There are more ways to get traffic to your site than you can possibly imagine.
Getting traffic to your site is the single most important aspect of any online business.You've probably heard it a million times, but without traffic you might as well be fishing for whales in a shallow creek. Site owners should try to get traffic from both online and offline sources and by conventional as well as creative methods.
Excluding the offline methods, here are the Top 5 online ways we know of to get more traffic to your website.
1. Search Engines
Perhaps the best and most well known of the traffic generating methods - If not the hardest. Every website owner who has pages related to your market is competing for this traffic. It's going to take more patience and effort on webmasters part's to get your pages listed in the major search engines as well as keep them at the top.This will be especially true with Google now filing for a patent on the criteria they will be using to rank pages. You can see more on that by going to this page http:/www.cashway.com/googles.htm
To play the SE traffic game you need to optimize your webpages, provide relavant content and have good back links to sites that compliment yours.
If you have an existing site you should spend some time reviewing and optimizing those individual pages for the keywords and content that you have selected for it. That's the one basic task you can do to help improve your site in the eyes of the search engines. This includes making sure the keywords are placed throughout your meta tags, title, description, headlines, body and even in the alt tags of your graphics on your page.
You can get a more detailed plan for optimizing your pages by reading the Search Engine Optimization article located on http://www.cashway.com/articles/search_engine_articles.htm
If you want to get a better perspective on what keywords are best for your webpage content you might want to download a Free copy of Good Keywords keyword search tool or use Overtures'Search Term Suggestion Tool:
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
2. Link Exchanges
I think the second most viable way to get traffic to your site is through reciprocal link exchanges. It's a time consuming process (unless you use automated software) that you can really develop some long term traffic sources for you site.
If you want to check the number of links to your site from within the major search engines you can download this handy little piece of Free software that runs from your desktop that will give you a count on the number of links you have. You can get it here:
http://www.cashway.com/jmag/lpc/lpc_ed.exe
3. Wrting and Distributing Articles
If you have your own website chances are that you've gained some specific expertise in the area associated with your site. You can turn that knowledge into a traffic generating machine by writing short, helpful articles that help solve problems and point people in the direction of your site.
You can write and submit them to other newsletter publishers and website owners . Here's a short list of where to distribute them:
- Include in your site's Article Section
- Article Directories
- Ezine Publishers
- Publish in your ezine
- Publish in your blog
- Announcement lists
- Forums
4. Site Content
This goes hand in hand with writing and publishing articles.You can research using the various search engines to find articles, newsfeeds and other relevant content to place throughout your site.
just remember that whatever outside content you decide to include on your site should be with the copyrighted owners permission. You should also take the time to optimize those content pages for the search engines.
These pages should also have links either in a sidebar, header, footer, etc that act as doorways that visitors can enter other parts of your site. The more optimized content pages you have and that get spidered by the SE's, the more likely you'll bring visitors to your site.
That's a brief look at the best ways to bring traffic to your website. If you've noticed anything at all you should have seen that all for are strategically integrated to help you get more visitors to your site
At this point in time it also looks like they are going to be the best and most accepted ways to get the traffic you want using search engines and especially without being penalized by Google for not following their soon to be patented guidelines.
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