21 Techinques to Drive Traffic to Your New Website!

In reality driving quality traffic to your new website is a very difficult task. Big websites spend thousands of dollars a month to promote their website. That means they may be earning at least 2 - 3 times their spending. Even Spending hundreds of dollars a month for a new startup website for this task is unimaginable. But Internet does provides lots of free resources for you to drive traffic to your new website. No body visits any website without any interest or intention. I will list those free services . Avoid scams and spams. You can also search in google for the topics below to get more information. You don't need to pay for most of the services found below.

Free Techniques

1)Search Engines/Directories - Your first task is to submit your website to search engines like google. Submitting to more search engines will make your website more visible to search engine users. Some websites offer free services for this. Tip : Search google for "Free website submission".

ineedhits - Search engines,Directories submitter
majon - Search engines,Directories submitter
Cyberfetch - Search engines,Classifieds,Directories submitter
Trellian - Search engines,Directories submitter

2)Press Releases - Write Press Releases about your website and submit it to press release websites. They will be immediately visible in search engines and various news sites etc... Some provides paid services also. Tip : Search google for "Free Press Release".

free-press-release
prlog
newswiretoday
openpr
pr
NationalPRWire
ecommwire
BigNews
i-newswire
ClickPress.com
newswiretoday
pr9
prbuzz
prcompass
prurgent
press-base
pressabout
pressmethod
prleap
theopenpress
free-press-release-center
pr-inside
prxbuilder
majon
24-7pressrelease
send2press
1888pressrelease
pressreleasepoint
massmediadistribution
prnine
express-press-release

3)Articles - Write articles about anything and submit to many articles directory. All your articles must have your website/blog url in the author section present below the title of the article or at the end of article. Some webmasters may use your articles(with your url) on their websites. There are lots of article directories. Search google for "article directories".

4)Link Exchanges - Exchange your website link with other related websites. This has lots of benefits. This makes your website to be ranked higher by google (PageRank). It increases chances of being indexed by google.

build-reciprocal-links
linktradeexchange

5)Blogging - Write a blog and write something about your website. Your readers may visit your site.

Blogger.com

6)Online Classifieds - You can post ads in classified websites. If your website is more targeted to local people this will work effectively.

Cyberfetch - Search engines,Classifieds,Directories submitter
justaroundtown
epage
isell

7)Newsletters/Ezines - Publish newsletter emails containing latest offers or news from your website. These newsletter emails must be sent to your customers who have willingly expressed their interest in receiving your newsletters. Otherwise this is considered as illegal spam activity.

8)Rss Feeds - You can provide your website links as Rss feeds so that interested visitors subscribe to your rss feeds themselves.

9)Forums/Communities - Join forums or communities related to your niche and add your website link and short description in the signature section of your profile in that forum/community website. You must actively participate in the forum discussions. Whenever you start a thread or reply to another post your signature will always be visible. These links will be visible to thousands of visitors to that forum and chances for your website being visited if it is interesting to them.

10)FFA's - These Free for all links websites may drive traffic but a little.

11)Safe-lists - Safe-list websites sends emails to all of their registered members. Some times this may be effective depending upon your niche.

ipostad - Safelist Submitter
Businessworldlist
Herculist

12)Social Bookmarking - You can add a bookmarking button in each page of your website. If a interested visitor submits your website page to any bookmarking website this may increase your site visitor count.

addthis.com - Get Bookmark button(see at top right of our blog) to add in your website.

13)Social Networking - Yes you can use your friendship and community power. You can add your website in your profile and use related forums and polls to drive traffic to your website. You can inform your friends about your website.

Yuwie (You can earn money by making friends)
orkut
myspace



Paid Techniques

14)Advertising Networks - You can drive targeted traffic through the pay per click (PPC) /CPM campaigns through Google Adwords or similar advertising networks. This is the best method to drive traffic to your website but you need to spend money.

AdBrite*
Bidvertiser Publisher Advertiser
Chitika*
Text-Link-Ads
MSN AdCenter
Yahoo Publisher Network
Kontera*

If you run affiliate program you can also try affiliate networks

Pepperjam Network
ShareaSale
Zanox
LinkShare
Commission Junction

15)Internet Audio Ads - This is a revolutionary new method of advertising evolved now. Net AudioAds have started this internet audio advertising network.

NetAudioAds

16)TV/Radio Advertising - Advertising in TV's and Radio's always brings fame and poularity among millions of general public.

17)Press - Whether you advertise in Newpapers or Magazines this works same as TV advertising.

18)Mobile Phones - Now a days mobile advertising ie advertising by sending ads through SMS is popular.

19)Others Ezines/Newletters - Some ezines/newletters has a large base of subscribed readers. Those websites charge some money to put your ads in their newletters and has chances to be seen by thousands.

20)Ebooks - You can also write ebooks where you can intersperse your links wherever possible.

21)Submitters - Some websites offers submission services to submit your website to hundred's of search engines, websites, forums, classifieds, directories, opt-in lists, safelists, ffa's etc... These submitters simplify the task of submitting to the above in a single submission. Choose good scam-free/spam-free submitters for advertising your website.

I will list some of these submitters below. All these provide more than one services or all services for some cost.

ineedhits - Search engines,Directories submitter
majon - Search engines,Directories submitter
Cyberfetch - Classifieds,Directories submitter
Trellian - Search engines,Directories submitter
ipostad - Safelist Submitter

You can find lots of other free advertising resources on the internet through search engines like google.

No doubt all these techniques drive massive traffic to your website. Best of luck!

You can comment your techniques other than described above.

Read my previous articles in this series :

Startup Websites - How to start my first Website?
How to Monetize my Website?
Earning money by putting advertisements in your website