Whether your website is for business or for pleasure, it cannot be successful without generating targeted traffic. Web traffic is crucial to a successful website. If your website is not getting the web traffic that you want, then here’s how to increase web traffic to your site.
WordPress
First and foremost, if your website is not built on WordPress, install a WordPress blog in addition to what you’ve already got.
Create a subdomain with the name of your broad keyword and install WordPress into that. The subdomain (i.e. your keyword) will be the first thing in your website’s address when your blog shows up in search results. That will help to get you a better position in the results.
Search Optimization
A lot of people talk about search engine optimization. But, using various keyword research tools, you can see that too many of them do nothing BUT talk. Their keywords show up in their page content, but nowhere in their headers or headings. Not showing up in search results is not a good way to increase web traffic to your site.
Just make sure to do your on-page optimization properly and you can easily beat out most of your competition (if you want to call them that). Don’t skip to off-page factors before you have optimized the page, itself. Otherwise, your competition’s inattention to detail will likely beat yours.
Blogs & Forums
Commenting on other people’s blogs and on forums is an excellent way to increase web traffic to your site, real fast. But there are several things to keep in mind.
Never spam! If you are promoting something, don’t link directly to it. Write a blog post at your own site that links to your promotion and then link your comments to that post.
Everywhere you post is a place that you need to drive traffic to. Submit it to search engines, at the very least.
You are posting on someone else’s website to get traffic back to yours. Don’t be shy about giving back a little. One way to do this is by working their keyword into your comment. This can give them just a little more weight in search engines to increase web traffic to their site. Another way is to give a related tip on the subject of the post. By doing this, you are providing extra value to the blog owner’s readers.
Leave meaningful comments. If your comments just say stupid crap like, "Thanks for this!" the only thing that you will accomplish is getting blacklisted. Only provide quality comments. The comments that you leave effect the way people see you and whether or not they will click through to your site.
Articles & Press Releases
Write articles that link back to your site. Don’t just post your arcticles on article directories, though. Make several versions of them and post them at social sites, content forums; even some classifieds websites have places that you can post articles to increase web traffic to your site.
Submit press releases. These can land on Google’s first page as fast as a new WordPress blog. As in, within minutes!
Ebooks & Ecourses
Create eBooks and pass them around for free. You can choose to have people sign up for them, or just allow them to download them freely. If there is no sign up requirement, you will get more downloads. But there is also no guarantee that you will ever see the downloader again. If you have them opt in, you can contact them later.
Providing an ecourse not only gets poeople on your list so that you can bring them back to your site later, but it also promotes YOU as someone who knows enough about a subject to instruct on it.
Follow these tips on how to increase web traffic to your site and you will definitely see a lot more targeted, quality visitors!
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The most common ways to increase traffic into your website that I know are blog commenting and forum posting. Though not all people are using this wisely. Meaning, they are just leaving non-sense comments or posts which are considered as spams by other site owners. Yes, it will just put your blog in a negative standing.
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for input. Well, there are still some quality directories where its difficult to get an article approved. Selfgrowth is one of them. Benefits of such article directories is that, due to its strict approval standards, most can’t get in and so you ultimately get a stronger links. Better the editorial quality, better love a site get from search engines too so ultimately its a win-win for all.
Dave, Good tips but problem with article and press releases is that, they are not much powerful since they will quickly get buried under archives. Depending on no. of articles/press releases added. They can be aged links over time but not strong. Use of longtail keywords in titles and content is good idea.
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Hi Joel,
Thanks for the comment and excellent point!
Articles are good for long-term, IF you can get people to publish them (and keep your resource box) on their site. Unfortunately, as you mentioned, they get buried fast. So they have to be promoted just like any other ‘advertisement’.
Press Releases, on the other hand, are excellent for a quick blast of free search traffic. A PR published today can be on Google’s first page in less than 24 hours and disappear just as fast. As long as they are written around a topic that gets a lot of searches, they will drive fast traffic, though it will be short-term.
HI I am a beginner at list builder and I have products I want to sell or give away. I am still trying to understand how to use list wire and how to get the code to my site and also how to show free software etc. I am using a company called website business and their software is a wysiwyg and they told me in order to put software on my pages I would have to get certain codes from production. I am still confused. But my question is should I just get my own hosting company and use wordpress to sell and give away things. I do like haveing my own blog and want to do the same thing that is on my website if you could please look but I also want to do give aways and promote other peoples products. Could you give me a suggestion.
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Hi Cheryl,
I definitely recommend using WordPress. Besides being the most wideley supported blogging platform there is, it has many crucial benefits, like showing up on Google’s first page very fast.
One of the biggest benefits it has is being so easy to work with. Adding your List Wire subscription form is as simple as adding a text widget to your sidebar and pasting the form code into the text widget.
Likewise, you can paste your form code into the WYSIWYG editor in source mode. Just be sure to click the source button before you paste in your code. The button may be labeled Source, HTML or Code.
As for the host you are on, in telling you that you “have to get certain codes from production,” it sounds like they are telling you that you need to get the source codes (or embed codes) from the application’s creator, just as you get your subscription form code from List Wire. I.e. the hosting company cannot provide this code.
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