I have a web-directory that I started from scratch that I am trying to market. Right now I have approx 2000 uniques a month, and I would like to double that in the next couple of months.
My issue at the moment is time, I do not have a lot of time to work on link exchanges and such. What are some good ways to increase traffic that don't require too much time?
If you don't have time to find people to exchange links with go to www.linkmarket.net, with them you don't have to do anything people will ask you to exchange links.
You should setup some kind of banner advertising that lets you sell banner impressions/text ads. I know you can find some good ones on www.hotscripts.com
I have one set up, but it is not automatic at the moment. I advertise on numerous webmaster sites but it seems that I still don't get enough traffic for such a program.
I am also going to set up a sponsored link section on the side for each category at a cost per month, and maybe in the future a featured section for a significant one time cost.
These things will boost my revenue, but not my traffic which is what I am focusing on for the time being.
I have tried the three of those and the only one I liked was link Vault. However since they don't accept directories it doesn't help me out with marketing my DIRECTORY
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