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5 Free Ways to Increase Your Website Traffic - Articles SurfingI don't know about you, but when I first entered the world of internet marketing I thought I could just submit my newly finished website to a few search engines, then sit back as the visitors flocked to my site. I imagined that people would arrive on my website, as if by magic, purchase goods, and perhaps come back again for more. A week or so later I came down to earth with a big bump. I realised that it would take a bit of time and effort to see the results that I was dreaming about! Since my reality check, I have learned all about the weird and wonderful ways of internet marketing. In this article I will tell you about my top 5 free ways of increasing website traffic. All these methods are completely free and if you spend some time on them you will find that they work consistently. (1) Writing Articles Writing an article on a subject related to your website and getting that article published has two major benefits:
For a list of directories to submit your article to, see http://www.homebiz-direct.com/articleWriting.html (2) Forum Networking There are many discussion forums on the internet, on every topic you could possibly imagine. Most discussion boards allow posters to attach a "Signature" with their post containing additional information about themselves, such as their name, URL and sometimes even an advertisement. By visiting a few forums regularly and participating in the discussions, asking and answering questions, you can build up trust with other forum members, whilst at the same time getting free exposure for your website. Just try to make a useful contribution to the forum - be sure to read the forum rules and don't spam! (3) Reciprocal Linking Reciprocal linking has two main benefits for you. Firstly, the more links that you exchange, the more chance there is that someone will follow a link from another site and land on your website. Secondly, your website will be perceived more importantly by search engines. The more links you have from other sites, the greater your chance of getter ranked more highly by all the search engines. Here are some Dos and Don'ts to help you get more out of your link exchanges.
(4) Email Signatures This is a very simple, but often forgotten way of increasing your website visitors. Most of us are sending lots of emails a day, but many of us just sign them with just our name, or perhaps nothing at all. Instead, why not end your emails with a short signature containing your name, a bit about your website along with the URL? Keep the signature short (4 lines), to the point and avoid hype or SHOUTING. You may be surprised at the extra visitors you receive through doing this. It's amazing how curiosity will lead the recipients of your email to click on your link! (5) Using Traffic Exchanges Finally, this is one easy way to guarantee instant hits to your website. You can build up credits for free by surfing or building up a downline to surf for you. The downside of this method is that the visitors you receive from traffic exchanges are not as targeted as the visitors that you will receive via the other methods that I have described. The reason for this is that people surf traffic exchanges for one reason - to earn as many credits as possible in as short a space of time as possible! This gives you a challenge - how do you attract the attention of someone who is looking at your web page for 20 seconds or less? Here are two tips -
Regularly invest some time in each of these 5 traffic generating methods and you will see your web statistics moving in the upwards direction before you know it. Copyright 2004 Suzanne Morrison
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