1- Participate in an active forum
Get yourself known in an area of your expertise by participate in a busy forum in your niche. In each niche erea, there definitely are several active and busy forums for your participation. Be part of those forums by posting question and answering tough and easy questions. Soon after you have built your credibility, people would be very interested to know who you. As a result, they would click on your signature, see your profile or even search for your name in the search engine.
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2- Have a signature in your email
Create a custom signature file in your email. When composing an email, whether to your old friends, colleagues or family, it is always good idea to add this signature file. You should create an interesting enough signature file to tempt your mail’s reciepients to click on it. For example, instead of “my slimming site“, you could say “Get Slim Fast Method“.
3- Let your friends and family knows about your site
Buzz marketing works very well in online business. Tell your friends and family about your site and share with them the benefits of your site. You may not get all your friends’ interest but the traffic lies in those who share the same interest as you. From one friends, he may refer more friends. His friends may refer yet another couple of friends. From time to time, the traffic build up and at the same time, you get a good targeted audience.
4- Have your site list in web directory
After you have your site up with decent contents, submit your site to many web directory out there, big or small. Even a small, not so well known, directory may also help you bringing in traffic as well, you would never know ;). In addition, it is a good place to get good one way inbound link. I understand the frustration of finding many web directory at one go and here I would like to share one link to a list of web direcotry
5- have an advertising campaign
If you wouldn’t mind paying some extra cost, it is always a good idea to have an advertising campaign. This would include link exchange, link buying, banner exchange and PPC (Pay Per Click).
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April 15th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
You said - “Let your friends and family knows about your site”
I doubt on this. How much traffic you are thinking you’ll get from your friends and family? There could be more methods, if you don’t want to include search engine optimization, like- article writing. One can write resourceful and informative article on the theme of his/her site and put link in signature. If article is liked by community, the site will get a lot of traffic.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:51 am
Some of the friends I have think I’m crazy. I don’t think letting friends and family know about a site will return much traffic at all