Today is another cool cold day in the Coal City, South East Nigeria. I was waked up by a call that I would rather consider a distress call. One of my Internet business students who is planning to launch his sites was very anxious to know how he will get traffic to his site; Hence the result of this article. I will like us all to discuss the top 10 secrets of getting traffic to any site.
A lot of people believe that once you have a nicely designed site you will automatically get thousands of traffic. This is False. Getting traffic to your site requires a lot of hard work and patience. It cannot be done overnight unless you are ready to spend heavily on advertisements.
Launching your website is one thing. Providing good content is great, but what happens after launching your site and provision of good quality content? You expect traffic to flow to your site. Not just robot traffic but human traffic. But this is not the case. Traffic does not just come. I guess you know that. You need to do some work if you must get traffic that will help you to make money from various monetization models in your website.
In this article, we will be discussing 10 ways of getting traffic to any website, be it a blog, a forum, a dating site, online stores, etc. Let us just get started.
1. Write Good, Quality and Unique Articles: You don’t just write any article and expect people to come and read it. People want solutions to their various problems and answers to their various questions. It is very important that you provide good quality and unique article that will give your site visitors satisfaction. Not only do your site visitors love good, quality and unique articles; search engine robots also do love good, quality and unique articles. If you provide your site visitors with information that will give them real value and insight, they will always comeback to read more of such article.
2. Daily Update is Critical: It is very important that you update your site, if possible on a daily basis. The importance of updating your blog daily cannot be overemphasized. If not for human, for search engine robots. Always try and keep your blog updated. This is very important as it will tell your first time site visitors that your site is updated on a daily basis and that there is always some goodies for them. This will make them to bookmark your site and thus will always comeback.
3. Domain Name: Do not just use free sub domains name for your site. Spend little dollars and get your own domain. When buying a domain, always try and buy a domain that is short, unique and easy to remember.
Below is just the result of experiment conducted by webnet77.com
Having your own domain name is very important for two reasons:
* Many of the search engines will not list sites that are not ‘primary’ e.g. http://domain.com
* A domain name like http://someplace.com/thisdirecory/thatdirectory/index.htm hard to remember. If your visitor liked your page and wants to come back but did not bookmark you, s/he probably wont be able to find your site again.
We did an experiment some 12 months ago to prove this. Here’s what we did:
* We created two identical 2-page websites.
* The one website we put up at geocities (free website). The other we put on it’s own domain.
* We submitted both to exactly the same search engines.
The result
After 6 months, the geocities page had 547 hits and the one that had it’s own domain had 5,200 – almost 10 times more! Having your own domain does make a big difference! – http://webnet77.com/webstuff/tips.html
4. Comment on other people’s blogs: I know that there are blogs out there that you love very much. Most of us never try to participate in comment discussion going on such blog. I want you to know that one good way of getting targeted traffic to your blog is by commenting to blogs you like. Most of thee blog’s commenting systems will permit you to have your name or website tile linked to your site when you drop a comment.
Allow and encourage Readers to Comment on your site or blog: People always like to participate. Always allow and encourage your readers to comment in your site or blog. You can encourage your readers to comment on your blog my asking them question or engaging them in an argument.
5. Write and Distribute Free Articles: Writing and distributing free articles to free article sites can bring you visitors. Always try and make out time to write and distribute articles to free article sites. When you do this, your article will become available for other website owners to republish your article. This article will keep on sending your visitors that you may never have expected. Always remember to utilize the author’s resource box by putting url to your site or specific pages where you want your visitors to read.
6. Submit Your Site to Search Engine: If your site is new, it will be wise to manually submit them to search engines. Do not wait for the search engines to craw them. Submit them to major search engines to hasten the crawling and indexing of your site in the search engines. This will in no small measure help you to get targeted free traffics from search engine result pages.
7. Participate in forums: Forum traffic is also another good way of getting traffic to your site. You don’t just get traffic from a forum by just joining a forum. You need to participate actively in various discussions going on in the forum. By so doing, members of the forum will develop interest in you and will like to know you more; hence they will visit your site.
8. Good use of English: When writing, always try and write well constructed English that obeys the various grammatical rules. Do not just write anything you like. Write in a language that your visitors will understand.
9. Buy Traffic: If you don’t care, you can buy traffic from companies like Google and Yahoo. Aside these big companies, there are also small companies or individuals that run advertising scheme. Just be very careful when considering this option. Always make sure that you have ROI before investing in getting a traffic
10. Word of Mouth: Tell people about your website. That’s just all.
I hope you enjoy this article. Feel free to express your mind in the comment box below.
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