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If you’re looking for the best Internet Marketing free traffic sources for your internet marketing business, you’ve come to the right place. In this blog post, we will discuss 15 of the best internet marketing free traffic sources without spending a penny. These methods are all effective and can help you generate more leads and sales for your business. So what are you waiting for? Start reading and start generating more traffic today!
Is Free Traffic Really Free:
The methods we will discuss today will cost you nothing but time. Now some of you may place a dollar value on your time in which case, technically these traffic sources we will discuss in this blog post are not really for FREE pre se. Just so we get that straight. The traffic sources listed are used by beginners and experienced marketers. On saying that most beginners will start by using free traffic sources and if and when they reach a level of success they will invariably turn to some form of paid traffic.
The reality is that, the more experienced you become the more automation you will apply to some of these methods to free you up your time. This frees up more time for leisure of taking up other projects. Some examples of automation is using an app called tailwind which automatically posts to your social accounts.
In short the traffic methods discussed are used by all marketers. So, if you are a beginner familiarize yourself with all sources and use them in your arsenal to get a boat load of traffic to your site(s).
Free Traffic Sources:
Social Media:
All new bloggers, affiliate marketers or internet marketers in generally will in most if not all cases start a social media account with one of the more popular Socials. The more popular social media platforms are Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok. When I start a project these are must have’s. Some will say that a particular platform may not suit your particular niche. I say, give them a go and if you see one or two that grow in size focus on those ones and drop the others.
Question and Answer sites:
The two most popular ones to focus on are Quora and Answers. You can get a ton of traffic from these sites. Just be careful not to spam your links in each answer as they are fussy in that regard.
Forums:
A simple google search will lead you to forums related to your niche. Choose the larger and more active forums as it will bring more traffic. The key here is to add value by helping and offering good advice and comments. Once you establish that your credentials forums can be a gold mine to bringing traffic to your site.
Article Marketing:
This was more effective and popular more than 5 years ago but I believe it can still bring a good amount if done diligently and correctly. Along with traffic they can boost you ranking by getting backlinks to your site. Some though are no follow which means you don’t get a backlink attributed to your site.
Popular articles sites are ezinearticles, goarticles, myarticles and github. There are many many more. I suggest you choose one and post an article there once every 2 or 3 days with a link pointing back to your site.
Email Marketing:
This method could be the most powerful of all the traffic sources. When starting out in blogging one of your first things to do would be to sign up to an email marketing platform. The one that I have used for years is Getresponse, they continue to evolve and improve their service and have found them to be one of the best. You can read my blog post here that showcases what this powerful email software can do. They have a free plan for life. The only caveat is that once you reach 500 contacts you will be required to pay a monthly fee. It’s small in comparison to other platforms. You can read the post here.
To start building your email list place links inside your blog posts and especially on the front page offering a free report in exchange for their emails. As you begin to build traffic and slowly build your list you will have a direct line of communication with your subscribers. This is very powerful way to keep you subscribers up to date with new posts and offers or products that you may have in the future.
Reddit:
This platform is one of the few goldmines still untapped but many marketers. Reddit can be fickle with what types of posts you can make. If you follow their rules and guidelines you wont have too much trouble.
First thing is find then join subreddits that relate to your niche. Then read their rules and begin engaging without promoting anything. Use similar principles to forums. Just add valuable information and get known for someone that is there to enrich the subreddit. Once you have get established and build up your karma you then mention you blog when making comments.
Classified Ads:
This traffic method is very underrated, when people think of classified ads they think of selling physical products. Using classified ads you can advertise services, products, jobs, announce community services and much more. Using some initiative you could sell or give away a pdf that contains your website links inside.
Giving away a pdf is an awesome way to warm people to what you have to sell or even get them to your site. I use this method still today. It’s easy to create a report that gives some value to the reader. Remember, giving value builds trust.
The possibilities a limitless. Here are some popular classified ads sites you can post for free. Some may require a small payment.
Tip – If after trying their free ads and find some success I would recommend you pay a small fee to bump you ad to the top. The fees could be as little as $20 per month.
Marketplace – This is facebooks marketplace that has increased in popularity lately. On this platform you can advertise just about anything. I would suggest you start by posting a free ad here.
Craigslist – I think most have hear of this one. Can be used worldwide and receives over 250M visitors per month.
Gumtree – Another good classified ad site that receives around 30M per month.
Classifiedads – This is also a good ads site that is well worth a try.
Without paying for their ads these 4 sites wont bring a huge amount of traffic but they will bring a constant trickle. If the niche is not saturated they could do quite well.
Video Marketing:
Some marketers use video as one of their sole traffic sources because it commands such a huge audience. As with all free methods Video marketing requires a certain knowledge, time and expertise to research, make and upload videos to rank on youtube and google searches. Because of the amount of traffic you can attain by using this method it is worth investing some time to learn video marketing.
Youtube is not the only platform that you can use but it’s certainly the biggest and most popular.
Other platforms are bitchute and vimeo.
I would focus on Youtube at first and fine tune you video style and what your viewers like to see and respond. When you channel is established then you can upload your videos to other platform to increase exposure.
Blog Commenting to drive traffic:
This method is underrated and can bring a steady flow of traffic if done correctly. Not only can it provide traffic to you blog but it can create relationships with other like minded people in your niche. The key to successful blog commenting is to provide value with each comment. Comments like ‘good post’ or ‘awesome’ wont cut it. Before commenting read the article and provide a tip or personal experience to the comment. People actually do read the comments and if they see your comments regularly with intelligent comments they will go to your website given time. For this to be truly successful have a list of 6 blogs popular blogs and comment on them every couple of days.
Press Releases:
Press Releases can be powerful way to get traffic, backlinks and social signals to boost your brand all over the web. They are usually done to announce a new product line or services, although you can find a hook for just about anything you want to announce.
Here are several Free Press Release sites you can post to.
Create Coupons:
This works great if you have an online store or sell digital products on your site.
You can create coupons using a free wordpress plugin and submit to coupon sites which get visited by hundreds of thousands each month.
SEO:
This is huge and if done right can be the only traffic source you need. Without going into detail about each aspect of SEO, the best thing to do is download a wordpress plugin that will help. The plugin you require is Yoast SEO, get it here.
I use this plugin for ALL my sites and I would highly recommend you get it and use it for all you blog posts too. Once you install this plugin on your site, it’s settings and parameters will appear at the bottom. It will guide you with all aspects of your article outbound links, images, inbound links, keyphrases and so on. There is a paid and free version. The free version is all you need when starting out.
Guest Posting:
The key to getting a good amount of traffic with guest posting is finding sites that have good traffic going to them. A simple search in google for free guest posting will get you plenty of guest posting opportunities. My tip is to search the site in similarweb and see how much traffic it gets. Then check it’s page rank(PR), use a free page rank check like checkpagerank. Anything over 5 is good and well worth posting a guest post on that site.
The key to successful guest posting is take the time and write an article that offers plenty of value and gives the reader a taste of what more you may have to offer on your site. Don’t forget to add your site at the bottom of the article.
The best part of guest posting is you will get a backlink that will also help you site rank in the long run.
Invite Guest Posters:
This is another great way to get some traffic. By having others write for you, your blog will fill up with new content on a regular basis that will have people coming back often. It does take time to VET the articles but well worth it to create an authority site with other peoples energy.
Influencers:
Find large blogs in your niche and collaborate with them for mutually beneficial collaboration. When your starting out and want some help promoting your site you could create an infographic that the influencers can use on their site, in exchange for a shoutout on their social media. This way you have helped him/her and in return you may get a ton of traffic. You need to think outside the box for innovative ways of helping each other out.
PDF sites:
People love downloading free ebooks and reports. For this method create a small report solving a problem in your particular niche and upload that report or ebook to one or more of the below sites. Don’t forget to add links to products articles to your site.
A few popular sites that allow uploads are as follows:
Host Webinars:
When you start to build momentum you can try hosting webinars. They do take some time to setup but well worth the effort. I haven’t hosted webinars myself so have brought on Louise to show you the ins and outs of starting a webinar.
Final Thoughts:
As you can see getting traffic especially free traffic requires rolling up your sleeves and getting to work. The trick to a good traffic strategy is to create a schedule and sticking to it until the traffic comes.
For example, at the beginning you set yourself a task write a new blog post every second day. Once you do that, post the new article to your social accounts. Once a week you create a short report that solves a problem some people were writing about in the forum. Each day spend some time watching what the influencers in your niche are writing about. This will give you ideas for your next post. You get the idea right!.
Once you have an article idea in mind then get to it. Don’t procrastinate as most bloggers do and fail to achieve the most from themselves.
