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Many strong ideas already appear in the replies: and push the community/forum angle, calls out organic search plus paid search, and reminds that social activity amplifies reach. Those tactical lists are useful but leave three common gaps unaddressed: a simple way to prioritize channels, a measurement plan that separates high-volume from high-value traffic, and practical steps to convert visitors once they arrive.

A compact prioritization framework: rank channels by visitor intent (commercial > informational > discovery), measurability, and cost-to-test. For early projects a practical split is to invest the bulk of time in owned, search-friendly content and technical fixes, reserve a portion of budget for short paid tests that produce conversion data, and use a small allocation for partnership/social seeding to accelerate distribution. Key KPIs to track per channel: visits, conversion rate, cost per acquisition (CPA), and engagement (bounce/time on site).

A 90-day sprint example (action-focused): weeks 1–2 perform an analytics audit (verify tracking, filter bot traffic, define goals); weeks 3–6 fix crawl/index issues, improve page speed and mobile UX, and build 4–8 intent-focused content pieces or landing pages; weeks 7–12 run small paid/social experiments, A/B test headlines and CTAs, capture emails for retargeting, then scale the channel with the best CPA and engagement. A simple UTM example for tracking:

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Quick troubleshooting checklist and cautions: low traffic often stems from indexing problems, targeting the wrong keywords, thin content, slow pages, or broken analytics. Bought low-quality traffic inflates numbers but hides real conversion signals — treat it as diagnostic only. Combine forum/community activity (as noted by /) with the SEO/PPC measurement mindset describes so community content becomes a repeatable, long-tail search asset rather than a one-off acquisition channel.

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Member Avatar for JuhaW

1. Open forum to your site

Member Avatar for manomanjudotcom

1. Open forum to your site

Good idea. Thanks!

Member Avatar for Evalovesmoney

1. Forum Marketing
2. Article Mrketing
3. PPC
4. Word of Mouth
5. Thats my 4

Member Avatar for JuhaW

Do you have any good ideas for article marketing?

Member Avatar for tomer1

1- Open forum on your site (as juhaw said)
2- Open blog to every register member (send email to member when he will get a message)
3- Open communities on your site, allow members add their photos and send other members messages.
4- Use Advertisment or buy visitors from

5- Be creative!

:)

Member Avatar for ChiefLee

By far the majority of our traffic comes from:

1 - Organic SERPs, mostly Google, some Yahoo and a little Bing

2 - PPC, mostly Google, some Yahoo, some Business.com and a little Bing

Now to get good SERPs, we do many things. All the typical things i.e. onsite optimization, keyword research and implementation, and link building.

Member Avatar for mackone

Online marketing is vast and there is so much you can do. One method which works for one may not work for other. I use -

*SEO
* article marketing
* press releases
* forums, discussion groups etc
* blogs
* social networks
* online classifieds
* social bookmarking

Member Avatar for InsightsDigital

All the advice on this thread is great. I also recommend:
1. Create a Twitter account and be an active and engaged user. Dont just post your site's url. Contribute and retweet and comment on others tweets.

2. Join related meetups - not only you meet others but it gives an opportunity for learning about other businesses and potential business partners.

Member Avatar for johnvitc

that's my top 5 ways to get traffic
1.article marketing
2.press releases
3.forums, discussion groups etc
4.blogs
5.social bookmarking

Member Avatar for johnvitc

Do you have any good ideas for article marketing?

Without overmystifying it, you need to
Consider
- your priorities
- your budget
- the amount of time you want to invest in
- your ability and skills in writing
if I were you and would have enough time I'd write my own articles putting my knowledge, my personality and a bit of my humor into them. Then if I get some money back I'd outsource it to an adequate person.

Member Avatar for jusvie

Here's my top 5 methods:

1. article submissions
2. forum posting
3. blog commenting
4. social bookmarking
5. directory submissions

Member Avatar for redesignunit

Press Release
Article Submission
Directory Submission
Social Bookmarking
Blog submission

Member Avatar for ayoungpretender

Online marketing is vast and there is so much you can do. One method which works for one may not work for other. I use -

*SEO
* article marketing
* press releases
* forums, discussion groups etc
* blogs
* social networks
* online classifieds
* social bookmarking

Are u misunderstanding some concepts?
SEO shoudl include all the following ,that's what SEO is all about

Member Avatar for ayoungpretender

for me , my top 5are
Article Submission
Directory Submission
Social Bookmarking
Blog submission
forum posting

Member Avatar for ayoungpretender

for me , my top 5are
Article Submission
Directory Submission
Social Bookmarking
Blog
forum posting

Member Avatar for surindersharma

These are 5 top methods :
1. Keyword
2. Content
3. Meta Tags
4. article submission
5. link buliding

Member Avatar for AussieWebmaster

1. Forum Marketing
2. Article Mrketing
3. PPC
4. Word of Mouth
5. Thats my 4

organic search
paid search
social media and blogs
press releases
mobile marketing

Member Avatar for zks

1. On page optimization
2. off page optimization
3. social media optimization
4. press release
5. blog promation

Member Avatar for Joe55555

article marketing
forums,
blogs
social networks
social bookmarking
those help me most

Member Avatar for Techie08

1. Backlinks from industry-related sites
2. SEO (keywords, content)
3. Twitter and other social media
4. Forum and Blog posting of solutions
5. CPC

Member Avatar for Angela12

I always like getting into twitter and other social network sites like myspace.

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