If you're looking for ways to get more traffic and targeted visitors to your website, you'll be happy to know that you don't even need to look past the top 10 most popular websites in the world. You can get all the traffic you'll ever need from those websites and then some.
For example, if we take a look at the top 10 sites as ranked by Alexa, we'll find:
- Yahoo!
- YouTube
- Live
- MSN
- Wikipedia
- Blogger
- MySpace
- Baidu
You're probably familiar with all of those websites with the exception of Baidu.com which is a Chinese search engine. So let's just forget about that one and talk about how some of the top 9 websites on that list will send you traffic to your web site.
Most people can think of one or two ways to get traffic from Google, but there are many, many more than that. If we look beyond search engine optimization and pay per click advertising, we'll find Google Sites. There's also Google Knol. And you can purchase cheap and highly targeted advertising on Gmail. Don't forget about Google Groups. And the list goes on.
Yahoo!
Just like with Google, there are some obvious ways to get traffic from Yahoo - SEO and PPC. However, Yahoo also has some other ways that you can use to get traffic. For example, Yahoo Answers and Yahoo Bookmarks can both drive traffic to your website.
Are you starting to see how there is plenty of traffic available if you just think out side the box a little bit.
Wikipedia
Let's do one more. While there are a lot of fun ways to get traffic from social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, I want to talk about one that doesn't receive much attention in terms of getting traffic to your website... Wikipedia.
Wikipedia ranks in the top 10 in Google for a significant number of competitive terms these days. It's actually a little ridiculous. However, you can use that to your advantage. Remember that Wikpedia is a website that pretty much anyone can edit and modify. So if your website was listed as a resource on one of those high ranking, high traffic pages, you'd probably get a good bit of traffic from Wikipedia, right?
The only problem is that many other people think the same thing and list their sites there as well. Your link would likely get deleted the next day. However, if you did a little bit of independent research and posted some statistics in the article on the page, you'd then need to cite your source (Wikipedia wants references just like those research papers you wrote in college). Then you would list the page on your website where you put the results of that research you did.
Now you've added value to Wikipedia and gotten a link from them in the process.
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