7 Free Strategies To Increase Traffic To Your Website
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Your online business will only succeed if you learn how to drive targeted traffic to your site or affiliate link. Without traffic, a website will not attract visitors and potential customers. You can have the best product or service and the best looking Web site but if nobody hears about it then it the business will not succeed
You can learn to drive traffic to your website on for free or on any budget; this article will outlines many essential ways that can be used to get traffic to your site.
1. Provide fresh, unique and useful content on your website. The reason people go online is to find information that they are interested in and also to purchase products. It is therefore important for you to have high quality and unique content on your website or blog so that visitors will spend more time and possibly bookmark and come back for more information. In addition, if you regularly update your content you will be considered as an expert in your niche, and you will therefore build trust with your readers that will eventually result in sales.
2. Optimize your website for search engines. In order for your site to be found on the search engines when people are looking for information, make sure that your niche keywords and phrases are in your headlines and in the rest of the content on your website. This means that your website will show up and will rank high when people look for those keywords on your website. Having targeted keywords as part of your content will drive more traffic to your website.
3. Get traffic to your website using PPC (Pay per Click) advertising. If you have the money to pay for the advertising, you can run an advert with Google Adwords or Yahoo to drive traffic to your website. Use this with caution though as it can end up costing quite a bit if you're not experienced with Google Adwords. Do your research first
4. Write and submit articles. This is also a very powerful tool for getting targeted traffic to your website. In all your articles, make sure you have a resources box or author's biography which will your website's URL. After reading your article, people will want to visit your website, so the more articles you write the more traffic you will drive to your website. There are many Article directories that you can submit to free of charge. Ezine Articles is one of them.
5. Participate in targeted forums. This is one of the most effective ways of driving targeted traffic to your site. Make useful posts in the forums that are related to your niche, and have your website link in your signature.
6. Use viral marketing to drive traffic to your site. Write free e-books or short reports with a link to your website. Have a link to your website on your blog and on any press release that you write. These will drive traffic as well.
7. Use video marketing to drive traffic to your sites. You can create a video about your product or service that you offer on your website and post that on YouTube. Add your website link on that video, and this will make sure that people who view your video will also visit your website. By following the seven tips outline above, you can drive a lot of traffic to your website, boost your sales and grow your online business profits.
There are many more ways to get noticed online but these will give you a great start.
Good luck
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
7 Free Strategies To Increase Traffic To Your Website
Monday, December 1, 2008
How to Increase Your Page Views and Generate Targted Traffic for Your Site
How to Increase Your Page Views and Generate Targted Traffic for Your Site
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If you have built a business website, it will only be successful if you can get targeted website traffic to visit it and stay on it long enough to get your message and act on it.
The level of success a website is likely to enjoy is usually related to the number of page views it gets each day. Page views are generated by unique visitors who surf onto your site to check it out or find the answer to a question or information about how to do something. If a unique visitor looks at three of your pages then your stat counter will add 1 to the Unique Visitors tally and 3 to the Page Views tally.
The more time a visitor spends on your site the more likely it is that they will get your message and take action. Enticing visitors to click through the pages of your website is a good way to keep them on your site.
You can increase page views in four easy steps:
1. Fill your site with relevant, unique, well written content
People are hungry for good quality relevant information and that is one of their key motives for surfing the Internet. It has been said many times before that content is king, but the fact is that content really is king when it comes to the Internet. If your site delivers the information they need, they will be more than willing to check it out and to bookmark it, return to it and possibly even recommend it to others. Your content will also get picked up by the search engines, so people will keep on visiting it and your page views will dramatically increase.
2. Keep your copy short and simple
Some people find it difficult to string a single sentence together; others never know when to stop! When it comes to website copy, remember the good old acronym, K. I. S. S. - keep it short and simple!
Serve up the information in concise and easy-to-read chunks. Keep your paragraphs short. People have short attention spans on the Internet. Don't expect them to read a several thousand word article. On the Internet people tend to scan articles for the information they need. They will only read an article from start to finish if the style and content are so good that they can't help but read everything.
3. Use proper highlighting and formatting.
The style and appearance is very important. If your website looks dull, with great chunks of hard-to-digest text, people will surf out as quickly as they surfed in.
You can increase the time they spend on your site by highlighting all the keywords and keyphrases. Don't be afraid of white space, either. Generally speaking, highlighted text that is laid out with plenty of white space around it is attractive to the eye and helps the visitor to scan the page, which will be appreciated.
Break up longer articles into pages that deal with different sections of your theme and invite the visitor to "view more" or "go to next page" by posting a link at the bottom of each section.
4. Put article teasers and a site map on your main page.
Another way to increase page views is to place excerpts or teasers from your other pages on your homepage. Link each teaser to the respective webpage to encourage click-throughs.
It is also an excellent idea to provide a site map to make it easier for people as well as search engine spiders to navigate your site.
These are the four easy steps you need to implement to increase page views and get targeted website traffic to stay on your site long enough to get your message.
Darrell Howell is an Internet Marketer and Blogger. Check out his Blog at http://www.blueridgemoney.info
Friday, November 7, 2008
Getting Free Traffic to Your Domain
Getting Free Traffic to Your Domain
Copyright © 2008 Paul Smithson
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You've just launched your brand new web site using your favorite web building tool, and published it to the Internet. The next thing you want is traffic - and preferably lots of it.
You've thought about using pay per click ads to get the ball rolling, but having to pay for traffic means your bank account takes a hit and your profits are decreased every time a visitor clicks through to your domain. How about if you could attract people to your site by using traffic generating techniques that don't cost a bean!
Free traffic is sometimes viewed as being less effective because you don't have the ability to fine-tune it like you can with an AdWords ad, honing in on specific keywords and phrases that are only shown to an audience that would care, but it is an avenue you should seriously consider, whether it is for your primary method of generating traffic or in addition to various other methods.
While the free traffic options may not let you pick and choose the keywords in the same way as Adwords would, you can still create content built around specific keywords and phrases so that the pages automatically get indexed for your specific target audience.
Take a Squidoo lens, for example. Squidoo allows you to have multiple free accounts (so that your expertise isn't diluted) and an unlimited number of free lenses (pages) per account. Take advantage of this opportunity and point every lens toward your own website and you have a frenzy of feeders that funnel visitors from Squidoo to your domain through text links and banner ads!
Article marketing allows you to do the same thing. Write an article based on keywords and phrases you want your website to be found for and then submit it to the various high-ranking article directories for inclusion.
A press release can achieve similar results. While many online press release sites charge a nominal fee for inclusion, some have free options - and they create RSS feeds so that interested publishers can find the content that is relevant to their niche.
Forum posting can also act as a conduit between your target audience and your domain. Join the forums for your topic and include a link to your website in your signature file. Don't give your web site blatant plugs in any posts you make as this is usually frowned upon (unless it is relevant to a particular thread on the messageboard), but the inclusion of your web site url in your signature (i.e. The bit that appears at the bottom of each of your posts) is usually fine.
A spin-off benefit of the forums is that as you participate in group discussions not only will your traffic will steadily increase, but your reputation as an authority figure to your target audience will be given a massive boost too. Don't forget to add a link to your web site into your forum profile, too! Profiles are the perfect tool to help channel people to your domain.
The above are just a handful of ways that you can generate a stream of free traffic to your web site. Unlike paid for advertising, the response will not usually be immediate, but over time, and with sufficient effort, you will generate a constant flow of traffic to your site and it won't cost you a single cent.
Paul Smithson is the founder of Intellimon and the driving force behind the best-selling XSitePro web site development tool (http://www.xsitepro.com). Paul has set up five multi-million dollar companies, one of which is now owned by the BBC. His areas of expertise include business strategy, e-commerce, on-line and off-line marketing, software development, and maximizing the potential of on-line businesses.
5 Free Ways to Promote your Website
5 Free Ways to Promote your Website
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If money is tight there are still ways you can promote your website on the Internet today for free. Generally what you lack in money you will have to make up for by investing more of your time.
Here are 5 free ways to promote your website that will take you a little bit of time on a consistent basis.
1. Article marketing continues to be a very strong way to get traffic to a website. There is a skill to writing a quality article that makes a person want to click on the URL in your resource box.
However anyone can write articles that are interesting if they focus on solving a person's problems. The other key to article marketing is to submit it to some of the top directories.
2. Another very strong way to get traffic is to start your own blog. Writing blog articles on a consistent basis is a great way to get quality traffic.
The key to making blogging work for you is to social bookmark your articles to some of the top social directories including Digg and Stumbleupon. You also need to have an RSS feed subscribe button at the top of your blog where people can find it and subscribe to your blog updates.
3. Another free method of marketing a website that has worked since the beginning of time is email marketing. By building an opt in list of your own you can drive traffic to your website anytime you want by sending out an email to them. This is a great way to introduce new products, as well as continue to sell some of your more popular ones.
4. Posting in discussion forums is an excellent form of social networking that continues to work well even after all these years. As you establish credibility, by providing useful posts in discussion forums, people will want to learn a little more about your business. A passive way to create traffic for free to your website is to create a signature file and offer a brief classified ad on yourself in it.
5. Traffic exchanges are a method of website promotion that many people swear by. These will cost you nothing but the time it takes to surf the exchanges on a daily basis.
The best traffic exchanges are ones where you earn credits for surfing. You trade your credits for advertisements of your own website. The Internet marketers who do the best with traffic exchanges are the ones who promote landing pages and use them to build their mailing list.
These are five free ways to promote your website that have worked in the past and are continuing to work today.
Visit Suzanne Morrison's website http://www.homebiz-direct.com for more free and cheap ways to promote your website.
