Increase Traffic to your Website - the Basics
There are plenty of ways to bring traffic to your website. Some are free and some cost money. A few can cost a lot of money depending on the topic of your website.
Let’s start with the FREE ways to drive traffic to your website:
1. Directory traffic: This is traffic brought to your site because someone found you in a directory using a search engine, such as Google or Yahoo. There are plenty of smaller directories too. You should submit your site to as many directories as you can. There are some directories that charge money to be listed or for a premium place in their directory. I have not found that paying for these services brings in more traffic to my site, but others say it helps a lot. To bring in traffic from a search engine, you need to make your site search engine friendly. This is often referred to as SEO or search engine optimization. I have plenty of free tips and articles to help you with SEO for your site.
2. Banner exchange: You can make a banner for your website and exchange it with other sites. The easiest way to exchange is to join an exchange site. My favorite is LinkBuddies and they have been around awhile. They even have a free banner creator. There are more free banner creators on the web. The most common size is 468×80. For a link exchange through a service, you just put some html into your site where the banner will go and the banners from other websites in the exchange are loaded onto your page each time someone views it. Each time a banner is shown, you earn credit towards having your banner shown on other sites. At LinkBuddies, your banner is shown once for each two banners shown on your site. The nice thing is that you can put a banner on each page, so credits add up quickly. If you are just starting out and need some traffic quickly, you can additional credits, but this is not required. At LinkBuddies you get 500 free impressions of your banner when you sign up.
3. Forums: Join some forums related to the topic of your website, or other topics you are just really interested in. Post and respond to other posts. Answer some questions. Once you are actively participating in the forum, put a link to your site in your signature if it is allowed. Be sure to include it in your forum profile.
4. Blogs: Setting up a blog is free. Blog about your topic. Make comments in other blogs that are relevant to your topic. Make good contacts and exchange links between your blog and someone else’s.
5. Exchange text links: This can help with your search engine ranking as well as bring in some traffic. But don’t just exchange links with anyone out there. Exchange links with sites that will be of interest to the people who read your site. Links to relevant pages are always better than just a link to another site for the sake of having a link. Make sure that your links page is easily accessible from the main page of your site.
6. Email: Make sure to include a link to your site in your personal email signature.
7. Offline: Is your website part of your business? Put it on your business card, stationary, flyers, etc.
There are also paid methods of bringing in more traffic to your site:
1. PPC: Paid-per-click ads can be a quick way to bring in traffic. Popular programs are Google’s Adwords, Yahoo’s Search Marketing, MSN’s ad service and 7search. There are plenty of other programs too. The lesser know programs will probably cost you less money, but you will probably not get as much traffic either. The trick is to write a great ad that will make people want to click on it and combine it with low-cost keywords. If you are making money with the ads, then consider adding on some more expensive keywords. I don’t spend more than half of what I bring in on ads and this works well for me.
2. Paid traffic sites: You can pay to have somewhat targeted traffic driven to your site. If your site is new and does not contain Adsense ads yet (or a similar program) then this can be a way to spread the word quickly and inexpensively. Just be sure to read the terms of service for any affiliate program you join. Some specifically prohibit you from participating if you are using a paid traffic program to get a lot of traffic to your site.
3. PTR programs: Paid-to-read programs pay people to read emails. Basically, the program is acting as your affiliate. You pay them, they send out a great email and some of the people who read it will be interested, click on the link in the email and visit your site. Again, make sure that this is ok with any other program you may have running on your site.
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How do I increase traffic and visitor number to my website?
Ive recently launched a brand new photography website and would like to try and increase the number of hits on my site.
I have previously run my own website but it took months for it to get listed on google.
Im no web expert but do have a basic understanding of meta tags etc. Can anyone advise of a quick and easy way please???
You should put up some pics of semi-naked women. That should work…
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Post a link here? You could join StumbleUpon and tag it there, that would significantly increase traffic for free
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Well, as you know, there are a tons of photography sites out there.
First off, you should have some copy that talks about the types of photos you specialize in. Use keywords that are relevant to your content.
Submit your site to the search engines, so you dont have to wait for them to be spidered.
Don't overstuff your keywords.
Maybe promote your photography on social networking sites like facebook.com.
Publishing a blog can help with the fresh content.
If you have a niche, exploit that. The more unique and rare content you have, the easier it is to place with keywords. In other words, focus on detail.
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Used to work for Publicly traded Search Engine Company.
Post your website in digg.com, stumbleupon.com, technoratti, reddit etc. You may also post a link of you website on the facebook.. That would surely bring traffic to your site.
Hope it helps.. Good luck!
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I try my best my friend. There's a lot of things that you have to do to get traffic.
1. Submit your web to search engine
2. Submit your web to web directories
3. Join forum
4. If you have money, you can buy traffic
5. Playing around to others website and leave comment
For the rest you can visit my blog http://www.another-new-blogger.blogspot.com
I hope the answer can help you, but truly to make a web is just a beginning, the hard way is to tell the world about your web and get visitors to your web.
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Work very hard, the most important part is search engine optimization, good content, nice design, etc.
Some says that it at least need 6 months - 1 year before seen any result. So be patient.
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Getting hits is one thing. Most of us can get hits all day. You can even use those surf for clicks sites.
BUT, what does that do for you. Yeah, you get clicks, but they ARE NOT targeted traffic hits. You want targeted traffic. The fastest way, is through PPC Pay Per Click…but, if you don't know how to do it right, it can be a costly lesson.
The next best thing is to get listed high in Google for the specific keywords your site is focused on. This brings a lot of targeted traffic.
Getting listed higher in Google is everyone's goal, and through, article writing and submitting to article directories, using social bookmarks, I use onlywire .com. These all help exposure, and give you backlinks to your site, which in turn helps you rank higher in Google for your tageted keywords.
Now, for an added big boost, you want your backlinks to be of high quality, and having a high page rank, which in turn feeds to your site, giving you more juice in Google, or any search engine.
This is SEO help, not spammy, not full of tricks, just good internet knowledge.
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