Driving traffic to a website?

Question

I work as a Project Assistant for a local community radio station. How is best to drive traffic to the website, get people interested etc?

Do you need to offer something to make them want to visit the website? Like videos, pictures and blogs? People can listen through the website.

The website is www.gaydio.co.uk - basically gaydio is a LGBT Radio station in Manchester on a short term FM Freq.

Be interesting to hear from Marketing or Promotioins people?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Targeted traffic is the way to go http://www.trafficthatsells.com/

Answer 2

Advertise your website for getting traffic.

Answer 3

Hi gu2_ad,

There are several ways you can get traffic to your website:

1) Buying Links

i) The reason for this is to get backlinks to your website so it will be noticeable on the Search Engine. You can buy links at Text-Link-Ads.com. I've used their service before and it was quite good.

ii) Buy links from website owners which have high targeted traffic to their blog. This technique I used for quite some time now and it works tremendously is by buying (asking) them to link back to your site from the homepage.

2) Article Marketing

Write several articles regarding your niche and submit it to Top article directories (you can check out the resource section for the link). Make sure your signature have something to offer for the readers to click on your link.

3) Online Communities

i) Social Bookmarking - Use the power of Social Bookmarking sites StumbleUpon.com, EbaumsWorld.com, Reddit.com, and so much more. Choose your tag wisely so that people will find your website link and make sure you put an interesting description when you bookmark.

ii) Social Networking - Sites like Facebook.com allow you to put your website link in the profile, so you better make full use of it. Check out other social network sites that has this functionality.

iii) Yahoo Answers - Yup, the question you post here is also consider as one of the best online communities website. What you are doing now is posting a question but if you want traffic to your blog, you may want to provide ANSWER to other people regarding your niche.

iv) Google Groups - You can join several Google Groups that talk about your niche. Be active in the group and try not to spam and sell, instead you need to provide good content for members so that they will trust you even more and hopefully click your link to to your website.

v) MyBlogLog - MyBlogLog is one of the best blogging community around. Share your interest and knowledge here. You might also want to join other community to gather more exposure. Oh, you need to create a blog for this.

4) Forum Marketing

Where else could you find a targeted traffic to your blog other than forum? Join at least 10 good forums that talk about your niche and allow signature after posting (some forums do not allow signature line which is ridiculous). Again, like Article Marketing, make sure your forum signature line is interesting enough that will make people click on it.

5) Exchanging Links

This is where you need to use the function of Blogroll. Ask or request the owner of other blog member which talk about the same niche with you, so that they will link back to you. Don't forget you can also do some blog commenting to gather backlinks to your site. Make sure your comment is good enough so that people will trust you and not just by putting your link inside the comment form (this is consider as spam by the way).

I hope all of these helps. All the best to you.

Answer 4

People use free clasifieds like http://www.sellit-right.com



That includes ree services like Youtube and Bebo and Myspace to talk about their talents, events etc. You can do the same with all of them.

Create a blog and talk about your buisiness. Allow comments.

TIP: The key is to promote where you can; picking and choosing is NOT always the best idea.

Answer 5

Depends on budget.

Google Pay-per-click will get you visits to your site immediately, but be prepared to pay at least 50p per visit.

Can you track the visitors? Use a web analytics tools like Google Analytics (free), if you can't track where the traffic is coming from, you can't work out where best to spend your time/money.

Answer 6

giv them a catchy promo's some interesting messages or some good offers ....scam revealing... about any big personalities..can drive you traffic...or else go for some SEO work if necessary