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This originally posted as 65 Website Traffic & Link Building Techniques. It has been reposted with the author’s permission.
1. Write something great about your niche and email other bloggers to let them know – there’s a good chance they’ll link to you
2. Have a signature link in forums that points to your site
3. Post links to your pages to social bookmarking sites.
4. Leave comments on other people’s blogs and link back to your site (tip: look in the digg upcoming section for blog posts about to get a lot of traffic).
5. Have the opposite opinion on everyone else on a popular topic, providing you can justify it. Everyone will get annoyed and link to you saying your wrong
6. Answer questions on Yahoo Answers – quote your website as the source.
7. Post in Yahoo and Google Groups with a link to your site in your signature
8. Make a 404 page that redirects to your homepage – no point losing visitors
9. Have an opt-in form – trade links with someone else who has an opt in form on your confirmation page
10. Review a product or company – if your review is positive email the company and ask to be featured in their press section. (this has worked really well for me)
11. Write articles and submit them to article directories
12. Write a Press Release and submit it to PRWeb (make sure it is newsworthy)
13. Use PayPerClick Traffic (e.g Adwords, MSN Adcenter, YSM)
14. Add an RSS subscribe button/link in a high profile spot on your site
15. Add a mailing list subscribe form in a high profile spot on your site
16. Add a bookmark this site link in a high profile spot on your site
17. Use a Tell A Friend Script on your site so people can email their friend about an article on your website.
18. Submit a blog to a blog directory
19. Submit you RSS feed to RSS feed directories
20. Mention your website in a post on Craigslist (don’t spam)
21. Optimize the titles of your pages for keywords people will search for
22. Buy links to your site
23. Buy reviews about your site on other people’s site
24. Buy banner space on other websites if you can get a good ROI
25. Send articles to ezine publishers with a link back to your website
26. Do a big viral push for a piece of link bait, post it in forums, social bookmarking sites like digg, email bloggers, and get a few people to vote for you on social bookmarking sites – this little push could start a viral chain reaction!
27. Have a link to your site on community sites like MySpace and FaceBook
28. Use a traffic trading system like BlogRush
29. Purchase misspellings of competitors domains and redirect your site (be careful of trademark infringement)
30. Create a freebie product to give away (ebook, software, whitepaper etc.)
31. Submit your site to the hundreds of free directories – use the viles-silencer list
32. Do a group feature where you get other website owners in your niche to participate – maybe asking them all an opinion on something.
33. Hold a competition for the Top 50 in your niche – 1 month later post the results and let everyone know who featured – watch them link back to say what there position was.
34. Pass out business cards when you go to industry events in your niche
35. If you have a product start an affiliate program and start approaching affiliates
36. Submit videos to video sharing sites like YouTube and Metacafe. Include a link in the description and within the actual video.
37. If you have a product send it to website owners to get reviewed.
38. Look at a big website within your niche and ask to write some guest posts for them
39. Create pages with links to your site on places like Squidoo and Hubpages
40. Place classified Ads on eBay with a link to your website
41. Use an autoresponder on your mailing list to keep people coming back to your site
42. Exchange links with a few related sites in your niche
43. Network! Email other site owners, phone them up, go to industry events and get yourself known. If they know your face they will likely talk about you on their site if you do something interesting.
44. Many forums have a place for you to advertise your site once – find them and do it.
45. Purchase advertising in other people’s mailing lists and newsletters
46. Create an Amazon profile and start submitting reviews
47. Create profiles on MySpace and start networking in groups that are interested in your site’s niche.
48. Conduct a survey and publish the results – make sure you let people know about it.
49. Get your hand on a load of PLR content for your niche. Add a commentary to the top, create a unique title, and post them all to your site – lots of new content and lots of new traffic.
50. Create a cartoon mascot for your site – then hold a competition for someone to create the best game for it – pay the winner a decent amount.
51. Make sure you have a memorable domain name that is short and catchy.
52. Use a well-searched for keyword within your domain name to help rank for that keyword.
53. If you sell a product ask someone else who sells a product to list your product with theirs, and you’ll do the same for them – split commissions on sales.
54. When you write a new article on your site – link to as many blogs as possible – they will likely see your site in their pingbacks, website stats, or Technorati. They will visit your site and possibly subscribe to it and link back at a later date.
55. Get your RSS feed syndicated to different sites like Zimbio and hubpages and Topix.
56. If your site is popular and has quality unique content then apply to get listed in Google’s News search.
57. Create a sitemap and submit it to Google (not great but might help)
58. Use your robots.txt file to stop Google indexing certain directories and pages on your blog (such as archives) to avoid duplicate content issues).
59. Create a couple of small 10 page sites related to your main site. Offer links on these smaller sites in return for links to your main site (this is triangular reciprocal linking).
60. Get yourself known as an expert and get featured in offline magazines, TV and radio stations.
61. Use an auto-translator service to translate your site into other languages – put it in a subdirectory and watch foreign traffic come in.
62. Make posts about sex (don’t have to post anything rude) – and watch the porn surfers find their way to your site through Google.
63. Post about celebrities current events if it relates to your niche – there’s always a lot of people looking up celebrity stuff.
64. Write good headlines/titles – good titles get more clicks.
65. Get some stickers with your domain name on. Go out and stick them on strangers and say “My Website Yeah, Check it out.”
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great tips cant wait to try them keep em comin
This is wonderful! Thank you for the great tips I can use on paintedlynx.com.
good source how to get traffic!
thanks for such a useful info.thanks again.
That's an amazing stuff…I have already started implementing one by one..Hope I get the desired results…
Regards
Bharath Reddy
These are very comprehensive tips to get more traffic.
Getting frre website traffic is not easy and takes lots of patience and time to build it.
More great tips Nick, I keep on coming back here and am constantly amazed how much info you give away for free…..not that I am complaining!
Short of paying an absolute fortune (still no guarantee), there is no short cut to getting traffic and keeping that traffic returning time and time again. It takes effort, determination and more importantly great site content.
Thanks again Nick
good. thanks for your information.
This post is worth to bookmark. Do they come from your ebook because your ebook has only 68 pages while this post covers 65 tricks
Thanks man!
This page is worth bookmarking… I'm tweeting it too man…
Thanks for the tweet!
Marvellous as always, you are winning me over with ur consistency Nick.
Thank you.
Nice tips for SEO and thanks for sharing here
Your blog is one of my favorite SEO Traffic source
Thanks for your valuable time for writing that mush informative post, appreciating your time & efforts
Thank you Sumit!
Brilliant tips Nick. whenever i visit your i will some very good tips to traffic.Your are doing a great job.
Thanks Sandeep.
Wow… a must keep list. I have already bookmarked this page and I enjoy reading your blog Nick. More power!
Definitely it is a must keep list. Very concise and to the point tips are what everyone looks for. These are one of them. Thanks for sharing them.
These are really nice tips. Traffic is very much important in getting business to your site. Your post will definitely benefit us.
Great articles, I just realized I need this list. This guide what should I do next
Fantastic article! I've bookmarked this page for myself so that I can return here to try out a load of these tips. Going to head over and social bookmark it a bit too because this is really helpful. Although some of the methods here I have tried and have found useful, some of them I've really never considered before. Looking forward to putting some of them into practice.
If you want to do social bookmarking be sure to check out onlywire.com
Traffic is probably the biggest problem for bloggers! I am going to start doing some article marketing shortly.
Good luck to you and let me know if you have any questions.
Nick if you have a youtube account you get put tons of links on it.
My youtube account i have had for 3 and half years is a pr 5. I sold a link on it for 50.00$!!!!
Just a little tip for you!
That's awesome!
thanks! I haven't tried youtube yet, but I'll start making a new youtube account now!
YouTube can be an excellent source of traffic. Just try to make quality videos that are useful to people.
5. that's crazy! lolz, funny man.
8. Make a 404 page that redirects to your homepage – no point losing visitors. <<< will do that now.
Thanks!
Nick my keyword is pretty tough. The top result is About.com article that has over 1270 backlinks. How would you rank number one for killer ab workout?
I can see that there would be a lot of competition for "killer ab workout".
Is your keyword phrase in your domain? Is it in the URL? How many back links to have?
Most likely you won't be over rank number one unless you put a ton of effort into building back links and a community.
Why don't you create a series of videos people can use to get a "killer ab workout"?
make a financial contribution to your college or university. Often this results in a dofollow link acknowledging the contribution.
That's actually not a bad idea. It might be kind of expensive though for one link.
I Love this site, Thanks!
An excellent and idea-provoking list. I'd love to see you expand on some of these in a full post — numbers 5 and 10, for example.
Great list Nick but I haven’t tried youtube yet maybe i will
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You should totally try YouTube for getting traffic if you are any good at making videos.
Great list Nick. First I will try to submit my RSS feed to RSS feed directories , because i have not do this before.
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I don't think your comment made it into the system. Want to try again?
Have you ever used anything like a submiter to social network sites for traffic nick?
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I have used onlywire for a while now and really like it.
Hey Nick!
Once again, a great article, thanks. I don't know of any more tips to be honest. I got some indirect advice for link building though: install a FF plugin (like SEOQuake) to visually detect nofollow links automatically. It'll save all of you a whole lot of time. It works like a charm, trust me.
Got any more linkbuilding articles coming up, by the way?
Yes I plan to have some blog posts on that in the future.
You've covered just about all the important backlink sources. I won't be able to do them all but they'll come in handy when I need to explore other sources of backlinks. Thanks.
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This article is mostly on link building ..but links are gateways for traffic.. Very helpful tips to promote your websites online.
I really liked your ideas to get the backlinks for your website and make a lot of money by selling the products to the customers, but what I personally don't like is to "buying links"…instead of buying links, its better to employ a professional who will give you permanent back-links at the same prices..but here you have to invest only once…it means you 11 times money saved in a month…isn't this good???
It really comes down to a question of time versus money. Some people starting out how an abundance of spare time but no money. In that case it is better for them to spend the time building the links themselves.
And how do you find one of these professionals? There is some legitimate people who do an excellent job at building back links but there are even more scammers out there. You have to be careful.
Very cool resource! reviewing products also works well for me to.
Stumbled this
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It's a long list but I will follow your tips one by one. Currently I'm trying to increase traffic through article directories and Hubpages
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Good Traffic Methods. Earlier, I read 100 traffic methods, out of them, 10 are listed here.
You have done an excellent research, that's good.
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Hello Nick,
I did not see forum profile link building technique in your 65 Website Traffic & Link Building Techniques. Could you tell me why you do not list it here ? I heared from some professionals and they said that forum profiles are good for small websites. How do you think ?
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This list was compiled by someone else and there are several things that it did not include.
You can get traffic from forums you need to make sure you do it the right way. First, the forum must be related to your website. Second, you should become an active member of the forum and help people answer their questions and become an expert.
I am not sure exactly why people use forum profiles. If you do not intend to actually participate in the forum by leaving informative content and answering questions is basically just a another form of spam.
Good points Peg.
This is wonderful! Thank you for the great tips I can use on my gaming website…
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I got to agree with everyone else who has commented before me. It's incredible how most of these methods seems to be working fine 2 year after this post was made. Thanks!
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Very informative. It's always nice to read stuff about SEO and link building techniques.
I enjoyed reading your post. It got me giggling towards the end where you suggested that I go and stick stickers on random people. Love it.
Anyway, there is some good stuff in your list – I have learned something.
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This is really an impressive list of ways to link traffic. Some of them I was not aware of. Thanks for the info.
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#65 is a good one hah, i may just do that
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I would like to start writing in to Article directories but im not sure where to start. Are there any that you would recommend?!
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Ezine articles.
great ideas, already doing most but a couple i wouldnt have thought about
This is a great list – No. 4 – the Digg comment – did you mean the hot section?
Most of these are not DoFollow, so would we just be chasing traffic from clicks on our links in that case?
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The list is getting old. Nofollow still has some power.
65 is old number still good info
Thanks
Lots of really great information. The problem is that it is almost impossible to keep up with all the different ways to get traffic and links.
Is the sig in the forums still valid do you know because I wonder whether the engines may frown upon them at all. Also, what about yeahoo answers? Have the engines looked at those as problematic? Anyone can chime in, Nick too!
I don’t believe that the search engines frown upon links in forum signatures. And yes, Yahoo answers can be a way to build back links. Just don’t be a spammer on Yahoo answers.
Love suggestion 5 – Have the opposite opinion on everyone else on a popular topic, providing you can justify it – appeals to my inner rabble-rouser.
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