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[H1117]How To Get A Free Website

by Guido Nussbaum, Gui

Website traffic is what drives your online business. It is the goal of all advertising efforts. Only by getting traffic to you website can you get those customers that mean money in your pocket. Many believe if you build a website that the customers will automatically come. That is not true. You have to let them know you are there and what your purpose is. This means advertising your site. But, advertising can be very expensive. How can you get around that?

The answer to getting traffic to your website without eating up any profits you might receive from your sales is to get free website traffic. How can you do that, you might ask? How can you get anything for free?

There are several methods to get free website traffic. Some are more effective than others. Some require more work than others. But, the bottom line is, they are all free. Examine the particulars of each method and decide which one best suits your situation.

Some of the methods for gaining free website traffic are:

Traffic exchange systems

Search engine submitters

Click exchanges

Website directories

Referral bar accounts

RSS feed displays

Various widgets such as search boxes, page rank boxes, keyword ranking, quizzes, weather, quotes, riddles and jokes

As you can see, there are many tools to obtain free website traffic. You just have to be discriminating about what you use. Some require very little time, just installation time, such as widgets and search engine submitters. Others require more time, such as click exchanges. Some don't require much time, but may not have as dedicated traffic as you might want. These include referral bars and traffic exchange systems.

Let's examine a few of these methods so you can make informed choices about what is best for you. You may decide to use all of them, or you may just pick a couple that you feel will bring you the most traffic for the least effort.

Traffic exchange systems are those programs where you get a snippet of html code to add to your website. When someone visits a site featured in the exchange, you get credit and your site will be featured on someone else's site. Of course, systems vary as to how targeted they are, but if you get in one that targets traffic well, you can get a lot of traffic for little effort. Your website traffic will increase exponentially as your get more and more traffic that clicks the links featured on your site, resulting in your site getting featured on many other sites.

Search engine submitters are snippets of code that you place on your website and it produces a box that readers can type their website into and submit it to major search engines with one click. These are very popular and will draw traffic to your site in order to submit their sites. If you have a good website, you can make customers of them while they are there.

Widgets are another method to drive traffic to your site. These, too, are snippets of code that you place on your site. The widget draws surfers to the site to take part in the widget. Widgets include quizzes, puzzles, weather information, keyword analyzers and such. Surfers go to your site to use the widget, and hopefully will become a customer.

Some of the methods for getting free website traffic, such as referral bars, click exchanges, and traffic exchanges are just code that you put up on your site and your site is put into a rotation based on how many times it is clicked from your site. This requires that you have some traffic to your site to start with, but will soon increase your traffic exponentially as clicks deliver more traffic to your site, which in turn leads to more traffic.

Though free means no money involved, there are some costs, such as your time to install, etc. Still, what is a little time invested to get all the free website traffic you want.

When you think of it in those terms, it's really simple.

There are also only three real ways to get in front of the traffic flow. You can buy traffic, borrow traffic, or create traffic.

You buy traffic using pay-per-click search engines. It's very dependable, and can give you a steady flow of consistent traffic.

The big drawback with using pay-per-clicks to generate traffic is that it can be very risky. Those who use pay-per-clicks to generate 100% of their traffic, and are considered the best of the best, will tell you that as many as 7 out of 10 campaigns that they set up will lose money. The professionals very quickly shut off the losers, and their winners more than make up for the losses, but it's really not a game for someone not properly trained.

You can also buy traffic using an affiliate program. Since you only pay for the traffic when a sale is made, it's a very low-risk method. Since your affiliates are sending you their best customers, you can also think of it as borrowing traffic.

I love the affiliate program model, and have numerous products sold via affiliate programs. I also sell a lot of others' affiliate products. It's win-win.

You can also create traffic by putting things on the Internet that people are attracted to. You can create content by writing articles or blogging for example. I love content creation and have written over 1100 different articles. My articles teach people how to solve pressing problems, and at the same time point them to me (my sites) as a great resource.

When you create content your big challenge is to get it noticed and indexed by the search engines, so that people can follow links from there to your site. It's actually fairly easy - but time and labor intensive.

If your content is "viral" it will be something that others will happily share. Examples include in-depth articles, essays that touch people on a deep emotional level, or humorous videos that you post on YouTube.

Of the three methods of getting traffic (buying, borrowing, and creating it) my favorite has to be borrowing it... with creating it second. I generally only buy traffic when I need a really quick surge to test my website's conversion process.

The key to generating an absolute flood of free traffic is getting noticed, getting backlinks, etc., from high traffic websites such as Google, Craig's List, Yahoo, YouTube, and the various bookmarking and social networking sites.

This can be as simple is searching through Yahoo Answers for questions on your area of expertise, and then posting a great answer - along with an appropriate link to your website or product.

It can be as simple as searching through YouTube for videos on your area of expertise, and then leaving a comment along with a link sharing that they can find more information on the topic at your site.

It can be as simple as using the search engines to locate dozens or even hundreds of blogs and forums in your niche, and then interacting with these communities.

There's only one problem with most of the methods that I just mentioned. They can be time consuming and labor intensive. Just locating active communities in your niche can literally take hours.

I do have a secret. I use automated software to monitor and notify me of active blogs, forums, and communities in my niche. I use automated software to notify me when they are discussing my area of expertise or there is a new video posted pertaining to my area of expertise.

When I discover a new resource, I then analyze it, and if appropriate, I interact with that high traffic site, and leave a link back to my site, which is a perfectly acceptable practice.

So there you have my secret for generating literally hundreds of thousands of free hits to even my newest sites. Of course, your site has to be about something that people are interested it.

I do strongly advocate using software to automate many of the mundane processes such as just finding these sites.

Many webmasters really struggle with website traffic generation, and there is absolutely no need to. You merely find the huge pools of traffic interested in your topic, and then you stand underneath the waterfall, and enjoy the cool, refreshing flow of new visitors.

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Guido Nussbaum has sinced written about articles on various topics from Cooking Tips, Finances and Cooking Tips. Manual Traffic Exchanges are one of the fastest ways to get traffic to your website and to build your own opt-in list. Discover how to with Manu. Guido Nussbaum's top article generates over 90500 views. to your Favourites.

Willie Crawford has sinced written about articles on various topics from Internet Marketing, Computers and The Internet and Internet Marketing. Willie Crawford has been marketing goods and services online since 1996. With very busy websites in dozens of niches, he teaches that the secret is automating the flow of traffic, since without traffic you don't really have a web business. His favor. Willie Crawford's top article generates over 110000 views. to your Favourites.