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Rabu, 31 Desember 2008

25 tips to boost traffic to your website


Getting your website a lot of daily traffic takes a lot of hard work and planning. How will people find your site if you don't tell them where it's at? This is a very important thing to consider - you have to advertise somehow. Here are a few great methods to try to get more visitors coming to your website. Read on for more details.

“Exactly how am I supposed to get traffic to my website?” A lot of new web site owners think that simply having a good web site is all you need to get loads of visitors coming your way. Sorry, but this is completely untrue.

Getting traffic to your website and making people aware of it takes a lot of hard work and planning. Oh, and one other thing, this will not happen overnight. So be prepared. How will visitors find your site if you don’t tell them where it’s at? You have to advertise.

All webmasters, new and old, realize soon enough that traffic is the lifeblood of their website. Without it a website will simply be lost in the ether somewhere out there on some server. Traffic is exactly what brings a website to life - the importance of this one thing can’t be taken for granted. Bringing in traffic to your web site is not easy and it will take a lot of hard work. I can promise you that - but without a lot of traffic your website will not thrive.

I’ll try and list just a few ideas below to help you start getting traffic directly to your site without getting too way techie. Before you start spending a lot of time and money on getting visitors to your site, be sure your website is ready for them. After that, try a few, or all, of the 25 methods to boost traffic to your website that I’ve listed below.

1. Create valuable, original content.

2. Use the best keywords or keyword phrases for your site.

3. You want to make sure that you don’t have broken links on your site!

4. Create a blog to build traffic to your website.

5. Join the SiteBuildIt! Value Exchange link program.

6. Let your audience see “your own personality” in the writing of your web site.

7. Create an XML sitemap for your website, then submit it to Google, Yahoo!, and MSN.

8. Write and submit articles to article directories.

9. Create an newsletter and offer free subscriptions to your visitors.

10. Offer free online services or utilities from your own web site.

11. Regularly post on forums related to your sites topic.

12. Join several forums and form your own online communities.

13. Submit your web site to social book marking sites like Squidoo, del.icio.us etc.

14. Try Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising.

15. Add a sitemap to your site.

16. Use on page website optimization methods (ex. page title, META tags, headlines, etc).

17. Create and submit press releases to various Press Release sites.

18. Use viral marketing to help spread the word about your site.

19. Know your website’s users wants, needs and interests.

20. Write and ebook and give it away for free.

21. Add video clips to your website that supports your websites topic.

22. Consider giving something valuable away to your customers.

23. Once your website is established, create your own affiliate program.

24. Your web sites content should be fresh and new and uploaded frequently.

25. Submit your site to all the major search engines using a service like Selfpromotion.com.

Once you’ve tried even a few of the methods listed above I’m sure you’ll see a spike in your traffic ratings in no time at all. And if you use several of them, I’m sure you’ll see a measurable traffic surge over time when you check your stats. And all that extra traffic is a very good thing. This is definitely a case of “the more the better”. Want to learn more about the SiteBuildIt experience? Then visit: pedigreedpups.com/WebDRarticle. Want to learn more about creating websites in general? Then visit us anytime at: the-website-doctor.com.

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