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So you have a brand new site, now what? Well you need people to be able to see it.  I’ve found a simple way to jump start traffic to your website when you need to market your site for free because you have more time than money.

First and most importantly you need to keep your expectations real! It’s not like The Field of Dreams where if you just build it they will come. It takes time for people and for the search engines to find your new website and index it.

The easiest way I’ve found to get traffic coming to your site is to use places like http://www.linkreferral.com Some people will tell you that places where you have to visit other sites to get them to visit yours is a waste of time. I tend to disagree with this. I’ve used Link Referral for several years for many different sites.

To me the point of Link Referral is not just to exchange traffic, it can be a way to network online. I use it to build blog roll and link exchanges. While you visit blogs there it’s a perfect time to leave a comment with the link to your site. Remember that the sites you are visiting have people behind them that are working hard to get their site noticed too. With this there can be a collective effort to in establishing new websites. One can even target who you’d like to see on Link Referral as they have different categories so it’s easy to locate those that might be interested in a link exchange. I’ve also found customers there as well for one of my e store sites.

There is a recreation benefit there as well. I’ve had fun seeing some websites I might not have ever run across.

If you have a blog depending on what it is about keep an eye on the latest news and use those headlines as keywords.

This works because search engines especially Google indexs blogs very quickly.

Let’s say you have a lifestyle blog and you see a great piece on the news about a new diet.  Writing a blog post with the name of the new diet in the post title and the body of the post with some of the key words will help you get indexed on the seach engine and while I can’t guarantee visitors to your blog I do know first hand that this works as I’ve been experimenting with it for several weeks and had an increase in the traffic to my site.

To know for sure it is working, you’ll need to check your stats.  If you don’t currently track you stats you can get a free account at statcounter.com it’s simple to use and gives you great information about where your visitors are coming from and what keywords they are using to find your blog.

Increase traffic to your store with Google Product Search – for free
Google Product Search helps shoppers find and buy products across the web. As a seller, you can submit your products to Google Product Search, allowing shoppers to quickly and easily find your site.
 
Increase traffic and sales – Product Search connects your products to the shoppers searching for them, helping you drive traffic and sales to your store. Your products will appear on Google Product Search and may even be displayed on Google.com, depending on your items’ relevance.

Submit products for free – Inclusion of your products is completely free. There are no charges for uploading your items or the additional traffic you receive.

Reach qualified shoppers – Reach shoppers precisely when they are searching for items to buy on Google.

http://www.google.com/base/help/sellongoogle.html

Happy selling!