2 Websites That You Can Get Free Traffic/Visitors From

Are you down in cash but still needs to get visitors to your website? I think it’s possible. You can get free visitors/traffic to your website/blog. Though, it won’t be as good as the one you pay for. But as they say, “half bread is better than none”. Use any of the websites below to get real and unique traffic/visitors to your website.

InstantXchange.com: this website is very good at sending traffic to websites or blogs. It is the best for those who want visitors for free.

Trafficadbar.com: though, they are strict in their business. But they are also a good way of getting visitors to your website.

You may wonder why it is only two I can could provide. But the truth is that most of those website that boast of giving free traffic or visitors are fake and some are scammers. These were the only two that I could see so far that sends traffic (visitors) to your website even though it is not like the paid-for. Please consider sharing this post.

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Two Great Websites You Can Advertise in That Will Bring Sure and Unique Visitors/Clicks

 Instead of going to different websites looking for unique visitors you can buy, you should try advertising on google and facebook. Though, some websites will send you visitors for real but facebook and google which are called facebook advertising and google adwords will give you exactly what you want with the extra benefit of selecting visitors' region. They are what I use when I am in need of traffic. If I am to rank both, I will prefer facebook as no.1 but as they say, "one man's food may be another man's poison" so you may prefer google adwords. To start using facebook advertising, click here or click here to start using google adwords.

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10 Tips to Drive Traffic Effectively to a New Blog

It’s easy to start a blog but the hardest part of blogging is driving traffic effectively to that blog. Many new bloggers find it almost impossible to get visitors to read their stuffs, getting less than a hundred page views daily and abandoning their blog out of frustration. Without a meaningful traffic, a blog is almost as good as useless and that is this is one of the main reasons some blogs never get to see the light of the day. New bloggers are often faced with the challenge of getting traffic and increasing their blog’s daily page views. Well, if you’re a new blogger, you ought to know that all the so called “big blogs” you see today started with zero visitors but finally made it. Are you wondering how? I started this blog and somehow managed to get a fairly good traffic…if I did, you too definitely can.

There are certain ways to drive visitors to that new blog of yours and I’m going to try to list here how I started. All the tips here definitely worked for me and they should work for you too if properly implemented.
1. Social Networking
This really helped me a great deal in the early days of my blog and I must tell you, the first handful of visitors I got was from Facebook. I use twitter a lot less though but it can also be a great source of traffic if properly used. You can’t separate blog traffic from social networking and I think you need to add people with similar interests as friends who would read and appreciate your ideas each time you share link to your new blog post. Also you should have a fully function fan page. You can get free facebook fans in several ways – inviting your friends, showing the badge on your blog and so on.
2. Web Forums
This is used less by bloggers but if you’re new to blogging, you definitely need it. Using popular web forums is one of the quickest and most effective ways to drive traffic to your blog. You should register in two or three popular web forums and be active there. Post interesting topics in those forums and use your blog as reference once in a while but do not spam. Imagine the traffic you’ll be driving to your blog with a topic that gets up to 1,000 page views in just a day. You should also include your site link in your forum signature as people will definitely check your site when they find your forum post interesting. I got quite some traffic from Nairaland forum and some other international forums when I started out.
3. Blogging Communities
Blogcatalog was the bomb back in 2009, it was a major source of traffic for me back then because I was very active there. I’m not sure it still works like it used to  but there are other blogging communites you can join to drive traffic to your blog. You can join linkreferral, yousaytoo, technorati and some other blogging communities. I used them a lot less these days but you can google out the best of them or ask around.
4. Guest Blogging
You’re a new blogger so don’t expect your guest post to be accepted on problogger.net but you can still find a popular blog to write for. Writing for a well known blog is a way of exposing your blog which stands to get lots of real traffic if your guest post suddenly goes viral. I normally check out guest authors’ sites each time I read  piece of their writing on other blogs.
5. Blog Directories
I don’t believe in directories that much but you can still drive a handful of traffic to your blog from there. Submitting your blog to directories doesn’t only get you some traffic, it’s also a way of building your backlinks which is pertinent to search engine ranking.
6. Commenting on Popular Blogs
Being a regular commentator on popular blogs can drive one or two people to your blog daily and increase your popularity in the process but this is not the major reason I included it, I included it because it’s a way of building your backlinks also just like the blog directory thing I mentioned earlier.
7. Submitting Articles to Directories
Trust me, you can get thousands of people trooping in to your site by just writing a couple of articles and submitting them to ezine, scribd and the rest of them. More often than not, articles from these directories do come up in search results when properly written. Including your site in the byline and referring to one or two of your blog posts is an ideal way to drive traffic to your blog and some people might even be kind enough to include those backlinks when they use your articles on their blogs.
8. Social Bookmarking
I haven’t been using them much lately but a fellow blogger I know personally wrote a post on the power of stumbleupon and digg, making me realize I’ve been missing out alternative ways to increase my blog’s traffic.
9. Optimize your Blog for Google Search
This is probably the most important of all. Google is the biggest source of traffic in the world for any site and this is a fact. Submit your site to major search engines including google, bing, yahoo and the rest of them. Also, be sure your link building and other search engine optimization techniques are properly implemented. You will even find other sources of traffic negligible when google finally starts driving real visitors to your blog. Optimizing your site for search engine is a long time process though, but it definitely pays at the long run as you will be increasing your alexa traffic rank and google page rank at the same time.
10. Read Like Crazy
Yes, you heard me right, read like crazy. I know you’re probably a good reader by reading through this boring piece right till the end but you need to read more like it. Get different ideas from probloggers, read every ebook on blogging you can lay your hands on, subscribe to newsletters based on blogging tips, driving traffic effectively to your blog and SEO.

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How To Increase Your Blog’s Google Page Rank And Alexa Global Rank

These are the three most important things to put in mind when thinking of increasing your blog’s google page rank and alexa global traffic rank but for the purpose of clarification, I’ll explain each of these one after the other.

1. Original, Quality and Well Researched Contents
I’m sure you might have heard this before but do you actually know what it means? I’ve seen a lot of new bloggers use articles on other blogs word for word, thinking its a cheap way to get traffic but hurting their very own pagerank in the process. Google has a way of differentiating between original content from copied one and you’ll definitely sink lower in search engine result page if you’re the type that relies on contents from other blogs. The last Google panda update 2.5 focused heavily on plagiarism, poor contents, black hat SEO and lots of big sites with high page rank sank.
A friend using autoblogging software disappeared from SERP and so many others got affected. There was some kind of general fluctuation in traffic but I’ve noticed an increase in traffic since. When google realizes your site content is copied from somewhere else, you lose relevance in search engine result page and start missing out on search engine traffic. So, the bottom line is writing original and well research content that gives you not only a higher page rank, but also gains you credibility with your readers.
I should also add this: you don’t expect to come up in google search result with a blog post of just one hundred words. Your post must be long enough to be called a real article. Writing short contents won’t increase your page rank or drive in any meaningful traffic form search engines.

2. Choice of Keywords and Moderate Use
Apart from writing original contents, it’s also important to know the right keywords to use that’s going to drive in traffic from search engines. Like I said earlier, if you’re going to write a blog post on how to rob a bank, you must be sure to include that phrase in your article and similar ones such as ‘how to steal in a bank’ and so on. You should let this appear in your article as many times as possible but it seems google now has a way of punishing excessive use of keywords. You must be moderate about it but you also must be sure you pick the right keywords to use in each article.
A few weeks back, I took a post from one of my partners that went viral and drove in lots of traffic, with almost 600 facebook likes in just a couple of weeks, and I took time to study how I wrote that blog post and realized what made it go viral was the proper use of keywords that drove in mad search engine traffic which will definitely have a huge impact on my alexa global ranking in about a month or so. The phrases used in that blog post was exactly what people were searching for on google.
Using Google analytics will give you a better insight on keywords and I suggest you start using this if you haven’t.

3. Building Quality Backlinks
I won’t talk much about this because I have an article that already covers it. Building quality backlinks is an efficient search engine optimization method that’s definitely fool proof. It’s an important way to increase your page rank and one of the algorithms google considers in SERP. For more info on this, please read this post.
One important this you must know in order to increase your traffic, google page rank and alexa traffic rank is that although these things are different from one another, they are still interrelated one way or the other. Focus on improving your blog by writing quality and original content with good choice of keywords and you’ll realize your google page rank drives more search engine traffic which in turn increases your alexa traffic rank. Happy blogging!

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Using Google Analytics On Your Blog

There are several free counters you can use to monitor traffic coming to your blog but only a few can equal google analytics in terms of detailed reporting. Google analytics is a free service provided by google to keep a track of your site or blog’s visitors. Using google analytics is quite helpful as it gives you an idea of what your visitors find interesting on your blog and areas you should make improvements. With google Analytics, you get to see almost real-time data about your site’s visitors. It’s even possible to track how much you’re earning from each of your blogs if you have more than one.
Google Analytics can provide you information about top search keywords relating to your site, referring websites and so on.
Installing google analytics on blogger is quite easy but you first have to sign up for the service with your google account.


1. Log in to google analytics and create a new account for your blog.
2. Hit the sign up button on the next page and proceed to the next stage where you’re supposed to enter your website’s URL and account name.
3. Enter your contact information and proceed
4. Copy out the code generated on the next page
5. Log in to your blogger account and click on Design > Edit HTML
6. By pressi9ng CTRL + F on your keyboard, search for </head>
7. Just above this, paste the code you copied earlier in step 4 and save your template.
You just successfully installed google analytics code on your site and should start seeing tracking reports in your google analytics dashboard in about 24 hours.

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How To Get Traffic To Your Blog

It’s quite easy to build a blog but most blog owners are faced with the challenge of driving meaningful traffic to their site. The primary objective of building a blog is for people to read your stuffs, right? But how then can you make this happen? How can you make your site appear in first pages of web search results? How can you keep visitors coming back every now and then? People often ask me this questions and I’ll try to do the little i can to answer them in this post based on my little experience.
1. Write long, informative, original posts.
2. Do not rely on copied materials from other sites.
3 . Submit your site to popular search engines.
4. Using Google webmaster’s tools is very good for knowing your most valuable keywords and top search queries.
5. Submit your blog to blog directories like blogcatalog and technorati.
6. Promote your blog on social networks like facebook and twitter.
7. Write and submit articles to article directories with your site link included.
8. Make sure your readers can subscribe via email or rss. Use feedburner
9. Encourage your readers to comment and respond to comments as new comments invites spiders.
10. Always update your blog with new posts at regular intervals.

11. Always write in simple and easy to understand English. Having too many grammatical errors is unforgivable.
12. Develop a sense of humour in your blog posts.
13. Don’t be boring.
14. Contact blog owners for link exchange. Some will turn you down definitely but having your links appears in several places on the internet makes you gain favour with search engines.
15. Use a nice looking template good for SEO.
16. Using too many graphics, javascript and flash that increase page load time is not advisable.
17. Link your blog posts.
18. Link to other blogs or sites relating to your subject matter. It goes a long way in helping.
19. Encorage your readers to share your posts on their favourite social network.
20. Make an effort to comment on other blogs with your link included.
21. Never take your readers for granted.
22. Use pictures in your blog posts. Sometimes pictures communicate more than words.
23. Use pingomatic or some other services to ping your blog each time you make a new post.
24. Track your visitors to monitor their behaviour. This helps to know where to improve on.
25. Endeavour to be the very best in your category!

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