50 ways to drive more traffic to your website: 1) Write and submit articles to the article directories.
2) Leave comments on other people's blogs with a backlink to your website.
3) Answer peoples questions on www.answers.com
4) Post in forums and have a link to your website in your signature.
5) Write a Press Release and submit it to www.prweb.com
6) Advertise your website in the appropriate category on www.craiglist.com
7) Give an unbiased testimonial on a product/service that you have used in exchange for a backlink to your website.
8) Start a blog and submit it to all of the free blog directories.
9) Manually submit your website to the major search engines and directories (especially dmoz).
10. Add a link in your email signature to your website.
11) Optimize each page of your website for a particular keyword or search phrase.
12) Make a custom 404 error page for your website directing people to your home page.
13) Use PPC (pay per click) search engine advertising.
14) Add a "Bookmark this site" button to each page or your website.
15) Add a "Tell a Friend" form onto your website.
16) Send articles to ezine publishers that includes a link to your website.
17) Hold a contest and make it go viral.
18) Give away a freebie (ebook, report, ecourse) to keep people coming back to your website.
19) Add a RSS feed to your blog.
20) Submit your website to any related niche directories on the net.
21) Participate in a banner or link exchange program.
22) Create a software program and give it away for free.
23) Purchase the misspellings or variations of your domain name, and redirect those sites to your home page.
24) Buy a domain name related to your niche that is already receiving traffic and forward it to your site.
25. Pass out business cards with your domain on them everywhere you go.
26. Start and affiliate program and let your affiliates send you visitors.
27. Start a page on social bookmarking sites such as www.MySpace.com
28. Submit a viral video to www.YouTube.com
29. Conduct and publish surveys to your website.
30. Find joint venture partners that will send you traffic.
31. Start your own newsletter or ezine.
32. Use a autoresponder or email campaign to keep people coming back to your site.
33. Purchase ads on other sites.
34. Send a free copy of your product to other site owners in exchange for a product review.
35. Sell or place classified ads on www.eBay.com with a link to your site.
36. Post free classified ads on any of the sites that allow them with a link to your site.
37. Exchange reciprocal links with other related websites.
38. Network with other people at seminars or other live events.
39. Purchase advertising in popular newsletters or ezines.
40. Advertise on other products Thank you?pages.
41. Create a free ebook and list in on the Free ebook?sites.
42. Buy and use a memorable domain name.
43. Do something controversial.
44. Create an Amazon profile and submit reviews for books and other products that you have read.
45. Start a lens on www.Squidoo.com.
46. Use a traffic exchange (low quality traffic, but can sometimes be worthwhile).
47. Get referrals from similar but non-competing sites.
48. Create and sell a product with resell or giveaway rights and include a link to your site in it so others pass it around for you.
49. Email your list. If you don't have one, get one.
50. Here are my favorite free, manual traffic exchanges:
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Contributor's Note
These are things I've learned by studying SEO...
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