Want More Website Traffic? Here’s 43 MASSIVE Traffic Generation Strategies

Traffic Generation is the absolute number one most important skill you can learn in Internet Marketing!

But Why?

When you know how to get website traffic you can promote ANYTHING!

It drastically increases your profit potential by allowing an unlimited choice of products and markets.

You can also get nearly everything wrong about sales and marketing and still turn a profit. In fact, you don’t even need to sell a single thing except ad space. I hear it’s worked well for Google!

With plenty of traffic you can easily make money a number of ways. For example, you could get paid with Adsense, sell advertising, build a list, promote affiliate products and more.

“That’s great, now how do you get traffic?”

I thought you’d never ask!

Just for you, I’ve compiled a rather comprehensive list of 43 different methods for generating website traffic online. I’ll give a brief explanation for each one. Pick your favorites, then master just a few from this list and you’re well on your way to making money online.

43 EASY Traffic Generating Methods

Affiliate Marketing
Affiliates are your sales reps, and in exchange for traffic and sales you provide a percentage based commission. There are many affiliate networks where you can register your product such as Clickbank, or Commission Junction. You can also run an affiliate system from your own website, but you may not get as many affiliates to promote your product as you would with other third party networks.
Article Marketing
Nearly every website online needs content. Article marketing is all about writing short topical articles with a link back to your site and distributing them to article directories that will include your content in their high traffic network. As visitors reach your author bio and click your link, you get free traffic.
Back links
Back links are simply links back to your site. Anywhere your site link is allowed to be placed can result in an increase in traffic, as well as gains in search engine ranking.
Integrated Advertising
This is a clever strategy, that involves working with other site owners and advertising in their private members area, or through their sales funnel. This could be after a squeeze page, or after a purchase. This method often generates extremely targeted website traffic.
Banner Ads
Banners usually come in wide rectangle shapes, or squares. You can find them on a wide variety of sites, and in many different markets. Website owners will usually offer paid spaces on their website to place your banner. If your offer converts well this can be a great and consistent traffic generator.
Blog Commenting
Blog commenting is simply leaving your reply to an article or blog post in your target market. By including your link in the supplied comment field, you will have a clickable way for visitors of higher traffic blogs to reach your site.
Classified Ads
There are many classified listing sites around the internet. Many are free, and you can add a listing that will be seen by many of the sites visitors. In return, you’ll get targeted traffic from people searching classifieds for exactly what you are offering.
Content Syndication
Bloggers and website owners around the web need your content. Supply them with a steady diet of articles and they will reward you with lots of traffic from their site in the form of visitors clicking your author bio link.
Contests
People LOVE the chance to win FREE stuff. Run a contest on your site, or through social media to get massive traffic.
Coupons
In our recent distressed economy, coupons have blown up in popularity. There are countless websites tracking and listing every coupon they can find. Visitors are actively searching for coupons all the time, and adding your own coupon option can generate extra free traffic.
CPA networks
If you’ve got a solid offer that converts you should know how much each visitor is worth. CPA (cost per action) networks allow you to list your offer on a pay per action basis. You pay out for every specified action an affiliate generates. In return, you get a large network of people sending you traffic in exchange.
Direct mail
This might be old school, but if you nail down your demographics well and have a great mail piece you can send out direct mail through the post office that attracts prospects to your website.
Directory listings
Many websites specialize in listing other websites within a particular market. These are known as directories. You submit your link to a related category and visitors to that site will find your listing and visit your page.
E-zine Directory
This is a specialized type of directory that can also bring you traffic. If you have a regular newsletter on a topic you can list it in an e-zine directory. Readers looking for you topic will find and subscribe to your newsletter bringing you more traffic.
Ebooks
Ebooks are content pieces designed for easy distribution. Take a subject and write about it, and be sure to include links to your site. Distribute it to your email list, and other ebook listing sites, and be sure to include an e-cover graphic, and rights to give it away. If your ebook is popular you can get a stream of traffic for a long time from just one e-book.
Email Marketing
Email marketing is one of my favorites. By offering incentives, and building up a list of subscribers you can get massive and instant traffic. With a list, traffic is always one short email away. Write, send, and get traffic!
Facebook Ads
Facebook is HUGE. If you didn’t know, they just went public and had to disclose their financials. Last year they made $1 Billion with a capital B in profits. That means they have a billion reasons to keep providing the best advertising possible. With Facebook you get much more control of who you want to reach. You can setup your ad, and quickly get extremely targeted traffic.
Forum Ads
Many forums have either feature sections for selling, or offer banner and text ads. This is a great way to consistently stay in front of a market as forum visitors usually come back frequently and are highly targeted to the specific market the forum covers.
Forum Signature
In addition to advertising, many forums let you create a signature field where you can customize it with your own text, and usually a link. This is a great place to link to your site, and have a free long term ad. However, it’s most effective when you are a regular user and posting quality topics and replies.
Free Stuff Directories
Who doesn’t like free stuff? There are directories online dedicated specifically to tracking down and listing various free offers. Use a lead in to attract your audience, such as an ebook, video, or short report and be sure to include a link back to your site.
Google Adwords
If you haven’t noticed yet, Google runs sponsored listings just about everywhere it can fit them. There network of available traffic is huge, and you can instantly tap into it with an ad. You pay on a per click basis, and can get into virtually any market you choose once your ad is approved.
Guest Posting
This has been very popular lately, but it’s rather simple. Find related blogs or websites and offer to write a content piece for them. Make sure it’s your best work and in return for the post you’ll get a short bio section with a link to your site, or even a good introduction by the site owner. The result is free targeted traffic from a bigger more established site.
Interviews
When you don’t have much to say or experience to offer, find someone that does and interview them. This will give instant credibility to you and your site, as well as attract fans of the interviewer. With a good and relevant interviewee, you’ll get a nice bit of traffic for a long time.
Joint Venture Partners
Like the interviews above, sometimes you have to take the skills you do have, and connect them with others. Make a strong and beneficial offer to a more established partner and you can reap lots of traffic.
Link Exchanges
This is very popular in many markets. A lot of sites will trade links in closely related markets. The result is a sharing of traffic and a net gain for everyone. Basically you place the link of another site onto your page, and they do the same.
Local Bulletin Boards
This is thinking outside the box here, but I know I love looking at bulletin boards in the coffee shop and on campus when I was still in school. Make your posting relevant and stand out, and you’ll find yourself with some new traffic.
Magazine Submissions
Here’s another one many people don’t think about. It’s a little known fact, that magazines are a great source of online traffic. In fact, most people read magazines expecting, and wanting to see ads. There are even some bridal magazines that are just for advertising that readers can’t wait to get their hands on. Look for long running, and closely related ads and you’ve likely got a winning formula.
Mailing Lists
This could be direct mail, or email. Email is better as it’s nearly free. Either way, when you build up a targeted list you can contact them for almost immediate traffic spikes.
Media Buying
Google just jumped into this game, and now it’s easier than ever to do media buying online. This is a more expensive approach to getting traffic but can be MASSIVE if yo do it right. Basically it’s buying ad space across several very large website networks. Think big news outlets, and the most popular websites. You can melt your server down with this kind of traffic so be careful!
Podcasts
Got something to say? Record it and upload through iTunes as a podcast. Many people love to listen to podcasts and get their information fix. Setup a regular production, and you’ll quickly find a new audience and source of traffic.
PPC Networks
Like Adwords, PPC means Pay Per Click. Instead of just one site though, you can list with a network and let many other websites run your ads in exchange for a percent of the click fee.
PPV Networks
This is like the above, but means Pay Per View. Same concept except you pay for how many times your ad is viewed.
Press Release
Is something important happening? If you’ve got a news type item than be sure to send out a press release. It doesn’t have to be groundbreaking news, but also shouldn’t be an ad. Look up others to get an idea, but running these can easily get you a temporary listing at the top of Google and a healthy dose of traffic.
PTC networks
This method is like pay per click but with a twist. PTC (pay to click) sites are not the most reliable, but still a potential traffic source. Instead of the advertiser paying for clicks the site owner pays others to sit and click ads.
RSS Bookmarking
Website content can be compiled into a different form known as an RSS feed. Plenty of people rely on RSS feeds to get their news updates via email or other means so that they don’t have to visit hundreds of sites. Instead the feed is automatically updated and the user can see right away every time a site has a new post or content. Many sites allow you to add your feed and this is called bookmarking. This is great for traffic as well as generating backlinks.
SEO
This means search engine optimization. For many it’s the holy grail to reach a coveted top spot in Google. However, even moderate attention to your website’s optimization can turn in lots of traffic across numerous keywords.
Social Sharing
This is a relative newcomer to the scene, but now with countless social sites around the web you can encourage visitors to “share” the content on their preferred network. What was originally one visitor can quickly turn into hundreds more seeing your content on a social site, like Facebook for example. The viral nature is the best benefit, and a hot content topic can really spread fast.
Software Distribution
Software is the backbone of computers. If you can create a useful software, no matter how simple, you can list it free across countless networks of sites that provide free downloads of software. With the software you can do many things like require email to register, include links in the help or about menu, and even place ads inside the software. All of the above will bring fresh new traffic your way.
Sponsored Events
Here’s a method I see often. People love a good party and meeting with like minded individuals. Often times you don’t even need to run and setup an event, and instead can simply offer to sponsor it for a fee. Setup t-shirts, banners, and anything you can with your logo and link, and you’re well on the way to new traffic.
Traffic Exchange
This is not one of my favorites, but there are websites where you can list your site, and in exchange for looking at other websites, you’ll get your own viewed. The problem is that most people are watching your site, in order to get theirs viewed so they are much less targeted. However, promoting alternate traffic sources can be popular on there as that’s precisely what members of traffic exchanges are looking to get.
Video Sharing
Videos are becoming much easier to produce as well as watch online. Create a short video that others in your market will find useful, include your link and branding, and you will get some traffic. Also, many softwares are available that let you upload across a wide variety of video sharing networks so you can have a huge reach.
Web 2.0 Sites
Social driven content turned into a phenomenon known as web 2.0. These type of sites let you create content on their network. You can benefit from web 2.0 style sites by setting up many smaller sites across over 50 networks that all link back to your website and act as little sales agents sending traffic to your main website.
Yahoo Answers
Many sites like Yahoo Answers offer a forum for people to voice questions. By offering an answer and a link you can generate traffic, as well as commissions from related affiliate products. Focus on being helpful and not just link bombing though. I have used this method to generate traffic as well as sales, but it can be time consuming to find relevant questions to your market.