subject: Free Traffic Website - It's Not That Hard! [print this page] Are you trying to find a way to draw more traffic to your website? Who isn't these days? Webmasters all over look for crafty ways to increase the traffic their websites generate. Increased traffic means more eyeballs viewing your stuff, and that can turn into possibly more revenue if you have a business website, or simply more people viewing your work. While offline marketing--such as slapping your free traffic website address to the side of a truck and driving around the neighborhood- can be effective, you might want to do something a little less costly, but get the same result, and that result is more traffic.
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the tried-and-true method of generating website hits. Write up an article like this one, fill it with a few choice keywords, and before you know it, your free traffic website is showing up on Page 1 every time someone performs a search using those magical phrases. Starting a blog works too and each entry can be written much like an SEO-ready article. It'll give the appearance that you're making regular entries when you're just shamelessly trying to increase your website traffic.
Uploading a video on YouTube can also work, and it'll get you noticed, but if your website isn't generating any hits now, why would anyone seek a YouTube video clip you upload? YouTube videos work well if you do something outrageous, crazy, or insanely funny- something that will grab the attention of others and therefore draw traffic to your free traffic website. Doing the mundane will not get you noticed. However, if you want to take the less adventurous approach, stuff a video of music with keywords and your web address and see if that generates traffic. You'd be surprised how many people click on YouTube videos just to see what they are.
Social networking works well too. Plugging your website frequently on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace can do wonders for traffic, but do it too often and you may find yourself blocked. Plugging your website is fine, but doing so repeatedly comes off as being a pest to most people, and most people don't take kindly to pests. Therefore, be responsible in how you market and advertise your free traffic website. There is a very fine line between getting your name out there and being annoying, and many webmasters must toe this line often in the name of increasing website hits.
