Aug
21

How To Get Website Traffic

By James Howard

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How do you get more traffic to your website?

Well there are two main sources of getting traffic to your website, they are:

Paid and Free.

Paying for traffic can be Pay Per Click Adwords Yahoo, press releases, Ezine advertising, solo ads or renting email list. Now there are courses for this but I’m not going to get into Paid traffic today.

How to Get Free Website Traffic

There are many ways of getting free website traffic and it is easier than you think, as long as you do it the right way.

Forum Posting

Posting useful information in forums can lead to great traffic to your website.
If your not familiar with forum post then all you need to know that in most forums you can add a signature in your profile now quite a few forums will not let you post affiliate links and doing so might get you banned so always check before you post but you can add your own website link.

If you are a regular poster and contribute to the forum not only the established members will take a look at your site but many new users that are looking for help will check out your website. In other words the more you can help others the more website traffic you will be getting and at the same time building backlinks to you website.

Two great forums to visit and not only catch up with some of the big guns but also get help if you need it are
 http://www.warriorforum.com/
 http://www.conqueryourniche.com/

Blog Hopping

Blog Hopping is basically taking time to visit other blogs in your niche and leaving comments, now you may be tempted just to visit as many blogs as you can and just put in a comment like, nice blog I will be back or I really liked your blog.

If you do this it is more than likely they will mark your comment as spam, I know I do it enough.

You have to take time to read the blog post and I would suggest if you don’t have anything useful to say then don’t post a comment.

You should try to take your time and not just post the first thing that comes into your head, by doing this and if you can give a good comment and and some value then not only will the visitors to the site visit YOUR site but you will be creating great links back to your website.

For a great example of this I am able to use myself and Alex Jeffreys.

I posted a comment on Alex Jeffreys blog http://marketingwithyou.com/ and he not only liked the post and sent me a thank you by way of dm on twitter, he did more than that.

 HE PUT ME IN HIS REPORT. NEWBIES NIGHTMARE

Hell it was only my comment but, my comment had my twitter link in it and I managed to get quite a lot of targeted followers. These are not any old folks who have joined a “get 400 followers a day” site these are people who have read or were in the middle of reading an internet marketing guide and clicked my link to follow me. You can’t get much more targeted than that.

He asked me about it on Twitter last Monday in fact. That brings me to another great Traffic and back link generator, Twitter but that’s for another post my friends.

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17 Comments

1

Hi James,

I always like free traffic. Not only because it’s free, it’s also quite sustainable especially with good quality contents. People will remember you being helpful or have read something useful from you and will likely to come back again in the future……and it’s free!!

Take care,

Huddson
Huddson Lee´s last blog ..Rich Schefren Presents Six Key Factors To Online Success My ComLuv Profile

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Hey Huddson,

Very true, I think the most important thing I have learnt is, try and be yourself.
That way they will get to know you and as you say if your content is good they will come back knowing the fact that they can learn something everytime they visit

James

3

James.

How are you my friend?

Good list of traffic sources you have here, I am also in the conquer your niche forum, but not enough as you can probably tell!

Another good one, not that well known is Anthony Blake, check it out :)

I hope all else is well with you, must catch up soon!

Sean

4

Hey Sean,

All good my man,all good.

I’ll be honest and say I have only just got back into the conquer your niche forum but when I was active in it last time I created a lot of traffic from it.

So why did I stop? The good old excuse of LACK OF FOCUS.

Just checking out the Anthony Blake forum now,looks good so for anyone else interested the url is:

http://www.ablakeforum.com/

Take it easy all,

James

5

James,

You got AJ on the tele… Good on you man..

Posting on blogs is cool, but you’re right you got to be sincere.

Love coming to this one, and thanks for telling me about conquoryourniche.com hadn’t heard of that one.

Cheers,

Rob
Rob Canyon´s last blog ..How to Get Your Alexa Ranking to Drop like a Rock… to Increase Your Popularity. My ComLuv Profile

6

Hey Rob,

I like the title of your post will certainly be checking that out.

conquer your niche forum was created by Rusell Brunson a few years ago and has been going strong ever since.

If I can’t be sincere in a comment I tend not to post one. I think the main thing is not to post a comment just for the sake of it or just to get another link.

Wait until you find a post that you are interested in otherwise it will turn into something you think of as, another boring task you have to do. If you only post comments on something that interests you it will keep your comments fresh and you won’t get into tending to put the same sort of comment.

Be visiting you soon,

James

7

Hey James,

Good to see you over on my little blog page. Thanks for commenting. Thought I’d pay back the kind gesture.

You certainly seem to be following a similar journey to those of us on the course(s) so I hope you keep in touch and hopefully, in the not too distant future, we can help push each other on. Maybe a JV or such like. We’re all friends, not competitors!!

Andy
Andy Michaels´s last blog ..So, How Are Things Progressing Andy? My ComLuv Profile

8

Hey Andy,

Thanks back at ya. I am trying to keep on the sort of journey as you guys, the difference is you are following the experts and I am following you, the students.

I have already learnt a lot from visiting a lot of your blogs (mostly what I have been doing wrong lol) so as you learn I learn.

James

9

Forum posting works really well, esp.
when are you leading a conversation of a popular topic.
Brad´s last blog ..Blog PingBacks, What the Monkies Are They? My ComLuv Profile

10

James

Great post with some useful forum links, I was aware of the Warrior Forum but the others are useful new ones for me to explore. Thanks for that and keep up teh good work

Tom
Tom Harvey´s last blog ..Newbies Nightmare My ComLuv Profile

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Hey guys thanks for the visits

Hey Brad, Never though about leading a conversations, I have just been trying to help out now and again when I can.

Hey Tom, From the conquer your niche forum I became a moderator for a forum but it was a free ad forum that got sold and think it died out a long time ago but just goes to show what can happen and what conections can be made from the forums if they are used well.

James

12

James
Love your site.

I have been looking for ideas to improve my blog traffic. I had not thought about forum posting except for what I do in the AJ forums I don’t belong to any.

I guess I should join a couple.

Thanks
Norm
Norm´s last blog ..Gene Got It From Gary And I Got It From Gene My ComLuv Profile

13

Hey James,

This is my first time over here, I’m not sure how I have missed you until now…!

Great post, I am looking heavily into traffic strategies at the moment, and as Rob said, I haven’t heard of http://www.conqueryourniche.com so I’ll be checking that one out in more detail.

A quick question though, have you ever done any press releases for any of your sites (paid or free) ? Just interested to know if it produced any results for you? :-)

Great job over here,

Talk soon,

Paul
Paul Wilson´s last blog ..7 Step Success Formula – NOW LIVE! My ComLuv Profile

14

Thanks for the visit guys.

@ Norm You should get yourself in a few forum it’s a great way to get targeted traffic

@ Trevor Thanks for the comments will pop over yours and check it out.

@ Paul What took you so long? :-) I have not done any press releases but I have heard that it produces great traffic, I would do it more for a product that for my blog though but it’s one I will look into for blog traffic.

Thanks again for the visits and the comments.

James

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Hi James,

I just now saw the title of your last blog post at the end of your comment over on Rob Canyon’s blog. Isn’t that a neat plug-in that puts that link in there?

Anyway, your title interested me, “How to Get Website Traffic”, as that is exactly what I am trying to do (along with all the other Alex Jeffreys students). In fact, I have been doing some research on the subject and am in the middle of writing a post about that very thing. But mine is more on the line of using keywords. But your post here has given me some ideas.

I haven’t started visiting the forums, but certainly plan to do that very soon. (so much to do, so little time…) I also had not heard of the “conquer your niche forum”. I’ll definitely give that a try. Thanks for that suggestion.

Good post, great blog!
Dawn Anderson
Dawn Anderson´s last blog ..I’m coming clean! – Alex Jeffreys student confesses My ComLuv Profile

17

Hey Dawn,

Thanks for the visit, in the conquer your niche forum you can also put ads up free and you get credit for them just for browsing through the forum.

You can put any link you like in there, So you not only get traffic from you forum sig but the ads aswell.

Look forward to your post,

Keep in touch,

James

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