So far, you may have bought website traffic, paid for clicks in PPCs, been in traffic exchanges. But what do you notice? Its that everytime you tend to slack off the traffic quickly disappears. So how do those other people get long term traffic, or "sticky" traffic? Well the asnwer isn't a big "Secret" or some other crap like that. Its simply your content.

Subject does NOT matter

It doesn't matter if your site is a personal site, a business site, a art and crafts site. You need to have good quality content. The big mistake that most businesses make is that they just put their product up for "order" and not much else.

Say for example you baby cribs, dont just put up a few pictures of baby cribs, a logo and just a order button. Write a few articles on lets say techniques to quieting a baby or good ways to put the baby to sleep (you can also hire people to write articles, just make sure that they dont use duplicate content or copied content). So the basic idea is that no matter what the subject of your site is, you should always have articles or other content related to that subject for your potential and existing customers to explore freely. This is almost always the biggest "sticky" factor.

Submit your Content

Although having good quality relevant content is important to have on your site, it is even more important to make sure that your content is doing what it can to its full potential. You can unleash this potential by exposing your content to more people. How?

Article submission.

Article submission sites will gladly accept your material if you've truly put effort into writing it. Once accepted, many more people will be able to access your content and many times when people read content that they think is useful or good they visit the authors site to see more of it (include your URL in your articles or in the bio after the article). So whats the moral? Make sure that your content gets exposed to other people instead of just your current visitors, this will really thicken the stream of quality traffic to your site.

Do not "Set and Forget"

The content I said that you should write can't be a one time thing. Old content is just as bad as duplicate content. This section isn't going to be a long lecture because its simple, keep updating your content to give your visitors something to come back to.

Other cool ways to get some good traffic

Content, however important it may be, is just one dimension of creating a steady quality traffic flow to your site. There are other techniques such as contests and awards. Let me explain a bit more.

Contests:

Viral marketing. Ever heard of it? (You should otherwise you've been living under a rock). Well incase you haven't, its marketing that spreads by itself with people telling other people about you (and not just yourself bragging about your site). Contests, like weekly drawings etc. can be really effective. Lets say your website sells LCD screens. Have a contest about lets say a month long where people enter to win a 17" LCD monitor (Yes I know this item is kind of expensive, but who said marketing was free?). If you post this on forums (maybe gaming forums, tech forums or computer forums) you'll be sure to get a lot of participants (which can be converted into sales). Experiment with contests, think of creative prizes, its a great way to strengthen the flow of traffic to your site.

Web Awards

Website design awards from your site is more a SEO technique than anything else, but the fact is that it still works. How does it work? Simple. You give out "awards" to "lucky" webmasters that you say have nicely desinged webpages. Then you give them code to put into their site to "display" their award, this is where you sneak in a anchor to your site. What this does is, one, give you a portion of the "winners" traffic, and two, it increases your link popularity and therefor search engine ranking.

Also when giving out your awards, you should select sites that are mostly relevant to the subject of your site so that the links that they might eventually have to your site are of high quality. I know this sounds sneaky and evil, but what works works.

Thats basically it, follow those guidelines to have a kickass flood of visitors to your site.

Pradip Patil is just a guy with no life and advice to give. Yep. Pretty much the best bio youve seen eh? Well I do have a site, its called http://www.freeforyou.mobstop.com/ Make my hit counter spin.