Website traffic – How to get visitors to your pages
So you’ve put in a huge amount of time building a website
Now you need to get visitors
Paid traffic - Advertising One way you can get them is to advertise for traffic. Google Adwords is far and away the best known service to do this. It is increasingly making use of the same criteria for pricing ads as Search Engines - you’ll need to create a website with quality, unique content to get the best rates. Yahoo, Microsoft and a number of smaller search engines are also in this – and are playing catch-up.Free traffic - Search Engines
Search Engines are the first, best and greatest source of traffic for your site. You submit your site to them using a site map, the engines’ bots visit your site and, soon enough you start getting visitors for free. That’s the theory. In practice, there’s a lot more that you will need to know…
There are a large number of search engines out there but the lessons from Google apply to most of the others and, today, Google is ahead of them.
Why?
Because Google’ business is to give its customers the best possible search experience and results so they keep coming back. That’s how they overtook Yahoo, Alta Vista, and the others. To do this, Google looks very carefully at the websites it returns in searches to make sure they are the most
- Informative
- Unique (i.e. not duplicate information)
- Relevant
- That the whole site is a good experience for the searcher
- Popular
The New Era Affiliate Marketing Information site has all the informatio, help and tips that you need to give Google the quality content it needs.
Whether or not your business is in affiliate marketing, get this free e-book to get you on your wayGoogle calculates a PageRank for each website. You really can improve your PageRank. 99% of website owners don’t do this– or are using out-of-date techniques that amount to the same thing. That gives you an instant competitive advantage.
Other traffic sources
After Search Engine and Advertising, you can leverage a number of other sources of traffic.
More Free Traffic - New content - your E-zines, newsletter, Articles and Blogs
The keys to increasing your search engine rankings are
- unique content and
- backlinks
So your first job is to continually create new content for your site. As the bots visit, they will notice this
You can recycle each item of content in manyways :-
- Put it on your blog
- Put it in your ezine
- Post it to other blogs with high pageranks
- post it to article sites such as ezinearticles.com
You can post to other blogs and article sites and achieve both your objectives - extra traffic from your links and backlinks to your site from high-PageRank sites; and this will improve your ranking
Yes, you’ll need to rewrite your content each time you post make it unique but a single piece of creative content can go a long way
Free Traffic from links
Building links delivers you both traffic and betterPageRank.
The SBI! Value Exchange page will give you more info about the
Best Link Exchange program on the net
AND
a Free e-book - Make Your Links Work - (about halfway down the page) in far more detail that I can provide here
Forums
A top way of finding material and answers for your site is to join and participate in forums. Post on them whenever you can – it’s your opportunity to advertise your site to qualified visitors for free.
Email lists
Finally, yet another way of getting in front of qualified visitors for free is mailing lists such as those on Yahoo Groups. You’ll need to evaluate each list for spam, relevance and usefulness of content - or you could start your own
Questions
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