27 Secret Traffic Sources - All You need to Know

Reviewing my survey results, I’ve noticed that most of my loyal readers are interested in traffic generation sources. And that’s no suprise, knowing that traffic=money:)
Instead of covering well-known sources like SEO, video marketing, article marketing, I’ve decided to take a look at 27 completely different (untapped) type of traffic sources that are working very well for me. So, if you are ready, let’s get into it:

1. Image/photo sharing traffic.

There are many image sharing sites, such as flickr.com, where you can share your images (in any niche) and include a link back to your own site/blog.
But you know what works even better? If your website URL is written on your picture! This can be extremely powerful if your image goes viral. Memes.. hint hint :-)
Here’s a complete list of photo sharing sites that you can use:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photo_sharing_websites

2. Document sharing sites

Did you know, that you can share .doc or .pdf files with your link inside the document? These doc sharing sites gets a decent amount of traffic and can bring you some nice amount of visitors to your site/blog in a short period of time. Here are top 20 document sharing sites:
1. scribd.com
2. docstoc.com
3. slideshare.net
4. crocodoc.com
5. Issuu.com
6. docshare.com
7. wepapers.com
8. myplick.com
9.powershow.com
10. slidesix.com
11. gotomyfiles.com
12. my.huddle.net
13. twidox.com14. pex.webexone.com
15. docuter.com
16. slideboom.com
17. authorstream.com
18. slidelive.com
19. slideserve.com
20. slideburner.com

3. eBay.com traffic

eBay is one of the biggest internet sites on the internet. And as with other big sites out there, there’s always a way to get a slice of that traffic. You can do this by selling reports and e-books you write in your niche (write some useful how-tos and sell them for very low price, the point in this case is the traffic, not the money). Also you can create an about page , where you can put a link to your blog/site.

4. Craiglist.com

Craiglist is the most trafficked classified ad site on the internet. I’ll be honest with you, I haven’t used craiglist yet, however I’ve heard some incredible success stories who cracked the code of craiglist. One thing to keep in mind, that most of the CPA networks don’t accept craiglist traffic, so your best option is to send them to a squeeze page, build a list and then promote stuff through email marketing.
Craiglist traffic can work for any niche: bizz-op, dating, free stuff, local lead gen.. you name it.
Here’s a great video on Craiglist:

You can also try these classified ad sites:

1. ablewise.com
2. adoos.com
3. adpost.com
4. allfreeads.com
5. american-classifieds.net
6. backpage.com
7. classifiedads.com
8. classifiedsgiant.com
9. domesticsale.com
10. ebayclassifieds.com
11. eclassifieds4u.com
12. epage.com
13. finditclassifieds.com
14. freeclassifieds.com
15. geebo.com
16. inetgiant.com
17. kedna.com
18. locanto.com
19. newfreeclassifieds.com
20. olx.com
21. oodle.com
22. pennysaverusa.com
23. salespider.com
24. usfreeads.com
25. webclassifieds.us

5. Pinterest.com traffic

According to Mashable.com, Pinterest.com Drives More Traffic to Blogs Than Twitter! Also Pinterest is generating more referral traffic to websites than YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn *combined*.
If you are not utilizing pinterest traffic yet, you are missing out a lot.
With Pinterest you can promote almost anything, from Amazon, CPA, Adsense sites to your own products and clickbank offers.
Often I hear my subscribers saying that it takes a lot of manual work to see decent traffic coming in from Pinterest.com. Well, not if you are using automation and tools. In my business I try to automate as much things as I can. This is the beauty of online business. For Pinterest marketing I use Auto Pinterest Marketer Software.
Check out the video below to see it in action:
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6. Missspeled domain traffic

This goes more into the grey hat area. I’m not doing this nor do I recommend, however I’ll cover this anyway if you want to take a risk:)
Miss-speled traffic is essentially a traffic that comes from missspelled web addresses. For example, there are millions of people everyday typing google.com into the address bar, a small % of these people sometimes make a mistake and put gppgle.com by mistakenly clicking “pp” instead of “oo”. So, if you owned gppgle.com I bet you’d received a great amount of traffic every single day. Get the point?
This is just an example, however you can still use this idea on other websites. Here’s a hint: trending events. Such us popular movies. At this moment when I’m writing this article, The Dark Knight Rises is all over the place. Having this in mind, you can buy all sort of variation domain names: www.darllnight.com, www.darkknoght.com and etc.

7. Coupon traffic

If your business offer coupon codes for your product or services (and I highly recommend you to do that), don’t forget coupon directories. People love discounts and coupons. Groupon.com is a living example. Make sure you add your coupons to the following coupon/deal of the day directories:

1. bensbargains.com
2. couponcabin.com
3. couponcraze.com
4. couponcraze.com
5. coupongirl.com
6. couponmountain.com
7. currentcodes.com
8. dailyedeals.com
9. dealcatcher.com
10. dealhunting.com
11. dealofday.com (Forum)
12. deals2buy.com
13. deals4dummies.com
14. dealtaker.com
15. edealsetc.com
16. gottadeal.com (Forum)
17. happycoupons.com
18. headlinedeals.com
19. jackscouponcodes.com
20. keycode.com
21. mycoupons.com
22. promotioncode.org
23. quicktoclick.com
24. ultimatecoupons.com
25. wanting.com

Above sites are hugely popular and get incredible amount of traffic everyday. Don’t have a coupon code yet? I’m gonna write a whole post on creating a coupon code for your product/service very soon. Coupons are great not just because it increases conversions, but succesfully combining it with social/incentive aspects, your coupon code can go viral at the speed of light.

8. Podcasting traffic

People love video, but they also love audio too. Podcasting is a great way if you are shy in front of the camera and feeling more comfortable talking in to the microphone. Podcasting can be used for any niche. What I like about podcasting is that it highly improves your credibility and authority. Especially if you are interviewed by other person. Very powerful stuff.

1. allpodcasts.com
2. digitalpodcast.com
3. feeds4all.com (podcast category)
4. fluctu8.com
5. getapodcast.com
6. gigadial.net
7. godcast1000.com (Christian)
8. ipodder.org
9. itunes.com
10. learnoutloud.com
11. mirpod.com
12. podbean.com
13. podcast411.com
14. podcastalley.com
15. podcastblaster.com/directory/
16. podcastdirectory.com
17. podcastingnews.com
18. podcasting-station.com
19. podcastpickle.com
20. podcastpup.com
21. podfeed.net
22. rimpodcast.quickplay.ca/rimpodcasting/ (Blackberry)
23. social.zune.net/podcasts/ (Zune)
24. stitcher.com
25. techpodcasts.com

9. Tutorial traffic

Tutorials are a HUGE untapped traffic source online. If you have a website related to graphic design, wordpress, web development, SEO, marketing, or programming, then you can use tutorials to send thousands of visitors to your website.
Some of the popular tutorial sites:

1. Good-tutorials.com (Graphics/Photo/Programming)
2. Tutorialized.com (Web design and marketing)
3. tutorial-index.com (photoshop, coding, video, etc)
4. tutorial-center.com (computer related)
5. geekpedia.com (Programming)
6. tutorialsphere.com (web, video, audio, etc)
7. tutorialsgarden.com (photoshop & coding)
8. thewebblend.com (Design)
9. fstutorials.com (Web design)
10. noupe.com (Graphics related)
11. tutorialized.com
12. noupe.com
13. instructables.com
14. pixel2life.com
15. psLover.com
16. tutorialkit.com
17. ehow.com
18. instructables.com

(there are dozens more)

10. eBook traffic

There are plenty of free and paid ebook sharing websites where you can upload your own eBooks.
Here are some of them:

1. free-ebooks.net
2. getfreeebooks.com
3. ebookdirectory.com
4. e-booksdirectory.com
5. free.yudu.com
6. manybooks.net
7. witguides.com
8. bookyards.com
9. bibliotastic.com
10. smashwords.com
11. sharewareebooks.com
12. ebookjunkie.com (Free ebooks category)
13. ebookmall.com (Free ebooks category)
14. Amazon.com (Kindle version)

11. Q&A traffic

1. answers.yahoo.com the most popular Q&A site currently.
2. able2know.org
3. akaqa.com
4. allexperts.com
5. answerbag.com
6. answers.com
7. linkedin.com/answers
8. mahalo.com/answers/
9. aolanswers.com
10. ask.fm
11. ask.metafilter.com
12. askville.amazon.com/Index.do
13. blurtit.com
14. fluther.com
15. formspring.me
16. justanswer.com
17. kgbanswers.com
18. querycat.com
19. quomon.com (tech related)
20. quora.com
21. stackexchange.com
22. stackoverflow.com (programming related)
23. theanswerbank.co.uk
24. webanswers.com

12. Press release traffic

1. 1888pressrelease.com
2. 25pressreleases.com
3. afly.com
4. bignews.biz
5. downloadjunction.com (software related)
6. emeapr.com/en/
7. freepressindex.com
8. free-press-release.com
9. i-newswire.com
10. ideamarketers.com
11. mediasyndicate.com
12. newsreleaser.com
13. newswiretoday.com
14. onlineprnews.com
15. openpr.com
16. pr.com
17. pressbox.co.uk
18. pressexposure.com
19. pressking.com
20. pressmethod.com
21. pressreleasepoint.com
22. pr-inside.com
23. prlog.org
24. prurgent.com
25. release-news.com
26. theopenpress.com
27. webnewswire.com

I highly recommend paid PR sites. Why? For example, PRWeb.com for $89 will distribute your press release to thousands of news sites including giants like cnn.com, bbc.com and other. You can get thousands of visitors and hundrends of high quality links from news authority sites. Just don’t forget to include your website link in your press release!

13. Guest blogging traffic

Yes, I realize that most of you have probably already heard about the power of guest blogging. But how many of you are actually doing it?
In order to find guest blogging opportunities, you can conduct a keyword search on Google. Some search suggestions follow to help narrow your results:
- Use quotes and popular phrases such as “write for us” or “call for guest bloggers” or “guest blog submission”.
- Add a keyword to target your results based on the topic you want to write about such as “guest blogger” baseball.
If you are seriously considering to use guest blogging as your primary traffic source, then check out this article: The Ultimate Guide to Guest Blogging.

14. Blog commenting traffic

Blog commenting is an extremely powerful strategy for building traffic and developing relationships with other people in your niche. Click here to find out how one blog comment can bring 230+ unique visitors.

15. CPA Network traffic

This one is incredibly underground and powerful traffic source. If you have a product (in any niche) you can put your product in front of thousands of active affiliates (publishers) and start receiving sales almost immedeatly. You will only pay if you made a sale. So it’s a win-win situation.
Keep in mind though, CPA networks will only talk with you if you have a huge budget and high converting offer.
Recently browsing through Peerfly offers I found one very cleverly structured offer. The idea was to have an email opt-in box on the landing page collecting emails, but only pay on a sale that is made after opt-in. Can you imagine how many free opt-ins that guy gets?

16. Infographics (viral traffic)

Inforgraphics are getting more and more popular these days. The only downside is can be expensive to create one, however if it’s done right – the results can be enormous. Successful infographics can go viral at the speed of light. Bloggers simply digg infographics! They are also very popular on Pinterest.com and Digg.com. Having an URL on the infographics or giving the permission to repost the infograhics including a link back to the site can bring some nice amount of traffic.

And here are the other 11 untapped traffic sources. This article originally was posted by well-known internet marketer Kim Roach on Warrior Forum and received a huge amount of attention:
17. High-Profile Content Syndication – As you probably know, simply
submitting you articles to sites like EzineArticles.com is becoming less and less effective. You can get exponentially more results by zoning on in high-profile content syndication – submitting your articles to the top blogs and websites in your niche. For example, here are just a few top-tier websites that accept article contributions:

1. http://bleacherreport.com
2. http://mashable.com/writers/
3. http://www.momsnetwork.com/submit-articles.shtml
4. http://www.site-reference.com
5. http://www.betternetworker.com
6. http://www.current.com
7. http://www.favorideas.com/submit-wedding-articles/
8. http://www.associateprograms.com/authors/register
9. http://seekingalpha.com/page/submit-an-article
10. http://www.wisebread.com/guest-post
11. http://www.dumblittleman.com/2006/08/submit-article-to-dlm.html
12. http://www.lifehack.org/about/contribute
13. http://articles.mercola.com/submit/

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
No matter what market you’re in, there are very popular websites that you
could be submitting articles to for massive traffic.

18. Video Responses - This is one of the easiest ways to get hundreds of
extra views on your YouTube videos.
19. Tag Your Videos – If you use the same tags as another related video on YouTube, then you will have a very good chance of appearing in the
related videos in the sidebar of that video, which can send you tons of
extra traffic, especially if it’s a popular video.
20. Get More Views on Your Ezine Articles by getting in the “Most Viewed” or the “Most Published” section at the end of each article. You can do this by submitting your article to all of the different social bookmarking sites until you are the “most viewed” in your category.
Once your article is placed in the “Most Viewed” section or the “Most
Published” section, it will be placed on every single article within that particular category.
That means extra exposure for your article and more LINK JUICE. The internal linking structure within EzineArticles.com is EXTREMELY powerful
for ranking in Google, giving you a much better chance of ranking for your chosen keyword phrase.
If you want to guarantee your spot in the “Most Viewed” section you can
use StumbleUpon advertising, which is just 5 cents per view. This is one
of the simplest ways to get your article in the “Most Viewed” section.
Plus, by using StumbleUpon, you’re also driving lots of targeted traffic to your article and increasing your exposure.
21. Cool Site of The Day – Do you have a cool website? If so, you can
submit it to Cool Site of the Day. If chosen, you will receive thousands
of visitors to your website.
22. Free WSO’s for building your list
23. JV Giveways
24. Host your Own JV Giveaways
25. Ad Swaps
26. Use a Contest to Double Your List Size – I’m always surprised at how
few people use this technique.
Clayton Makepeace, one of the smartest marketers online, has used this
technique quite effectively.
This technique allows you to leverage your exisiting list in order to add
thousands of additional subscribers.
27. Buy Existing Websites – I’m always surprised how few people are
buying existing websites online. You can easily buy an untapped website
and quickly turn it into an automatic lead machine for pennies on the
dollar.
Source: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/123388-21-untapped-traffic-sources.html
So, I hope this will give you some outside of the box ideas. Now go and try these traffic sources, see which brings you the most traffic, then stick to it and rinse and repeat!