Six Free Traffic Techniques to Increase Traffic

So you are building a dating business online. You've got an idea of a dating service you want to market, you have come up with a cool domain name, secured hosting, built a website using dating software and now you are clearing out the old jewelry and passports from the vault so you can fill it with all the cash that is going to be pouring in from your new internet empire.

Dating Site Traffic

But guess what? Traffic doesn't just happen, it has to be developed and delivered. And it can cost money. A lot of money! Google is worth a gazillion dollars and it didn't get that way from providing you free search results on Sarah Palin. But what if you've already burned through most of your capital putting everything together, or maybe you didn't have much capital to begin with; that may be your primary reason for building an online business, to create the wealth and lifestyle you don't currently possess.

Never fear. Haven't you heard the best things in life are free? How about generating targeted to traffic to your dating website without paying any money to the search engines? The price is right, so what do you have to lose. You've already read this far.

• Technique 1

  Write a press release about your new dating site and post it with one of the PR sites such as prweb.com. The nice thing about this is you can send out the release and it will drive traffic to your site for months to come. Some sites charge a fee, but many are free.

• Technique 2

  How about starting a blog about you, your site, your dating service, your expertise, etc...Our dating software helps you with setting up your dating blog in minutes. Then you can link back to your site on the blog, as well as in your posts. People read the blog, click on the link and presto - free traffic.

• Technique 3

  Go to forum groups that have users interested in your dating service and answer questions or provide advice to the forum users. You can then link back to your website in your signature line. This doesn't cost you anything except your time and knowledge and people love to buy from an expert they trust.

• Technique 4

  Do you like to write? How about writing articles and publishing them with the free article directories. You can have links back to your website in the article or resource box and if you put interesting content out there, people will forward your article around. You may go viral and the expense to you is Nada.

• Technique 5

  Try posting free ads with the Free Classified listing services that proliferate the internet. The more you put out there, the more chance someone will come across them and click through to your site. Make sure the ads are compelling and you will have better luck attracting the traffic.

• Technique 6

  Social media is hot and free. Set yourself up an account with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube. Get to know people, by letting them get to know you. Don't push the hard sell right away. Once you share personal photos and interesting elements about your life, you can then talk to people about what your dating business and even give them the link and send them over. Social media takes a bit longer to cultivate, but it is very powerful and can lead to much hotter leads.