10 Creative Traffic Building Ideas

Traffic, everyone wants it and is trying really hard to get more people to their site. Good news, there are creative ways to bring people in without doing a lot of work. 1) Social Bookmarking. It's been around long enough that some people know all about it and have a tendency to just search del.icio.us or Furl for what they want. Social sites are basically like a user defined search engine. Are you listed? Make sure to bookmark yourself every now and then and Flickr! Yes, it's true, the social photo sharing site can drive traffic to your site. I now post all my pictures that I'm going to use in my post to Flickr first, with good tags of course, then I write my blog post. Once I've published my post, I copy the post URL and add a note to my Flickr image. I paste in the URL, hit save and it turns into a clickable URL. Now, if people find my stats screenshot on Flickr they'll see my note and may click on the link back to my site for more information. 3) Read and comment on blogs. MacBytes. I know that if I write up a review, opinion, some cool scripts or something related to Apple, I can submit my story to them and, if approved, they'll post a prominent link to my site for all their visitors to click on. I'm sure there are other sites like it out there for cars or baseball or whatever you are interested in. 8) Guest Poster. As blogs get bigger and more popular, some sites ask for guest posters. If you sign on, they may just let you link to your own site every now and again. 9) Podcasts. Reach those that don't like to read by giving them an audio or video podcast. If they find your podcast interesting, they may just decide to look you up. 10) Submit your feed. If you have a blog it should be pinging everywhere it can and be submitted to the TopRank Online Marketing, specializing in organic SEO, blog marketing and online public relations. He's been cited as a search marketing expert by publications including U.S. News & World Report and The Economist and has implemented successful search marketing programs with top BtoB companies of all sizes. Odden shares his marketing expertise at