All webmasters realise that the lifeblood of their website is traffic, without traffic a website is simply a series of codes on a server. However, traffic brings a website to life and the importance of this cannot be under estimated. Getting traffic is big business and a complex process but what I want to do is provide you with a foundation to use when developing your site so that all your work becomes focused on developing your websites traffic.
The key thing to remember is that bringing in traffic is not easy it takes hard work and determination and a commitment to maintain this emphasis as the site grows, my intention is to discuss the ten key processes that you should be using as a minimum in order to build the traffic to your website.
1. Keyword research.
This is the vital first step for any website, you need to find out what keywords and key phrases are best suited to developing the most traffic to your website, how can you do this?
B. What are your competitors using as keywords, look at their meta tags and look how they link to there website (ie. what anchor text do they use)
C. Is there a niche phrase within the keywords that can be exploited and thus remove some of the competition?
This is a vital stage because your domain name should reflect your business because it will become part of your brand, if you