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Post by gray929 on Nov 2, 2008 18:58:54 GMT
What are some ways you bring in traffic to your site?
Some methods i have used:
Social Bookmarking
Yahoo Answers
125 x 125 Banner Ads
Text Links
Featured Links on directories
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Post by danielazarc on Nov 3, 2008 5:48:57 GMT
There's a site I sometimes buy adspace on, and it works pretty well. My most common way is tossing the link in my sig pretty much everywhere I go, and a lot of my members do the same. Honestly though I think about 70% of my member base (concerning members on my forum, which somewhat reflects the most common visitors to the site) come from word of mouth. Overall traffic and such though, that's usually taken care of with a little adspace and sig ads around a few sites.
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Post by gray929 on Nov 3, 2008 6:02:37 GMT
Right, signature adverting is a very strong way of bringing traffic in. My site gets a lot of visitors through signature clicks.
And if you have word of mouth going for you, thats just a testament to how well you run your site.
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Post by ŋєт™ on Nov 3, 2008 15:11:12 GMT
The more links you have on other sites the better imo. Try to become affiliates with other sites. Also word of mouth does alot especially if your demographic is local people. In that case get t-shirts and sell them for cheap or maybe hand out business cards or strike a deal with businesses for advertising in their store. If you're like SSD and you're looking for people around the world the sig ads work well as well as everything else I mentioned minus advertising locally and all that jazz.
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Post by gray929 on Nov 3, 2008 15:49:21 GMT
I was reading a post on another forum and a guy said the majority of his traffic came in through youtube. Here's his channel: Click. What he does is upload videos people would watch, then just slaps his logo on the video throughout its entirety. I think I'm going to try that with SSD and see how it goes. . . |
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Post by ŋєт™ on Nov 3, 2008 16:28:07 GMT
Actually that's a damn good idea. For my Halo site we used to make videos and we're still planning on making them so I think I might leave a little logo on the bottom of the screen. Thanks for the idea man.
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Post by gray929 on Nov 3, 2008 16:35:43 GMT
Actually that's a damn good idea. For my Halo site we used to make videos and we're still planning on making them so I think I might leave a little logo on the bottom of the screen. Thanks for the idea man. yea no problem. It's funny though some of the guys videos are of asian models posing so they get a lot of views. Maybe you should get videos of some booth babes at video game expos or something since the people watching those videos will probably be guy gamers. It's cheap in a way but welcome to the business world, right? |
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Post by ŋєт™ on Nov 3, 2008 17:26:36 GMT
Actually that's a damn good idea. For my Halo site we used to make videos and we're still planning on making them so I think I might leave a little logo on the bottom of the screen. Thanks for the idea man. yea no problem. It's funny though some of the guys videos are of asian models posing so they get a lot of views. Maybe you should get videos of some booth babes at video game expos or something since the people watching those videos will probably be guy gamers. It's cheap in a way but welcome to the business world, right? lol I hear you man, but I'm not sure if I would want to do something like that  I want to be legit. |
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Post by Saknika on Nov 5, 2008 15:07:17 GMT
Business cards, bought adspace, my blog, and signature links seem to do it best for me. Given the nature of my site, I also get a fair amount of hits off of MySpace and Model Mayhem as well. MM especially because it's geared towards my field. So I supposed advertising on sites of similar interest helps. Affiliation as well, though... being lazy I've yet to create the banners >.>;
I also find that making sure you have fairly regular updates helps as well. People like that. And when they're happy, there's word of mouth, which I also rely on.
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I want to be legit.
