What’s the Best Ways to Get Lots of Traffic to Your Brand New Site?

Hey, we’ve all been there. We’re excited when we finished building our site. If we’re making a blog, we have spent weeks or even months to design our logo and sidebars to perfection, now it’s time to sit back and relax, right? Right? Oh wait, we still need to write articles for it, preferably good ones. Maybe some podcasts and videos as well. And we need to drive traffic for it…We know how to do search engine optimization and link building so we thought it shouldn’t be a problem. Until we actually do it. Those two methods work but they are just too slow at driving enough traffic to motivate us in the beginning of our internet venture. So, what could we do? First, calm down. Second, read this post for the best ways to get lots of traffic to your brand new site.

1. Pay Per Click Advertising

You might be disappointed that the first one on this list is not free or new. You might’ve heard it hundreds of times before from other bloggers or internet marketing gurus. But, whether you like it or not, paid advertising is by far the best way to drive traffic to your brand new site fast. And if you do it properly, you’ll earn more (much more in the long term) than you spend. The key is to calculate the lifetime value of your visitors. This is easier to do if you have a blog with thousands of visitors a week as you can based it on the past conversions and sales. If you’re just starting up, however, using $1 value per visitors seems reasonable. I calculated this based on 1% conversion rate on a $100 product or two $50 products and so on. So, as long as the money you spend on pay per click campaigns to acquire the visitors is less than the the lifetime value of your visitors, you’ll make a profit.

There are lots of venues that you can spend your hard-earned money on when you do PPC ^-^. The six-hundred pounds gorilla, Google, with its Adwords, is the weapon of choice for many internet marketers. But the recent Quality Score issue, has caused many of them looking for other options. Yahoo! and Bing paid advertisings, the social media advertising (Facebook and MySpace), and media buying are all there for you to choose. The choice is yours.

2. Twitter Promotion

When people say you can use Twitter to earn money, I don’t believe them. I mean, Twitter is good for building relationship with your readers or subscribers, but it’s not an effective selling tool. But, Richard, one of my internet marketing friends, tell me that I totally misunderstood the selling tool part of Twitter. You have to treat Twitter as an indirect selling tool, rather than direct one. First, you build your Twitter followers with the help of Social Omph. Social Omph allows you to schedule your tweets and have an automated direct message to your new followers. Give something to your new followers for free by sending them into your squeeze page. Now you have a list that you can direct anytime to your site or blog.

Additionally, use Twitter Poster plugin if you’re using WordPress as it automatically tweets the latest post in your blog. Depending on your niche, how you phrase your post titles and when you make your posts, it can help you get 100-300 unique visitors a day. You can do it manually as well. Go for heavy traffic times like lunch, late afternoon and early evening US time. Always use tinyurl’s for you links and make your titles compelling. Don’t spam. Good rule of thumb is one ref post for every 4-5 normal posts.

3. Guest Posting

Guest posting is not the easiest one to do, but it’s free and is proven to work. Find the authority sites in your niche with Google Search by typing in the broadest keyword that define your niche, for example “blogging”. Be an active commentators on the blogs for maybe a week or two, then contact the owners and ask if they’re interested in accepting your guest post that contains link back to your site. If they agree, you are now set to receive tons of traffic. To get even more traffic using this trick, promote your guest post by doing some social bookmarking and article marketing so that it ranks higher in search engine. It’s easy for an authority blogs to rank high for any terms, so might as well use it to your advantage.

4. CPM Mail Drop

This is the method that Frank Kern mentioned in his List Building video before he launched Mass Control last time. What’s CPM Mail Drop? CPM Mail Drop refers to email list brokers. They can rent you a list at a cost per thousands views. You can find these brokers by going to the SRDS site. You have a choice between opt-in lists and compiled lists, which are less targeted. The thing to remember is not to send the visitors to your blog. Instead, send them to your squeeze page and offer them something for free in exchange for their opt-ins to your list. Now you have your own list that you can use to drive traffic to your site or sell products to. The broker will usually provide you with a report regarding the number and % delivered, the number and %opened, the number and %read, and other data.

These are the best ways to drive traffic to your brand new site. Start applying them to have traffic pouring in to your blog(s) fast. Feel free to leave comments or tweet it if you like it.

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