One of the most effective ways to get people to link to your web site is by offering other web masters the option of giving away your free stuff. In exchange, they link to your web site.
Why would other web masters want to do this? They may want give away a freebie to draw traffic to their web site. They also may not have the time, knowledge or skills to give away certain types of electronic freebies from their web site.
Your Links Will Just Keep Multiplying.
When a web master offers your freebie to his or her visitors. Those visitors may decide to also give away your freebie. And so on and so on… The linking can become viral and so the more people that link to your web site the more traffic you’ll get.
Below are four of the most popular types of freebies given away on the internet to increase traffic.
Free Software
Offer free software from your web site. The software could be:
- freeware,
- shareware,
- demos,
- Private Label Rights (PLR) or
- Master Resale Rights (MRR).
Free Online Services
Offer a free online service from your web site. The online service could be:
- an e-mail account,
- search engine submission,
- social bookmarking,
- copywriting,
- website promotion, or
- e-mail consulting, etc.
Free Information
Offer valuable free information from your web site. The information could be:
- a report,
- an article,
- an e-book,
- an online audio recording or
- an e-mail course, etc.
With a subscription form on your site you can keep your traffic steady by being in regular contact with your subscribers. Good free content on your site will ensure return visitors and referrals that will increase traffic to your web site and make it appealing to other webmasters to link to you.
Free Affiliate Program
Offer a free affiliate program from your web site. The affiliate program could be:
- pay per sale,
- click through,
- two tiered, etc.
Rewarding affiliates with a percentage of the sale of your products will increase the number of links to your web site as they promote your products.
Now, I know, there are many other ways to get links like trading or exchanging links with other web sites or joining a banner or traffic exchange. You can also do joint ventures or cross promoting. I feel these are not as effective as multiplying your links.
I hope this article has given you some ideas that can help you increase traffic to your web site.
