Using Tutorials to drive traffic

Creating tutorials for popular software such as Adobe Photoshop is an easy way to drive traffic. Where should your tutorials for Adobe Photoshop be submitted.

Using Stumbleupon to drive traffic

Signing up is fast and easy, and its free. A small amount of traffic can be expected. It will however help to bring in new visitors, and the benefit of getting visitors from Stumbleupon is that people who are “stumbling” are interested in finding new content, and unless your site design is totally hopeless, most “stumblers” will hang around for a minute or two, trying to discover what exactly your homepage is about.

Using RSS feeds to drive traffic

A classic approach has always been to publish your RSS to drive traffic, but there are created thousands of new blogs each day, and your content will immediately disappear in the mass of information published. Submit to every one of them.

Using niche sites to drive traffic

Posting to specific sites containing your topic will increase traffic, for a while. Several sites have the option where you can submit news items to their front page, but mostly people would complain if you are simply self-promoting without your information being particular new or interesting. www.stylegala.com drove a lot of traffic to my site early on, but their policies changed, so I stopped posting to that homepage.

Using Digg to drive traffic

A common known effect of Digg is known as the Digg Effect (also known as the Slashdot effect). This is what happens if a particular site is submitted to Digg, Slashdot or Fark or any similar type of site, and receive so much traffic their server simply gives up. It happens rarely, but submitting tidbits is not to be overlooked. You will receive a least a little amount of visitors if your submission is at least a little bit interesting, and you will also gain a backlink to your homepage.

 

Using forums /BBS’s to drive traffic

A quick way to drive traffic to your homepage is to become engaged in various forums regarding your specific niche. Do a search on Google for your particular area in which your homepage refers to, and become a member of the first 10 forums you encounter. Here you sign up and create a signature for every post you make, with a nice description and link back your homepage. Do not simply comment on everything just to get a link to your homepage.
Most forums have a high ranking in Google, and you can gain valuable link juice from those pages. However, they share their high PR with all the other external links, so in terms of increasing your PR it might not help as such, other than you will drive more specific targeted traffic to your site/post, but you will also have added a backlink to your site, and that is always good.

Using link directories to drive traffic

Now, this is not in any way a new nor novel idea to drive traffic. In fact, it propably wont bring you traffic at all, except for the occasional search from a search engine. It will take time and effort, but it will bring in links - which all help in your search engine rankings.

 

 

 

 

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