Free Traffic For Your New Website

So you have a new website and want to know what to do next. In this article i am going to talk about just some of the basic things to do with your new website. You will need to be sure that each page is search engine friendly so that it can be indexed quickly there are many tools on the internet that will assist you. Next create a 301 redirect in your htaccess file telling the search engines how you want your URL to be shown either with or without the WWW. Get your self a sitemap and submit it in Google Webmaster Tools.

Fresh content daily.

Adding fresh new unique content on a regular basis is extremely important. Search engines love fresh content and will frequently visit your site looking for it. The more fresh content you have the more traffic you will generate.

Join Forums.

Join forums and join in with the discussions. Posting answers to other members questions will increase your popularity and trust which in turn will generate more traffic and sales. Check out and join our Bloggers Forum and join in with other bloggers.

Bookmark website in Social bookmarking sites.

Submitting your articles to sites such as Digg, Stumbleupon and Sphinn etc will also increase your readership. There are many great tools that can do this for you one we like to use is Social Marker that currently submits to 43 bookmarking websites.

Build your back links.

Building backlinks to your website is another essential if you want to increase your traffic. Their are many ways in which you can do this from using directories such as Blurb Blog Directory and Poll Get to link exchanges with other websites in your niche. Commenting on blogs will also increase your backlinks. Do not let No Follow tags put you off these still count as a backlink to your website.