So if you want to make money, you have just got to increase your website traffic by getting your site listed high in natural rankings in search engines in order to have a long term effect on sales. No more paying for clicks, paying for views or any other temporary website traffic methods.
When I was first online, I noticed a lot of people simply begging others to come visit their sites. This was how many thought they were going to get website traffic. Granted, back then, no one really knew what to do and how to get people to their sites. There were many searches, and some people originally had high rankings in search without even knowing what they were doing. I do know that it was hard to find what you were looking for most times, and the begging for website traffic couldn’t last long. It was very annoying and even the people doing it knew it. There are still some that do it, but most people have taken a different approach.
Today, people go about finding website traffic in much different ways. Some webmasters still visit forums and post links to their sites to get traffic, and this does work well on a small scale. However if you are looking for huge website traffic numbers, you are going to have to do some work to get there. One way to get instant traffic is Pay Per Click advertising using Google’s Adwords., but that costs money and requires a lot of experience and a huge budget to get it going properly. I prefer free methods to getting traffic to all of my sites. It can take some time, but the benefits overall can give your site long term viability.
No matter how you go about getting website traffic, you can keep tabs on who is visiting by getting software that tracks visitors. You will not see names and addresses, of course, but you can see city, state, and country, and you can also see how long they were there and what pages they visited. This can help you decide who is coming, and what is working on your site and what is being skipped over. This will help tailor any site to what the visitor wants. When they get what they want, they are more likely to come back. Even though you are not getting any personal information about these people, make sure they do not know they are being tracked. They may think the worst, even though you aren’t getting anything other than basic activity information.
Here are my top 20 tips for Free Search Engine Traffic
- Develop an ongoing link campaign by submitting your site to directories related to your business or service gradually over time
- Post helpful comments in high traffic forums and link to your website in your signature file
- Write a press release about new products or services you provide to websites like PRweb
- Place your website URL on your business cards, letterhead and all stationery
- Advertise your business and provide your URL in your advertisement both online and offline
- Start a blog on your site and submit your content to blog directories like Biggerblogger and Blogstreet
- Manually submit your website to search engines
- Write quality web copy that helps visitors to your site develop a relationship with your business or sevice and gain trust
- Add a keyword optimized phrase and link to it in all your signature files of all your outgoing emails to potential customers and associates
- Add a "Bookmark this page" link script to your website (Do a search online to find a free Bookmark this page java script)
- Use a "Tell a friend" script or form on your pages that send an email to a friend of your online visitor to look at the page they are on
- Start an affiliate program and place a link on your homepage inviting other webmasters to sign up
- Start a newsletter on your site and ask visitors to sign up and receive valuable information about your products and services or specials list
- Exchange reciprocal links with related websites in your industry or profession
- Advertise your service or small business ad on websites such as Craigslist
- Network with other people in your industry at seminars or tradeshows etc.
- Start a Myspace page and announce your business and link to all your online friends
- Write quality unique articles about new products or services, and helpful informtion and submit them to sites like EzineArticles and GoArticles.com
- Start a lens on Squidoo.com or submit your articles to web2.0 social news sites like Propeller.com
- Check your webstats from control panel with your hosting account regularly and look at where you traffic is coming from and add new pages related to the content that is bringing your the most traffic and conversions
Traffic is the key to any successful web site and for many website owners and it is essential for business reasons, even for those who just have a small site and want others to stop by and visit, it is an ongoing process.
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