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How do I increase traffic to my website?
I have a few websites, which the traffic is not bad it just it isn’t enough. Does anyone know how to increase traffic??
Since you already have a considerable amount of traffic, then my guess is that you have already done the following steps. But just in case you have missed any, consider the following:
1st try to get more back links to your website and the easiest and safest way to do that is by submitting your website to free web directories such as:
http://www.lii.org
http://www.dmoz.org
http://www.surformation.com
2nd Use Search Engine Optimization techniques to make sure your website will show in queries which are relevant to topics handled in your website.
3rd and most importantly, provide quality content, this is an indirect way to get back links by genuinely driving people to link to your website.
Goodluck
how to increase website traffic / unique visitor?
how to increase website traffic / unique visitor?
Hi tomtom
To increase your traffic you need to start pay per click.
Also you need to have a SEO web site. Once you’ve done onsite SEO you need to do offsite SEO which is link building.
Here is the list with top 12 link building tips that I highly recommend you to use when starting to build your links.
1. Directory Submission
Getting listed in dirs is good for you, you get a lot of backlinks. I am posting here only high quality, free, human reviewed, PR6+ directories only ( BTW I checked the PR of the directories I am providing with Google Toolbar and I have to say that there is a big difference in their PR since the last update. I have seen many directories that have fallen from PR6 to PR0, I suppose they have used some black seo to get promoted and finally they lost their PR). The good thing about these dirs is that if you get your site listed you will get lots of traffic. The bad thing is that the review proccess of your site often is more than 3 months. Here is the list I use:
http://dir.yahoo.com/ PR 8
http://www.dmoz.org PR8
http://www.stpt.com/ PR 8
http://www.open-site.org PR 8
http://www.femina.com PR 7
http://www.portal.eatonweb.com PR 7
http://www.bloggernity.com PR 6
http://www.podcastzoom.com/ PR 6
http://www.bloguniverse.com PR 6
http://www.gogreece.com PR 6
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu PR 6
http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm PR 6
http://www.worldhot.com/ PR 6
http://www.elib.org/ PR 6
http://www.ezilon.com/ PR 6
http://www.christiansunite.com/ PR 6
http://www.aardvark.co.za PR 6
http://www.nzs.com/ PR 6
http://www.info-listings.com/ PR 6
http://findingblog.com/ PR 6
http://www.iguide.co.il/ PR 6
Of course there are more good high PR directories but I will leave the search for them to you. You can use google to find some, but the lists that come on first page results shows the old PR of the directories. So in my view these 21 dirs that I have posted here a worth to submit to them. Don’t get mad if you are not listed after 3 months from submission. Your time will come, don’t give up!
2. Link Exchange with other webmasters
This is also good way to get backlinks. When contacting other webmasters write in personalized way. Tell them why you want to exchange links with them, introduce your site to them, tell them more about your site. Try to exchange links with only high quality sites with higher PR. You may find good partners to exchange links, the best way is contacting them in personal, or you may use some forums to find link exchange requests, and last but not least you may use some automated link exchange sites. Here are some of them:
http://www.build-reciprocal-links.com/ PR 6
http://www.linkdiary.com/ PR 5
http://www.telalinks.com/ PR 5
http://www.linkexchanged.com/ PR 5
http://www.belinked.info/ PR 5
http://www.linkwizard.net/ PR 4
Using these automated link exchange sites will also boost your backlinks and you will get many relevant links to your site. You can find much more sites like these but to be honest I think these ones will do a perfect job. You can always ask google about something like: ‘free automated link exchange sites’, ‘free reciprocal programs’, ‘free link building programs’ and some more search terms like these.
If you want first to check the pagerank of the site you will be exchanging links with I recommend you to use:
http://www.digpagerank.com/ – In this site you can check the PR of a page or site in over 700 google datacenters
3. Article Submissions
Maybe I won’t tell you something new but try to write good quality unique articles and post them to the best free article directories. This is one of the best way to do 2 things for your site: first get a lot of backlinks from the articles and second get a lot of traffic I hope you know that you have to put your keywords that you compete for in the anchor text which is very very important for higher results in the SE’s.
http://ezinearticles.com/ PR 6
http://www.articleclick.com/ PR 6
http://www.1888articles.com/ PR 5
http://www.articlesbase.com/ PR 4
http://www.talkinmince.com/ PR 4
http://www.article-hut.com/ PR 4
http://www.articleuniversity.com/ PR 4
http://www.articlefeeder.com/ PR 4
http://thephantomwriters.com/ PR 4
http://www.article99.com/ PR 4
http://www.instantcashflow.org/free-article-directory/ PR 4
This list is only 11 sites long but if your article gets listed in all of them expect more than 1000 visitors to come to your site from the link in the article.
4. Press Release Submission
This method is something like writing articles and post them almost everywhere. In fact using this tactic you have to write a press release about your site or a page from your site. The process is the same. You have to submit the press release to good press release distribution sites. Below is the list of the ones that I am using.
https://prndirect.prnewswire.com/ PR7
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/ PR 6
http://www.pr.com/press-releases/ PR 6
http://www.free-press-release-center.info/ PR 6
http://www.clickpress.com PR 6
http://www.pressbox.co.uk PR 6
http://www.prleap.com PR 6
http://www.1888pressrelease.com/ PR 5
http://ecommwire.com/ PR 5
http://www.przoom.com/ PR 5
http://www.newswiretoday.com/ PR 5
http://www.free-press-release.com PR 5
http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com PR 5
http://www.prfree.com/ PR 5
Hope these 13 sites will help you to get much traffic. If you submit regularly to them and your site or articles gets listed there expect to get at least 200 unique visitors daily.
5. Social Networking / Social Group Sites
Social networking sites are very useful these days not only to get links but also huge traffic. Participating in social group / networking sites are proving to give boost to your traffic these days. Here is my list:
www.myspace.com PR 8
http://spaces.live.com/ PR 8
http://www.livejournal.com/ PR 8
http://www.orkut.com/ PR 8
http://www.friendster.com/ PR 7
http://www.linkedin.com/ PR 7
http://360.yahoo.com/ PR 7
These are one of the best social group sites. There are a lot more but I think these are enough, they are high quality and have a high PR ( 7+). They are perfect for getting good backlicks to your site.
6. Getting link from .org , .gov and .edu sites
The education, organization and government sites are considered much more valued sites and links coming from those sites are valuable. You need to search and find such sites.
Do a simple search on Google with this search term:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%…G=Search&hl=en
You may use another perfect search term special for edu blogs:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q…22&btnG=Search
With this string you will get all .edu blogs that allow posting comments and do not require to be logged in. Hope you find this string perfect. You can experiment with it for all kind of domains, it’s up to you. Make blog comments and put links in them, make sure your comment is genuine and not spam. You have to read the whole topic and find something to comment on the topic, job is done. After doing some comments maybe in a week you will see in Google index that you have links from .edu domain or .gov
7. Social Bookmarking Site Submission
This is the newest technique to get quality backlinks to your site. These days people like to share their interests in social bookmarking sites. Posting your interesting article to such sites will boost your traffic and give you thousands of visitors. But it is not so easy as it sounds – you have to write really good article, or news or something very very interesting to get your article on first page of these sites.
Don’t waste your time or money submitting to sites that don’t receive traffic! Use this list of sites for the best social bookmarking results
http://www.netscape.com/ PR 9
http://www.digg.com/ PR 8
http://del.icio.us/ PR 8
http://www.furl.net/ PR 8
http://technorati.com/ PR 8
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/ PR 7
http://reddit.com/ PR 7
http://www.fark.com/ PR 7
http://www.43things.com PR 7
http://www.mister-wong.de/ PR 7
http://de.lirio.us/ PR 7
http://www.newsvine.com/ PR 7
http://www.blogmarks.net/ PR 6
http://ma.gnolia.com/ PR 7
http://www.simpy.com/ PR 7
http://www.shoutwire.com PR 6
http://www.spurl.net/ PR 6
http://bluedot.us/ PR 6
http://www.blinkbits.com/ PR 6
http://www.blinklist.com/ PR 6
http://netvouz.com/ PR 6
http://www.trailfire.com/ PR 6
http://www.backflip.com/ PR 6
8. Forum posts
This is the way I like best for getting backlinks. Find forums that are in your niche and create account with them. In userpage write your homepage and you have a backlink. DO a search on Google and you will see how many forums are out there, you will be amazed. Do this process many many times and you will have one way links pointing to your site.You can combine this with forum posts and this way you will get your signature shown much more times. Personally to me it doesn’t matter that forums have nofollow tags, Google still counts that as a link to you.
9. Blog comments
Another great way of letting the world know about your site. This method is similar to forum comments, again most of the blogs comments have nofollow tags but Google still count this as a backlink. Here is another good way to get a backlink from a blog’s main page:
Find blogs that have “top comments” or “recent comments” plugins, this way if you are top commentator you will get your link on the main page of a blog. Do this with blogs that fall into your category. I didn’t knew that but a friend told me this method and I must say that I see good results for now.
10. Get a link on a mainpage of PR 9 sites
This one you probably do not know but I am going to share it. Spare some time, do a search for sites that have PR 9 and have a donation section in their mainpage. I am sure there are at least 20 such sites. In this donation section they post latest 20 or 30 donators. Do a donation
How do I increase traffic of my new website?
How do I increase traffic of my new website?
Link building and social booking is really effective to increase traffic to my website or it make negative effect?
Combine articles with social bookmarking for greater SEO effect. Submit articles to high Page Rank sites like Ezine Articles.
For on-page SEO, select keywords that match your page content and subject. This should get you more targeted visitors.
What is the best way to increase website traffic?
This will depend on your skill levels and what kind of website you have. For someone with reasonably good writing skills (applies to most people) article marketing is a good choice. You do not have to be a professional writer to do this and most people can do it.
It works like this. First write articles about your website topic i.e. provide good information about different aspects of your subject that will help people to understand more.
Then submit them to article directories. EzineArticles.com is the best known, but there are many more. Be sure to include a link back to your site in the ‘author’s resource box’. Within the words used in your link (anchor text) include the most important keyword phrase for the page you are linking to, plus a call to action for the reader e.g. ‘To find out more go to…’
Article marketing works to increase website traffic because people will read your article and be motivated to find out more at your site (if you do motivate them). Page rank is also passed from the high PR article directories to your site, so increasing your position in the search engine results pages (serps) and bringing you more traffic. There is more information on how to do article marketing effectively at http://TrafficFolder.com/category/article-marketing/
Does anybody know how to increase website traffic?
So I just registered a domain and paid for hosting but know I need traffic to my
website. Does anybody know how to bring in website traffic?
There’s basically two main ways you can generate more traffic to your website: paid and free. Since you’re just starting out and paid advertising (via something such as Pay Per Click advertising) is a little trickier and not really a good idea for newbies, I’d recommend one of the methods using free advertising. There are many different ways to do this, including viral marketing, article marketing and exchange links among others.
There’s a great article on this exact topic at the link in my resource box which will give you good ideas to get started for free. Also, you can sign up for the free 5-part mini course which expands on those ideas even further.
Good luck to you and success in your new endeavors!
Learn About Online Marketing, Blogs, Link Building, SEO Submission & Building Website Traffic
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Click The Link To Learn More about What is Link Building? Why is it so important? Directory & Deep Link Submissions, Article Marketing, Blog Commenting, What are “Do Follow” & “No Follow” links? RSS Feeds, What is Social Bookmarking? “Do I need it?” What are PR Links? “Are they needed?” & Thematic Link Building.
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Targeted Website Traffic Generation Is Essential
http://www.paulcounts.com Paul Counts talks about targeted website traffic generation and how important it is to your online business at a recent Internet marketing workshop. Enjoy the content and make sure you check my blog out to learn more about how to make your business grow through the Internet.
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A Web 2.0 Promotion Strategy – Part 1 – Video
When it comes to Web 2.0 promotion, it can be hard to know where to start. And let’s face it, you could devote your life to promoting yourself and your product on just one social networking website if you really wanted to. However, your best tactic when starting out is to try a little of everything and see what gets you the best results. So, here are a few things you can try for the first month, that shouldn’t take too long and will help you find a direction for your Web 2.0 promotions.
What follows isn’t a guaranteed Web 2.0 promotions strategy that will drive traffic to your website and bring you the level of sales you always wanted. It is more intended to open your eyes to the possibilities that are out there. That said, if you follow all of the tips below for the next month you should see an improvement in the traffic to your website and/or sales. Alternatively, you could just start by trying out a couple of these tips and adding more as the weeks go by.
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is critical to the success of your website
Search engine optimization (SEO) is critical to the success of
your website, Drive Visitors To Your Website And Increase Your
Market Share.
SEO is the key to unlocking your website’s full potential.
Google handles over 200 million internet search requests each
day, and people who search for information clearly express what
they want. Imagine capturing a relevant stream of such web
traffic. It’s therefore important to optimize your web pages to
improve search engine rankings using the most appropriate
keywords describing the content of your site.
The search engine optimization process begins before you start
building your website, when you decide on the domain name to
register. The process then continues on as long as your website
remains online.
Please note that optimizing your web pages to get high rankings
takes time. Your rankings may start out low and slowly improve.
Link popularity, i.e. the quantity and quality of external links
to your web pages, greatly influences your rankings, and it
takes time for your website to become popular in its niche.
Every time you improve your site, you need to allow time for the
full effect to show in search engine results. Don’t tweak your
web pages too frequently. The time and effort is better spent on
adding high-quality contents to your site and building inbound
links.
Search Engines have computers and programs called “Spiders” that
collect information about your web pages in an attempt to
“figure out” what your pages are about. These spiders gather
information from your pages and use these in factoring which
sites get ranked higher than others. Search Engines analyze over
100 On-Page Factors when analyzing your web pages.
Sharifah Hardie
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Advantages of Search Engine Optimization (seo)
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the best way of preparing a website for marketing to the search engines, such as Google,
Yahoo and MSN. This enables it to attracts a high volume of visitors by securing top page rankings for the websites most relevant
search Key words or terms and phrases.
Benefits of Search Engine Optimization can be achieved only by forming some of the SEO campaign. It is very essential for your
company’s marketing strategy over the web. Search Engine Optimization is the only most beneficial and fruitful way of reaching the
high profit margins by marketing on the web. As the survey shows that 85% of Internet users find websites through search engines. To
make your business more successful online, you need to start a search engine optimization campaign.
If you aren’t in the top 10 for your market, you are unlikely to get much traffic from any search engine. And Google is the most
important search engine in the world today. Here are some facts to illustrate why:
Top search results in major Search Engine provide you with a world wide and global exposure with just some of the SEO promoting
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increases visibility of your website. A Top 10 ranking on the Google search engine can generate a substantial amount of daily traffic
to your website at minimal cost.
Getting listed at the top of search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN, and staying in the top positions for the keywords that
are most relevant to your business requires a professional search engine optimization strategy that has been designed specially for
your website.
Search engine optimisation can be performed on virtually any websites and is one of the most powerful ways of advertising for any
business wanting to secure a stable online presence.
Almost everyone that uses the internet use search engines and website directories as a starting point to find what they are looking
for. Over 90% of people online use the top search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Only the websites that appear on the first few pages of the search engine results attract a larger number of visitors and potential new
business. Mostly results in the top 30 are considered and viewed, anything after that is generally dismissed. Search engine
optimization is an extremely cost effective way to market your website. Rather than PPC (Pay-Per-Click) campaigns as you are
charged charged a set monthly fee rather than paying for every click to your website.
Achieving search engine positioning, just does not gives better Page Rank, but it increases web traffic on your site. This traffic may
be some times fruitful and may help you in achieving better goals and Increases leads,Targeted Traffic , Increase brand visibility ,
High ROI , Higher Sales , Long term positioning , Cost-effective ,Accessibility , Cross-browser compatibility , Navigable by the
engines , Usability , sales and profits from your website. Search Engine Optimization improves your online presence and the SEO
strategies also help in increasing your company’s reputation. And this reputation can also help you achieving customer confidence.
deep raj
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How to Get a Flood of Traffic and Backlinks with Article Marketing
One of the crucial techniques for getting traffic to your website and the backlinks that are necessary for search engine optimization (SEO) is article marketing. Articles have an important role in promoting your business online and this is primarily through backlinks or the links that are placed on the articles that point to your website. Article marketing can help explode the traffic to your website and in turn increase your sales in two basic ways. One way is by generating the backlinks that are essential for SEO that in turn will have the effect of driving traffic to your site. The second way is made available by the tendency of people to inform other people regarding your helpful and informative articles, or through the process of word-of-mouth or viral advertising.
Search engines compute the ranking of your website for a particular keyword or phrase that are relevant to the topic of your site. Maximizing the number of links that direct visitors to your website is an essential SEO technique and article marketing offers an effective way to naturally obtain these backlinks. Remember that the algorithms used by search engines place more emphasis on naturally created links as a way to counter underhanded SEO methods such as link farms.
People who were able to read your informative articles that you have submitted to publishers of online newsletters and e-zines, may also want to put your articles on their websites. You let them do this with the condition that they ensure that the link to your site will function. For example, if 200 people republish your article, you will have 200 backlinks that will surely improve your position in the search engine results pages.
It is but natural that this will become even more effect after some time because more people would have republished your articles. The effect of viral advertising will be felt after some time as people spread the word about your informative articles to their friends. Your articles become more popular as you gain recognition as an expert for a certain topic and bloggers may even start putting links on their posts to your website. It is likely that the effect will snowball and cause an explosive growth of traffic to your website and your sales as well.
However, it is necessary that your articles are of high quality and provide helpful information or you would have very few readers. Fortunately, you can make use of quality article writing services if you do not have the time or passion to write them.
What can an Online Writing Service do for You?
We all know that marketing and advertising keeps a business afloat. If more people know about your product or service and feel that they need it, you will be able to garner more sales, and this will mean more profit as well. The efficient use of content for your online business’ advertising efforts can be aided by hiring an online writing service. The aim of releasing articles is to persuade and convince your customers to go to your site and purchase a product or service that you are offering.
Online writing services are advantageous for your business, especially to promote your website to your prospective customers. An online writing service is a great aid, especially when promoting your business online, because it utilizes content writing as part of your advertising efforts. You will benefit from the strategic placement of keywords the in content you develop to increase the amount of traffic to your website.
There are so many companies that offer online writing services. If you are looking for a provider, you should know what characteristics good content must possess so you can be sure that they will be able to give you what you need. What should you look for in an online writing service?
• A good online writing service company must be creative. The writer must be able to create well-written content about any subject – this would be advantageous to your company, no matter what niche you target.
• Be sure to choose a writer who can communicate well through the written word. They should be able to clearly express the information you want them to write about, as well as spin it to the advantage of your website, product, or service.
• Online writing services should focus on writing informative articles in a style that specifically reaches out to Internet users. It is very important that the writers you chose can write content depending on what you need, so that they can develop the articles with your purposes in mind.
Choosing the best company for online writing services is necessary, as it can help you catch the attention of your target customers and drive more traffic to your website. You can set your own criteria in choosing your writers, but what is important is that they are able to deliver exactly what you need from them, or better yet, exceed your standards.
Web Site Design Planning – Determining Your Online Strategy
Part 1 in a multipart series sponsored by Microsoft Office Live Small Business. The series is designed to help small business owners get on the Web and use their Web sites effectively. This first video focuses on creating impactful online strategies.
Having an Internet presence is vital because of the role it plays in how customers find and research products and services. Many consumers leverage the internet to check the legitimacy of a small business.
A few initial considerations in creating a successful web presence
- Web Site Design Needs
What will be the primary use for my Web site?
- Web Site Promotion
Where will I promote my Web site?
- Web Site Monitoring
How will I maintain my site and monitor performance?
Determine your type of Web site
- Business Showcase Web site – primarily used to showcase your products and services to new and existing customers. Generally supports a physical business location.
- Online storefront – Used if you have products or services you can sell online. Requires an e-commerce enabled web site.
- Action Oriented Web Site – Needs to generate some type of customer action. Doesn’t have to be an online sale – can be a telephone inquiry, online form submission, reservation booking or service appointment.
Measuring Your Success
- Setting Expectations
Having a Web site can significantly fortify your business’s credibility. However simiple creating one won’t automatically increase your business.
- Monitoring Visitor Interaction
Monitoring Web site traffic will give you first hand knowledge of how visitors are interacting with your Web site.
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Outsourcing SEO is There to Help you on a Large Extent
Are you really worried about how to inform the online visitors that you have launched something new? Now, you don’t have to take any more tensions. Search engine optimization is here to solve your problem and give your online business a perfect direction. SEO has become an integral part of online marketing because nothing on the web can sell without proper promotion. Search engine optimization helps not only to provide a base for enhanced business opportunities, but take your site on the top of search engine rakings. If you have a lot of SEO workload, then you can opt for outsourcing SEO that will surely benefit your online business.
SEO is basically concerned with carrying out methods to increase the visibility of a particular site on the web. As the visibility of your site increases, you are bound to get enormous amount of traffic that can help you in increasing your sales graph. No matter what the problem is, your online business is surely going to flourish with the assistance of an SEO firm. Many times it may happen that the SEO firm to whom you have given work might have overload and outsource some of the work to get it completed well in time.
SEO has entered the market of online business and acquired a special place for itself. It is the best means of showing the availability of your website on the World Wide Web. SEO is the suitable technique of improving the visibility of a website in search engine linking. It is quite beneficial for every type of online business, be it in its infancy or be it a developed one. Outsourcing SEO works efficiently in managing the task, so that you are able to give proper attention to all departments of your business. Search engine optimization work given to outsourcing firm is performed successfully, so as to lessen your workload.
Outsourcing SEO has been preferred by a variety of people, in fact by everyone. The main reason behind this is that you can save a lot on the monetary front. Just imagine that you have kept a fully trained staff and then giving huge salaries along with perks and other add-ons. It will increase your total cost and the entire budget can go out of control. In this case, it is always beneficial for you to opt outsourcing SEO so that you can cut down on the extra cost and save that money for other important investments.
Time is a big constraint and you would not like to get it wasted because time is money. It is quite obvious that your in-house staff may take longer time to complete the task, as they might have to handle other things also. In this way, the quality of the work will get affect to a great extent. Outsourcing SEO professionals are skilled enough to do the work well on time because they don’t have to handle any other task. Outsourcing service acts as a life-saver for the companies, because excess workload can lead to negligence and this can cause losses.
Allies Harbor
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SEO Get Ranked well in Google & Yahoo! w/ Links
SEO Get Ranked well in Google & Yahoo! w/ Links
This video explains the basics in SEO or Search Engine optimization..
With some minor website code changes you can place top in Google, Yahoo and MSN!
Link backs are key in getting great search engine placement.
They lend credibility to your website and will move you through the ranks FAST!
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If you have any questions on SEO or Meta code – keywords – description – or title please send me an email or comment.
I hope you find this video on SEO useful.
The search engines traffic is FREE Traffic to your website. The more visitors your site has the more products or services you will sell.. Thats money for you.
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