I was browsing through The Warrior Forum as I tend to do more or less daily and stumbled across an awesome post which I wanted to share here.

A discussion had started about traffic generation – the science of getting visitors to your website. The thread started with 9 very good methods of getting traffic, but then Craig Caron wandered onto the thread and blew everyone away with the following methods.

If you picked and implemented three or four of these, you’re more than likely to build a steady flow of traffic to your site. Awesome stuff.

The list is so large, I’m going to split it over two days. Here’s Part 1. Enjoy!

WARNING: Some of the techniques are a bit maverick and not condoned by me and this blog (although they did really make me laugh – just look out for the airport and the eBay ‘stunts’).

The Traffic Generation List

• Write a press release and submit it to PRWeb Press Release Distribution Increases Online Visibility and Web Traffic.
• Promote your site using cheap or free classified ads in targeted ezines or newsletters.
• Leave comments on other people’s blogs with a backlink to your site.
• Advertise your website in the appropriate category on CraigsList.com.
• Create a viral software program and give it away for free.
• Send a free copy of your product to other site owners in exchange for a product review.
• Submit your blog articles to Digg and other blog related sites
• Participate in LinkedIn.com.
• Write a book.
• Sell a cheap but extremely useful PDF formatted ebook on Amazon.com full of links to your site.
• Exchange reciprocal links with other related websites.
• Find someone on eBay who is willing to tattoo your URL on a visible body part. For maximum impact, the forehead is the most highly desired location.
• Purchase advertising in popular newsletters or ezines.
• Submit articles to trade magazines with a link to your site in your bio.
• Buy text links or banner ads on eBay.
• Place a classified ad on Yahoo Classifieds
• Find joint venture partners that will send you traffic.
• Start your own newsletter or ezine.
• Target your website to low competition niches using long tail keywords.
• Use OnlyWire.com to automate your social book marking and automatically generate backlinks.
• Offer a free email mini course or e-course.
• Have a website with content that’s worth coming back to.
• Add social bookmarking icons to your website or blog (use the sociable plugin for blogs).
• Try using cheap or free newspaper classified ads. This is also a great way to test the response of different headlines.
• Pass out business cards with your domain on them everywhere you go.
• Start and affiliate program and let your affiliates send you visitors.
• Submit a viral video to YouTube – Broadcast Yourself..
• Advertise on TV. This is not as beyond your reach as you might think:
• Something as simply as having your website sponsor the news on a local
• station can put you in front of 10’s of thousands of viewers for as little as $100.
• Blog – blogging is a great way to get free traffic from search engines, RSS feeds, other blogs, blog directories and more. The following 35 tips will focus on how you can grow traffic through the phenomenon that is blogging.
• Submit your blog to all the major blog directories, including Technorati.com.
• Ping the blog directories and search engines.
• Tag your blog posts.
• Encourage your visitors to subscribe to your RSS feeds.
• Rewrite some of your blog content and post it to article directories to develop backlinks and traffic.
• Find a hot topic on Technorati, post about it and then ping Technorati with your new post.
• Link to your blog in your email or forum signatures.
• Submit your RSS feed to other sites.

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