‘No matter how cool your site or how fabulous your product, you’re not going to generate enough sales to make your business viable unless you can generate traffic. You have to get the word out about your site and give people a reason to visit it, or else you’ll go the way of the dinosaur.
The good news is, there are lots of ways to effectively advertise your site online and drive tons of qualified traffic to your site, all for free! And by qualified, I mean people who belong to your target market and who are most likely to buy the products or services you offer. These are the people you want coming to your site.
Without further ado, here’s our countdown of the top 10 traffic-generating tactics:
Traffic Generation Tactic #10: Use viral marketing strategies to “infect” people with the desire to learn more about your product. These days, viral marketing messages are spreading through the Web like wildfire. Viral marketing is any type of advertising that is self-perpetuating, compelling people to share it with others so that it spreads through a community like a virus—but a good one.’
Read more at 10 No-Cost Ways to Generate Site Traffic
Darren,
Our gift site gets a generous amount of traffic for Christmas, but we need to crossover to more generic gift giving occasions. Your thoughts?
The site is http://www.cruets.com
Traffic.. I desperately need them. more than ever.
Dead link alert! The new location for Darren’s recommended resource is…
http://www.entrepreneur.com/microsites/websitesolutionscenter/article73452.html
…and even though the article is dated, many of the 10 tips still apply!
Yes, dead link, the real link is http://www.entrepreneur.com/microsites/websitesolutionscenter/article73452.html
Anyway, it is actually a very helpful resource, easpecially if you are starting out.