"website involves booking hotels and flights for very cheap"
a business.
That's probably just an affiliate website.
That sounds like the sort of business that would have certain minimum sales requirements, unlike someone selling hand crafted bracelets who might be happy with one sale a week.
It's probably unrealistic to think you can do business using 'free' traffic, it would be a more solid business model if you allocated a percentage of the operating budget toward advertising costs, in some cases advertising costs more than the actual product. If you can make it profitable using paid advertising to get customers, you typically can scale up the process to increase earnings overnight. Some say a web site business that relies on the whims of free traffic sources don't have the same resale value one relying on a more reliable paid advertising method for bringing in daily customers.
Those using primarily search engines to provide 'free' traffic have to make a considerable effort creating quality original content and probably compensating other site for giving rank raising backlinks. Search Engine Optimization campaigns can in some cases, take months to get significant results.
The growing variety of social sites are providing more opportunities to connect with prospects, but search engines are still the biggest source of free traffic, a campaign to get a presence on a variety of site like Facebook can bring in some direct visits as well as boosting the main site's search ranking from the links each satellite site provides.
Decolar.com, the Major Brazilian Travel Site was Banned from Google (how wrong it can go)
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/decolarcom-the...
You need to start getting yourself visible in search results so that people who are looking online for what you sell can come across your site without prior knowledge of its existence.
Natural search results - obtained through search engine optimisation or SEO - can be a good way to go. You could look up an SEO agency to get some advice (or even pay them to handle it for you), or try some basic techniques yourself such as getting other sites to link to yours, starting up social media, providing additional good quality content on your site other than a shop (for example a "how to" section or news articles related to your industry) so that your site becomes bigger and more visible, or some more technical ideas like looking into web analytics to give you a greater understanding of your site's current web presence and traffic.
Remember you'll get a natural boost from modern search engines if your website is
- well designed, clear and attractive to look at
- full of good content which isn't spammy or useless to people
- error free and easy to use
Facebook or other Social Media Channels will help you to get some traffic but this type of traffic will not be beneficial for your website. You should look for targeted traffic in order to increase your conversion rate.
The Best way would be to start up a Facebook Page for your Business , that will draw more attention towards your brand, Also you Can optimize your website for Search Engines. We provide SEO Services .
I know a few people that are getting some good exposure with this site called KUNGPHOO.com
No cost, worth taking a look.
Social networking is the cheapest and most effect way as you can direct them straight to your site.
make cool shirts and hand them to family and friends.
have business cards for sure.
get wrist bands, that are made like the "i love boobies" ones.
save money and make a commercial.
be in local parades.
higher a sign shaker guy.
customize your vehicle.
make people wonder who the hell you are and what you do!(:
I have done this on a limited budget and now need to get people to my site. The website involves booking hotels and flights for very cheap. Any ideas on how I can get traffic or advertise the site for free. Thanks
