How To Get Free Traffic For Your Website

Getting traffic to your web site is the most important task for a web master. Though paying for traffic is one option, it might not be a profitable source, especially if the web site does not have a direct source of revenue via sale of products. In such cases getting free traffic to the web plays an important role. There are many different ways in which you can generate free traffic. Some of the methods that you can use, are listed below:

1. Writing articles and submitting them to article directories. Almost all article directories provide a form field to include you copyright notice and the resource box. You should use the resource box not just to talk about your self but also to entice readers looking for more information. The resource box for your articles should be used to offer a freebie e-book or a report or even an attention grabbing head line to attract the readers to click the link and visit your web site.
You can also end the article with a question and link to your web site to find the answer. Since the articles you publish in article directories are also used by webmasters looking for free content on their sites, it creates a viral affect with your site getting traffic from varied sources. You also gain credibility as an expert with articles. Your article displays your knowledge and shows readers how much you know, about a specific topic.

2. Creating and distributing a free report on a specific subject also helps to get free traffic without putting in much effort. You should include a link to your site or link to a squeeze page to capture readers name and email. Having a link to a squeeze page automatically builds your own list of readers who can be contacted later with affiliate programs in the related subject. You should send your paid traffic to download this free report and allow them to redistribute the report. Giving the report for free attracts readers, and by allowing them to distribute freely ensures that your web site gets free traffic, long after the report was distributed.

3. You should regularly post on forums related to your site. This is perhaps the easiest and quickest way to get free traffic traffic. You should use these forums to make useful and interesting posts, and include a signature file that allows readers to click through to your site. If you are not an expert in any niche and are unable to have a discussion around a topic, you can always post questions. Asking for help will also get your site noticed and get you some good incoming links.

4. Another option to explore for free traffic is to find link partners and exchanging links. This will not only get you direct click through traffic from other sites, but it will also get you search engine traffic once those sites are indexed and your site is given credit for the inbound links.

5. If you maintain a blog on your site, submitting your blog feed URL to various RSS sites and ping them also helps getting exposure to your site very soon. You should consider to promote your blog by submitting feeds or sites to Blog directories with a high PR to make sure you are getting quality incoming links. You should also not ignore submitting to sites with low PR in the later stages. If these web sites make it big you do not want to be left out.
You should not submit to millions of web sites or directories using some software. Trying to submit your site to millions other web sites may just work against your site.

6. You should look at submitting your web site to the social bookmarking sites like Squidoo, del.icio.us etc. This helps in getting good exposure to your web site.

Whatever the way you choose to get the visitors to your site, you need to be careful to do it naturally and never stop your hard work on your web site. After all Patience really pays!!!

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Technorati Post Claim

Do you know that Technorati is the recognized authority on what’s happening on the World Live Web right now? That’s what they write about themselves here. According to Technorati data, there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day and they update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second!
Bloggers publish and share their ideas, and millions more to read and respond. By blogging, people engage the writer and reader in an open conversation, and are shifting the Internet paradigm as we know it.

So what have Technorati done with that? When bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs and creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation, Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. They rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and so monitor these live communities and the conversations they foster.

Those technorati work, can be used as one of your way to promote your own blog by doing the tag and ping job, just like what I want to do now.
But first, you need to claim your blog on Technorati by creating a new post in your blog and include the html they provide.

Here’s the code that they provide me : Technorati Profile. This post will ping Technorati and clain that I won this blog, then technorati will start to crawl this blog.

We’ll see what’s next when I’ve posted this article!

Update
I got this on my Technorati profile:
Congratulations!
You’ve successfully claimed your blog. Now please tell us a little more about it. (You can always edit this later.)

Check my Technorati profile

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Simple Tips To Promote Blog

Here are some simple tips to promote your blog and make it profitable and successfully.

- Make some post to your blog by using keyword rich content.

- I’m sure that you know about My Yahoo and Google Reader, submit your blog there

- Every time you make a post, don’t forget to ping it. Use some services such pingomatic to ping multiple sites at once.

- Don’t forget to submit your blog to some old search engines and directories like MSN and DMOZ, or small or middle directory such as Women Directory.

- Use forums to put your signature to, such Cell Phones Forum, Notebook Forum or Myspace Forum (depends on your blog topic), it will help your website to get some traffic from.

- Submit your website to as many RSS Directories as possible.

- Leave your thoughts and comments on other blogs with your blog url listed in the signature. But make sure that your comments are relevant to the topic and the topics are relevant to your blog.

- Tag your blog by using sites such as Del.icio.us- and Technorati

- Trade links with other sites that are relevant to your website or add a link directory for this purpose.

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Traffic by Ping

Pinging lets dozens of services know you’ve updated your site and increases traffic to your blog. Most of the sites have a ping page or an automated XML-RPC script that you can use (not with blogger).
So why would you want to be on these sites? One word: traffic. Blogrolling scripts like blogrolling.com and WordPress check update services to see if you’ve updated and then they reflect that on everyone’s site, usually by moving you to the top of people’s blogrolling list or putting a recently updated indicator by your link. Services like Technorati spider your links to tell who’s linking to you and who you’re linking to, almost in real time. If you show up on someone’s Technorati link list for their site (often called an “egorati search”) they’re likely to visit your site to see what you said, increasing your exposure. Other sites like weblogs.com and blo.gs list the most recently updated blogs and many people browse these to find something new when they’re bored. Many of the different services offer their own forms for pinging just that service, but keeping track of all those and hitting each one whenever you update would be a hassle.
Ping-o-Matic! is a very useful tool that automatically pings many services.

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