Off page Activities and Traffic sources

Article Writing & Submission / Article marketing: Articles are great way to tell our product, service and the subject in which we expertise. Most of the article sites allow adding our author bio at the end of your article. We can place a link back to your website in that section.

• Article re-writing and distribution –Numerous SEO companies are hiring writers to re-write the same articles many times in different versions and keep distributing them on hundreds of press release & bookmarking websites.
• Article Directories: Article directories work best for your popular posts. All you need to do is to submit your top posts to as many article directories as possible. Make sure you sign off at the footer with your link Ex:-ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, ehow.com, articlesbase.com .Etc If a post is drawing a lot of traffic, then certainly a lot of your users are finding it useful. To generate even greater amount of traffic from that post submit it to authors of blogs in your niche for publication on their blogs, Some bloggers encourage guest posting and accept great post on their sites.

Posting blogs & Promoting Blog/Blogging will increase credibility and communicate a more personal message from our company, as well as help increase website traffic and our keyword rankings.

• Blog Reviews will promote our website and bring more targeted website traffic. We will then write a unique and original review of your website on indexed, established, high quality blogs.
• Publish Blogs / News / Press Releases & submit them in bookmarking websites - Everyone in the web community knows the importance of blog and news updates on your company/ product website. Not only it attracts search engine crawlers to visit your website more often, it also helps you generate more back links by submitting these articles on press release and bookmarking websites. Tons of bookmarking websites have sprouted up recently. And believe it or not, most of them are a good source of traffic generation for your website. Stumbleupon, Digg, Delicious,Reddit, Mixx , Propeller, Yahoo Buzz, Technorati, …
• Blog Communities: Bloggers share ideas links, tips, and learn from each other on blog communities. Joining a community gives you the opportunity to interact with other bloggers and possibly share and exchange links. The most important thing is to make contact with other users and develop relationships when you join forums and communities. Ex:-MyBlogLog, Blogengage.com, Entrecard.com
• Online News / Tools Aggregation sites: This category has a lot in common with social media marketing. Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Slashdot and Delicious all qualify for this category as well. You are familiar with most of them. Provide buttons to these sites on your blog and your users will bring you tons of traffic.
• RSS Feed Submissions: Blogs can be submitted automatically with a single registration. Some sites provide this service for free, whilst other charge to submit your blog URL and description to multiple sites. The greater the number of your links scattered on the web on other sites, the higher your page ranks on search engines and sites like Compete and Alexa. There are other sites that are interested in pinging your blog or its RSS on other sites when you post new content. It helps to ping your blog from time to time. Many blog users immediately scan your blog for an RSS feed if they like your content once they land on your blog. RSS traffic constitutes some of your loyal readers.Ex:-rss-feed.org, rsshugger.com, feedfury.com, feedest.com, rss-spider.com, feedlisting.com, Submitterbot.com, pingmyblog.com…etc

Promoting in Social media websites:

• Social Bookmarking Submission Services have developed into a effective means of inbound linking for Off-Page SEO. We link to your website from within the various social networking websites, blog sites and content focused sites like – (slashdot.org : facebook.com : flickr.com : slashdot.org : digg.com : blurpalicious.com : technorati.com : stumbleupon.com: squidoo.com : propeller.com : archive.org) These submissions can provide a viral traffic boost. Social media is a big part of getting ranked higher in the search engines while bringing you more targeted website traffic.
  
  • Create your social profile & share your news update with the community – The first names that lighten up in our minds are Facebook, Twitter & MySpace. Make sure you create a public social profile for the company that you are promoting. You ought to have your Facebook Fan page, Twitter profile, YouTube profile, and LinkedIn profile (of yourself and/or your clients). All the websites require to sign up and they provide you a unique URL of your profile. This is your social profile. Following are must-do activities whenever you have a new blog or new story published on your website or blog. Once profile has been set up, should start building a community by adding/inviting friends to join your network.

Press Release Optimization & Submission is designed to maximize the visibility of your press release in the news search engines and media databases using news wire services, XML, RSS feeds, e-mail, and FTP feeds to distribute press releases to your target audiences. Press release services will increase your link popularity, website traffic and sales

Yahoo Answers & similar question/answer websites: where you can post any question you want and community members will respond within hours. We are using similar sites to drive traffic by maneuvering questions in such a manner that makes other members click on their URLs.

Participate in Forums & discussion boards: 5-6 responses or 2-3 new questions a day (with your website’s URL in the signature) in 5 different popular forums a day is all that it will take to get a decent traffic on to your website. Ex:-Digitalpoint, Webmaster World, V7n Community...etc

Publish & share videos and slideshows about your product or company – This is usually the one time process unless you introduce new products very often. You should create a slideshow or video that describes your company or product. Slideshows are perfect for any online Booking owners as you can add all your products and their description into multiple slides and share it on hundreds of video websites.Ex:-YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Slideshare

• Video Marketing :Video streaming and downloading is very popular among some section of blog readers. You may have your videos scattered on multiple video sites. If you have not done that already and are wondering how to convert that top and popular post into a video, you can try ArticleVideoRobot, Camtasia Studio and here is a great site for video submission: tubemogul.com
• Document Sharing Marketing :Sharing your post on a PowerPoint could take a lot of time, but once that is done you can send or submit it to multiple document sharing sites. It has a significant impact on the number of people who could land on your blog from these sites. I use slideshare.com to distribute my slides and those posts keep sending traffic to my alltopstartup blog. Remember link back to your blog with your URL when creating the PowerPoint slide. Putting hyperlinks on your slides makes it easy.Ex;- scribd.com, docstoc.com, slideshare.net, issuu.com, edocr.com…etc

Local business listings on search engines & yellow pages- All major search engines like Google, Bing & Yahoo offer business owners to submit their business with full details of name, address, phone number etc. This helps in getting local traffic for your website. Optimizing for local search listings is the discussion of a different topic that I will publish sometime in near future. For now, you should just make sure that your business has been listed on all local listings websites. Ex:-Hotfrog, Business.com, Superpages.com

News aggregation is very popular in recent times; fortunately some of the sites allow users to submit their news or stories to their sites for their readers. Y combinator’s hacker news aggregation is not known for good design but it can send a lot of traffic to your site if your article or post will be useful for startup founders, or technology news readers. With compelling headlines and descriptions, you can quickly gain traffic to your blog.

Podcast Directories: Some readers prefer podcasts to reading your text online. Give them what they want when they them ta the places they find them most. You can convert your blog posts into podcasts with Vozmo. Ex:-podcastdirectory.com, podcastalley.com, podiobooks.com, odeo.com…etc

Ebooks Directories: Most e-books directories offer the best of e-books from different categories. A lot of people visit these sites to download books to enhance and boost their blogging career.
Compile some of your best and popular posts into e-books and submit them to some of the great sites listed in this collection Ex:- ebookjunke.com, ebook88.com, thefreesite.com, getfreeebooks.com…etc

Directory Submission Services have long been a source of one way links in the SEO Industry.

Set up a search engine friendly affiliate program - Affiliate Marketing is a system that encourages other websites to become advocates for each others' products and services, Affiliate marketing widens the scope of your internet presence and rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by their marketing efforts.