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Getting traffic

Ways to get traffic

There are several ways you can get your site some traffic:

1. Directories and guides - Add your site to internet directories / guides. Good example of a directory is Yahoo, which is one of the biggest internet guides over the internet. These directories usually have an "Add URL" page, in which you can insert your site's details and address, and add it to the directory. Now these directory visitors would be able to find your site through it. This is a good way to get traffic and it's usually free. However it is time consuming. If you want to get this done fast you may also try this handy tool. It would submit your site to over 3000 directories and guides over the web in no time.
   
2. Link exchange – Find webmasters who would like to exchange links / banners with you. You put a link to that specific site and in exchange, that site will put a link back to yours. That is why it is called, "Link Exchange". The benefit of this way is that you get traffic from the site you have linked exchange with, for free! However, in return that site also receives traffic coming out of your site.
   
3. Forum posting signature – Forum is a great way to exchange ideas, ask question and getting answers. However this is also nice way to get some traffic back to your site. A lot of the forums do not allow self promotion. Some even regard this as SPAM. However a lot of the forums allowing each user to create its own signature. This is a small text and links you may attach automatically to each and every of your postings. So each time you post something over certain forum your signature would be automatically attached. If you have a website this is great for you, because you can insert to your signature a link to your site. Think of it, each an every time you post something over the forum a link to your site will appear in your signature! Now the forum users who would read that post, would see your site link (in the signature) and might click on it, eventually visiting your site. Obviously, posting in bigger forums will result in greater amounts of traffic coming to your site. This way is also free, and if in anyway you are going to post in a forum, just add your signature, and you could gain some additional nice traffic.
   

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