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- Don't link with pages that have unorganised link directories with hundreds of links on each page. This won't benefit you with increased traffic or search engine rankings.
- Do link with sites that have a clearly labelled "Link Directory" from their main page. You aren't likely to get much traffic from a hidden or hard to find link directory.
- Don't use link farms or FFA pages. You are unlikely to get extra traffic using these methods and
search engines may penalise you.
- Do use link directories to help you find link partners.
- Do stay organised. Use link exchange software, or a spreadsheet to keep track of link exchanges you have requested and contact details of webmasters.
(4) Email Signatures
This is a very simple, but often forgotten way of increasing your website visitors.
Most of us are sending lots of emails a day, but many of us just sign them with just our name, or perhaps nothing at all.
Instead, why not end your emails with a short signature containing your name, a bit about your website along with URL?
Keep signature short (4 lines), to point and avoid hype or SHOUTING.
You may be surprised at extra visitors you receive through doing this. It's amazing how curiosity will lead recipients of your email to click on your link!
(5)Using Traffic Exchanges
Finally, this is one easy way to guarantee instant hits to your website. You can build up credits for free by surfing or building up a downline to surf for you.
The downside of this method is that visitors you receive from traffic exchanges are not as targeted as visitors that you will receive via other methods that I have described.
The reason for this is that people surf traffic exchanges for one reason - to earn as many credits as possible in as short a space of time as possible!
This gives you a challenge - how do you attract attention of someone who is looking at your web page for 20 seconds or less?
Here are two tips -
- Know your market - spend some time surfing on exchange that you are advertising on and pay attention to types of web pages being advertised. Make sure that pages you advertise are going to interest your target market.
- Use a short, simple attention grabbing page that can be read in a few seconds - there is no point advertising a huge page of text that takes 5 minutes to read. The chances are, your visitor will get bored and click on "next" button without giving your page a fair chance.
Regularly invest some time in each of these 5 traffic generating methods and you will see your web statistics moving in upwards direction before you know it.
Suzanne Morrison is the webmaster and owner of How to Start an Internet Business. To learn more about how to promote your website for free visit her Beginner's Guide to Internet Marketing.
