Today I have started a new website called “Traffic Gifts”, a traffic exchange and gift giveaway combined into a single advertising platform to increase website traffic. These are two powerful methods I have used over the last 5 years to build my opt-in list and to start earning a solid income online.

To go in a bit more detail about TrafficGifts, the system allows you to earn points in various ways which include surfing, referring new members and for each upgraded referral. You can even get points for upgrading your account which allows you to place your own gifts on the marketplace and rank them higher by assigning points to them. TrafficGifts takes this one step further and after so many days points are slowly removed from all gifts. This allows the most active users in the system to rank their products high.

If you are looking to grow your list and do it for free or at a very low cost then TrafficGifts is the place you need to be at right now, click here to signup for free.

Hey Guys,

my last post about 13 Ways To Get Free Website Traffic received many good comments and therefore I thought it’s a good idea to share some more ways to get free web traffic.

Here we go:

1.) Blog Comments

Many people know that some blogs use “do-follow links” and therefore they comment on these blogs to get backlinks to their websites. This in fact works to a certain extend but there is a more interisting way to do it. This strategy is very simple: You try to be the first person or one of the first people to comment on a popular blog.

When a new blog post is published on a popular blog many people will instantly visit this new blog post. They get informed through RSS Readers and sometimes by E-Mail. One example is this blog here… whenever I publish a new blog post I also send out an email about it to my list. Most of the visitors come in the first 24 hours and if you leave a comment early they will most likely read your comment and some click on your name which leads to your website.

The best way to get notified of new blog posts is by subscribing to the RSS Feeds of popular blogs.

2.) The Traffic Network

In my first “13 Ways to Get Free Website Traffic” post you’ll find several Viral Mailers, Credit Based Safelists and Manual Traffic Exchanges. You can build up a huge traffic network with these programs. How you ask? It’s simple: Most of these programs have a Downline Builder included. You’ll see that many programs are kind of interlinked with each other through their Downline Builders (that’s one form of Joint Venture that we program owners do). So… all you need to do is to use these Downline Builders in the traffic programs to interlink all programs. You’ll get referrals this way into many programs as people often join the other programs through the Downline Builders. Your traffic will increase as you get more and more referrals into the different programs.

Now, you need an Entry Point, otherwise you won’t get any referrals at all. There can be many entry points… you can start with a post on your blog… kind of like I did it in my first “13 Ways to Get Free Website Traffic” post. Your blog post will stay online and you can get new referrals through it every day. Your next entry point can be your mailing list… you can promote your blog post to your list and you can promote the programs one by one which is often more effective than promoting all at the same time. There are many more possible entry points… just think about how big such a traffic network can grow.

3.) Article Marketing

There are many article marketing strategies out there. Some people say duplicate content is not good, others say it doesn’t matter. Some people say you need to submit your article to as many article directories as possible, others say you just need to submit it to the Top 5 article directories. If you ask me these things I’ll tell you that I don’t know what’s best. Personally I don’t get very good results directly for my internet marketing websites… that means my internet marketing articles have a very low clickthrough rate. With other niches it’s totally different… for example my fitness articles get a real high clickthrough rate. But… article marketing is not only about getting the traffic directly from the article directories… a big part of article marketing is the search engine optimization strategie behind it.

Here is one way that works well:

You search for a good keyword that you want to rank for. Then you write a 1000+ words article with the keyword in the title, the best is you have the keyword as the first word in the title. Also use the keyword throughout the article a couple times as well as variations or related keywords. Then you post this 1000+ words article on your blog. Next you write a 500+ words article for the same keyword. You post this 500+ words article on article directories and link it to your blog post. It’s even better if you write multiple 500+ words articles and submit a unique version to different article directories. You can also post the articles on Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo or Hubpages. Finally you can bookmark your articles and your blog post with multiple bookmarking services.

This alone can make your blog post rank first position in the search engines if you use long-tailed keywords with low competition.

4.) Video Marketing

There are 2 ways to do Video Marketing. You can either go for alot of low-quality videos for search engine optimization purpose or you can create a few videos with very good content that people will share with friends.

The second version is very hard to do but it’s possible if you take time to research and study a topic before you create the video. Such a video must be well done otherwise nobody will want to share it with their friends. It’s kind of the same as with blog posts… if a blog post is good you might bookmark it and share it with others… if a blog post is not interesting then you will leave the blog very fast and won’t recommend it to anybody. The same applies for videos and about any other content that you can publish on the internet.

The first version is easy to do… creating some 5 minutes video with your webcam or simply with screenshots or a power point presentation can be done in 30 minutes or less. If you distribute these videos with a link in the video description you can build up some valuable links for search engine optimization. One easy strategy is to create a short video about your blog posts and to link to these blog posts. For example I would create a video about Ways To Get Free Website Traffic and then link to this blog post here in the video description.

5.) The Traffic Empire

If you have implemented all of the strategies that you have learned so far, then you have already a good flow of traffic. Your Blog and Your Mailing List are the 2 most important instruments to further build up your Traffic Empire.

Your first step is to get into new launches of Viral Mailers, Credit Based Safelists, Manual Traffic Exchanges and related programs. If you become a JV Partner for the launch you often get a free upgrade or bonus credits. You also have first mover advantage when promoting these new programs, that means it’s easy to get signups. Promote the new launches through your list and through blog posts. With each traffic program you get more traffic to your website and this way it’s free.

You can also search for more traffic programs through search engines or simply join them through the downline builders in your current programs. Integrate all new programs into your Traffic Network and soon you’ll have literally hundreds of programs that send a never ending stream of traffic to your websites.

6.) Testimonials

You can write testimonials for new product launches to get free website traffic. There are many websites that announce the new product launches. Find one, write a testimonial for the product and include a photo of you and your website URL. If the product owner uses your testimonial on the sales page you can get some free traffic with very low effort.

7.) Viral Ebooks

This strategy is really easy to do and can provide you with tons of free website traffic. All you need to do is find a Private Label Rights Ebook and re-write the ebook a bit. Include links to your website inside the ebook. Alternatively you can write a complete new ebook from scratch… it doesn’t have to be a 50 pages ebook, 15 or 20 pages are enough for this strategy. Once your ebook is done you give it away for free through Private Label Rights websites, through Giveaway Events and Download Directories. Include a license in your ebook that allowes the reader to give the ebook away for free to others as well. This way your free ebook spreads all across the internet and links to your website are inside of it.

Alright, I hope you have learned something new from this blog post. If you did, take action now and integrate these techniques into your business.

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

Happy Holidays to you and your family!

Guido Nussbaum

Hey Guys,

it has been a while since I wrote on this blog. Today I want to show you 13 ways to get free website traffic.

The strategies below can be done by anybody, there are no special skills involved. These techniques have been proven to work and I use them personally all the time to get free website traffic (or I outsource them).

1.) Viral Mailers

There are many Viral Mailers out there and you can get incredible results if you promote Free To Signup offers. Personally I use all of the Viral Mailers below… the more you use, the better your results will be.

- Instant List Empire
- Viral Traffic Bar
- Quick List Profits
- Viral URL
- List Effects
- Viral Ad Store
- Instant Profit List
- Downline Builder Direct
- Viral List Generator
- Viral Traffic Seeds
- Viral Traffic List
- Traffic Power Control
- Epic Traffic Boss
- Traffic List Control

You’ll get most out of these Viral Mailers if you upgrade your account. Often they offer a Lifetime Upgrade for a one-time payment… these are deals that you should take because you can promote multiple programs on these Viral Mailers and you can promote for years to come.

Again, don’t try to sell stuff through emails on these Viral Mailers… promote free to signup offers. The best strategy is to build your own email list by posting free offers to these Viral Mailers.

2.) Credit Based Safelists

There are hundreds of Safelists out there that you can use to get free website traffic but in my opinion you should only use the Credit Based Safelists. The reason is simple: Most people do not use their main email address on safelists… they don’t even read the emails they get. With Credit Based Safelists people need to click the links in the emails to get credits for sending out emails to the safelist.

Now I hear many people saying that the safelists members just click to get credits, so the traffic might be useless. Well, it might be true that they just click to get credits… but if they click they will see your website and if you provide a great free to signup offer then a certain percentage of the visitors will convert into signups.

Below are the Credit Based Safelists that I use to get free web traffic.

- Got Safelist
- Free Safelist Mailer
- Global Safelist
- Ad Tactics
- Ad Solution Online
- Syncronize Ads
- Newage Marketing
- The Traffic Secret

3.) Manual Traffic Exchanges

Many people think that traffic exchanges do not work… that’s because they don’t know how to use these programs the right way. What you need to do is to promote either a Splash Page or a Squeeze Page in these traffic exchanges. You must try to get people on your own email list by offering them something for free in return for the signup. If you use manual traffic exchanges this way then you’ll get tons of new signups to your mailing list.

Below are just some of the manual traffic exchanges that I use to get free website traffic.

- Traffic Witch
- Traffic Splash
- Hit 2 Hit
- Blue Surf
- Royal Surf
- Tezak Traffic Power
- StartxChange
- Dragon Surf
- Sweeva
- Hits Booster Pro
- Hit Safari
- Traffic Taxis
- Soaring4Traffic
- I Love Hits
- Traffic G
- Bootscoot In Traffic
- Max Traffic Pro
- Webbiz Insider
- High Hits
- Advertising Knowhow
- List Surfing
- Swat Traffic
- Major League Hits
- Traffic Muscles

4.) Giveaway Events

There are many ways to get signups to your list but the easiest and fastest one must be to join Giveaway Events as a contributor. You can add hundreds, sometimes thousands of new subscribers to your list through these events and even get extra free website traffic. All you have to do is adding your gift(s) to the event and promoting the event.

As an upgraded contributor you can often also add Banners, Paid Offers and your Profile with links to your website, blog, twitter profile and facebook profile.

Here is a List of Giveaway Events

5.) Ad Swaps

Once you have a couple hundred subscribers on your mailing list you can start to do Ad Swaps. Go to popular forums like the Warrior Forum or other forums that are related to the internet marketing industry. You’ll often find offers for Ad Swaps in the JV Section of the forum… if not, post your own ad swap offer there.

When you do an Ad Swap, you send out the promotion email of your Ad Swap Partner to your mailing list and your Ad Swap Partner will send out your promotion email to his list.

Ad Swaps are free and you can get tons of free traffic and hundreds of new mailing list subscribers every week just by doing ad swaps on a regular basis.

6.) Blogging

One of the best ways to get a steady stream of free web traffic from the search engines is by running your own Blog. You’ll have to get your own domain name and hosting for installing the free Wordpress blogging system. For branding pupose your domain should be Your Name .com just like my blog url is guidonussbaum.com

I won’t go into detail here on how to setup your blog, there are free videos out there that show you exactly how to install and setup Wordpress. Important is the actual blogging procedure and the promotion of your blog and blog posts.

If you want to get free website traffic from search engines, then you’ll have to do some keyword research. Find keywords that people actually search for by using keyword tools like Keyword Spy or the Google Keyword Tool. Make sure that the competition for your keywords is not too high.

When posting a new entry on your blog you include one or two keywords into each post. Enter your keywords into your post title and use them a couple times throughout the body of your blog post. This will make it possible for search engines to associate your blog post with the keywords.

To get listed in the search engines you’ll have to create back-links to your blog posts.

7.) Bookmarking

Bookmarking is one of the easiest ways to get one-way links to your websites and blogs. You can use a tool like SocialPoster.com to bookmark your site with 50 or more bookmarking services. Don’t forget to bookmark your blog posts after publishing them to get even more free traffic.

8.) Link Wheels

With Link Wheels you build up hundreds of strong backlinks to your websites to get a higher listing in the search engines. Usually you optimize each Link Wheel for one keyword.

The exact procedure is not that hard to do but there is not enough space here in this blog post to explain it. Please use a search engine to find the procedure for creating Link Wheels.

9.) Banner Ads

Don’t forget the good old Banner Ads. Banner Ad spots are everywhere… you find them in Traffic Exchanges, Viral Mailers, Safelists, on Web 2.0 sites, on Social Sites etc.

Many people don’t use the Banner Spots and miss out on alot of targeted traffic by doing that. Use every opportunity for free banner ad spots that you come across.

10.) Forums

Become active in Forums that are related to your website’s topic. Being active in forums means that you answer people’s questions, ask your own questions… it means that you provide useful content… don’t try to spam forums with your marketing messages.

The marketing part of forums comes with the Signature that you can setup in most forums. In this signature you should promote a free offer to get people on your own mailing list. A great way to get free website traffic.

11.) Error Pages

This is a huge traffic source once your website is established and receives some traffic every day. Most people don’t use error pages and they miss out on a huge amount of website traffic.

All you need to do is to setup a .htaccess file in the root folder of your domain. In this .htaccess file you can have different error handling entries. They look like this:

ErrorDocument 401 http://www.yourdomain.com
ErrorDocument 402 http://www.yourdomain.com
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.yourdomain.com
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yourdomain.com

These entries mean that if these certain errors (401, 402 etc.) appear, then your .htaccess file redirects the visitor to the domain that is entered behind the error number (http://www.yourdomain.com). So, you can for example re-direct them to your Home Page… personally I redirect them to a simple error page that is filled with Free To Signup Affiliate Offers Banners.

There are more than just the 4 error numbers above that exist. Use the search engines to find the error numbers that you want to handle or look into your server data to find out what errors appear on your site and handle these errors in the .htaccess file.

12.) Twitter Web 2.0 Integration

I’m not that much into Twitter but when I post an update on Twitter, then this update automatically goes out to several Web 2.0 sites and Social Sites like Facebook and MySpace.

On many Social Sites and Web 2.0 sites you can integrate Twitter so that your Twitter posts appear on your Update List of these Social Sites.
There are also services out there that allow you to post on hundreds of micro-blogging sites automatically… personally I concentrate on a few popular ones.

13.) Facebook Groups

You don’t have your own Facebook Group yet? Probably because you don’t know that your own Facebook Group is almost like having your own mailing liist. As the owner of a Facebook Group you can message all members of your group at once… this can be a huge source of traffic!

Alright, that’s it for today. There are definately alot more techniques out there to get free website traffic. Maybe I’ll make another list in the future if you like this one… leave a comment and let me know what you think.