How To Get More Traffic To Your Site

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Once your site is up and running, the next thing that should be your concern is to work out a plan to attract more traffic to your site. This could mean a lot of headache for every newcomer and even experienced marketers still have the chill in their spine thinking about the competition that they are facing. The number of websites and blogs that are already up and running within the Internet has multiplied tremendously now, as compared to only a decade ago. During its early days when there are fewer sites you can be assured of getting yours noticed once it is up. Today there are more sites that are being put up to life and everybody is competing to get to the top 10 in the search box. This phenomena simply means that you will have to work harder and more effectively in order to survive. If you do not get visitors to your site, you are as good as doomed.

Your to do list :

There are many ways of getting visitors to your site. You will have to carefully plan your course of action but basically there are two basic choices to implement. Firstly there are the paid methods such as “google adwords” whereby you will have to pay Google on traffic clicks directed to your site. The second method is to implement your own strategy in order to generate the required traffic and these could mean a lot of hard work.

Below are some of the things you can do on your own in order to gain more visitors to your site. They are not arranged in any particular order of importance. Go through them carefully and try to implement the actions and see whether these would help to get more visitors for you.

• Firstly, you need to Make your Site More Presentable. Improve on the design and layout so as it is easier to navigate, neat and avoid errors. Make it load faster and as informative as possible so as to attract and retain your visitors longer. The purpose and function of your site must be clearly and easily understood by everybody. It is equally important to have your own domain right from the start. Update your site frequently and ensure that all links works properly. These are particularly important for the search engines because having bad links wont help to improve your site ranking. Build your site so that it is accessible to all browsers and to Pocket PC and Palm Pilot users. Don’t forget, people with disabilities buy things too.

• Next Work on your site’s keywords. Optimized your site and employ SEO to search for relevant and suitable keywords. Do research and compare them with your competitors and update wherever necessary relating back to your products and services.

• After your internal matters are done and up-to-date then, you need to submit your sites to Search Engines and Directories. Submit your site to all the major web directories and major search engines and make sure these are done properly right from the start.

• Next, Write more articles relevant to your site and get published. Publish your articles and create new post more frequently and give your visitors reasons to come back over and over. Make your articles as informative as you can. Establish yourself as an expert author and be professional in your writings. Make people aware of your existence and that you are dependable and a real person. Be honest in your writing and try to gain your readers confidence. Be creative and link back your articles to your site using the authors profile section. Being a newcomer, do not be discouraged when mistakes are made. Learn and improve in your writing skills. There are many ezine Publishers that you can post your articles. Choose and sign up wisely. Do not stop writing.

• Another way to attract and maintain frequent visitors to your site is to have Free Gives and Free Downloads as an attraction. Offer something people want at your site. Give them a reason to come back and get more.People likes free things especially the ones that are useful to them.

• Writing Blogs is another way to create more visitors and do not stop at only one blog but try if you are up to it to start up more as you go along. Link all these blogs to your site and to each other.

• Start your own Forum or Joint Forums. Be active at Forums and message boards. If it is permitted, link to your sites or blogs whenever or wherever you can. You can get people on the forum to check out your site and this is quite normal when people need to know you better.

• Lastly but not least, if money is not your problem perhaps Google Adwords is your answer to your problem. Sign up for Google Adwords and buy advertising. People will click on ads and get to your site. Some could be converted to potential customers but many will not depending on how you structure your keywords. A carefully planned campaign would certainly attract willing customers.

Conclusion

The above are a few tips on ways you can get more visitors to your site. There are numerous other ways you can try, such as Banner Advertising, Offline Advertising and not to forget RSS feeds, and many others, but at least the above few can keep you pretty busy until you can find a better way to catapult a  massive traffic. Massive Traffic to your site could mean more profits and more income for you.

By Raja Zaharudin Bre @ rzdinbre Owner and Webmaster of Smartbiznet (http://www.smartbiznet.com Private Affiliate Directory Listing and Resource Center for Online Business and Internet Marketing, Website Development and Income for Life, Earn Online Strategies)