5 Killer Tips to Get Cheap Web Site Traffic

Written by alain on February 16, 2009

1. Article Writing
 
You need to get people to your website and then focus on converting them into clients.

 

A very cost effective way to direct people to your site is by writing articles containing links back to your site.

 

Keep in mind that people like to read articles with catchy headlines.

 

So needless to say headlines are very important.
 
Your article body should be between 400 and 600 words.

 

This may sound like a lot, but most people can bang out an article in about an hour or so.

 

Do not promote you site in the main copy of your article, because people would see this as advertising and leave before reading any further.

 

After you’ve written the article, it’s time to write the “resource box” - where you are allowed to actually promote your site.
 
One of the great benefits of putting your content on article directories like Ezinearticles.com, is that other people can use your content on their sites as long as they keep your resource “box” . 

 

This in turn means more links to your website, and that means more traffic!

 
2. Web 2.0 Sites

 

Web 2.0 sites are great places to put content about your niche and entice readers to your web site.

 

By getting your links on sites like Squidoo, Hubpages and Google Knol your web site stands to get more traffic.

 

You can always write more articles and link to these Web 2.0 sites and vice versa to improve the amount of article views you get.
 

3. Quality Content

 

For the above methods to be effective it is essential that you submit quality articles and at the same time fill you site with quality content.
Not only will it make the people that actually come to your site find something useful, which can build a reputation for the usefulness of your site, but it will also direct people straight from the search engines.

 

The strategic use of keywords can really bolster the effectiveness of your content.

 

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the art of placing keywords in such a way that will give your site the best results in search engines.

 

It is well worth it to read up a little on SEO and fill your site with as much quality content as possible using SEO practices.
 

4. Create a secondary site
 

Another great way to create traffic is to create a blog or secondary website with the sole purpose of using it to direct traffic to your main site.

 

You can fill your secondary site with articles, opinions, or any type of content that will direct people from search engines.

 

You can then create links from your secondary site to your main site, thereby redirecting all the traffic there.

 

This can be useful for people that don’t necessarily want a ton of content on their main site, but want to use content to attract people from search engines.

 

5 . Get Cheap Ads on Google 
 
It can be very expensive to purchase ads for popular keywords on Google . However, you can use Google’s Placement Targeting system to get tons of cheap, but targeted traffic to your site.
 
It still uses Google’s Advertising system and not many people for example know that you can advertise on specific websites which are currently running Google Adsense ads.

 

You can get your ads on high traffic websites at a fraction of what you would normally pay!
 
Using whatever mix of these strategies is most appropriate for the unique character of your website and will be sure to increase traffic.