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In this article I will show you that weapons of mass traffic are
much easier to find than weapons of mass destruction. And after
reading it you won't even have to search for them anymore as I
will tell you exactly what they are and how to use them to help
you promote your own web properties.
Please note however that those four methods presented here are
just the ones that have returned the best results for me and my
own websites at the least possible cost (which means, no cost at
all). Of course there are many more promotion techniques around
and their success does depend greatly on how you use them and
for what kind of website so it might be clever to try as many
different ones as you can find.
1. RSS Feeds This one is a very easy promotion method
that can still bring you very good results, depending on your
content and how often you update it. The only thing you
basically do is add your content to a RSS feed and then
syndicate this feed on other big RSS lists and directories,
which will then link directly to your content. Those sites will
then update your listing automatically after you have added new
content to your website (and your RSS feed) and "Pinged" them
through a free service like the http://pingomatic.com/ program.
2. Link Exchanges Link exchanges are mostly used for the
purpose of search engine optimization and to gain a better
Google Pagerank only but if you use them right they can bring
very much traffic, too. And using them right just means using
them with the right people at the right place. For example you
don't want your link to be buried on a links page with hundreds
of other links or on a page that is not read by anyone of your
targeted audience. Instead, try to approach closely related
websites to yours (but no competitors) and try to negotiate a
fair deal with them.
3. Article Submission You might notice that I am just
using this technique because when I submit my articles to free
article distribution websites like http://www.ezinearticles.com/
I can include some links to my own sites at the bottom of the
article and therefore get one-way backlinks from everyone who
publishes my article. Depending on the article's topic and how
well it is written this might be several hundred different
sites. You have to remember however that writing articles is
hard work and does take some time however I can still recommend
doing it.
4. Press Releases A method that does rather require much
work since you will have to learn how to write press releases
for yourself (or you have to pay someone to do it). You do also
need something newsworthy to write about, but after everything
is done the hard work will surely pay off as this is a very
effective method to gain new visitors. You basically get them by
publishing your press release (that will of course contain
several links to your website) on some of the free press release
distribution sites like http://www.prweb.com/. After your press
release got published there it will normally be read by hundreds
of people and reprinted on many other sites. Sometimes, if your
news is truly interesting, it might even be picked up by a
newspaper or other print magazine and therefore drive thousands
of new visitors to your pages. To improve the effect of your
releases it might be wise to spend some money and make a
contribution to PRweb because this will give you access to some
special services like inclusion in Google News and file
attachments.
About the author:
Thomas H?fter is the webmaster and publisher of the Metal Music Portal
Metally.net, the Metal
Blog and the Smartphone
Software Directory Smartphony. You can find more of his
articles and tutorials at his personal website Lunatic Studios.
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