Websites you use to get more website referral traffic?

[froggyboy604]

I gotten some referral traffic from these websites I listed below by creating articles and videos to solve a specific problem like "keeping a Windows PC free of viruses and spyware".

http://www.squidoo.com/
http://www.Youtube.com/
http://ezinearticles.com/
http://answers.yahoo.com/
http://twitter.com
http://facebook.com
http://www.professormesser.com
http://forumpromotion.net/

Plus, commenting and guest blogging on blogs I found which have a link field for the username.

forum posting can be a good source of referral website traffic if you post good replies and topics and your forum link is in your sig in my experience.

I use to use Social bookmarking sites as well, but haven't since I find it somewhat time consuming to log into a dozen or more social bookmarking sites to submit links to articles I written on a forum, blog, or article site.

I also heard http://hubpages.com/ and Article directories like http://www.articlesbase.com/ can be a good source of refferral traffic since both can rank high in Google search, and have an active community of members.

Doing Keyword research and creating quality interesting content can get you more referral website traffic.

I notice when I write articles sometimes people post my link on a forum to answer someone question instead of writing an answer themselves according to my Google Analytics logs.

 

[David]

Although referral traffic is "good", organic traffic is much better. If you are too reliant on referral traffic, what happens if those sites close? You will most likely lose the majority of your traffic. Search engines are less likely to close, especially Google.

 

[froggyboy604]

Some of my Youtube videos rank on the first page of Google/Youtube Video search and text search.

I think it is best to spend time on all types of promotional methods referral, offline promotion "Newspaper, TV or radio" if you can "afford it" or just telling your co-workers, Search engines, direct traffic, etc.

I think Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are pretty reliable places to get referral traffic as long as you don't spam or somehow get your account suspended for posting content which violates the "terms of service" agreement.

I don't really see many Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other huge social media sites being closed anytime soon. They just change owners sometimes like Google now owns Youtube instead of those 2 young men who started it.

 

[David]

I don't really see many Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other huge social media sites being closed anytime soon. They just change owners sometimes like Google now owns Youtube instead of those 2 young men who started it.

IpbFree was closed recently. It's a medium-large site, and no one expected that. Anything can happen in the Internet world. What if suddenly all the servers were destroyed in a tornado, or flood? Again, anything can happen at any cost.

 

[froggyboy604]

Indeed, the internet is very unpredictable. I remember when Hotbot, Lycos, Excite, and Altavista were pretty popular, and now when I talk to new internet users or older people who forgot about older search engines. Not many people know what I'm talking about, and need to use Google to search it up.

I though IpbFree violated a license agreement and was shutdown for piracy, or a similar offence.

I read plans that Google closed their Google.CN search engine because China or a Chinese hacker hacked into Gmail servers of human rights activists.

It is unlikely that Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIN all at the same time, so if you spend equal amount of time and effort promoting your website at all 3 websites and other sites. It is less likely you lose all your promotional links at once.

 

[Sayf Udeen]

Hmmm. You can't be ghung up on things closing. Just keep going at it.

Then again, what ways would you suggest advertise on Twitter, or Facebook? (I've never been on LinkedIn).

I mean. I have a Twitter account, and upcoming forum. Also a Facebook (Though, personal friends only on that one...).

What's the next step?

 

[froggyboy604]

Make friends with people who might be interested in your website, and join groups where people might like your content.

It is pretty easy to do since many people still set their profiles to public, and you can read their hobbies and interests.