101 ways to drive traffic to any website

[trafficmaster22]

1. Join MyBlogLog, add friends, and join communities.
2. Sign up for Technorati and ping it when your blog content changes.
3. Use a ping service like pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators.
4. Submit your blog to all of the directories on Robin Good’s list of RSS directories.
5. Use trackbacks.
6. Leave comments on blogs in related niches.
7. Tell your friends about your blog and specific posts.
8. Put your blog URL in your forum signatures.
9. Create link bait.
10. Tell Your newsletter subscribers about your blog.
11. Write press releases for your blog.
12. Link liberally to other blogs in your posts (many bloggers check who links to them).
13. Tag your posts using Technorati tags or a tag plug-in.
14. Submit your posts to multiple social bookmarking sites using OnlyWire.
15. Use Stumbleupon to stumble your posts.
16. Answer questions on Yahoo answers with the answers on your blog.
17. Answer questions on forums related to your niche with a link to one of your blog posts that answers the question.
18. Set up a feed on MyYahoo so that Yahoo keeps better track of your blog.
19. Make lists (My Top 5…, Ten Things…, etc.). Many of the most popular blog posts are lists like this one.
20. Use pictures. Most of the top trafficed blogs use pictures in their posts.
21. Use video on your blog.
22. Find out what people want to learn about in your blog’s niche and write about it.
23. Be the first to break a news story.
24. Use keyword research to find good keywords to use in your posts.
25. Write controversial posts.
26. Strongly Agree or strongly disagree with other bloggers and write about it with a link to their post.
27. Make it easy for your readers to sign up for your RSS feed.
28. Make it easy for your readers to Digg your posts.
29. Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, etc.).
30. Interview well known people in your industry (it’s working well for me).
31. Give credit to the blogs that inspire your posts.
32. Don’t be boring.
33. Write for beginners.
34. Participate in group writing projects.
35. Participate in blog memes.
36. Create a blog meme and tag your friends.
37. Participate in blog carnivals.
38. Post at different times of the day.
39. Submit your best posts to article directories.
40. Write Killer Content .
41. Start a group blog. These tend to get more traffic, because more people are creating conent and more people are promoting it.
42. Have guest posters.
43. Create a blog meme and tag an A-list blogger who you like.
44. Submit your blog to regular web directories (like DMOZ, etc.).
45. Join SpicyPage and promote your blog on it.
46. Join a blog webring.
47. Sign up for BlogWoods and promote your blog on it.
48. Join LinkAndBlog and do link and blog challenges.
49. Submit your best posts to Netscape.
50. Exchange Ads (not blogroll links) with complementary blogs.
51. Trade blog roll links with related blogs.
52. Sign up for Rojo. Subscribe to your feed and click “add mojo” on your better articles.
53. Add a plug-in to notify users of new comments (I REALLY need to do this).
54. Make it easy for your visitors to submit your post to ALL social bookmarking sites (not just Digg).
55. Add a tell-a-friend script or plug-in to your posts.
56. Make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your page in their browser.
57. Make it easy for people to link to your blog.
58. Use easy to read fonts.
59. Use a professional looking blog design.
60. Make your blog easy to navigate.
61. Highlight your most popular posts.
62. Write posts that ask provocative questions.
63. Use questions for the title of your blog posts (you knew that was coming).
64. Use good keywords in your post titles.
65. Reply to every question you get through email.
66. Reply to every question you get on your blog.
67. E-mail other bloggers about your really good post(s) (breaking news posts).
68. Offer free stuff related to your niche (tools, ebooks, etc).
69. Run a contest.
70. Publish videos on YouTube with the URL for your site at the beginning and end of the video.
71. Install a translation plug-in or use a translation service to translate your blog into foreign languages.
72. Put Your URL on everything that goes out of your house (business cards, stationary, mailing labels, etc.).
73. Go through listible.com’s list of web 2.0 sites and promote your blog on all web 2.0 sites that apply.
74. Search for Wikis related to your niche to submit your blog to. For example, for this blog the search phrase would be “make money online wiki” or “internet marketing wiki”.
75. Give regular polls (use a poll plug-in like democracy for this).
76. Add trivia quiz pages.
77. Add ecard pages.
78. Add a forum for your visitors to discuss more on your niche.
79. Add a wiki to your blog .
80. Join Hubpages and post links to your blog from articles you write.
81. Join Blink List and make a list of blogs with your blog in it.
82. Join 43 Things and write a list of 43 things you want to achieve (include your blog url in the list).
83. Join Blogger Party (and/or other free blog systems). Then write posts that link back to your blog.
84. Make a Squidoo lens (or more than one) with a link to your blog.
85. Provide Wikipedia articles with links to your blog where it makes sense.
86. Tell people you will link back to them if they review your blog (like John Chow).
87. Join Blog Catalog (kind of like MyBlogLog).
88. Create a MySpace Page. Put your blog on it, and get some friends.
89. Use SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
90. Use good grammar. People will be happy with your writing.
91. Submit your blog to directories in your niche.
92. Email or Instant message your friends to Digg, stumbelupon, etc. your post.
93. Link to your blog from other websites and blogs you own.
94. Write a post about the top x bloggers in your niche or state or country, etc. Then tell them about, so they will want to link back to you.
95. Promote your posts on related newsgroups.
96. Post frequently.
97. Submit your site to free website review sites like coolsiteoftheday.
98. Search for .edu sites with link pages, forums, directories, and wikis to submit your link to.
99. Give out blogging awards and tell the bloggers you are giving the awards to about it.
100. Pray. (That’s just always good advice)...
101. Make a 101 list.

Good luck
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[manomanjudotcom]

Nice post. Thanks for sharing.

[leeleewear]

Great! Thank you for your sharing.

[ChiefLee]

Coming up with 101 of these pretty tough. But definitely some fine ideas in here as well.

[johnvitc]

wow, 101ways ,which ones will work fo my site
er,,,,,,,,,,,,yes, i don't think all og these will work for my site though it acclaim to "any sebsite"

[seocompanyindia]

Great...!!! Really some helpful way that you have mentioned here.
Honestly i learned something from this posting.

thanks for sharing such valuable information with us.

[MichaelMelen]

A lot of these methods are specific to blogs.

[jusvie]

20. Use pictures. Most of the top trafficed blogs use pictures in their posts.

You can use alt-tags when describing images..

[syahrizal]

I think Google is the most important things to generate traffics...

[mackone]

Great list there. And three things one has to concentrate to gain traffic through search engine optimization. First is relevant and quality content on a particular keyword usually related to the product/services. Second is link building, link exchange and reciprocal linking so more sites will be pointing to your site as reference. Last one is social media participation so people who have an account on these social media sites will get to know your site.

[special_offers]

Great information! Thanks for the details.

[edhardy]

there are great list, but the practical experience are more beneficial.

[edhardy]

and I guess we could just Do lots of quality works and Be consistent on what we are doing.

[Angela12]

Thanks for taking time to post such a long list. Each point you mentioned here is valuable and effective if done properly.

[advantage-adver]

A quick way to make high quality relevant links, especially if your domain name is not a good keyword...Buy some domains that are your best keywords. Make each one a simple one-page website, and make links to your original website, to the exact pages, not just your index.html page. An alternative is to just keep those new domain names, not make websites out of them, but just re-direct them to your original website. The first method works because you are making high quality relevant links to your website. The second method works, because I have experienced it to work over the last 5 years.

[ayoungpretender]

Article submission is a very powerful tool for search engine optimization. You can write quality articles on topic with your web site and create an resource box that mentions your site and links back to it with relevant anchor text. Then submit them to article directories like EzineArticles and GoArticles.

[Ozzzo]

WOW!! Very nice, espacially I like 32-th one :)) hah, I think I'm out of ideas for tip #101, but essentially you have made a good points, thank you for sharing.
@ Mackone - a great edition! Thanx u2 !

Best of luck everyone!
Oz.

[joelchrist]

Great Thread. Thanks for sharing tips here. It would be more helpful to newbies.

[weber444]

I wonder how average webmaster can complete that 101 average,for me,my driving traffic strategy is simply using adwords,make 10 quality score and do little keywords research and traffic tracking, only that what I do and It take less then 2 hours in a day to do that

[williambell1985]

Thanks for the great post. Its really very much informative and will be very much helpful to others.