How to Build Links for Traffic not SEO

Posted by admin

July 18, 2008

Sometimes niches don’t rely on search engine traffic, but rather links from other sites. This is a great way to start a site, and make money right off the bat. Although these methods involve mostly “nofollow” links, and thus are looked down upon by most SEO marketers, they are a good way to get a constant flow of traffic to your site, and if your ads are right, a small flow of money.

For excellent targeted traffic, I suggest Yahoo Answer. These work especially well with blogs, but other sites can be effectively advertised as well. The key is to first answer the question, so that people don’t just skip over a spammy looking ad. After the answer, put your link either in the source or the answer. These answers can take less than 20 seconds each to read, write, and complete, and as long as you include a good phrase like “If you need any more help check out my site: …” or “blahblahblah.com can probably help you with that problem” people will see the comments as legitimate and most of the time click to investigate. The best types of ads are those that don’t look like ads, and this marketing proves that point.

Another great way to advertise to gain traffic is in Facebook groups. Everyone has a Facebook these days and its really easy to just do a search for your niche, join a bunch of groups and post a comment on each group’s wall. Keep it short but not ad-like and people will click, because they are interested in the topic.

As was previously mentioned; these methods will not help you gain PR or count for anything search engine concerned. But they are an excellent way of getting people to your site, and keep them coming back if you have good content. Just remember you don’t get money for being the first on Google; you get money from people coming to your site, and this type of link building does just that.