This is part of my 30 Days To More Traffic Series
I frequently get questions from people asking how they can rank higher in the search engines. Many of them believe that it’s the only way to get traffic.
Today I want to show you a bunch of other ways to get traffic that have nothing to do with search engine optimization or ranking high in Google.
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Cool Stuff eh..Nick. I am optimising a brand new website and I bet I should take the road less travelled and try out things other than the ones that makes Google or Yahoo happy.
Don't worry about making Google or Yahoo happy. Just do whatever works best for your website and your business.
The video credits idea really works well. Most always wait for the end of the video for easter eggs or whatever, so it'll be viewed by pretty much everyone.
Till then,
Jean
I'm just so sick of all those blog spammers …. Stop showing this method to all the idiots on this planet.
These are great tips! Guest posting is especially effective, but I haven't had any good experiences with Pay Per Click yet.
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I've got a vinyl sticker with my web site on the back window of my car. It's my second one. I can probably get 1 hit almost every other day. I don't count on that traffic for much. The one thing you need is a memorable URL because most people aren't going to write your URL down and will forget it by the time they get home.
As for the video on Youtube or Viddler having your web site in the last 10 seconds onscreen is a great idea. Getting this idea working for me though means I have to spend some money getting screen capture software. I like that transition you have on the end of your videos. You're using Camstudio aren't you? I wonder if Coverflow has this transition.
It is very important that your URL is memorable and super easy to spell.
I use Camtasia for my videos.
Nick should do a post about offline marketing
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I will add off-line marketing to my list of things to write about.
Nick should do a post about offline marketing
Thanks for sharing…..
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Would also like to know more about effective offline marketing methods, Nick. Hope you can help us out sometime.
I can help out. Just send me an email.
>>4) Post a bumper sticker on your car<<
I put my websites name on license plate holders. Now every car in my extended family runs around with 2 short ads. These license plate holders cost much more than a bumper sticker, but they stay on the car even when it gets sold.
An other idea I tried some years ago: have the URL and a short text printed on coloured paper and place it on the inside of your cars rear side windows. Then park the car in a busy street where many people pass the car – you also get a lot of exposure in a traffic jam.
That's pretty creative. Good ideas!
Wow, I would get a ton of exposure then. I'm in a traffic jam almost every single day where I live. I was in one this morning. Maybe if I have my website URL on my license plate holder I wouldn't get so bent out of shape when I'm parked on the interstate. Great idea
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In additon to the license plate holders, I now also have ads in the rearwindow which are oversized bumper-stickers (nearly 4 feet wide, 1 foot high). Didn’t cost a fortune and works (and looks) very good.
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Good morning Nick,
your reference in section 6 to "How I Got 25 People To Stumble My Site And Give It A Thumbs Up" only returned a 404 error. Where are you hiding it?
The links seem to work for me when I clicked it. Not sure what happened. Just in case is the link: http://nickstraffictricks.com/1787_how-i-got-25-p…
Commenting on one of the most popular blogs in my niche with a constructive comment got me a spike in traffic and some comments to my blog.
Forum sigs are great too since most people on forums seem to be seeking advice and if you post as an expert in your niche, then they will check out your site.
Playing the expert role probably works well at places like Yahoo Answers too.
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Answering peoples questions on forums is a fantastic way to get traffic. But it takes a little bit of time to establish yourself status as an expert in your field and for people to trust you.
Commenting is a good way to get traffic. Lately, I've noticed that some people take forever to approve your comments especially the dofollow ones. Except for Nick. Comments get approved right away. Thanks, Nick. And you're dofollow too.
Now if I could only find out where people backlink their articles to 100's of places like some people say they do at the WForums.
Thanks Ryan. I try to go through my comments and check my spam folder every day.
I would agree with youtube and viddler, viddler will pay you for videos also once you average a certain # of visits per month. I use you tube to generate traffice to my sites all the time. Some times I pay for the "promote your video" and I will just put a couple of bucks down for marketing but the real purpose is so that I can get the call to action button on there. It's kind of my sneaky way of getting a link on the video.
That's pretty slick. Thanks for sharing.
Your welcome, you provide me with a lot of tips so I wanted to give back.
My company used PPC for a while but it turned into an expense at it did not result into sales.
Your have mentioned very nice tips to get traffic to your website. but all this tips consider in SEO tasks. so we can not say that get traffic without SEO.
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All good stuff. Have to agree my experience with PPC hasn't been great. But it is a good way to fill in the gaps.
YouTube is something I'm really working on at present. Serves a couple of purposes: gets the URL out there, shows our product and I hope provides value — otherwise why watch! But then you have to promote your YouTube channels also!
Did you ever make a comparison of Google/non-Google traffic regarding conversion?
I have often seen that people using second tier SEs (also from Y! and Bing) convert better.
I don't know if other search engines convert better or not. I suppose that it's possible but it would probably be different for each niche. In my experience it's far easier to rank in one search engine than others for a given keyword phrase.
For example my blog here gets 10 times as much traffic from Google as every other search engine combined. I have a website with famous quotations and it gets 10 times as much traffic from Yahoo as every other search engine.
This is a great video post. You are right about you tube. You can also get more traffic by going to popular videos and do video responses, usually there are not many of them so it helps.
The nice thing about many of these techniques is that they also have a side effect of building your SEO. Now we just need to figure out how to ping the search engines when you put the bumper sticker on your car 8=)
I would love to do that! Let me know if you ever figure it out.
Awesome video that shows how you easily get huge amount of traffic without a good position on SERP. Really great video and must watch for all.
Good post.
Social networking sites are good resource for traffic. Do not ignore them.
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Many of them believe that it’s the only way to get traffic. I don’t count on that traffic for much.
In all fairness, it is the best way to get traffic for some people and some niches. But at the very least you have to look at some alternatives to search engine optimization to get traffic.
Hi Nick,
My problem is that my product homes is only available in the Dallas Metroplex.
How to target say a keyword foreclosures to be picked up by people searching in the Dallas area without PPC is a real challenge.
Thanks,
debbie@dallastexasproperties.com
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Yah it's hard without PPC unless the word Dallas is in your keyword phrase. Email me with more questions: http://nickstraffictricks.com/4692_how-to-email-n…
Number 1 way to get site traffic without ranking: Create a fake craigslist ad targeting whatever service you want to market to. If you sell plumbing tools, then post an ad that you need a plummer. Do this 50 times over the course of 100 days (one time every 2 days in each state). You will have tons of email addresses for people that are in your target market! Voila! Kind of shady, but if you're asking about how to get traffic without ranking, that's it!
In case you're wondering, I haven't done this, but I did think of it last night. What do you think?
Stuff like that used to work really well but craigslist has been cracking down on spammers. I think instead we should look for legitimate ways to reach our target audience.
wow i really enjoy this post
Youtube has been a great success at getting me traffic to my site. Your link and a good call to action and produce a nice amount of traffic. I need to take some time though and check out viddler and tumblr and see what kind of a response I can get from them.
I think the best ways for getting traffic and also for good backlinks are blog commenting, forum posting,video marketing, SMO and guest posting is a best and very effective way.
Getting traffic with out SEO and ranking Google is like mind blowing. These tips are excellent. I enjoyed reading it.
Firstly thanks for the links…
My question is that is commenting on blogs better then posting on forums for seo purpose. I have a blog and it requires better link building.
thanks
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Blogs will get you links from different IP's which is good. Forums allow you to make connections with other people in your niche which is good too.
Thank you for Youtube tutorial; I didn't know that you can put links on Youtube. But interesting queston about Youtube is how to get traffic to Youtube videos?
Sometimes you tube videos are easier to rank with search engine optimization than normal pages. People can also embed your YouTube videos in their site. And you can have YouTube videos link to each other.
I was really impressed with your tips. I've been doing SEO for 2 years with no luck. I'm going to try your tips to increase my traffic. Thanks a lot!
Referrals definitely are a great way to send mass traffic to your site or blog without the help of Google. Forums, YouTube and Social media are among them.
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Thanks for the tips Nick, targetted traffic is really useful for blogs.
P.S. The URL below the video is generating "not found" error, I think it is my duty to inform it to you.
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Thank you so much for letting me know the URL was broken!
SEO is not the only way to get traffic. Nice tips.
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I appreciate your comment about doing what is best for your website's visitors. I've concentrated on making it user-friendly, and simple. Then what happens is people will tell their friends. Nice comments, and nice post.
Time to go out and get my bumper stickers. Nice idea thanks Nick
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This is also one of the SURESHOT way as I have done experiment with this and its works for me also and it continue still….
Thanks a lot for the video and WAY'S without SEO.
I need to get YouTube going. The other things are fairly standard, althouh I should do more NoFollow links than I do, as that is probably going to allow me to give better help, if I’m less worried about the context of a post.
Thanks for the tips.
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Hi there,
I am creating a personal site and I dont see how SEO can work….? Its about my personal life and I will be posting things about what I do and so on. So I am guessing that I can only use social media and some other ways to get traffic to my blog. but thanks for your posts for ideas!
Well, why exactly do you want lots of traffic? What benefit do you receive?
My first time at your site, Nick. Looks like you are offering a ton of tips, from traffic to backlinks. Thanks. I will have to spend some time here… Who doesn’t need more traffic, especially if it doesn’t depend on rankings.
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Thanks soo much nick.
Hey Nick, its awesome Video i would like to say you that i have heard about Video sharing it is one Part of SMO and i have applied it Practically but Video marketing strategy i haven’t used, but after watching your Video i can practically apply it. I’m really very very thankful to you.
Still i haven’t applied it but I’m sure that it will be the Great Source of Traffic for me.
And Keep Sharing this kind of tricks and Video.
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Great tips Nicks, thanks for sharing. I will try the forum advice.
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Thanks Nick for the tips as these tips are very helpful in getting more traffic. I am hoping this is going to really help.
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Good post, but some of these tips I would consider falling into SEO strategies. Still interesting stuff both in the post and the comments above.
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This is great! I am currently working on a paper about how to get traffic for a single site. Thanks for sharing this!
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Getting traffic and Targeted traffic both are different things. If we need targeted traffic then we have to use some strategy which mentioned by Nick in above Video. Twitter, Stumble Upon, Forums and Blogs they are really nice targeted Traffic sites. Nick i agreed with your statement, still i haven’t used Email Marketing but shortly I’ll use it for getting targeted Traffic.
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hi nick,
can you please write a post on article marketing?
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I have several already:
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Hi! I really appreciate all these good tips for online success.
I noticed, as well, that it is not an overnight thing, and it really takes a lot of dedication and belief to keep doing something that doesn’t bring obvious results, at least not in the beginning. But as with all things in life, if you keep in doing it, you get better at it, and you get closer to success step by step. My motto is that I don’t do things that would annoy me from other companies, so flashing and beeping banners on my own site are out of the question, but all these SEO techniques you mention, and building relationships and contacts, I find really useful. I like the car sticker idea I read in one of the comments, too!
I wish all of you a lot of success, and thank you for keeping up the flow of information with your blogs!
Best regards,
Leonard
Really Nice Video..
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Nice video, I also put credits at the being of the video, just in case views don’t get to the end of the video – for what ever reason.
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I really like commenting on blogs and getting to know other bloggers that way. Forums can be good too. Great advice
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forum is also good source of getting traffic and backlinks very cool to know thx nick.
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hey nick very useful video thx for this.
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