Cheap way to get visitors to your website?
Posted on January 19th, 2010 by eranio
What I’ve done so far:
Put it on my business cards.
Put it on my invoices.
Paying for Google AdWords (only five clicks in a month).
Handed out informational fliers (40 hits out of about 400 fliers).
I need more. If people find my website, they’ll see how much I know and are more likely to buy my service.
Any ideas? I need a cheap solution. I’m thinking about trying to barter my service for advertisement somewhere in my town as an option. It could save me a ton of money, but may not get me many visits or phone calls.
Filed under: adwords
Getting traffic is a combination of a lot of things. The key to success is to create great content that visitors want to use, search engines will love and other websites will naturally link to. Of course, it’s easier said than done.
You can use pay per click advertising in the search engines to reach audiences looking for your products. You can use Google Adwords http://www.google.com/adwords or Yahoo http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com
Here are some shoestring marketing ideas that can help you get the visitors you need at the least cost possible:
1. Create the best content you can with the best products you can possibly offer. Your content is your best advertisement – if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.
2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important — and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. If only 10 people go to your site, but these 10 people invite 10 more – that’s additional traffic that you get for FREE!
Recommend Site Scripts (various) http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Website_Promotion/Recommend_Site/
Big Nose Bird Recommend this Site http://bignosebird.com/carchive/birdcast.shtml
CGI Resource Index http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Website_Promotion/Recommend_Site/
Hostscripts http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Site_Recommendation/index.html
3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.
If you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com’s "Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm
4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News.
http://www.prleap.com/sign_up.html
http://i-newswire.com/
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/
http://www.pressbox.co.uk/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.pr.com/press-releases
http://www.prfree.com/
http://www.clickpress.com/releases/index.shtml
http://www.theopenpress.com/
http://www.przoom.com/
http://www.prweb.com
http://www.newswiretoday.com/
http://www.free-press-release.com/
5. Submit articles. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.
Here is a comprehensive list of where to submit your articles http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AhzreGmnCUicOoyedqypscUjzKIX?qid=1006022407481
6. Post a link to your site for free where it is allowed (always read the Terms of Use). Examples are:
Craigslist http://www.craigslist.com
Google Base http://base.google.com
Classifieds for Free http://www.classifiedsforfree.com/...
Text Link Exchange http://www.txtswap.com/
Recycler.com http://www.recycler.com/
Yahoo Classifieds http://classifieds.yahoo.com/
US Free Ads http://www.usfreeads.com/
Kijiji http://www.kijiji.com/
Local.com http://www.local.com/
whats the website?
make it good
Go into places and pinup your website, advertise on the internet, or tell everyone you meet by saying, "By the way, my website is…"
Yahoo answers is the best and cheapest way. My website is http://www.myspace.com.
make a myspace just for the business people will visit your profile. then just put a link in there and say "come visit me here" or "for more information visit me mere" also.you can talk about your website on youtube that might help. then just put a link in your description. just make sure to add humor to your videos and stuff people can relate too.
good luck!!
Well lol first off right there you could have advertised. Im intrested to look but dont know it. So on every forum you post on as your signature put your website link or somthing.. or anything online or messaging machine say or put your link
Ask local stores like coffee shops if you can have some on the tables or at the check-out, or, like, some places have bulletin boards where you can put business cards up?
And, do you know anyone else who has a website? You could partner with them like affiliates, and have each other’s links on you pages.
And, why don’t you post the link here?
Hope I helped.. Good luck!
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Well, most people like to go to website where they need something, is your website useful in anyway?. also if you have a myspace page, a lot of people might come to your website/ put your website on there. that’s how i got started. Hope this helped you out in anyway.
These are free;
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http://www.hits2u.com/?581064
There are lot of ways but I believe you know them all and what you are doing now creating interest about your website, just keep doing it and it may work. Cheers.
Look http://paid2click.cybershimla.com and http://www.paidtoclick.in Advertise your website there.
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What’s your website, the URL? And how’s your SEO metatags?
http://www.gourleycoins.com is looking for advertisers. They only charge $5 per month for any kind of advertisment that can fit in a 170 X100 space. $10 for a 340 X 100 Space or $15 for a 600 X 100 space.
If you want to use google adwords to get your site advertised, you would have to max bid for $0.50 and budget $4.00 per day just to get any good flow of trafic. ($120.00 per month)
There are other individual places to advertise, but this is the cheapest that I can find.
You can try a free traffic Exchange service like TrafficSwarm at http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?56268...
or WebCentreSurf at http://webcentresurf.com/?27972
You can try article marketing at an article submission service like http://www.ezinearticles.com and link back to your website in the resource box for your articles.
You can also comment on popular blogs like John Chow’s or Joel Comm’s that allow linkbacks to your URL. Do a Yahoo Search.
Create a video and upload it to YouTube with your URL flashed on the screen. All of these are free.