101. Creatively connect a well-known celebrity to your niche.
102. Be the first to break a news story.
103. Get readers to Digg your blog posts or website pages.
104. Highlight some of your best articles or blog posts on your Squidoo lens.
105. Get PR 4+ backlinks to improve your search engine ranking.
106. Post your photos to Flickr, with a link to your site.
107. Linkbait: write about something controversial, break a news story or anything else to virally build traffic.
108. Sign up to become a Google news source.
109. Purchase or ads or posts on high traffic blogs.
110. Create an online media kit.
111. Concentrate on a specific niche; you’ll get a lot more visitors from Google.
112. Become the go-to source for information on your niche topics.
113. Have a friend recommend your website or blog to his/her list in return for you doing the same.
114. Print your blog web address on your business cards, letterhead, brochures and all other printed material.
115. Install a translation script or plug-in and translate your website into other languages.
116. Add a forum where your visitors can discuss topics related to your niche.
117. Break a world record and write about it.
118. Purchase the misspellings or variations of your domain name, or those of your competitors to forward to your main URL.
119. Buy a domain name related to your niche that is already receiving traffic andforward it to your site.
120. Barter for traffic with others in your field.
121. Cold call.
122. Hire an SEO company.
123. Volunteer.
124. Use a autoresponder or email campaign to keep people coming back to your site.
125. Purchase ads on other sites.
126. Try direct mail including postcards (they’re cheap and effective).
127. Start a Podcast or Videocast and submit it to iTunes.
128. Get bonus traffic: contribute a bonus product to other people’s products.
129. Use co-registration to build your list… then send them to your website.
130. Create a killer WordPress theme which automatically includes a link to your site on the blogroll and another on the bottom (in the footer) giving yourself credit for the design.
131. Create a plugin or widget for WordPress with the download link on your site. If it’s good, not only will people from all over the WWW will link to it, but they’ll highly recommend or endorse it.
132. Do the same thing as above in number 131, except create a plugin for Mozilla Firefox.
133. Solicit the help of a local reporter to write up a newspaper article on you and/or your business.
134. Use the concept of integration marketing. What’s that you ask? It’s when you find another business that you can integrate your products, services or web traffic with. For example, let’s say you run a carpet cleaning company… integration marketing might be where you find a home renovation company and work out a deal where your services are included in their sales process (also knows as an upsell). In this example, the renovation company might ask their customers if they would like to have their carpets professionally cleaned after the construction process is complete. On the WWW, if you provide one on one internet business coaching, you could seek out a company that offers internet marketing seminars. Part of their sales process might be asking participants if they’d be interested in signing up for ongoing one on one coaching after the seminar is complete
135. Go to the beach and as you’re walking along, drop stencils of your URL on unsuspecting sleeping sunbathers. Then they’ll get a nice tan of just your URL, and for the next week they’ll be walking billboards.
136. Create a buzz worthy post and submit it to Truemors. Don’t forget to include a link to your website
137. Train your affiliates and give them plenty of promo material.
138. Provide additional monetary incentives or prizes for top affiliates, most improved and so on above the normal commissions.
139. Find a traffic broker and let them look after your traffic generation.
140. Use USFreeads to post classified ads and generate backlinks and
partially targeted traffic.
141. Find an expired domain that’s receiving traffic, register it and redirect it to
your website.
142. Write an article for a local or community newspaper that’s related to your field of expertise and include a website link in your bio.
143. Do something viral.
144. Answer people’s questions on Yahoo Answers.
145. Post in forums and have a link to your site in your signature.
146. Create a killer PDF ebook and report, then sell it cheaply with master resell rights (and a link to your site) and allow others to do the same, as long as they leave it intact).
147. Get some t-shirts screen printed with your URL or get a few golf shirt embroidered with your domain name. Wear them everywhere.
148. Rent out one of those moving advertising billboard vehicles. Get your website written on it in large letters and drive around a busy part of town. For a greater impact, honk your horn or play ice cream truck music.
149. Rent space on a roadside billboard or sign and give people a damn good reason to visit your site.
150. If you have as store or physical location that people visit, put up a large sign advertising your website both inside and another in a window so it’s viewable to passers by. And if you’re really ambitious you can even put up a large neon sign outside your store or office location.
151. Post a bulletin about a contest or other event on community bulletin boards commonly found in grocery stores and community centers. Don’t forget to include little ‘rip off’ tabs with your URL.
152. Put up little vinyl signs at stoplights along the road advertising your products / services and your website.
153. Go to a construction site with wet cement and carve out your URL. You’ll fit in better if bring along a hard hat and clipboard with the words “Building Inspector” stenciled on the back.
154. Add a link in your email signature to your website. It’s a free and easy way to get a little more traffic.
155. Make a custom 404 error page for your website redirecting people to your home page.
156. Use PPC search engine advertising.
157. Add a “bookmark this site” link to your webpages.
158. Sponsor or donate money to a charity -- they’ll often put you up on a page of their website as a contributor and if you do it on behalf of your business, they’ll also put up a link to your site.
159. Master the 7 second elevator pitch.
160. Put your website URL on your business voice mail.
161. If you have an ad in the Yellowpages, make sure your URL is a big part of it.
162. Put your URL in any other print or media advertisements.
163. Go to a book store and sneak a bookmark with your URL on it into all the books that have anything to do with your business or niche.
164. This one is not for everyone, but I found it to be an interesting concept and in the right online niche (of which there are lots) it could work well: Organize a wet t-shirt contest and have all the girls wear t-shirts imprinted with your URL.
165. When you post a project (only that you need completed) on freelance sites like Elance, Guru, Rentacoder and so on, include a link to your website.
166. Add your URL to the company name on your PayPal account (ex. Your Company Name - YourCompanyName.com).
167. Brainstorm: use a white board to come up with traffic sucking, off the wall ideas and write the down before you forget.
168. Use a “YourName@YourDomain.com” email address -- curious people will check out your site.
169. Solicit a link from your local chamber of commerce.
170. Give away a freebie (e-book, report, e-course) to keep people coming back to your site with a strong auto responder campaign.
171. Give an unbiased testimonial on a product/service that you have used in exchange for a backlink to your site.
172. Optimize each page of your website for a particular keyword or search phrase.
173. Have a tell-a-friend form on your site.
174. Submit your site to any related niche directories on the net.
175. Participate in a banner or link exchange program.
176. Conduct surveys and publish them - they’ll make you appear to be an expert in your field and if your stats are good, many others will link to them.
177. Send articles to ezine publishers that include a link to your website.
178. Hold a crazy contest and help it go viral.
179. Ask others for referrals.
180. Ask if you can put your business card in related retail or office locations.
181. Get customized post-it notes with a snappy saying and your URL.
182. Stand at a busy intersecton in a funny mascot suit (or sting bikini) with a sign
that reads “Need Traffic: www.YourSite.com.”
183. Advertise in your local ‘Welcome Wagon.’
184. Use StumbleExchange or DiggExchange and trade Stumble’s or Digg’s with other users.
185. Use Bum Marketing.
186. Do something to encourage ‘word of mouth’ marketing.
187. Advertise on internet only radio stations. It’s new, it’s cheap and it can be much more effective than standard radio. Remember talk radio is best.
188. Advertise in the streaming player used by many FM, AM or online radio stations.
189. Promote your stuff at a trade show and hand out memorable ‘take home’ swag with your site address.
190. Hire a hot air balloon or blimp and add a banner with your URL.
191. Find an airplane advertising company and have them tow a banner (with your website address) promoting a contest, giveaway, star search etc. I would think that flights along highly populated beaches would work best, but not having tried this method (yet) I can’t give an expert opinion on the results you should expect.
192. Buy and use a memorable domain name.
193. Do something controversial.
194. Create an Amazon profile and submit reviews for books and other products that you have read.
195. Start a lens on Squidoo.
196. Produce an infomercial for late night TV - just make sure you have a strong sales team with high ticket backend products in place or you’ll go broke.
197. Buy a pair of sandals; get your website engraved on the bottom and walk on the beach, stomp in the mud or play in the snow.
198. Sell your stuff (and reference your website) on a home shopping channel. There are also cheaper online variations.
199. Appear as a guest on a talk radio show.
200. Give speeches at churches, community or business associations or even your best friends wedding.
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