Top 10 Ways to Increase Your Website or Blog Traffic for Free

Updated on December 1st, 2012 by Quertime Team in Web Development

Have you ever searched the web for great ways to generate or increase traffic for your website or blog? Are they useful and worked for your site? As you know there are numerous ways to increase traffic, some will cost you money, and some won’t. Below you’ll find our top 10 legitimate ways to boost the number of visitors to your website for free. We can assure you that all of them will work for your site or blog.

1. Offer free, quality and original content on your website or blog
Always offer people something useful that they cannot obtain elsewhere. Make sure your content is of higher quality than your competitors.

2. Have a good design and layout
If your site or blog’s design is messy, sloppy, hard to navigate, a rainbow of colors that don’t match or are hard on the eye, or full of errors, you will instantly go down the drain.

3. Focus your content on keywords related to your topic
Focus your content on keywords related to your topic to improve your search engine ranking (search engine optimization SEO). This will help people find your website when they’re searching the web.

4. Submit a sitemap.xml file to Google and other search engines
It’s important to submit sitemap.xml file to Google and other search engines to have your website indexed in the search results.

5. Submit your articles to other websites and web directories
In addition to major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing and MSN, it’s worth submitting your articles to other popular websites, web directories or e-zines. If your website is listed in as many places as possible, it can create backlinks to your website and boost your rankings in major search engines.

6. Exchange links with other websites
Exchanging links (“link to me and I’ll link to you.”) or trading links with other websites that are closely related to the subject of your website can bring you more website traffic. However linking to low-quality websites can threaten the credibility of yours.

7. Leveraging social networks
Update the status of your Facebook, Twitter or other social networking sites to let your friends and followers know everytime you update your website or blog. You can also create a Facebook fan page.

8. Make comment on blogs
Visit other people’s blogs on the topic related to your website. Most blogs allow you to add comments about the issues being discussed. Add insightful comments about the blog topics, and leave your website link. Your comment and your link will permanently remain on the blog website.

9. Participate on online message boards
Post answers to other people’s questions, ask questions and post useful information. Include your signature file containing your website’s URL at the end of all your postings. You can also start your own online discussion community such as online message board, e-mail discussion list or chat room.

10. Offer freebies to your visitors
Everyone likes freebies. Giving away freebies such as e-books, freeware, wallpapers, demos, etc makes your visitors tend to revisit your website and ask for more.

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