Saturday, March 03, 2007

Getting Hits

How do we drive traffic to our sites?

Let me answer that with some tentative, inexpensive, and basic tricks that you can do right now. For massive traffic, a careful strategy that employs tools will come later. Try these now.
  • E-mail all your friends with a hyperlink to your site and an invitation to join.
  • Accept comments and trackbacks.
  • Visit other sites and blogs and comment on and quote from them. Leave them trackbacks and comments.
  • Leave your hyperlink for your site everywhere you participate on the Internet.
  • Print cheap business cards with your link.
  • Employ the labels available at the bottom of your posts on most servers.
  • Participate in web-based forums, posting your link.
  • Use hot words and titles and comment on current events in your field of interest.
  • Post regularly - unlike this blog that has been a bit inactive until now, most of mine have regular postings and fresh material.
  • Join services like Technorati.
  • Consider starting or participating in a blogroll.
  • Learn what these terms mean that I am tossing out. I will write more about them later.
  • Read this book:

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