What is the best way to generate free website traffic?
by admin on Sep.20, 2009, under Search Engine Optimization
Chris H asked:
The site I’m building for an HVAC company I work for only gets about 30 clicks per month. I am indexed in major search engines but I appear way too deep in the results to find. I use meta keywords on every page.
The site I’m building for an HVAC company I work for only gets about 30 clicks per month. I am indexed in major search engines but I appear way too deep in the results to find. I use meta keywords on every page.
Give me some ideas folks!
www.sdamechanical.com
Billy
September 21st, 2009 on 7:38 am
Tony
First, let’s head on over to My Yahoo. If you don’t already have a profile, it’s time to create one. For the purposes of this article, we’re going to say that you have one.
Click on “Personalize this Page” and then “Add RSS Feed.” It’s time to add your blog feed.
Now, it’s time to head over to the Button creator. Create a little button for your sidebar on your blog. People who use the RSS reader from Yahoo will like it.
You’re not done yet! It’s time to head over to Yahoo Groups and add some relevant groups to your niche blog. Send off some messages and remember your signature - put your signature in every single post to the groups you subscribe to.
September 21st, 2009 on 6:17 pm
Ramon
It depends on whether you want national or local exposure. If you want to generate business locally then you have to use local media support. Newspapers, newspaper classifieds, radio, bus stop bench billboards etc. Have all your trucks emblazoned with your company’s URL on the side and on the back of all the vehicles. Include your URL in all correspondence. If you want National interest there are many ways to get free traffic to your site.
You can get traffic by trying a free traffic exchange service like TrafficSwarm at…
or WebCentreSurf at
Try StumbleUpon at and add your site to your favorites.
You can try article marketing at an article submission service like and link back to your website in the resource box for your articles.
You can also comment on popular blogs like John Chow’s or Joel Comm’s that allow linkbacks to your URL. Do a Yahoo Search.
Create a video and upload it to YouTube with your URL flashed on the screen. All of these are free.
September 24th, 2009 on 1:04 pm
Kim
While all of these answers will get you traffic, the only long term “free” way to maintain traffic is through SEO or online or offline viral marketing.
I put the “free” in parentheses because this is going to take time, particularly for a hyper-competitive industry. Having taken a look at the site, I’ll tell you first off that it could stand a serious makeover (just being honest). You’ll have a hard time with the aesthetics, at least how they look in Firefox (which I’m using).
Secondly, content. You need more and it needs to be good, and fairly dense with the keywords you’re after. Make some unique content that potential customers would be interested in or will find useful, and then other people will be more likely to link to you (this is known as link-baiting). This also allows you to use social media like reddit/digg/stumbleupon/etc. to drive more traffic.
The other poster who talked about local vs. national is important, too. In my sources I have a link to an article I wrote talking about utilizing SEO from a geo-targeted perspective.
Also, check out 15 minute SEO for a quick and dirty on what matters in the world of rankings. Or, hire someone to do it for you (like our company).
September 26th, 2009 on 4:33 pm
Henry
After an initial review of your SEO metatags, it appears that you need some revisions in order to elevate your web presence on major seach engines, such as Google. com and Yahoo.com.
Begining with:
1. The metatag contains entries which assumes that your domain name/business name is a well-known brand and if that is not the case, why not leave the domain name out of the . And having a business locator of “Philadelphia region,” is not specific enough. Why is the actual city of “Trevose” not referenced?
Here’s an improved metatag: Heating, Air Conditioning, Plumbing, Residential, Commercial, Contractor, Maintenance, Repair | Trevose, Pennsylvania
2. The keywords metatag: Insert the keyword “Trevose.”
Once you incorporate these suggestions into your opening webpage, you will notice a major increase in Net traffic since again, most customers are very likely to search for your business under a specific business locator, i.e., “Trevose, Pennsylvania” and not waste time looking for a “Pennsylvania region” business.
Good luck!
September 26th, 2009 on 8:50 pm
Hazel
1. Write and submit articles . It is a classic, but it works. This will create traffic for years to come. Write quality unique articles, not articles that are regenerated or provide no insight to readers, which is a huge problem these days.
2. Submit ads to a high pagerank and high traffic Classified ad site such as USFreeads.
3. Make sure to view related products on Amazon.com. You can try and take some customers from your competitors here by providing your own url if the product is similar.
4. Review websites in your niche on Alexa to try to take some of their traffic by including a reference back to your site.
5. Review some related products on epinion.
6. If you purchase a product that you actually like, then feel free to give an individual respect when respect is due and leave a testimonial. You should be able to get some traffic from that website if your testimonial is left with a url.
7. Whenever you send an email to someone, include your website url as a signature.
8. Keep updating content on your websites/blogs… try at least once per week, if not twice.
9. Tag blog posts at social bookmarking sites. Sign up to Onlywire.
10. Add pictures to your blog with appropriate keywords.