Give away free stuff to attract visitors
The one thing people love most are free things. It doesn’t really matter what it is, as long as its free. Think about something you can give away, that is related to your website. Maybe a key hanger or decal or other small item that you can get really cheap. You can give this away when people have done something to support your website, like placing a one-way link on their own website or if you are running a forum the persons post count or number of people referred could be the criteria to receive a free gift. In this way you are buying traffic but could end up paying a lot less then when you buy it directly. You could also have your website name printed on the item you are giving away for even more potential traffic.
On the other hand this could become quite expensive and if your website fails you could be stuck with 1000 thisdidntworkout.com key hangers sitting on your desk. Well here’s another idea: give away a digital product. E-books are a hot item on the internet and people are willing to pay between 10 and 90 bucks for them. If you don’t want to write your own e-book you could just buy one with master resale rights and give that away! You can even give away the same book on different websites because you can easily change the website name and links in the book.
Lets Work Online is currently giving away a free e-book ’24 AdSense website ideas’ with one complete ready-to-upload ‘made for AdSense’ website. And the free book even comes with branding rights enabling you to replace the affiliate links in the books with your own.