subject: How Can You Get Free Traffic [print this page] Once you have finished designing your Blog and squeeze page you need to think about where the traffic for your website is going to come from.
Your lead capture page needs to get a lot of people finding it for you to effectively start to build your mailing list. If, initially, you get 12 new visitors leaving their details for every one hundred visits, it will give you a target to get at least 100 visitors to your site daily.
This is going to take a little time to achieve but you can work towards getting this amount on a daily basis. When this is attained you can then look to increase this and set your self new targets to achieve.
After your lead capture page has been adjusted so that you get a respectable conversion rate you have to focus your attention on increasing the flow of targeted traffic to your pages.
There are various methods of getting traffic but for the purposes of this article I will look at the various FREE methods available. The number of these is only limited by your imagination so please don't think that this is a complete list and of course you can utilise more than one method at the same time.
Blogging - this is one of the more common methods. Build a blog and post different things that are relative to your business. Place a lead capture box into the site so that you can capture details directly.
Facebook/My Space/Twitter other Social Media - You can interact with your contacts using social media and meet new people and customers from all over the world. There are various different ways to capture their details over time and to direct them to your various sites. Don't make yourself a nuisance by only sending business information to these people. You need to interact with them so that they begin to know you and like you, they are much more likely to be interested in your offer once this has been achieved.
Article Marketing - Write articles that relate to your business. Make sure that the content is unique and interesting so that they will be read, do not advertise in the article itself but you can put a short statement at the end of the article directing people to your site. If the article is interesting or useful to the reader they may well want to find out more about the person who wrote it, YOU!
Search Engine Optimisation - It is possible to make your website more attractive to the various different search engines that are out there, this is what SEO is all about. It can be a complex and difficult task but when done correctly it can push your website up the page listings so that people will find your site easier.
Video Marketing - Film yourself using a webcam or home video camera talking about your business. Make the video interesting and link it to your site and people will view it and again will look at your site to see more.
Comment On Peoples Blogs - Search out other websites that have a similar theme to yours. Then make comments on the posts that you find there. Please be positive in your comment as it is much more likely to get approved by the author of the blog and ensure that there is a link to your site as well.
Your Email Signature - When you send emails to people make sure that your website address is on the bottom of the email. Your contacts may well end up being your customers.
Discussion Boards And Forums - See if you can join some Forums and Discussion Boards and make regular contributions to them. Try to answer any questions posed, it is always good to be viewed as someone who knows his stuff. Make sure that you signature strip for these contains your information so that you get more traffic.
As I have already said thee are loads of other methods to get visitors to your site. It is important to remember that it is unlikely that using a single method of traffic generation is going to work on its own so try to use as many different ones as you can so that you can find the ones that work best for your business.
