Free and Best ways to increase blog or site traffic
I have listed below some of the most popular ways of getting traffic on to your blog or website. 1000 plus visitors on the first day on releasing a specific post or website feature can be archived if one follows all the marketing techniques mentioned below. Hope you find them useful, if you have any more suggestions, comments are very much appreciated.
1. Entre Card :
Entre card phenomenon has picked up like wildfire in the recent months, thanks to its innovative and simple way of integrating it on to any site. Its got a pretty simple logic of dropping your website or blow card, on which ever site you wish, which supports entre card drop. If the admin of the site approves, presto! you have an ad on that site. The ad last only 24 hours and will be replaced by the next entre card in the line. The best part, is that no money is involved. So you can start small and test it.
2. spottt.com :
Another link sharing website. Like entre card, it to deals with 125×125 px ads. Unlike entrecard.com spottt doesn’t allow users to choose which ads to be displayed on their site. They have there own algorithm(Spottt is owned by adbrite) which reads data and selects an ad from their database. Be careful, vulgar ad might be displayed.
3. Digg it, Stumble it or del.icio.us it :
Social bookmarking always helps. Social bookmarking offer quick visibility. It will takes time for your blog post to end up in google. It takes even longer for it to climb up to the upper fold, for a specific keyword. Social bookmarking helps in accelerating that process by 100 times!
4. Facebook and Orkut :
Send an email to some of the relative community members on orkut or Facebook. This might not be very targeted but increases the site traffic, so that other search engines and even alexa starts paying more attention.
5. Coupon marketing :
If you have coupon that is not of any worth to you, use it create that extra hype. Say, you have two movie tickets for Wednesday morning, and you don’t wish to go. Put up a blog post saying next 300 subscribers have a chance of winning two movie tickets!! Watch users scrabbling to get into your subcribtion list!
6. Link Exchanger :
This is little risky, there are soo many link exchanger websites out there. Not even half of them are effective or safe. Google and other search engines hate people who buy links or try to cheat the algorigthm. So always be careful with the link exchanging websites. You might end up being removed from google for spam linking. Here is one very popular link exchanging website.
Top wordpress ad management plugins
These plugins aren’t well know but they are mighty useful. Ad management plugins can really add that extra ease to your blogging adminstration. They give you good amount of stats and variety of options for totally control. Here is a list of top 10 wordpress ad managemt plugin. Hope you like them. Incase i have missed out anything, add it in the comment section.
1. All in One Adsense and YPN
All in One Adsense and YPN is a Free and Open Source Wordpress plugin which is able to automatically insert google adsense ads or yahoo publisher network (YPN) ads in to your posts on the fly. It doesn’t matter if you have 1 post or 100,000 posts, it will insert your ad code into all of them automatically. You can control all aspects of your ad’s display and position. Just specify ad color and position in the plugin options, your ad code is automatically generated and inserted. Advanced users can add html and css code before and after the ad to have total control of the ad display.
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Features:
- Automatically insert Google Adsense or YPN ads in to your blog posts.
- No manual work required, ad code is dynamically inserted into your existing and new posts.
- You could optionally specify not to show ads in a post by using tag
- You could optionally specify where to start the ads in a post by using tag
- Decrease ad blindness by giving you the option to randomly place your ad within your posts.
- You could optionally define absolute ad position instead of random position.
- You could optionally define random ad network to maximize earnings from both networks.
- Allow you to pick how many total ads to show on one page.
- Allow you to pick how many ads to show in one post.
2. AdSense Manager
AdSense Manager is a Wordpress plugin for managing AdSense ads on your blog. It generates code automatically and allows positioning with Widgets.
Version 3.1.x now supports AdSense, AdBrite, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Commission Junction, CrispAds, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN and WidgetBucks.
Automatic Ad Code Importer for all supported networks. Widgets & Sidebar Modules compatible (as used in the popular K2 theme). Automatic limiting of Ads to meet network T&Cs (Google 3 units/page)
Extended instructions are available here….
You may opt to support development of this plugin by donating a % of your Ad space to raise funds for AdSense Manager. All ads are hand-selected and guaranteed to be family friendly. Thanks for your support, it makes a difference!
This plugin is under active development: if you experience problems, please first make sure you have the latest version installed. Feature requests, bug reports and comments can be submitted here.
3. MAX Banner Ad rotator
Easily add and rotate banners in your wordpress blog anywhere you like without editing any themes or touching any codes
Normally adding banners will need you to edit your wordpress theme, mess with lots of codes and even then you won’t have the result as you want.
But what if you had the power to easily place your banners in any position you want to on your blog? What if you could also track your banners, find out how good they really are doing? Above all what if you didn’t even have to worry about editing your Wordpress theme to do all of this?
What if all of this could be done with one powerful and easy plugin? That is where Max Banner Ads comes into play. Adding, controlling, and tracking the banners on your blog has never been more easier or more powerful with the Max Banner Ads plugin.
Max Banner Ads gives you statistics like banner impressions and click through rates to let you correctly track how good your banner is doing. That was just one example of the many powerful features of the Max Banner Ads plugin.
4. Wordpress 125×125 ad manager
If you’ve given up the low-paying and slightly obtrusive ad networks used by many new bloggers, in favor of selling ads directly, you may have been frustrated with the excessive time involved managing your ads. Not only do you have to find advertisers to sponsor your blog, you have to manually edit your template to put the ad in, and then head over to your favorite calendar app to set an alert to remind you when to take the ad down.
Time consuming practices like those are a thing of the past. The WP125 plugin can help you manage your ads more efficiently, leaving you with more time to write new posts. The plugin adds a new “Ads” menu to the WordPress admin, featuring submenus for tweaking display settings and adding and removing ads.
Features include:
- One or two column ad display, and support through template tags to implement your own unconventional design.
- Show as many ads as you want, and in either manual or random order
- Keep track of how many times an ad is clicked
- When creating a new ad, you don’t have to calculate the end date yourself. Just input how many days you wish the ad to run for, and the correct date will be applied. The ad will be automatically taken down when the time comes.
- When an ad run is over, the record is archived on the Inactive ads screen, so you can check on the final click count, or revive the ad for another run.
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5. Rotatee Banner manager.
1. Create different campaigns to manage different ad spots on your websites. Get instant reports for each of your campaigns.
2. Add any number of ads to each of your campaigns. You can also specify how often you want each ad to display.
3. Obtain a simple one-line code to put on your websites. Sit back and watch your banners rotate.
You Will need a invite code to register. Type “getchance“. CLICK HERE!!
5 Reasons to stay away from magentocommerce! (Basical why magentocommerce sucks! )
Well, i am sure most of you out there refuse to believe in what i am about to say and may not see eye to eye regarding this topic. Before you draw any conclusion hear me out. Lets just think back a second, magentocommerce is brand new! They are soo new that, they haven’t yet released a decent stable launch! Well i will list out the reasons why i am saying magentocommerce is not stable and why it sucks!
1. BIGGIE : No body in the right mind will wait for 30 seconds for a page to load and no body gives a shit about the way the site looks if the user reponce time is 1 minute per click!
2. Not an option for shared hosts. They say magentocommerce is free under the OSL lisence but, you need to pay atleast a minimum of 500 USD for the hosting services and maintenance! Most of the people i talked to working with magentocommerce have there own box (Server)! Right now it seems to be rich web developer geek’s toy!
3. The script is quite bulky and adds extra load on your server, not to mention it lacks a few features which other shopping carts are providing such as multiple item selection and ajax add to cart features.
4. The database seems to be getting hammered! Too many things being called in and out of the mysql database
5. At the present moment ther are only 1 percent as many people who are working on and for magentocommerce as there are for os commerce or other e commerce script. So recourses will be very slim and might come with a price tag!
So, this is what i suggest for those magentocommerce admin wannabies. Give them time, wait for magentocommerce ver 2.5 or 3. Do not encourage heavy duty scripts how ever beautifully scripted they are because you will be abadoning the most important factor for a web developer, user experience - User doesn’t like to be kept on hold or waiting! When he has the cash to spend and will to buy a product, you should try to seal the deal as soon as possible before that costumer changes his mind :). If you have below 50 products, i say go for it. If you have more than 50 products don’t give this product another thought.
So, now you will like to know what the alernatives are? Well, i would recomend CS cart. It has very much stricking resemblence to magentocommerce and is even better than magentocommerce itself in some aspects like multiple item selection and ajax add to cart feature. It comes with a price tag but your intially investment will still be below what you normally need to spend to get a magentocommerce site up and running.
Hope i have offered an unbiased view on this topic. If you have any comments to share regarding this matter, feel free to shout out or belt me :).
