Best tips to drive traffic to any website - part1

Best tips to drive traffic to any website - part1

In this post, you will learn valuable information, tips and techniques that you can use to drive more traffic to any website you want. Including your own, your clients or to affiliate offers.

We are going to go over some of the more basic, but essential tips for generating free website traffic because who doesn’t want more free traffic. :)

Driving traffic doesn’t have to be complicated or cost a fortune. In fact, there are several simple ways that you can start driving traffic that won’t cost you a dime. Implementing a few of these proven techniques can definitely help you get more visitors to your website and most of them won’t take you very long either.

Content is King! I’m sure you may have heard that phrase more than once before and when it comes to getting traffic it’s true. In fact, it is what makes the web go round and it’s one of the best ways to boost the flow of traffic to any website.

That is why the first tip I am going to share with you is to write articles closely related to the topic of the website you want to send traffic to and publish them everywhere. Let people know that they have permission to share them with others so that they publish them on their own websites as long as they include a link back to yours.

To make the most out of this technique you should submit them to other sites that publish content from guest authors and article directories like Ezinearticles.com. You can also set up a microblog on platforms like Reddit, Tumblr, Hubpages, Mix (previously called StumbleUpon) or Medium.

Whenever you publish, make sure that you include your URL in the author’s resource or bio box of your articles, so that when your article gets published people who like the information you’ve provided will be inclined to visit your website.

This same technique works well for short reports and ebooks. Create something of value to give away and most people will be glad to share it, carrying a link to back to your site with it everywhere it goes. 

Include your URL in your business correspondence. When it comes to getting traffic, you can’t be shy. Anyone you communicate with can be a potential customer. People are curious by nature so why not take advantage of it by giving them the opportunity to find out what you have to offer.

This also works well for all of your online correspondence as well. Be sure to include your URL in any emails, social profiles, forum signatures and any blog comments you make. This way, when people read what you have written they will be exposed to your URL.

Arrange a joint venture with other website and list owners. Make a deal with them to advertise your website in exchange for a commission or some other form of reciprocation. This won’t cost you anything and it can be one of the fastest ways to generate traffic and increase profits.

If you don’t have a blog, set one up and add content to it on a regular basis. There is a very good reason why so many people use blogging platforms like WordPress to publish content and that is because it is very beneficial for getting good search engine rankings.  Every time you add new content to your blog, it will ping the search engine robots to come to index your site, which leads to better listings and ultimately more traffic.

To help increase the visibility of your blog even more you should submit it directly to search engine and blog directories. While this will happen naturally over time, you will speed up the process if you take the time to submit your URL to at least the major directories like Google, Bing and Yahoo.

If you want to take this process a step further, you can create an RSS feeds for your site and submit the feed URLs to the major RSS feed directories as well. This will generate traffic to your website. If you are using WordPress it will automatically publish an RSS feed for your content and comments. Then all you have to do is submit it.

These techniques are time-tested, proven ways to generate a steady flow of traffic to any website without spending a fortune. Best of all they are easy to implement and they can have a long-lasting effect on the amount of traffic your website receives.

Make sure you look for the next post (part2) soon. We will be talking about several more ways that you can drive more traffic to any website you want.