10 Tips To Getting “Link Juice” And Free Targeted Traffic
Here’s a good question:
I’ve just created a blog and I’m looking for the quickest ways to drive traffic to my blog. I am not only looking for Free ways to market my website, but ways that really work in sending traffic please…not much money starting out!
Here is my answer to the question:
1. Write and submit articles. Although this can be tedious and time-consuming, it’s the old tried and true method of getting free traffic and quality back links to your site. However, you won’t get your articles posted in a timely fashion on some article directories like Ezinearticles.
Ezinearticles take at least a week to review your article before adding it to their database. Sometimes they reject your article and ask you to redo it. Then that takes at least another 7 days for a second review.
So instead of just waiting for your article to be approved by Ezinearticles, go ahead and submit a copy of that article on high profile websites related to your site’s niche.
For instance, a site like about.com, mashable, sitepronews, etc, are high profile websites and getting a link back to your site from sites like these can help you generate lots of traffic. Just make sure your article is outstanding with an attention-grabbing headline.
Many of these high profile websites have pages on their sites where you can submit articles. Sometimes you might see a tab that says, “Write for us,” on these sites. On some sites you might have to browse around a bit to find the page where you can submit articles.
Write quality, unique articles, and not articles that lack substance…articles providing no benefit or very little benefit for readers. This can ruin your reputation and instead of increasing your traffic, it can put a dent in it.
2. Make your articles talk by converting them into videos. Google loves Youtube. I think they also have a love/hate relationship.
However, if you want some serious link juice with highly targeted traffic beating down your blog door, make sure you fall in love with videos. Video marketing is HOT. Combine videos and articles together, and you’ve got winners.
3. Submit ads to a high pagerank and high traffic Classified ad site such as USFreeads and Craigslist. Goggle loves USFreeads also. Get Free Classifieds from USfreeads!
4. Review websites in your niche on Alexa to try to take some of their traffic by including a reference back to your site.
5. Comment on other related blogs. Make sure the blog is a “Do Follow,” blog. Also you get more link juice by commenting on high Page Rank sites. Please do not spam.
6. Product testimonials. If you purchase a product that you actually like, then leave a testimonial. Leave your url in your testimonial and you should receive some traffic.
7. Email Signature. Whenever you send an email to someone, include your website url as a signature. Here’s an example:
Discover 10 Ways To Get Free Traffic!
http://www.e-businessmoms.com/blog
8. Keep updating content on your blog. Make sure you provide great value for your readers. Try posting at least three times per week. The more you post, the better. As your blog grows, I suggest posting everyday. This will definitely increase your traffic and keep your visitors coming back for more.
9. Tag blog posts at social bookmarking sites. Grab the Onlywire plugin. I also use the Auto Social Poster along with Only Wire. Onlywire is a free plugin, but Auto Social Poster is not. Using both gives me more link juice. I make sure that both are not bookmarking at the same sites.
You don’t want to post the same article or blog post on the same bookmarking site twice. So every time I create a new post, Onlywire and Auto Social Poster bookmarks my post to over 40 social bookmarking sites. Social bookmarking works really well for me and generates about 50% of my traffic.
10. Ping. Make sure you ping your blog after updates. You can use http://www.pingomatic.com.
