How To Get Traffic To Your Site
There are several ways to get traffic to your site. You can pay
for your traffic or get it for free. I'd like to concentrate on
free traffic.
The first thing you need to do is make sure your site is
key-word optimized for the search engines. For a new site, using
low competition words can help you to get placed high on some
search engines and give you much needed targeted traffic. If you
have a site with several categories, doing at least one
optimization a day will slowly but surely build your business.
With more than one category this gives you an opportunity to be
placed on the search engine with each category and not just your
front page.
Another way to help build targeted traffic and links to your
site is a blog. You can have the blog linked to your site. If
you update your site regularly and 'ping' your blog with one of
the free pinging services, you will gradually build your traffic
and business.
There are many sites that have free content that you can use on
your blog. Once you've set up the blog and find the right ping
service, this would only take you a few moments a day. When
using free articles, be sure and use proper etiquette, giving
the author credit for his writing.
The tried and true way to build 'free' traffic and links, is
articles. You can write about anything you want or about the
services or products your website distributes. If you're not
able to write the articles yourself, there are a number of
services available that can do it for you (you pay). Then post
your article to as many directories as possible. Webmasters are
constantly on the look out for good, new content.
The number of links to your site is critical in your placement
with most search engines. Articles and a blog help build your
site targeted traffic slowly. But to speed up your linking
process, you could search and join some link exchange sites. The
more links the better.