Working on another marketing campaign and as a first step, i thought i would take the time to write out all the possible ways to get traffic to your site, before i go through all of them and see which ones we can most effectively exploit.
i think i put a pretty good list together, am i missing anything?
Online
- Press releases
- Social media - Social networks ? facebook, myspace, twitter
- Social media - Social book marking - Digg, reddit, stumbleupon
- Social media - Hub Pages/Lens sites ? Squidoo, Hubpages, Xanga,
- Message Boards
- Video Sites ? youtube, google video
- Directories
- Banner Ads/Hardlinks - Purchased Banner
- Banner Ads/Hardlinks - Traffic Exchange
- Banner Ads/Hardlinks - Link exchange
- Affiliate Program
- Article creation and submission
- Email communications - Targeted email
- Email communications - newsletter
- Classified Ad sites? craigslist
- Answer Sites - Yahoo Answers, hunch.com
- PPC ? adsense, adwords
- Blogs - Building and maintaining a blog
- Blogs - Commenting on others blogs
Offline
- Newspaper
- Magazine
- TV Ads
- Radio Ads
- Pamphlets/Flyers/Brochures
- Billboard
- Airplane flying Runner
- Business cards
- Industry conferences
- Industry conference presence
- News coverage