Bring more traffic to my website

Here’s a little underground tactic to introduce new people to your website: print yourself up some business cards with your URL and a little description of the site.

Then, as you travel around the world, leave them in random spots—the restroom at the movie theater, at the coffee house, stuck into books at the bookstore. Stick them onto random bulletin boards. Visit places frequented by people who’d be interested in your site, and leave cards. The universe will make sure that a few like-minded souls find you.

Here’s something crazy: when you start a 43 Things account, the vast number of links into this website will quickly catapult you into the top of the list when you Google your own name.

Finally, I feel relevant. :-)

It’s a slow process, becoming visible on the web without link-trading. I’ve had a webzine online since January 1: www.spinsterspin.com. Here’s what I’ve learned so far:

1. Blogs and social networking sites are a great way into the search engines. I set up a little forum on Tribe to discuss the site, just 12 members with fairly active posting, and within days my site got scanned by MSN, Yahoo, and Google. My accounts on the various blog sites all mention my url, and now those are showing up as well.

2. Cross-pollination is both useful and fun! I love the Tribe forum, and it points to the website. The website points to the Tribe. I just started a podcast, which is listed on a number of directories, all of which point back to the site. I also put up a little store on Cafe Press, which . . . you get the idea. Plus, creating all these side-channels has brought up ideas for all kinds of new site content.

I’d love to exchange ideas with others who are engaged in making their presence known in cyberspace. (Does anybody even use this word anymore?)