Tuesday, February 27, 2007

10 Highly Effective Ways to Increase Website Traffic and Promote

There are many ways to promote your website for free online. Here
are 10 highly effective strategies you can use right now.

1. Write articles or free reports for other webmasters to publish
and put your website address in the by-line. If you write good
content, your articles will be published and many readers who like
your article will go on to visit your website.

2. Arrange a Joint Venture partnership with List owners and
Webmasters.

3. Add your ad or website address to your email signature. This way,
every time you send an email, you'll be promoting your website.

4. Exchange Links with Other Webmasters. This is another effective
strategy for generating targeted traffic to your website for free.
It involves contacting other webmasters for a possible link exchange
partnership.

5. Add a blog to your site and Ping weblogs.com and other search
engines. Pinging your blogs to the search engines is the fastest way
to get the search engine robots to visit your blog and attract new
visitors to your web site.

6. Submit your blog address to blog search sites and directories.
You can submit your blog's URL to websites such as Technorati,
Daypop, Blogdex and Popdex. For a complete list of websites where
you can submit your URL, go to http://www.guidetorss.com

7. Create RSS feeds for your site and submit the feed URLs to the
major RSS feed directories online. A good place to start is
http://www.guidetorss.com/ which provides a list of the top RSS
directories.

8. Be an active commenter. Try to leave comments on the blogs that
you regularly visit. Most comment systems also provide a way for you
to leave a link back to your blog or website which begs a visit at
the very least.

9. If you plan to have anything printed up, put your web address on
it. You can print your URL on business cards, stickers, leaflets,
etc.

10. Add your web address to your forum profile signature. Every time
you post or respond to questions your ad will be displayed. If you
post good content in forums, people who read your threads will also
check out your website.

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