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Re: Getting more traffic! From Steve on 23 April '99 replying to Getting more traffic! posted by Brandon Blum >Hi all, I have't posted here in a long time, but I was wondering from any 'big site' owners if they could answer this question. My site is getting almost 4,000 uniques daily and I am not sure how I can get more uniques, I have already set up links with other similar sites and in almost every search engine? Is there anything else possible to do or is it all just word of mouth? >Brandon Some suggestions: - Get linked from sites that are slightly different, but along the same lines as yours - free sounds, Webmaster forums. If you are linked from mainly graphics sites, you may not get clicked if people find what they need on your refering site. - Subtle Usenet advertising. Take part in discussions and put your URL in your sig. line. - Your mail list form is great for repeats, but you need a "Tell a Friend" form for new traffic. - Write some articles and submit them to online and offline zines, the WWIO, and other content providers. Always mention your URL a few times in the article, but again, in a subtle way. Other suggestions: - Buy one of those "Send 20 e-mails to every Internet User" and spam the planet. - Spray paint your URL on busy highway overpasses, watertowers, the city bus fleet, etc. - Write a virus that infects every broweser, making your site the start page - Create a snooty portal site that ignores submissions with categories that go on and on that never lead to any links. You'll be the number one site in the World ;P STEVE

Steve - Dumb Dave - 26/04/99

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>>Hi all, I have't posted here in a long time, but I was wondering from any 'big site' owners if they could answer this question. My site is getting almost 4,000 uniques daily and I am not sure how I can get more uniques, I have already set up links with other similar sites and in almost every search engine? Is there anything else possible to do or is it all just word of mouth? >>Brandon > > >Some suggestions: > >- Get linked from sites that are slightly different, but along the same lines as yours - free sounds, Webmaster forums. If you are linked from mainly graphics sites, you may not get clicked if people find what they need on your refering site. > >- Subtle Usenet advertising. Take part in discussions and put your URL in your sig. line. > >- Your mail list form is great for repeats, but you need a "Tell a Friend" form for new traffic. > >- Write some articles and submit them to online and offline zines, the WWIO, and other content providers. Always mention your URL a few times in the article, but again, in a subtle way. > >Other suggestions: > >- Buy one of those "Send 20 e-mails to every Internet User" and spam the planet. > >- Spray paint your URL on busy highway overpasses, watertowers, the city bus fleet, etc. > >- Write a virus that infects every broweser, making your site the start page > >- Create a snooty portal site that ignores submissions with categories that go on and on that never lead to any links. You'll be the number one site in the World ;P > >STEVE > >