Top 17 Ways To Get Traffic - by Aurelius Tjin

Here's a special report by Aurelius Tjin on 'laser-targeted' traffic. Download it here for free.

The key here is to actually implement these tips.
You have to put your tools to work.

On PLR And Recycled Content

As Private Label Rights become increasingly popular due to their completely editable and resellable nature, what should webmasters and internet marketers take note of when gathering content for their websites?

Content, is king. This is true when applied to search engines and most importantly, your visitors. For an internet marketer who regularly provides helpful tips through email to his subscribers, he is pressed for information to provide to his prospects -- and turns to PLR content, which is often already 'recycled' two or three times before landing in the hands of the marketer, who then condenses it and presents it to his subscribers. But they have seen it before, somewhere, from someone else.

That's the case with PLR editing, what I call recycling.

But here's another thing about information compiling -- some people will say compilations are now original content; but more often than not, people have already seen this information before -- from different sources, just that now, the information is put together.

In both the website content and the email examples, your customer will slowly get tired of your 'original' information that he has seen somewhere else, and eventually unsubscribe, or in the website content example, he would forget about the website and never come back again.

If you have no original stuff, have none at all. It is a waste of your and others' time. Be creative, original, and informative. PLR should be your last choice for content.

10 Free Ways To Get More Visitors

Here are 10 ways either to increase or get free traffic.
With these methods, you don't even have to be listed in the search engines!

NOTE: As with any and all things, do not SPAM any service. Even if the Web 2 sites have no strict Terms of use, don't take advantage; all websites are made so that their visitors will benefit. If people do things that are not good for their user's experience, they will eventually ban the activity. What would you do if you had a website and hundreds, if not thousands of webmasters are taking advantage and using your site as a free classified ads section? You get the point.

Using Forums

1. Write helpful answers in forums and use your website as your signature. Better yet, write the helpful answer in your website, mention a little bit about the answer, and link to it from the post. This is guaranteed to bring traffic.

Using Yahoo!'s Free Services

Yahoo! actually provides two extremely good sources of traffic: Yahoo! Answers, and Yahoo! Groups.

2. First of all, let's talk about Yahoo! Answers. Many of you are familiar with the service: it is an extremely high traffic 'forum' with just about any topic. Find the topic your site is about, write a nice answer, and say on the bottom 'Check out my site, it's got lots more helpful things in it. It's http://www.yoursitehere.com' or something similar.

3. Y! Groups is also a great way of getting the word out and also helping people. Find a group about your subject and join. When someone asks something, jump at it and quickly reply (with your website as the footer, or again, tell them the answer is on abcfg.com).

Using Free 'Viral' Advertising

4. Submit your site to LinkReferral. This is a program that does not rely on 'credits' or 'points' to show your site: this is the good part, because this means you will never 'get off the list.' Here's how it works: you visit others' sites for 'ranking' in their directory. When you review sites, your reviews will be reviewed by moderators. The better your reviews are, the higher you''l get ranked. This programs is one of the few out there that actually work for me. Join here.

5. InstantBuzz is a free ad program that utilizes a toolbar that sits on your browser to earn you credits . The credits are used as money to advertise your site (as of right now, 1 credit equals one impression).
Tip for those of you who use InstantBuzz - A report I read shows that if you advertise on Thursdays, your CTR will be highest, on Friday, the conversion rate will be highest, and ads shown on Tuesday and Wednesday have the worst percentage of clicks and conversions.
Here is the code for 100000 free credits: 167829. Click the InstantBuzz icon on the IB toolbar, and select Member's Area. Click Your Ads, then click PowerPack, enter the code, then click redeem.

6. TrafficSwarm is another viral program. You can read about it in this post

Using Web 2.0 to Promote Your Website

Web 2 is powerful. You may have used it without knowing-- del.icio.us, Digg, MySpace, and YouTube are all 'Web 2.0'. User-powered content, that is. You can use this effectively to promote your website.

7. Write a little about yourself and your website on MySpace. Include a link to your website.

8. YouTube, recently acquired by Google, generates a ton of traffic every day. In the video description, include a link to your website by typing your URL along with the http://www. into the description.
Creating a video isn't as hard as you think-- just take some videos that relate to your topic (e.g. sports sites, sports videos; money-making sites, video tutorials). Camstudio is a free software to record whats happening on you screen, and you can input audio from your microphone or your speakers.

9. Get a Squidoo Lens. A Lens is a page that lets you put content from your RSS, text, and links, and other 'modules' onto it. Another benefit of Squidoo is that it has built-in Adsense, and you can earn money from it!

10. Track your results. This really isn't another way to get more traffic, but can help you as much as the ones above. Find out which program works best for you. You can choose to use StatCounter.com to check your stats and also use multiple 'landing pages' to check where the visitors come from. Then you can focus your energy and time into that effort. For example, I would create a page called ib.html for InstantBuzz, and in IB, I would point my ad to that site. On ib.html, I would put the StatCounter and also put a Javascript redirect to my index.html. Then I would do the same for TrafficSwarm, Squidoo, and each individual forum.

Implement these free ways to get more visitors. They will NEVER work if you never use them. Don't say 'I'll use them later' either. Use them NOW.

SEO Tips / High-Pagerank Web Directories

Here's a note on just which sites to get links from.
Google ranks pages by the quality of the sites which link to yours,
by the quality of the sites you link to, and the PageRank of the two types of sites above.

By this, I mean that if you get a link from, say, Yahoo!, your PR will leap up, because Yahoo! has a PR of 9.

So, the conclusion is??

Submit your site to high PageRank directories, and never, never,
link to websites of bad quality. By bad quality, I mean sites with no real content (Just ads), and banned sites.

You can tell which are high PR and which are banned by looking in the Google Toolbar. White means PR 0, while all green means PR 10,
the best. Grey means that the site is banned.

The Google Toolbar can be downloaded with Firefox to the right or on the bottom of this page.

On to something else----
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Here are examples of good directories:

• www.maxlinks.org
• www.urlz.net
• www.botw.org

Getting a link from these directories like these not only sends more
visitors to your site, but also increases your PageRank.

Forums--Powerful source of free traffic

What's the best source of targeted visitors?
It's not Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, link exchanges, or even Trafficswarm.
It's the forum--and it's free.

You've probably heard time and again that forums can be a great way of bringing traffic to your website; but have you implemented it?
Yesterday, I went to a high traffic forum and did a simple post telling people to go to my website and boom, my number of visitors shot up.

Take advantage of this "offer" and go post on forums.
They are TARGETED; meaning the people that go to your website will be interested in what is there.

Free Advertising for Surfing = InstantBuzz

If you are looking for a great way to get some
free traffic to your website, look no further.

Instant Buzz allows you to drive free targeted
traffic to your website just by doing what you do
anyway-- surfing the web. You can download it below:

Click here for free traffic

Within minutes, this "breakthrough patent pending"
technology will be sending quality visitors to your
site just because you installed the software onto
your computer.

You can install Instant Buzz in
seconds, never do anything different ever again,
and still earn traffic credits every time you surf.

Visit the site below to get started now:
http://www.InstantBuzz.com

Blog and Ping--get your blog and RSS feed indexed!

Blogging can be a great way of attracting search engines to index your site. This can be done by linking to your website from your blog. However, many blogs aren't even indexed by the search engines, let alone utilizing them to get your sites spidered.

A technique becoming increasingly popular is called blog and ping. Blog means, well, blogging, as normal. Ping means to let the search engines know that you've made a new post and that they should check it out to be updated.

Why do they want to know if there's a new post? Yahoo, for example, needs to know in order to keep the My Yahoo page updated with fresh posts.

1) To get Yahoo to include your RSS feed, first submit it by clicking 'Submit your site' at the bottom of search.yahoo.com. After you get there, click 'submit your media content for free.' Complete the process.

2) Then go to My Yahoo, click 'add content,' and then click 'Add RSS by url' (beside the search box). Enter your feed address and click add.

3) Then, if it's a blog, after you have made a post, or if it's some thing else, after you've refreshed the RSS feed, ping Yahoo. Here's how:

Just enter this address into you browser, changing the last part to your feed's address.
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://anglebracket.blogspot.com

This is the basic process of blogging and pinging.
This procedure can help you get indexed in Yahoo, and in turn, get you indexed in the other big SE's.

TrafficSwarm--Free traffic for your website

Traffic swarm is not quite a traffic exchange--it's more of a view-exchange.
Basically, you earn credits by viewing others' websites.
Now don't think people are going to cheat you of your points by just clicking on your link
and leaving immediately: this system was carefully designed to not let you earn credits
unless you stay at a page for more than twenty seconds!
In other words, you get real traffic!

Go to the TrafficSwarm website here.



Added note--You can also find lots of interesting websites using this system!