Traffic is a very important factor to the success of online businesses and websites, no matter the purpose for the existence of such site and business; wether it is to make money or something else like sharing knowledge and expertise. Getting traffic to such online ventures or portals is usually a feat to most webmasters. I want to reavel 5 effective free ways for generating traffic to your site consistently and i belief they will produce great result for your site as they have been known to do.
1. Video marketing.
I want you to start considering this technique if you have not before. It is a new trend in online parlance which has gained great popularity and acceptance. The thing is that you get your visitors to stay more on your site as information is passed to them passively. With the use of video hosting sites like youtube and its popularity and virality traffic generation is easier than ever.
2. Article marketing.
You have heard about this before-or maybe you have. Well, its all about writing articles related to your niche or site's niche and put link to your site in the author's bio or signature. The rave now is to write SEO articles and position your articles for the search engines. This could be more exposure for your site through your bio link. Then submitt this to article directories out there.
3. Bookmark your contents.
Use the power of social bookmarking sites to get instant flood of traffic to your site. Bookmarking your content and post on social sites like Facebook, stumbleupon, reddit, digg will make the search engines fall love with you. That means more instant traffic to your site.
4. Press release.
You can get your website or a resource on it published through this method. The document (press release material) is made available to the media and consumers of your product or potential clients for your service(s). When you submit your news it is instantly published, archived and distributed to news channels that publish your news again online
5. Link exchange.
You can exchange link with a partner or a competitor. The exchange will lead to visitors finding you through the link on such partner's or competitor's site. There some sites that offer this kind of service for free e.g linkrefferal.com, trafficswarm.com, linkexchange e.t.c.
