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I need to know what kind of websites would be a good website to ask if they would add my link to their web page. I am creating a coffe shop web page.

Yay for coffee! I’m drinking some right now!

I would look for local art galleries and such. Art always goes with coffee. you could also look at other Coffee shops who are friendly enough to want to help a fellow Coffee lover out. Anyplace artsy or unique. Gift shops. Not only link off of other web pages but go to local places and put out business cards! Best of luck!!

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will adding social bookmarking code to my website increase website traffic?

Lorenzo

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Not unless people actually post your content to those bookmarking sites. In other words, giving people an easy way to link to your site doesn’t matter if you don’t already have traffic, but if you already have traffic, you should see an increase.

The single best thing you can do to a Web site to improve search engine results is to use valid XHTML to mark up your content, with appropriate headings and page descriptions, and content organized toward the top of the page.

The next best thing you can do is create an XML site map that Google and Yahoo can easily parse, which simplifies their ability to crawl your site.

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An ongoing challenge for new websites is to get traffic … if nobody sees the site, it can’t be effective in getting its message accross. Aside from submitting to search engines, what do you do to get traffic … quickly .. to your site?

There is no readymade solutions for getting the traffic. It depends on your website niche and utilizing the effective strategies from time to time. FOr eg. reciprocal links and 3 way links were considered the important factor at one time, but you may get penalized for that now. I can recommend the following steps based on our success.

Our site http://www.recycleinme.com ranks on first page for the keyword "scrap" which has 30,700,000 results. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=scr…

1. First and foremost step is to do the sitemaps for google, yahoo and submit them. Look for any crawl errors and fix them.

2. Submit the website into as many directories as possible. Importance should be provided to related niche directories and regional shopping directories if you are selling something online. This may take time but it is very effective.

You can find those directory by <keyword> + directory, <keyword> + add url, <keyword> + add website,
<keyword> + submit site, <keyword> + resources etc.

3. Some of the directories have a paid link option starting from $1 for a permanent link. You can buy some links depending on the quality of the directory.

4. Do a press release on launch of product/service and distribute it to as many PR sites as possible. There are some sites which charge a little amount to distribute your PR into the print media. Establish links from the keywords on the Press release to the website or related urls.

5. Write some informative and unique articles on the subject and distribute them to the article directories. Establish links from keywords to the home page or inner pages. A good article drives lot of traffic and increase the link juice. A quality article submitted by 2004 and published at ezinearticles.com by http://www.submitinme.com/article-submis… have received 100,000+ views and still counting. 60% of the visits would have converted into clicks to the website which means 60,000 targetted visitors from a single article. So it is important that you distribute quality articles periodically.

6. Social bookmarking- Bookmarking the urls with social media sites and making the link public.

7. Google Base – This is one source tapped by very few people. When you search for http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&… You will find some results for the products submitted with google base(froogle). These results are taken from Google Base. http://base.google.com/ . You have to register there and upload the products there. There are options for multiple product uploading, image upload etc and it is free.

8. Video ads. Distributing inline ads with any related, interesting video.

9. Posting at related forums. Forums are a great way to promote the site. Many of the forums offer signature links, where you can have a link back to your website or any url. Also some of the forums allow direct links at forum posting.

10. Posting comments on blogs. Post comments on related blogs with backlinks to site

11. Yahoo answers- Yahoo have a no follow attribute so there will not be any link juice, but certainly there will be lot of traffic to site. All you have to do is find coffee related questions and answer them with a link back to your site.

12. Provide testimonials wherever possible.

13. Have your product / service reviewed at http://www.epinions.com/, http://www.consumersearch.com/, www.mouthshut.com, http://www.product-reviews.net/ etc.

14. Hire bloggers to start and write frequently on several blogs at different class c ips.

15. E-book syndicate – Create an e-book on the subject and distribute it for free from your site and other sites. Links have to be established from the ebook to the urls of your site.

16. Register with B2b sites, wholesale sites like www.alibaba.com etc if you have a product related site..

We have used the services of http://www.submitinme.com who provide the services mentioned here at very affordable rates.

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I need to be able to generate some free traffic to my website. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can accomplish that?

Getting traffic is a combination of a lot of things. The key to success is to create great content that visitors want to use, search engines will love and other websites will naturally link to. Of course, it’s easier said than done.

You can use pay per click advertising in the search engines to reach audiences looking for your products. You can use Google Adwords http://www.google.com/adwords or Yahoo http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com

Here are some shoestring marketing ideas that can help you get the visitors you need at the least cost possible:

1. Create the best content you can with the best products you can possibly offer. Your content is your best advertisement – if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.

2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important — and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. If only 10 people go to your site, but these 10 people invite 10 more – that’s additional traffic that you get for FREE!

Recommend Site Scripts (various) http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Website_Promotion/Recommend_Site/
Big Nose Bird Recommend this Site http://bignosebird.com/carchive/birdcast.shtml
CGI Resource Index http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Website_Promotion/Recommend_Site/
Hostscripts http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Site_Recommendation/index.html

3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.

If you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com’s "Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm

4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News.

http://www.prleap.com/sign_up.html

http://i-newswire.com/

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/

http://www.pressbox.co.uk/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi

http://www.pr.com/press-releases

http://www.prfree.com/

http://www.clickpress.com/releases/index.shtml

http://www.theopenpress.com/

http://www.przoom.com/

http://www.prweb.com

http://www.newswiretoday.com/

http://www.free-press-release.com/

5. Submit articles. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.

Here is a comprehensive list of where to submit your articles http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AhzreGmnCUicOoyedqypscUjzKIX?qid=1006022407481

6. Post a link to your site for free where it is allowed (always read the Terms of Use). Examples are:

Craigslist http://www.craigslist.com
Google Base http://base.google.com
Classifieds for Free http://www.classifiedsforfree.com/…
Text Link Exchange http://www.txtswap.com/
Recycler.com http://www.recycler.com/
Yahoo Classifieds http://classifieds.yahoo.com/
US Free Ads http://www.usfreeads.com/

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I have recently set up my own online dating website invitemeforcoffee.co.uk which to be fair is doing ok with over 2000 hits since it went live on the 23rd December 2009, but I want to increase traffic as much as possible for free and im looking for the best tips on doing this.

Increasing traffic will cost money. It’s called advertising. No one will give that away free, unless it’s worth nothing to start with.

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