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25 Tips For Getting More Traffic to a Site

Guest post by: Garin Kilpatrick

Article Overview: This article contains 25 tips that will help you drive more traffic to your website.

25 Tips For Getting More Traffic to a Site

Traffic is the lifeblood of the web. Without traffic your online business will die.

With enough traffic your online business can make you millions.

I hope the 101 tips in this article help you drive serious traffic to your website, and rapidly increase your subscribers!

1. Create a Memorable Domain

A good domain is an advertisement in and of itself.

.com domains are your best bet, but since millions of them are already taken it might take some time to find one that you like.

Godaddy is where I buy all of my domains, and here are some coupon codes that you can use so that you can get your domain for a deal.

2. Produce Videos on YouTube

YouTube is the second largest search engine on the web, and they are owned by Google.

Be sure to track which of your videos get viewed and make sure that when a video gets more than a few views that you use the "annotation" feature of YouTube to add a call of action for viewers to go to the site where you want to drive your traffic.

Interlinking your videos with annotations can help you pick up more views and traffic as well.

Make sure to include a link to your website in the profile information of your channel.

3. Syndicate your Videos with TubeMogul

Although the bulk of your video views will likely come from YouTube, by syndicating your video content to other video sites with TubeMogul you will be able to pick up a considerable amount of niche traffic to your site.

When you are setting up your accounts on each of the different video channels be sure to include a link back to your website in your profile.

4. Syndicate your Videos with Traffic Geyser

Traffic Geyser is like Tube Mogul, only it is a paid version with more bells and whistles.

Traffic Geyser sends your content all over the web, to blogs, video hubs, and other Web 2.0 properties.

5. Watermark your Videos

A watermark is an image overlay on top of a video.

Before I publish any of my videos I watermark them with the URL of the domain I want to drive traffic to with a video editing program.

I use the screen capture video software Camtasia to add my watermark. This program works on PC's and Mac's and comes with a free 30 day trial.

6. Screencast Videos

I find that Screencast Videos are an excellent way to produce video content that you can use to attract visitors to your website.

Camtasia is great way to go, and Jing is another powerful option, if you are looking for a more affordable option (Jing is only $10 a year).

One way to entice users to check out your website with a screencast is by at the end of the video surfing to your website and talking for a short while about the cool things that visitors can find on your site.

7. Write Guest Posts

Reach out to bloggers with audiences bigger than your own and ask them if they would like you to write a post for their blog.

Even if this strategy does not convert to a huge influx of visitors, it will get you quality backlinks that will boost the ranking of your site in Google.

The bonus of this strategy is that you will build relationships in the process.

8. Build an Email List

An email list is an exceptionally powerful way to drive traffic at the click of a button, build a community around your site, and make sales.

Building an email list requires an Email Service provider. I recommend Aweber since they are very user friendly, have great customer service, and have a powerful form building tool. You can get started with Aweber for $1.aweber

Aweber's form tool is important because great looking forms are vital to helping you build the biggest email list possible, which will be able to send you droves of traffic at the push of a button.

If you are on a tight budget you can get started Email Marketing with MailChimp for free, if your list has under 500 people on it. Be warned though, MailChimp customer service is pretty much non-existent, and from my experience it is impossible to get someone on the phone.

9. Create Epic Content

Content that goes above and beyond attracts traffic naturally due to the immense value that it delivers.

Epic content is not rocket science, it simply takes plenty of research to develop something that outdoes everyone else's effort in a particular area.

10. Set up an Autoresponder Email Series

An Autoresponder is an email marketing tool that automatically sends emails to a subscriber in specific time insterals after they sign up to your email list.

I use Aweber to delpoy my autoresponders, and I have a different autoresponder series set up for every active blog that I own.

Ideally, you should have an autoresponder email for every important article on your blog.

Every email you write in your autoresponder should have a call to action designed to get the reader to click through to your site.

11. Give Away Free Stuff

Giving away high quality free stuff is a powerful way to drive traffic to your website, generate leads for your business, and make sales.

If you give someone $10 of value for free and then suggest a product for $1 people will be much more likely to buy compared to if you simply asked them for the $1 sale.

Free content is often shared, and the more value your free offer is the better your chances are of your content being shared virally.

12. Submit Your Site to Feedburnerfeedburner

Feedburner is a service owned by Google that takes your RSS feed and makes it easily accessible by a variety of RSS readers.

Feedburner also offers a variety of tools to track how many subscribers your feed has, as well as different ways to publicize your feed with widgets, and optimize the content in your feed.

13. Use Squeeze Pages

An effective squeeze page has a better rate of success for capturing new leads than any other form placement.

My squeeze pages get about a 50% opt-in rate, which is pretty healthy, and will build a traffic getting list fast. Check out my Facebook Ecourse to see my standard squeeze page setup.

Want me to design a custom squeeze page for you, just like the ones I use? Just contact me, I'll gladly throw one together for you for $50.

14. Create an Ecourse

A solid way to strat an autoresponder series is by offering a 7 day email course where you send seven emails for seven days to build a strong initial relationship and trust with your subscribers.

I use this strategy for a few of my lists, with my Facebook eCourse, and my Twitter Tips and Tricks Course.

15. Write a Free eBook

If you have blog posts already you can simply copy and paste your content into a document, then convert it to a .pdf, and just like that you'll have an eBook!

eBooks have a high percieved value and are a great way to build your email list.

I use this strategy with my free eBook The Social Media Strategy Guide.

16. Write a Roundup Post

Write a post that rounds up a bunch of awesome people in your niche.

This strategy is an effective way to build relationships with influencers, if you reach out to them and let them know you are promoting their content.

Building relationships with influencers often leads to them returning the favor by blogging or tweeting about you, and thus sending traffic your way.

17. Interview Experts in Your Niche

Write an email asking experts a question that is relevant to your niche, and not only will you get some great content from their answers, you will also be building powerful relationships in the process.

18. Twitter Traffic

Twitter is a huge source of traffic for me, second only to Google. I have been able to get tens of thousands of visitors to my sites by building my Twitter network on a daily basis with a nifty program called TweetAdder.

Check out a video review of TweetAdder I did to get a better idea of how this program can build your twitter network, and drive traffic to your site.

19. More Followers for More Traffic

Your goal with Twitter should be to network and build relationships, and these relationships will lead to traffic to your tweets.

More followers = more relationships = more traffic.

Here is one proven way to get more followers is to unfollow and refollow highly visible accounts, like @aplusk and some of the other most followed people.

People often follow the followers of these folks so every time you use this strategy you will pick up some new followers.

20. Create a Facebook Page

By putting your traffic where users spend most of their time online you have the best chance of it being viewed.

Currently people in North America spend more time on Facebook than any other website.

If you do not have a Facebook page yet for your website you are seriously missing out on a huge source of traffic!

Install a "Like Box" into your website so that your visitors will know you are on Facebook and join your page!

Here is a Tutorial I created called: HOW TO: create a Facebook landing page in 4 minutes.

21. Create an Infographic

I have seen many Infographics go viral. If you have a little bit of design skill you can take stats about any topic spin them into a cool image, and then sit back and relax as your infographic is shared all over the web.

Make sure to include a url to your website within the infographic so that you can still get credit and traffic when your infographic is re-blogged elswhere on the web.

22. Create a .pdf Cheatsheet

Cheatsheets are documents with a bunch of important information about a subject that is intelligently organized so that someone can easily find the information they need.

People love content like this in .PDF format and if you create it the is a good chance that it will be shared.

23. Hold a Contest for Subscribers

You can do a one-time or a monthly contest where you give away a gift, like an amazon gift card, to one of your subscribers.

The bigger the gift you offer, the more subscribers it is likely to generate.

You will get traffic to your site from those who sign up, and then

24. Retweet Contest

Another cool way to do a contest is to make the entry based on tweeting a certain link.

You can use backtweets to track who has tweeted your link.

25. Content Contest

Ask users to answer a question to enter a contest and when the contest is finished you should have a healthy article filled with insightful responses to any question you want.

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Re: What are your May Goals? - Thanks Evan! I just changed one of my business goals from setting up a video site on Traffic-Geyser to: "Set up a newsletter email series (let's say 10 messages) on Get Response..." I reviewed Traffic Geyser in the latest episode of "David's Den" on my blog (see sig file), included an excellent video review of Traffic Geyser by John Detlif and decided against taking that particular project any further. Still lots to get done!
Re: Alexa Ranking Goals - LOL, I spoke too soon. Within a few hours of my post, Alexa updated the Traffic Rank on the toolbar. Note however that the 3 month Traffic Rank on Alexa.com has still not been updated...
Re: I'm A Winner!! - Thanks Tami and Ideasuniversity! Traffic is up. Forums are good places to get your message out. I also do quite a lot of article marketing and blogging etc. Still a long way to go, though, on every front!
Re: Hello from the UK - Hello! What part of the UK are you from? Site looks good, how are you marketing it and what do what want to achieve?


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