I've just started a online business, what's a realistic way of getting traffic to your site without the fee

Question

I started a online store, and it's backed by the bbb, but i do know you need traffic, how can i go about this

Answer 1

Ask other sites to swap small icons or links to each other.

You can list your site on many engines for no charge, just takes a few minutes for each.

Make up meta tags in your web pages so search engines find your site and put it into search engines.

Banner swapping works along w/ the icon and links.

Offer you web service for no charge in turn for free advertising.

Get free biz cards from vista print and pass them out every where you go.

Try to link your site to flea-bay (ebay), amazon, marketplace, etc. Buy a 99 cent auction or what not just to get attention to your products or service.

Find blogs that fit your market and get involved in them, sign them with your dot com, make up a profile w/ company info in it, respond to as many blogs as you can.

Make up company profile on aol, yahoo, geocities and check any areas that allow you to talk, blog, chat, advertise, etc.

Make up a dummy web site that does nothing but talk about yours, your make it a blog site for your market that links to your site, make it a bulliten board.

Just sit back and get creative.

Answer 2

A few free resources – check out the sources box for links:

1) Create a blog pertaining to your field

2) Use Yahoo! Local & Yahoo! Groups – Be sure to read the TOS for each one!

3) Write articles pertaining to your field and/or expertise.

Also, consider signing up for an affiliate program. These programs enable you to advertise on other's sites (your affiliates) and once a sale is made to you, your affiliates & the program are paid a commission.

I listed a few handy sites & articles relating to marketing, promotion & advertising. Here's some book titles that are relevant:

* 301 Do-It-Yourself Marketing Ideas: From America's Most Innovative Small Companies by Sam Decker
* Off The Wall Marketing Ideas: Jumpstart Your Sales without Busting Your Budget by Nancy Michaels, Debbi J. Karpowicz
* Guerrilla Marketing for Free: Dozens of No-Cost Tactics to Promote Your Business and Energize Your Profits by Jay Conrad Levinson
* Entrepreneur Magazine's Ultimate Small Business Marketing Guide: Over 1500 Great Marketing Tricks That Will Drive Your Business Through the Roof by James Stephenson

Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!

Answer 3

There are some ways to get traffic:

1. Post in forums. If your site is about jewelry, search for jewelry forums in Google, get a forum account and post actively there. Include your signature with a link to your site.

2. Submit your site to Google Sitemap. This way, Google will crawl your site faster increasing your chances of appearing on Google Search Engines.

3. Join TrafficSwarm to get some traffic by reading other people's website first. In return, they will go to your site. Check out http://www.wanginternet.com/traffic

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Answer 4

Some tips: 0. A short domainname 1. Meaningful names for the documents 2. Cross references 3. Submission of a sitemap to Google 4. Appropriate metatags on all HTML pages 5. ALT tags for all images 6. Links from other reputable websites. and MOST important 7. Content, Content and Content.

Answer 5

"If you build it, they will come" is not necessarily true on the Web. Putting a website up is one thing, but getting visitors to come to your site is another. The process becomes even more difficult if you have limited resources to market your business.

Here are some shoestring marketing ideas that can help you get the visitors you need at the least cost possible:

1. Create the best content you can with the best products you can possibly offer. Your content is your best advertisement - if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.

2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important -- and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. If only 10 people go to your site, but these 10 people invite 10 more - that's additional traffic that you get for FREE!

3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.

If you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com's "Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm

4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News. My website (see my profile) accepts free press release submission (no strings attached!)

5. Submit articles. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.

6. Improve your conversion. Getting visitors is one thing; getting them to buy your products is a whole different story. Read the article "10 Ways to Convert Visitors to Buyers" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/072005/conversion.htm for tips on how to improve your conversion rates.

Answer 6

Also, submit each of your "Complete" links (with .htm or .html) to search engines about every 4 to 6 weeks. Do not do it more than that or you could be considered "spamming" the search engines.

Set up a schedule maybe the first week of each month and everyday submit one page of your site.

Best of Luck to YOU!

Answer 7

This site has an ebook on the subject and it really does work. I would suggest you take a look. The guy that wrote it is making a killing and it teaches you how. It is working for me too.

Answer 8

You can search though some yahoo groups and see about putting your website in those groups. Even Ryze or MSN Groups

Answer 9

Try reciprocal linking.
Post someone elses website address on your site, that is willing to post your address on their site.