In my previous two articles we explored four different ways, in each article, to generate free traffic to your home business website. The total of eight different internet marketing techniques examined included: classified advertising, article marketing, social media marketing, free e-book advertising, adding more backlinks, Twitter traffic, writing product reviews and joining forums. This article will examine four more internet marketing strategies for driving free traffic to your home business.
The first strategy we’ll look at is making it a habit to leave comments on competing blogs or blogs that are involved in your target market. You can get a list of, what are called, “do follow blogs” by typing this phrase in Google’s search engine. Do follow blogs mean that when you leave a link to your website in your comment it will not have the nofollow attribute.
Google and other search engines will recognize this as a valid backlink to your website. A good tip when leaving comments is to put some effort into the exercise. Find a post you’re interested in and add a meaningful comment. Just saying “great article” or “nice post” in most cases will be a waste of time because it probably won’t be approved. Try to make posting comments a habit by submitting a few every day.
The next free traffic generating technique you can employ is submitting your Newsletter to ezine directories. Submitting to these directories is another great way to get backlinks posted for your website. You can get a list of ezine directories by conducting a Google search and of course the more you submit the more potential traffic for your home business site. Again, as with leaving comments on competing blogs, try to make a habit of submitting to ezines by doing at least one per day.
A third method you can use to attract visitors is to set up an account with Yahoo answers and answer questions on their website. When you answer a query you can leave your url and if someone likes your answer they may visit your website. However, be sure to provide a well thought out response, otherwise the likelihood anyone will drop by to check out your opportunity is minimal at best. Another advantage of providing an interesting answer is that Yahoo answers often comes up in the search engines, so your reply may be coming up in search engine results for some time to come.
A fourth way to drive free traffic is to setup a Squidoo account and create your first Lens. Squidoo is another high Page Rank website with the potential to steer free traffic back to your site. By using Squidoo you can add content relating to your niche while entering the url of your main website or blog which will result in more free traffic coming your way.
Using any one or more of these strategies should result in more new visitors to your home business website.