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10 Ways To More Website Traffic
Every website needs more traffic. This
traffic needs to be as targeted as possible to the site you are promoting,
whether it is your own web site or an affiliate program. This is the lifeblood
of the business. No traffic - No business, More traffic - More sales
The question is - How do you get this
highly targeted web site traffic.
I will list some of the most popular
methods.
Pay-Per-Click (PPC)
Of all the pay per click search engines,
Google Adwords is the largest and most popular.
This method, when done correctly, will
increase your exposure, and give fast results. You must keep up to date with Google's rules, so be
sure to read them. You pay a one off fee when you register and set up your
campaign. You can have your campaign up and running in minutes. There is a
minimum bid, but of course you will have to pay more than this. But the beauty
of Adwords is you can set a daily budget of how much you are willing to spend.
You can create as many campaigns as you
want, and then test your ads (changing the headline for example).
Google provide tools to help you with
your campaigns, and have excellent tutorials that walk you through everything
from signing up to creating your Adwords campaigns.
Link popularity
This is achieved when other sites have
links to your site. If a high traffic site has links, the search engines
perceive both sites must be popular. The important thing is to have quality web
sites linking back to your site.
Why should anyone want to link to your
site? If you have quality content, this adds perceived value and makes your site
popular, so others will want to link to you. The type of content could be:
Free downloads
Free reports, articles, ezine or
newsletter
Video
Links to other good sites
Reciprocal Links
This is where you exchange links with
other quality sites. You can create a links page on your site. This create a
resource that visitors will want to return to. Find quality (there's that word
again) web sites related to your subject and contact the webmaster about
exchanging links.
Ezine advertising
Most ezines accept advertising. Ezines
are online or email newsletters. They are used to build a relationship between a
webmaster and a web site visitor, with news, updates, special offers etc. But as
always they should have quality content. You place an ad in ezines that are
highly targeted towards your niche. Prices depend on the ezine, and also the
position of the ad. The most expensive is the solo ad, where yours is the only
ad.
Article Submissions
Submitting articles is a great way to
build back links and web site visitors. Your articles can become 'viral' when
others want to re-publish them on their sites, or use them in their newsletters
and ezines. You include links to your site in the author resource box offering
more free information. The resource box is your chance to convince the reader to
visit your web site.
Two of the most popular places to post
your articles are http://www.goarticles.com/ and http://www.EzineArticles.com.
Forum Posting
In order to be successful using forums
there are some things that are required. Do Your Homework: Prior to joining any
forum, you must do some research. Join relevant forums that are in some way
related to the promotion's primary sales market. Choose popular forums. There is
no point in wasting your time and energy on forums that few members and few
posts. Page raking and the amount of active members are two good ways to check
for this. Choose forums that allow sig tags. Read the rules before joining and
pay attention to them.
You've Joined: now what?
Keep your sig tag short and update it
regularly. The ideal thing is to limit yourself to one link, preferably to your
main website. Never create posts that are nothing more than an advertisement.
This is a universal rule. At best this kind of post will be deleted by the
monitors, at worst, you will be banned. Be an active member on the forum. Plan
to spend at least an hour each day there. Get to know the users. Introduce
yourself with intelligent questions depending upon the forum's topic.
Use Your Sig file to the best advantage
and within the rules. Some Forums have places where you can advertise and give
special deals to members.
Social Bookmarking
In a social bookmarking system, users
store lists of Internet resources that they find useful. These lists are both
accessible to the public or a specific network, and other people with similar
interests can view the links by category, tags, or even randomly. Some allow for
privacy on a per-bookmark basis.
Social Bookmarking can bring immediate
traffic to your website, as web 2.0 community websites such as Technorati, Digg,
Reddit and Tailrank provide almost immediate information on various topics.
These type of Bookmarking sites index and categorize content usually faster than
the major search engines. People looking for the latest information on certain
topics usually refer to these types of services.
Bookmarking Accounts to check out:
http://digg.com/
http://technorati.com/
You can increase your Bookmarking using
the free submission site http://www.OnlyWire.com to bookmark many accounts at
once. When you signup to OnlyWire.com you can use many bookmark accounts and
with one simple procedure bookmark your blog post to all your accounts at once.
OnlyWire.com interfaces with:
Backflip,
Bibsonomy, Blinklist,
Blogmemes, Blue Dot,
de.lirio.us, del.icio.us,
Diigo, Furl, Jots,
Linkroll, Looklater,
ma.gnolia, Markaboo,
Rawsugar, Shadows,
Simpy, Spurl, Wink
If you don't have a Bookmark Account for
the ones listed go and sign up.
Viral Traffic using free reports -
ebooks etc.
Directory Submissions
Submit your website url's to the search
engines Google, Yahoo, MSN.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search Engine Optimization, (SEO), is
making web pages attractive to the search engines. The better optimized your web
page is, the higher a ranking it will achieve in the search engines. Most people
searching the internet only look at the first couple of search results.
So optimizing for the search engines
focuses on techniques such as making sure that each web page is using the
appropriate title tags and meta tags, and that the keyword or key phrases for
the particular pages are distributed throughout the content. Search engines find
and catalog web pages using spidering software.
These are just a few ways to get more
web site traffic.
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