First of all, in order to get lots of traffic to your site you need to design an attractive Drupal site. Spend the extra dollar for a great design and you will see your returns from the community in no time. I see a good drupal site as being a large part of SEO; if the site is not usable or does not draw attention, it won't encourage users to return to the site.
To help avoid this problem, and encourage traffic, my tip is to submit your site to design galleries. For instance, you get your website listed on some of the most popular CSS Galleries, you will be drawing in 1000+ hits on that day, which eventually spreads the word and brings more galleries to list you. This not only draws in a new crowd but it also keeps the regularers visiting your site. Some of the largest CSS galleries are http://www.cssmania.com and http://bestwebgallery.com. But not to worry, there are tons of other galleries that are great, and the best part is you can submit your website for FREE!
Now, for those drupal sites, you can get a focus audience of Drupal developers and designers. Here is a list of my favorite Drupal CMS Showcase websites that you can submit your site to:
http://www.buzzcms.com/Drupal.html
enjoy~
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Thanks a lot for posting a useful information and instructions about how to get your Drupal site some traffic. It is an amazing post. jeff cavaliere
Acquia is starting to showcase beautiful Drupal sites at http://design.acquia.com ; please come submit your site for consideration at http://design.acquia.com/contact ; select "Showcase site" as the Category when you submit your site, and provide the URL for your site in the body of the contact message. We reserve the right to choose which sites we highlight.
design.acquia.com gets decent traffic, and (as part of the acquia.com domain) is fairly highly page-ranked, which influences your page rank nicely if/when we link to you.
(Yes, we know that design.acquia.com _itself_ isn't very beautiful; but there's a team working frantically to create a gorgeous design for that site. ETA for new design < 30 days. Bear with us.)
I agree that putting a link to your site out there could help bring in extra traffic - but is it RELEVANT traffic. Eg, if you're site sells books to a specific niche then bringing in traffic who simply want to see a pretty looking Drupal site isn't going to help drive up your sales.
If you're site monetizes traffic via CTR ad's then driving this kind of traffic could drive up impressions but not clicks and therefore harm conversion rates.
I'm not sure about this technique, personally.... It's a cunning idea but not always relevant.
@nicholas
Your right it might not always be RELEVANT traffic, but it does get a good impression in the beginning. It is not something that drives traffic at a constant rate. As your website listing gets dropped a few pages your traffic will die down with it.
It is good also for the business/agency who created the site. Its a way to get your name out also.
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