20 Ways to Promote Your Website for More Website Traffic

Once you have a website, how can you get visitors to come to your site? There are many ways to promote your website to targeted, interested web traffic.

1. Search Engine Optimization: Search Engine Optimization uses keywords in the text, headings, page names and META tags and get other relevant sites to link to your website.
2. Pay per Click: Advertise on the search engines for almost instant results.
3. Blogging: Blog marketing attracts readers. Blog regularly about related topics your targeted customer is interested in. Include links back to your website.
4. Social Networks: Set up profiles at popular social networking sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace , etc.
5. Forums: Participate in online forums as an expert. You get to promote your business “quietly” in your signature line.
6. Signatures: Include a signature in every email that you send that includes your company name and website URL.
7. Printed Materials: Include your website URL on all invoices, statements, proposals, letterheads, business cards and brochures.
8. Promo Items: Purchase things like pens or stress balls with your Web site name and URL on them and give them away to your customers.
9. Links: Trade links with as many people as you can. Just make sure they are highly relevant to your targeted visitor.
10. Article Writing: Write and publish articles and place them on article syndication sites. Other web site owners pick them up and publish them on their web sites.
11. Video: Setup viral video about your company, products and upload them at video network site.
12. Webinar: Setup a webinar and promote it on the social networks.
13. eBook: Offer a free ebook on your site. This could be information that would be helpful to your visitors that contains your business information, too.
14. Free Report: Give away a free report or analysis. Promote this on the social networks or in emails.
15. Quizzes: Design some quizzes and place them on your website. Statistics show that visitors love quizzes and assessment tools. Promote these quizzes on social networks and in emails.
16. Guest Speaker: If there is someone fairly prestigious in your field ask them if they might come and chat with your readers. This can be in a chat room on your site or a public chat room.
17. Viral email: Create an email with a joke that relates to your website but ‘leave out the punch line’. Next, create a page on your website with the punch line of the joke.
18. Contests: These get people interested in your site. And if you have a good prize, you’ll get people excited to try to win. Announce the winners on your site.
19. Newsletter: Keep in touch with your clients and potential clients by sending out a newsletter on a regular basis. This can be printed or email. Add newsletter subscription to your website.
20. Car Signs: Use your car, especially if your website is area-specific. Turn your car into a moving advertisement, literally driving traffic to your web site!