Methods with Low Cost To Increase Traffic
August 15, 2008
Trying to get traffic to your website can be a daunting task. There are thousands of ways to generate traffic, some are free and some can cost a great deal of money. Here are 9 low cost ways to generate some traffic to your site.
Blog and Website owners are always looking for effective ways to drive quality traffic to their sites. For some, this can be a hair pulling effort. For others, it seems no matter what they try, traffic comes rolling in.
Here are 9 Low Cost Ways to Drive Traffic To Your Site
Pay-Per-Click Programs - You should try Adwords and other Pay-Per-Click programs such as Yahoo Publisher Network and Microsoft AdCenter, only if you have a good understanding of how PPC programs work. Newbies should not dive into PPC unless you have a large budget. A better way to use Adwords would be to use the site targeted feature of Adwords and choose sites that are relevant to yours. Site targeted Adwords are charged on a CPM (cost per thousand impressions) basis rather than a per-click basis.
Banner Advertising - In my blog post title “15 Adsense Alternatives”, I feature 15 programs to replace Adsense. You can use many of these same programs, such as AdBrite, to advertise on. Speaking of AdBrite, I’ve seen them on some very specific sites where Adsense was not used. This could be for a variety of reasons, but it’s worth checking into sites where you’d like to advertise and see which program they are using to monetize their site. Read more