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What is the best way to drive traffic to my site? What’s the fastest way to generate traffic to mysite? What’s…?With that said, here are 59 simple and (mostly) free ways to generate traffic to your site.
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Write truly informative and useful articles related to your niche, and publish them onWikiPedia.2.Hold a contest and give prizes to your readers. Use social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to let people know about the contest. A good contest with good prizes willattract a lot of people.
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Write list posts like the one you are reading. Readers love posts like “10 ways to makemoney” or “6 ways to drive traffic to your website”. List posts are amongst the mostpopular kinds of posts, and people tend to share list posts with others more often thanother posts.
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Make flyers with a catchy title and a description of your website, and post them onbulletin boards in the entrance to supermarkets and other community buildings.
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Post frequently, but don’t sacrifice quantity for quality. Both search engines and visitorslike to see fresh, quality content. The more content you have, the more chances you havefor ranking for variety of keywords, which will mean more organic traffic for your website.
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Make a lens (or more) usingSquidooand in it, place a few links back to your website.
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Submit your website to directories relevant to your niche, likeInsLink.com(anSEO/webmaster directory).
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Make use of plugins like Tell-a-Friend to let your readers quickly share your posts with their friends and family vie email.
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Use Hi5to build a page for your website and create a community around it.
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Make it easy for non-technical readers to link to your website or share your links withother people by making a “How to link to us” page. Here, give readers easy instructionson how to link to your website with your keywords as anchor text.
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Submit your website to social bookmarking sites like DiggandStumbleUpon.
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Write and submit articles to article directories like EzineArticles and ArticleDashboard.
 
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Turn your articles to videos using free video creation services likeAnimoto,and submit them to video directories such asYouTube andDailyMotion.
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Submit your website to search engines likeGoogle, YahooandBing.Or simply use AdMe.comto submit your site to over 25 search engines for free.
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Use sites likeOdiogoto turn your website into a podcast, then submit your podcast topodcast websites.
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Answer questions related to your niche onYahooAnswers and other Q & A sites. Include a link to your website in the resource box.
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Build a Facebook fan page for your website.
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Ping your website posts using free ping services such as Pingler andPingoat.
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Create a hub about your website onHubPages.
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Register with few good niche-related forums and use your signature to place linkspointing to your website. Participate in discussions and contribute as much as you can.
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Don’t clutter your website with too many pictures, ads, and so on. Keep it clean and easyto navigate. This will help both search engines and visitors to navigate around your website easily and quickly.
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JoinWebsiteEngageto submit your website and create a community around it.
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Make it easy for your readers to share your posts by installing social bookmarking pluginslikeSocialMarker and Digg Buttons.
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Readers like to read other people’s comments, especially those who responded to their comments. So, take advantage of that by using a plug-in likeComment Notifier toautomatically let your readers know of new comments posted on your website.
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Make business cards with your website info on them, hand them to friends and family,and ask them to pass them on. Mall parking lots are good place to pass your cardsaround. In some states you can even put your business card on windshields. You can getup to 250 free business cards using sites likeVistaPrint (although you do have to pay $5 shipping).
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Submit your website to the free directories likeDMOZ(hard to get into, but well worth theeffort!).
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Make your website more search engine friendly by using SEO plug-ins such asPlatinumSEO Pack.28.Target long-tail keywords with low competition and try to rank for them. Such keywordsare easier to rank for in search engines and give you much more targeted traffic.
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Make a MySpace page for your website. 30.Controversial posts attract visitors. Write a controversial post. Be creative and bold, butbe careful not to cross the boundaries.
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Ask an expert or a trusted, well-known person in your niche for an interview. Then postthe entire interview on your website, either as a text post or as a video.
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Write a good press release, or hire a professional to do it for you (you can get a prettydecent press release written for you for $5 on Fiverr.com), and submit them to free pressrelease distribution sites likePR.com.
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Write creative and attention-grabbing ads about your website, and publish them on freeclassified ads sites such as CraigsListandUsFreeAds.
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Leave quality comments on websites that are related to your niche. Make sure your comments add value to the website. Don’t just spam-comment and hope for the best. Itnever works, and your links will get deleted. Worst of all, you might get blacklisted fromthe site. If you leave a useful comment, people will be more likely to visit your website.
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Use free banner-making tools likeBannerFansto make an interesting banner for your website. Then find other websitegers in your niche and exchange banners with them.
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Submit your site to review sites that write reviews on other websites and websites, likeCoolSiteOfTheDay.
 
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Submit your website toWebsiteCatalog.38.People love free stuff, so give out freebies that are related to your niche. If you are in“online money making” niche, a free ebook that teaches people who to make money onTwitter might make an appropriate freebie.
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If you find interesting posts on other websites, write a post about them and link to them.The other websitegers will notice and might do the same for you.
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Write a page on 43things.comabout your website and what you want to do with it. 41.Use your keywords in the title of your posts. Having your keyword in the title makes iteasier for you to rank for that keyword, thus bringing you more organic traffic.
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Use your website’s name as your username on forums, social networking sites, and other places like Yahoo Answers. People are curious by nature, so they may check out youwebsite out of curiosity and if you have good compelling content, they may become your loyal readers.
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Register with EntreCardand start dropping your card on other websites. You will be amazed how much traffic you can get from EntreCard.
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Register with ComLUV.comand download their plugin.Then use the Global Comment Luv Search to find websites related to your niche and comment on them. It will return upto ten (recent) posts that will be sent back when you comment on a Comment Luvenabled site. Most are dofollow websites, and you will get dofollow links back to your most recent posts. This is good for link building and getting some traffic.
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Make a bumper sticker with your website address on it, and place it on your car’sbumper. You can even ask your friends and family to do the same for you!
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Make a Twitter profile for your website and tweet each and every post you publish onyour website.47.Rent a mailing list and send high-quality content with a link back to your site to all thesubscribers. Take care with this technique so that you’re not blacklisted as a spammer,though. Find a reputable list broker—or, if in doubt, why not start your own?
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Post a classified ad oneBayClassifiedwith a link to your site.
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Make a free ebook with a link back to your site in it, and submit it to free ebook sites likeGetFreeEbooks.com.50.Buy .info domains with long-tail keywords in them and use a redirect to send the trafficthey receive to your main site.51.When you eat out, leave a good tip along with a business card with your site info on it.52.Create a short report with resell rights and and include your links in the report. Give it topeople for free: those people can sell the report to others as their own, so long as theydon’t remove your links. The results of this technique will surprise you.
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Create a page (personal or business) atLookUpPage.com.You can add as many links to your website as you like. Write a short “about” post about yourself or your website, andmake sure to link to your Twitter and other social networking sites as well. After creatingthe page, bookmark it using SocialMarker and ping it withPingler  (or any other tools you like).
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Register with Visible.mefor free, and add links and information about your website. Its a great way to build your brand and get a few backlinks from a high-PR (6) dofollow site.
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Submit your RSS feed to RSS aggregators. Here, I don’t mean just your website’s RSSfeed: grab the RSS url of every site you have a link on (example: if you submit articles toezine.com, you will have your own “author RSS” URL), and go toRssMix.com.It will let you make a custom RSS feed. Take that and submit it to RSS directories andaggregators. This will put your RSS feed on steroids—and will give you many morebacklinks.
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Come up with a really crazy but buzz-worthy post and submit it toNowPublic.com (Previously known as Truemors). If it’s good enough, it might just go viral!
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Go toYouTube, find popular videos related to your niche and start commenting on thosevideos with a link back to your website. Youtube videos get thousands of views, and
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