.
These are just a few traffic techniques from Daniel’s list worth highlighting.
