66 Tips to Boost Website Traffic

The common problem of most websites is that they haven’t got enough traffic even though they have tons of good content. Even though the webmasters have spent money and effort to promote their website, they cannot get enough visitors. If you have faced such problem, please read below to get some tips for increasing traffic to your website.

Traffic Boosting Tips

1. Add a link of your website to community sites like MySpace and FaceBook

2. Incorporate a signature link in forums that directs to your site

3. Submit or post links of your websites to social book marking network sites. (see icons of these websites at the end of this article)

4. Leave comments on other people’s blogs and link back to your site (tip:ensure that the blog does not have ‘nofollow’ feature for links in the comment).

5. Add controversial comments on a popular topic. Everyone will like to add their comments there

6. Post answer questions to Yahoo Answers. A quick response will have a greater chance of your answer be selected as the best one. Your credit and popularity will be increased, and so you will have a greater chance to advertise yourself.

7. 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.

8. Post periodically in Yahoo and Google Groups with your signature link added

9. Create a 404 error page in your website redirecting to your homepage – increase your exposure rate of the homepage

10. Write something informative about your field and inform others to let them know – there will be mostly likely that they will link back to you

11. Have an opt-in form – trade links with someone else who has an opt in form on your confirmation page

12. 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)

13. Write articles and submit them to article directories.

14. Make use viral marketing method by selling/giving ebooks with resell rights. You should ask somebody to write an ebook with interesting topic and incorporate it with your website information. When people sell it repeatedly, your website will get promoted.

15. Write a Press Release and submit it to PRWeb (make sure it is newsworthy)

16. Use PayPerClick Traffic (e.g Adwords, MSN Adcenter, YSM)

17. Add an RSS subscribe button/link in a high profile spot on your site

18. Add a bookmark this site link in a high profile spot on your site

19. Use a Tell A Friend Script on your site so people can email their friend about an article on your website.

20. Submit a blog to a blog directory

21. Submit you RSS feed to RSS feed directories

22. Mention your website in a post on Craigslist (don’t spam)

23. Optimize the titles of your pages for keywords people will search for

24. Place classified Ads on eBay with a link to your website

25. Buy links to your site

26. Buy reviews about your site on other people’s site

27. Buy banner space on other websites if you can get a good ROI

28. Send articles to ezine publishers with a link back to your website

29. 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!

30. Use a traffic trading system like BlogRush

31. Purchase misspellings of competitors domains and redirect your site (be careful of trademark infringement)

32. Create a freebie product to give away (ebook, software, whitepaper etc.)

33. Submit your site to the hundreds of free directories – use the viles-silencer list

34. Do a group feature where you get other website owners in your niche to participate – maybe asking them all an opinion on something.

35. 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.

36. Pass out business cards when you go to industry events in your niche

37. If you have a product start an affiliate program and start approaching affiliates

38. Submit videos to video sharing sites like YouTube and Metacafe. Include a link in the description and within the actual video.

39. If you have a product send it to website owners to get reviewed.

40. 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.

41. Look at a big website within your niche and ask to write some guest posts for them

42. Create pages with links to your site on places like Squidoo and Hubpages

43. Use an autoresponder on your mailing list to keep people coming back to your site

44. Exchange links with a few related sites in your niche

45. 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.

46. Many forums have a place for you to advertise your site once – find them and do it.

47. Purchase advertising in other people’s mailing lists and newsletters

48. Create an Amazon profile and start submitting reviews

49. create profiles on MySpace and start networking in groups that are interested in your site’s niche.

50. Add a mailing list subscribe form in a high profile spot on your site

51. Conduct a survey and publish the results – make sure you let people know about it.

52. 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.

53. Create a sitemap and submit it to Google (not great but might help)

54. Make sure you have a memorable domain name that is short and catchy.

55. Use a well-searched for keyword within your domain name to help rank for that keyword.

56. 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.

57. Get your RSS feed syndicated to different sites like Zimbio and hubpages and Topix.

58. If your site is popular and has quality unique content then apply to get listed in Google’s News search.

59. Use your robots.txt file to stop Google indexing certain directories and pages on your blog (such as archives) to avoid duplicate content issues).

60. 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).

61. Get yourself known as an expert and get featured in offline magazines, TV and radio stations.

62. Use an auto-translator service to translate your site into other languages – put it in a subdirectory and watch foreign traffic come in.

63. Get some stickers with your domain name on. Go out and stick them on strangers and say “My Website Yeah, Check it out.”

64. Make posts about sex (don’t have to post anything rude) – and watch the porn surfers find their way to your site through Google.

65. Post about celebrities current events if it relates to your niche – there’s always a lot of people looking up celebrity stuff.

66. Write good headlines/titles – good titles get more clicks.

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