04/08: Strategies to get more Internet traffic to your website.
Category: Search Engine Optimization
Posted by: kcarp888
Well you have a website and wondering what to do now to get traffic. One of the hardest things to do when launching a website is getting traffic to it. Hopefully, some of the strategies talked about here will help.
One of the most important things, and I know everyone has read this before, is to have good content on your site. If the site has nothing to offer then nobody will come back to your site. Having readers come back to your site is a good way to build traffic. If they come back, there's a good chance that they will tell other people.
After making good content, the site needs incoming links. Incoming links is important because it is considered a vote for your site in the eyes of search engines. Having more links gives you higher search results for your site. For example if you have a website about kittens and type kittens in a search engine. The site will have better placement in the Search Engine Result Page(SERP). A good way to find sites that are similar to yours is as easy a just going to your search engine of choice and typing in say kittens from the previous example. You could go down the list and email the site to ask them to add your site to theirs. A lot of the times most webmasters are sick of getting these emails because they are at the top of the SERP. What I personally use is quotes after the primary keyword like: kittens "add your url". This makes the search engine search for websites on kittens and for pages that have add your url in them. This is a very powerful and handy technique.
Another way of generating traffic to the site is joining social networks and directories. Joining a social network such as forums or sites like myspace will help boost traffic. On the downside of this is that you have to be very active in the network. Most of the social networks are free to join which is great. Joining a social directory such as the blogflux directory can boost traffic also. The down side of directories is that some of them you have to pay to be listed.
Lastly is a costly one, using paid advertising like google ads. Using this technique will boost your site overnight. It's pretty simple the more you pay the more the potential your traffic.
One of the most important things, and I know everyone has read this before, is to have good content on your site. If the site has nothing to offer then nobody will come back to your site. Having readers come back to your site is a good way to build traffic. If they come back, there's a good chance that they will tell other people.
After making good content, the site needs incoming links. Incoming links is important because it is considered a vote for your site in the eyes of search engines. Having more links gives you higher search results for your site. For example if you have a website about kittens and type kittens in a search engine. The site will have better placement in the Search Engine Result Page(SERP). A good way to find sites that are similar to yours is as easy a just going to your search engine of choice and typing in say kittens from the previous example. You could go down the list and email the site to ask them to add your site to theirs. A lot of the times most webmasters are sick of getting these emails because they are at the top of the SERP. What I personally use is quotes after the primary keyword like: kittens "add your url". This makes the search engine search for websites on kittens and for pages that have add your url in them. This is a very powerful and handy technique.
Another way of generating traffic to the site is joining social networks and directories. Joining a social network such as forums or sites like myspace will help boost traffic. On the downside of this is that you have to be very active in the network. Most of the social networks are free to join which is great. Joining a social directory such as the blogflux directory can boost traffic also. The down side of directories is that some of them you have to pay to be listed.
Lastly is a costly one, using paid advertising like google ads. Using this technique will boost your site overnight. It's pretty simple the more you pay the more the potential your traffic.
