10 Tips to Increase Your Traffic
Posted by Mike | Filed under Traffic-buildingDo you have a well-organized, beautifully-designed website, but unfortunately, no one visits it? Here are some tips to increase your traffic. More traffic means more readers, better site exposure, and hopefully, more income for you.
Spread the word. Tell everyone you know that your website exists. Send e-mails to your friends, relatives and colleagues saying that you have a new website and would like to get some feedback from them. If you serve Google AdSense ads on your site, be careful — if some of your friends or relatives help you by clicking the ads, you’re doomed.
Submit to search engines. I’m sure you have used a search engine at least once. Want your site to be seen on those search engines? Add your site to Google, Yahoo!, MSN and other major search engines. This will help promote your site and people who are looking for the services that you offer will come to your site after you achieve a high rank in the search engines.
Update frequently. I guarantee you that today, no one wants to read a news article about the 9/11 attack, unless they haven’t heard about the news. What I mean is that people do not want to read outdated articles. Update your website as often as possible, and people will visit your site regularly.
Put up signature links. Join forums which are related to your site and put your link in your signature. This will expose your link to all the members that read your posts, so be sure to be active if you want this method to work!
Exchange links. Try to ask some webmasters with relevant sites to trade links with you. It’s simple, you put his link on your site and he does the same. This will benefit both of you, and increase your back links too.
Join social bookmarking sites. Sites like StumbleUpon will help increase your traffic by hundreds to thousands a day. Be sure to join similar sites to get instant visitors.
Submit to directories. Submit your site to directories to increase visibility. Though it will not directly increase your traffic, it will increase your back links which helps expose your site.
Write related articles. Make some articles which are relevant to your site’s topic and submit them to article sites. This will get your site more links and some visitors.
Keep in touch. Responding to your customers’ inquiries or opening a community discussion board is like telling them that you care for your visitors. It will also be a good sign to them that you are dedicated to give more than what they expect. By doing this, they will trust you and recommend you to their friends.
Be open to feedbacks. This is somewhat related to the ninth tip. When a visitor/customer suggests something, be thankful, don’t be close-minded. They just want to help you improve your site.
Very good tips! My friend and I tried them out and they actually worked.
Some great tips you have there! I’ve tried almost all of them and they always work. I don’t normally submit to Search Engines as most of the important SE’s have spiders which will crawl your website by following links from other sites.
Hm, found this site in my bookmarks.
Some pretty basic information there, but nevertheless solid ways to increase traffic. Good read, and good information.
Good luck with your blog! I like the look.
Hi there, I followed this pretty much to a tee - and works very well. Especially the part about adding new content - Google seems to love it.