If you want to succeed on the Internet, you need traffic to your website. One great way to build traffic to your website is by giving something away for free. Your freebie could be anything that motivates people to return to your site. You could give away a subscription to your newsletter, an e-book or special report, a series of articles that other webmasters can publish on their websites or in their e-zine, a software program you’ve written, a CD or DVD with special materials relevant to the niche your site serves. There are dozens of ideas for free giveaways; it just takes a little imagination. The best free items are often the ones that can keep site visitors returning over and over to your site, or lead them directly to a sales page for a product you are promoting.
When you have your determined what product or service you will give away, you will need to determine the best avenues for getting your free item into the hands of potential web site visitors and customers. Here are a just a few quick and free ways to lead people to your free item.
Forums in your niche are a great way to meet others with similar interest, and are a great place to promote your free item. Do a search on the topic of your site, such as “web design” and add the word “forum” or “forums”, so your search reads “web design forum” or “web design forums”. Run your search and you will find many forums that cater to web designers and developers. Become a member of the forums in your niche that will serve your interest and post to appropriate threads. Most forums allow you to add a signature to your posts, where you can place the URL back to your site, and a short message broadcasting the item you are giving away. You get the benefit of immediate traffic to your site, and depending on the item you are giving away, perhaps a repeat visitor for years to come.
Blog commenting is very similar to forum posting in that you can often lead visitors back to your site after commenting on someone else's blog. Find blogs in your niche by running searches for them or by searching blog directories for blogs that cater to your niche.
Writing articles for submission to article directories is another way to lead people to your free item. Write articles that are relevant to your niche, perhaps your free item even solves a problem and by mentioning where it can be picked up for free, you can lead people directly to it. Articles written for submission have a resource box at the end of the article, where the author can promote himself and usually include one or more links to sites of his choice. This is a great spot to make readers aware of your free item and lead them directly to it.
There are dozens of ways to get your free item into the hands of potential site visitors and customers. Create your free item today, and start receiving the traffic you need to succeed tomorrow.
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