What Do You Do Everyday To Generate Traffic To Your Site?

[ShawnLim]

Hi, I'm curious to know, what do you do everyday to generate traffic
to your website everyday? Mind to share? :)

[Fergal]

I work on adding content to BAF every day. The more content we have the better we rank in search engines and the more traffic we get.

The next phase in our promotion will be to generate publicity for Business Advice Forum on social networking and blog sites.

What do you do Shawn, to build traffic to your site/s?

[ShawnLim]

Well, I submit articles, post in forum such as this one, and submit slides everyday.
The best results I get is from article marketing, it is my main traffic generation
strategy. As for forum marketing, I don't really like it, I'm just using this very
forum. So the traffic is not high. While for slides, the results are not as good as
articles.

I wonder should I keep going on?
Do you have any ideas on what can I do?

[flashgordonweb]

I add content daily. After that, I do promo stuff more on a weekly basis. My sites are set up to automatically ping after I add content. I do some social bookmarking to deep links on DoFollow sites once a week. I participate in forums and social networks. I do a lot of emailing, especially on .edu listserv sites for traffic and backlinks. I try and send out a press release once a month or so. I submit to directories about every two weeks. Those are the basics, although there are a lot more things I do. Seems to be working, as I have a PR 7, PR 6, PR 5, and PR 4 site now. Traffic has been going up monthly to all sites.

[ShawnLim]

I add content daily. After that, I do promo stuff more on a weekly basis. My sites are set up to automatically ping after I add content. I do some social bookmarking to deep links on DoFollow sites once a week. I participate in forums and social networks. I do a lot of emailing, especially on .edu listserv sites for traffic and backlinks. I try and send out a press release once a month or so. I submit to directories about every two weeks. Those are the basics, although there are a lot more things I do. Seems to be working, as I have a PR 7, PR 6, PR 5, and PR 4 site now. Traffic has been going up monthly to all sites.


This is great~!
You add content to your website everyday? Are you using blog?

By the way, where do you submit your press release?
Doing it once a month will do?

[Fergal]

...and submit slides everyday...

Shawn can you please tell me a little more about what that involves?


I add content daily. After that, I do promo stuff more on a weekly basis. ...I have a PR 7, PR 6, PR 5, and PR 4 site now. Traffic has been going up monthly to all sites.

Sounds like you are working hard at promoting your sites Flash and you have the results to prove it. Congratulations with that and thanks for sharing your ideas with us.

It's motivational to see that your almost "text book" approach is yielding such positive results for you.

[ShawnLim]

Shawn can you please tell me a little more about what that involves?



Well, it is just like submitting articles basically.
I just turn my articles into slides using powerpoint.
After that I submit them into slides directories such as:
http://www.scribd.com/

It works just like article marketing. :)

[Fergal]

Thanks Shawn, that's a new one on me, I hadn't heard of marketing a site in that way before.

How is it working out for you, are you measuring how much traffic the presentations are driving to your site?

Is it possible for you to provide a link to your presentations?

[ShawnLim]

Thanks Shawn, that's a new one on me, I hadn't heard of marketing a site in that way before.

How is it working out for you, are you measuring how much traffic the presentations are driving to your site?

Is it possible for you to provide a link to your presentations?


Here is the link to my Scribd slides:

http://www.scribd.com/search?cx=007890693382555206581%3A7fgc6et2hmk&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&c=all&q=shawn+lim&sa=Search#1033

Well, since I'm using article marketing, so I just copy the content in my
article and turn it into slides and submit them.

Although that the traffic I get from slides are not as much as articles,
but still there are traffic coming from them. Creating slides from articles
are easy and they take only a few minutes to do. Submitting slides
are also very fast. Thus, for me, it is easy traffic. :)

Currently, I have 89 slides and a total of 1076 views.

[Fergal]

Thanks for sharing that Shawn, those slides are excellent. Your tips are very practical and are presented in a user-friendly and very readable format. I wish you every success with your ventures and I look forward to buying your bestselling book some day.

[flashgordonweb]

Scribd is a great site, Google likes it and crawls it regularly (plus it is DoFollow). One trick with Scribd is to convert your documents into .pdfs and have hotlinks embedded back to your site within the .pdf. Google gives slightly more authority to .pdfs then other types of documents.

For press releases, here is a list I use regularly for submitting free press releases (http://www.bauuinstitute.com/Marketing/PressRelease1.html). As long as it is newsworthy, it will be accepted (new feature, new hire, new venture with company, new sales milestone, new website design, whatever).

Other things I do:

Check the Digital Point forums for new directories with free submissions.
Send out stuff over Yahoo groups with my links in my signature (Yahoo is DoFollow, Google groups are NoFollow)
Ping my sites using pingler.com (although, I just installed an automatic ping that pings 91 services around the world)
Use RSS and submit it to various RSS directories and services
Participate in forums for my niches.
Send out stuff over listservs in my niche (these are like Yahoo or Google groups, but are hosted on .edu servers so your links get a little more weight).

I used to do a lot more blog commenting and article marketing, but found the blog commenting not very effective. Article marketing is a great way to build links and get your content out there, but I have chosen to try and monetize my own sites (and writing), so have stopped submitting to those sites. At some point, since they don't care about dates or whether something has been previously published (although ezines is now starting to crack down), I might go back and submit some of my old content for the backlinks (but again, another rumor floating around is that Google is devaluing article directory sites).

I treat this as an essential part of my business. If I broke it down, it would be something like:

25% generating new content
25% marketing and promotion
25% dealing with clients and contracts
25% random upkeep

[Fergal]

Thanks for sharing such helpful tips with us Flash. The advantages of links in PDF's is a new one for me, I wasn't aware that Google gave greater authority to those links, but it when I think about it, it sounds logical.


Article marketing ...since they don't care about dates or whether something has been previously published (although ezines is now starting to crack down)...

Can you please explain that a little further, are you saying that some article sites publish content before they have the author's permission to do so?

[Violet]

I found press releases are very good provided they get picked up. :)
has anyone found twitter to be helpful in driving traffic? I've had some success with it.

[Fergal]

...has anyone found twitter to be helpful in driving traffic? I've had some success with it.

I used to visit Twitter a lot more than what I do know. I stopped spending so much time there because my experience was that I was wasting a lot of time reading pointless information. I can live without knowing when people are going to lunch etc.

However, it is largely my own fault, because I wasn't careful enough about who I followed. Next time I spend some time there I might do a good clear out and un-follow some people.

Saying all that some members were very helpful to me and gave me valuable info.

[Cynthiab]

Since I work in the entertainment biz there are a number of sites such as ShowHype.com that "hypes" my stories - giving them more eyeballs and then I often send links to the various fan sites for the shows I write about.

Also, think about bringing in a guest blogger - they get exposure and they'll tell their friends and readers to come see them at your site.

[devilbatista]

ShawnLim, Well for me I submit my website directory to the Online Web directory and I add current/new contents in which users are interested.

[ShawnLim]

Thanks for sharing that Shawn, those slides are excellent. Your tips are very practical and are presented in a user-friendly and very readable format. I wish you every success with your ventures and I look forward to buying your bestselling book some day.

Welcome and thanks for your wishes Fergal. :)



Scribd is a great site, Google likes it and crawls it regularly (plus it is DoFollow). One trick with Scribd is to convert your documents into .pdfs and have hotlinks embedded back to your site within the .pdf. Google gives slightly more authority to .pdfs then other types of documents.....


This is truly something worth reading. Thanks for all your constructive
suggestions on traffic generation. I really need to learn and plan
my schedule for this. ;)



ShawnLim, Well for me I submit my website directory to the Online Web directory and I add current/new contents in which users are interested.

Hello devilbatista, these are the 2 things you do?
Mind to explain more about them? :D

[wussa]

Simple tips, if you are members in some forum, people also tend to click on your siggy. So thats a simple way to get traffic. Also try to SEO and get higher SERPs.

[realitybites.in]

Hi, I'm curious to know, what do you do everyday to generate traffic
to your website everyday? Mind to share? :)
i optimize blogs so that i can get traffic from search engine ...the best traffic u get is from search engine only
and keep updating my blog so that google see a change when google crawl visited my blog

[man2008]

Increasing traffic is very important on the net. I usually put my links on some autosurf sites, some links I put up on linkreferrals. But not mass mailing to anyone.:p

[Fergal]

Simple tips, if you are members in some forum, people also tend to click on your siggy. So thats a simple way to get traffic. Also try to SEO and get higher SERPs.

Very good point and not to be underestimated. I always visit the sig links of people I see posting on various forums. Being a member of the same forum gives me some affinity to the site owner so I'm always happy to support their site in some small way, if I can and I'm sure that many other people feel the same way.

[flashgordonweb]

No, ezine sites don't publish content before they have the authors permission. The author has to submit the content before the article site will use it. What many are doing now is checking for duplicate content. If you publish an article at ezine.com, and they try and republish it at Article Alley (for another backlink), they may reject it because it has already been published. Not all sites are doing this yet, but many are starting since Google started to devalue article sites. However, when you publish on article sites, you agree to allow anyone to republish your article (wherever they want) as long as they include the author resource box (which is where your backlinks are). This sounds great, like a viral backlink building system. The only problem is that many times when people republish your articles, they either: 1) leave out the backlinks, 2) don't make them "hot" so they are of little value, or 3) they publish them on spam/porn/black hat sites that can have a negative effect on your link building. This is why I don't use them much anymore. I prefer to publish them on my site, get them indexed, socially bookmark them using socialmarker.com on DoFollow sites, and then spread links to them on mini-blogs and social networks. This works well, as my articles appear in the top 10 of Google all the time (for my niche), I don't have any negative or "bad neighborhood" sites pointing to me, and it builds my sites authority and PR.


Thanks for sharing such helpful tips with us Flash. The advantages of links in PDF's is a new one for me, I wasn't aware that Google gave greater authority to those links, but it when I think about it, it sounds logical.



Can you please explain that a little further, are you saying that some article sites publish content before they have the author's permission to do so?

[Fergal]

Thanks for the detailed explanation Flash, glad to hear that it is working out so well for you. http://socialmarker.com/ looks like a convenient and quick way to have your sites social bookmarked, I've bookmarked it.

[MH Vishal]

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[simplyjo]

I have used many methods but the best and most effective (esp if you are selling something on your site) is Article Marketing through ezinearticles. It can get you thousands of unique visits just from one good keyword optimized article. Best of all - It's totally free.