Gaining Traffic

[solar]

What things have you done to help build your traffic other than SEO and links...?

[taiarain]

Offline advertising and responding to ads.

Taia

[feline]

Others post their links in forums.

[Business Brian]

Developing traffic aside from links is really difficult...

[taiarain]

I recently heard that advertising through pay-for-reading e-mails is inexpensive. I'm wondering what the return on something like that is.

Taia

[solar]

I don't see good return in that....people who are paid to read email don't necessarily read it, they click where they have to click to get paid...

i did a paid traffic for one site...conversion was horrible..they clicked the main page and rarely went through other pages or links...click, sit a few seconds, leave..

[Melos]

I'm assuming you are talking about link exchanging or something like that, because you definately need to use your link to advertise your website.

My main methods of advertising are:
1) SEO
2) Article submission
3) Forum signatures
4) Blogging & blog commenting
5) Follow up with existing customers

[hokeshel]

I do blogs and I also wokr out deals with people. For instance, I may write a blog about their site in exchange for free advertising.

[Melos]

That is a good idea hokeshel.  How do you go about arranging these trades?  Do you just email the webmaster or advertise for the trade in other venues?

[4silverstrea]

People found me via free articles that I have written on the Creative Latitude website. The more your name gets on the net, the better..one way or another..

[Melos]

I agree by saying that the more you get your name out there the better.  Go to Google and do a search for 'easy article writing.'  An article I wrote -- not a very good one either - comes up as the number one result.  At the bottom of that page is my article directory link. 
It all helps.