There are several basic low-budget and no-budget ways that websites and web publications can get reasonably expect to more exposure in 2010.
While the objective remains the same – get in your prospects email, search, news or related favorite online hangouts – the methods by which you’ll be achieving those objectives shift from year to year.
- Leverage Business Relationships
- Create Affiliate-Powered or Referral-Powered Promotions with Incentives
- Get Ranked Well in Google and Yahoo/Bing
- Leverage Other minor Google/Yahoo properties for better search and direct traffic
- Get Regular Exposure in Google News
- Build Great Blogger Relationships (whether or not you’re presently a blogger)
- Get Click Traffic from Twitter, Ping.Fm, and other more topical status update tools, or more audience-focused micro-blogging applications
- Get Click Traffic, Article Views and Build Relationships Both Within and Around Facebook and other Social Networking Applications
- Get Publicity in Other Major Publications and Mid-Level Industry Publications
- Create a Video Following
- Create a Podcast Following
- Shift Towards Bizstreaming (without dropping Blogging)
- Integrate document sharing, slidecasting, and other multi-media social sharing tools
- Find or Found Appropriate Community Networks that integrate online tools with offline life
- Tighten-up In-house interest lists, follow-up, intro offers and backend sale
- Value-exchanges for attention, based in social currency on the social media sites that are built for content exposure, such as StumbleUpon
- Economically-sound Advertising
Throughout January we’ll be dedicating anywhere from a couple of days to an entire week on all of these topics, then we’ll come back and re-cap with a round-up and links to more resources.
Until then, the one thing you need to remember about traffic is the same thing as before: the game hasn’t changed – the tools are just getting better.
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366 Ways to Get Web Visitors –
I have decided to release a list of 366 Traffic Methods all at once. So now, you can’t ask me how to get traffic for a WHOLE YEAR.
Go away!
Okay, I’m just kidding.
Really.
The great thing about this guide is that it’s rebrandable.
You can just put your own link on the front page, or you can do that AND join the free affiliate program and load affiliate links in it with the rebranding kit, a zip file you can find right here or on the last page of the guide. I have committed Mac treason and created a program that only runs on Windows, (XP or Vista). Please refrain from flogging me. I will do my best to help if you have a Mac that doesn’t run Windows, just reply below.
(And… btw… HOW DO YOU LIVE? I was without Windows on my MacBook Pro for two weeks and almost drown in my own tears. Anyway.)
(You can get your 366 Traffic Methods here if you are reading this via feed and can’t see the embed above. That’s a PDF link so don’t hurt yourself!)
If you own The Evergreen Traffic System or Traffic Reality and are signed up at my site, there’s an affiliate link in your member area that will give you an extra 10% bonus, so please use that one instead of signing up twice. 
Oh, and of course I forgot to mention in the guide that the cookie the affiliate code drops is good for a Year.
That’s right, even if it takes a year for someone who signs up to our newsletter at the site to buy, or even if they don’t sign up but you were the first person to tell them, it will be a year before anyone else gets to make a sale through them.
So. Uh. You might want to grab the rebrand kit and get your copy out there before everyone else.
And if you need hints as to how you can do that?
It’s a guide to generating web traffic! So you can use the traffic generating guide to generate traffic to the traffic generating guide. Lots of the methods are free, too. (See what I did there?)
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About Free Traffic Tips
Whether you’re an internet marketer, or a small business offline that has a website to increase your leads, it’s not just about the money you earn, it’s how much you keep. So reduce your cost to acquire or retain a client, by learning how to get more traffic for less money. The Free Traffic Tips Team is here to help you do that.
My name is Tinu Abayomi-Paul, and in July 2004 I established this blog as flagship of a family of sites I’ve been running since 2002, which you can see from the archives. I now have a team working with me, including Morgan and Cindy Lighter, my new partners.
As part of our larger business, our blog was established to help your small to medium brick and mortar business learn how to bring more website traffic to their new online web property additions, including, but not emphasizing results from search.
Somewhere along the way it became a favorite of internet marketers and corporate businesses too, and we had to expand to add new divisions to serve those markets.
At the time this site was established there were very few resources created by people who knew what they were talking about that would help real people like you test methods to generate site traffic – everything was geared towards either wealthy big shots or designed to rip off the little guy. There are no shortage of these sites today, and painfully few seem to be run with you in mind. Which brings us to a critical question.
Do I know what I’m talking about?
I don’t believe anyone should take me at my word. My advice to you in that is the same I give for anyone seeking to find out whether they’re being helped … or scammed.
- Research.
[Tinu Abayomi-Paul listings on Google]Â Â Â Â Â ÂDo other reputable institutions and individuals believe that the expert you want to trust knows their business? Anyone can submit articles, but few make it to the top-notch publications that require you to be a guest writer or on staff.
- Test.
[Here's a list of 69 free traffic articles I wrote, with information you can test without spending a dime.]     ÂTake the information they give away for free at their sites and see if it makes sense to you. Have you done something similar that worked? Try it their way. If it works it’s a good indication that they’ve got their head on straight.
- Subscribe.
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- Comment.
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Yes, it’s true some methods take anywhere from 3 days to 90 days to take root, and that advertising can be faster. (We already went over the fact that you cannot get fast, cheap/free and good countless times, so I’m not going to go into that).
No, it is not true that all free traffic methods take forever to start working. Almost every method has a fast-track, you just have to find it. Is that fast track as good as building a system? No. But for fast, free and okay? Can’t be beat.
Let’s get right to it.
#1 – Choose the Right Traffic Methods.
We went over the Avalanche and the Blizzard the other day. Why?
Because with every traffic method you have to ask yourself, am I going to get immediate results with a short term burst, or am I going to patiently build a system that will bring me long-term results?
If you know what you’re doing, you can get social media, social networking, article marketing, expertise marketing, affiliate/referral marketing, and organic search results within the first 24 hours.
If you don’t know what you’re doing, go find someone who knows and ask them to do it.
Picking the wrong system will crush you. If you want immediate traffic, rather than a traffic system, starting a blog isn’t the best strategy. Blogs will bring you traffic forever. But the momentum doesn’t start until it’s up. If you’re not technically inclined, you may not have a blog up today.
If you don’t know what to say in blog comments, you might not be able to start the traffic train this afternoon. If you don’t know what to put in the ping section, it could be a day or so before the notification sites list you.
Picking the right system is critical.
#2 – Employ the Method Efficiently & Immediately, Even if It Means Getting Help
Here’s one example. I defy you to try this, right now, today and if you don’t get results by tomorrow, come back, leave a response to this thread, and I’ll look at your link and tell you exactly what you did wrong.
Turn every single distraction off. Do not open your email, answer your phone, text anyone, go to Twitter, or respond to questions or even look at your staff members until this is done.
Go write a top ten article. If you can write a grocery list, even if you’re completely inept at writing an email, you can manage a good top ten article.
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