1. Write and submit articles to article directories. This is a great techniques that not only brings traffic, but also builds back links to your site. The articles have to be unique, interesting and submitted to multiple directories. I am testing the services of an article submission company right now. They claim that they submit an article with two links in the author box to 865 different article directories. The cost is reasonable and I expect a large number of back links to be registered by search engines. If this submission would be successful, then I would repeat this process at least three to four times a month.
2. Use answers.yahoo.com to your advantage. It is very easy to get registered with answers.yahoo.com. Once registered, you would be able to answer questions that other folks post and add links to your sites in the body of the answers. I am getting good traffic from answers.yahoo.com.
3. If your site is related to video, then create an account on veoh.com and start posting comments. Include links to your sites in the comments you post. This would give you traffic plus back links. Just be careful and do not overdo it. If you post too many links/comments at once then your account will be deleted.
4. Create a video about your site or service and post it on YouTube.com. You will get good traffic and strong back links. One of my websites got PR2 within a month from the date I created it after I uploaded several videos to YouTube.com. Hint: when writing a video description, make sure to include the url of your site on the first line.
5. Post in forums and add links to your sites to your signature. I am getting a couple of hundreds visits from forums.digitalpoint.com a week alone.
6. Post quality comments on other peoples’ blogs. This approach would give your traffic and a huge number of back links.
7. Submit your site/blog to directories. Do not do it yourself as it takes a huge amount of time. Use one of many directory submission services on forums.digitalpoint.com. Just yesterday I submitted my OBlife.com to 1,100 directories for just 18$.
8. Add a bookmark button to each page of your site.
9. Create custom 404 pages. Most of my websites redirect to the home page when 404 page is requested. Thus I do not lose the visitor, visitor gets to see my website instead.
10. Create an RSS feed and burn it with FeedBurner.
11. Add a “tell-a-friend” form to your pages.
12. Use social bookmarking sites to promote your pages. I am getting hundreds of visitors a day from StumbleUpon alone.

There are many more techniques for driving traffic to web sites. I will mention them in my next post.

Nikolai

1. Good traffic generation tips. All of them work very well.

   Posted by Josef | March 6, 2008, 10:41 pm

2. Hi,

   Thanks for this wonderful topic, looking forward to see other subjects you have.

   keep it up!

   Posted by Michelle Williams | July 20, 2008, 1:26 am

3. Great list, all of these tips really work to get traffic, I think many people do not take full advantage of the forum sig links!
   Thanks
   JR

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   Posted by JR @ Verizon Ringtones | October 18, 2008, 5:02 pm

4. Tips given by you are good and also rite. But i don’t believe in bulk submissions, instead i would like to go with manual directory submission. It helps more than the submission done once at a time.
   Its very important make good and worthy comment in the blogs and forums, otherwise it can be considered as spamming.
   Helpful article…

   Posted by Visual Guard for MS SQL Server | December 20, 2008, 7:31 am

5. The best traffic generation method as per my experience is social bookmarking. Forum signatures will also bring referral traffic and indirectly helps to gain SERP.

   Posted by John @office building insurance | February 10, 2009, 10:15 am

6. Hi
   Thanks for the list.
   Regarding the social bookmarking, how it should done. I can submit to several to hundred of social bookmarking sites per day. But I am worried it would lead to penalization from search engines.

   So how much social bookmarking per day from your experience.

   Posted by suda@hotel madrid | March 22, 2009, 5:20 am

7. Wow! what an idea ! What a concept ! Beautiful .. Amazing ?

   Posted by Finding a unique gift | April 4, 2009, 12:43 am

8. Great info i get from you! i will try it one-by-one and see if there are huge result for my traffic leads. Thanks Again!

   Posted by Haniff | April 13, 2009, 3:02 am

9. I think the point 9 is a little incorrect. For example I created a customized 404 page for 404 error. It does not confuse the visitor. For example, he search for something but in result does not find it and see the home page (i.e. he does not achive desired) but 404 page tell him directly that the thing he search for is not found because of some reasons (the visitor will know) and suggest him to make one decision from some options like “go to home page”, “search for other thing”, “show popular products or searches” or something other. This way is more loyal for user and it can make him to visit your site in next time.

   Posted by Peter@Smarthones | April 15, 2009, 4:20 pm