Driving Traffic to My Website HELP PLZ

[Qbert]

Hi. I need some serious advice on how to drive traffic to my website. I own the Home and Gift Corner, a catalog website that customers can only purchase from my catalogs if they have a gift card code. I have placed hundreds of free classified ads promoting my free $10 gift card to everyone who registers on my site. The response has been extremely slow. Does anyone have any ideas on how to advertise without spending a significant amount of money? Thanks.

[Motor Man]

Originally Posted by Qbert

Hi. I need some serious advice on how to drive traffic to my website.

Here's what I did in three easy steps:

1. First, I made the most of Technorati tags. I tagged every key word in each of my posts. Initially I did this manually but them I discovered a WordPress plugin called SimpleTags that made the job a whole lot easier. I found that by tagging my post effectively they were getting a lot more attention then their untagged counterparts, and as an added advantage I was getting focused, quality traffic to the site!
   
2. I leveraged my existing website. I’ve been running my business website for a few years and that was getting modest levels of traffic that was relevant to my blog - so why not try to drive some of that to my new blog! I placed a few FeedBurner headline animator blocks on some of my most popular pages and after a day or so I noticed a significant increase in traffic for 5 minutes worth of work on my part.
   
3. Finally, I made effective use of trackback links to popular sites. If I commented on a post on another site I would make sure that I set up the appropriate trackback for it. The results from this are varied depending on the site and post that you are linking to but since I liked to comment and interact with the wider blogosphere anyway, it was free traffic!

I hope that helps you! Merry Christmas.

[Qbert]

Thanks, Motor Man, that helped