The Top 4 Ways
To Get Traffic To Your Website
by Ed Duvall
There are more ways to get traffic to your site than you
can
possibly imagine.
Getting traffic to your site is the single most important
aspect of any online business.You've probably heard it
a million times, but without traffic you might as well be
fishing for whales in a shallow creek. Site owners should
try to get traffic from both online and offline sources and
by conventional as well as creative methods.
Excluding the offline methods, here are the Top 5
online
ways we know of to get more traffic to your website.
1. Search Engines
Perhaps the best and most well known of the traffic
generating methods - If not the hardest. Every website
owner who has pages related to your market is competing
for this traffic. It's going to take more patience and effort
on webmasters part's to get your pages listed in the major
search engines as well as keep them at the top.This will
be especially true with Google now filing for a patent on
the criteria they will be using to rank pages.
To play the SE traffic game you need to optimize your
webpages, provide relavant content and have good back
links to sites that compliment yours.
If you have an existing site you should spend some time
reviewing and optimizing those individual pages for the
keywords and content that you have selected for it. That's
the one basic task you can do to help improve your site in
the eyes of the search engines. This includes making
sure the keywords are placed throughout your meta tags,
title, description, headlines, body and even in the alt tags
of your graphics on your page.
You can get a more detailed plan for optimizing your pages
by reading the Search Engine Optimization article located at:
http://www.cashway.com/articles/search_engine_articles.htm
If you want to get a better perspective on what keywords
are
best for your webpage content you might want to download a
Free copy of Good Keywords keyword search tool or use
Overtures'Search Term Suggestion Tool:
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
2. Link Exchanges
I think the second most viable way to get traffic to your
site is through reciprocal link exchanges. It's a time
consuming process (unless you use automated software)
that you can really develop some long term traffic sources
for you site.
If you want to check the number of links to your site from
within the major search engines you can download this
handy little piece of Free software that runs from your
desktop that will give you a count on the number of links
you have. You can get it here:
http://www.cashway.com/jmag/lpc/lpc_ed.exe
3. Wrting and Distributing Articles
If you have your own website chances are that you've
gained some specific expertise in the area associated
with your site. You can turn that knowledge into a traffic
generating machine by writing short, helpful articles
that help solve problems and point people in the direction
of your site.
You can write and submit them to other
newsletter publishers
and website owners . Here's a
short list of where to distribute
them:
- Include in your site's Article Section
- Article Directories
- Ezine Publishers
- Publish in your ezine
- Publish in your blog
- Announcement lists
- Forums
4. Site Content
This goes hand in hand with writing and publishing
articles.You can research using the various search
engines to find articles, newsfeeds and other relevant
content to place throughout your site.
just remember that whatever outside content you
decide to include on your site should be with the
copyrighted owners permission. You should also take
the time to optimize those content pages for the search
engines.
These pages should also have links either in a sidebar,
header, footer, etc that act as doorways that visitors can
enter other parts of your site. The more optimized content
pages you have and that get spidered by the SE's, the
more likely you'll bring visitors to your site.
That's a brief look at the best ways to bring traffic to
your website. At this point in time it also looks like they are
going to be the best and most accepted ways to get the
traffic you want without being penalized by Google for not
following their soon to be patented guidelines.
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Ed Duvall is webmaster for http://www.cashway.com
and http://www.instantnettraffic.com
providing internet
marketing tools and resourcesto help you with your
online business. Reprint this article as long as resource
box remains intact. Copyright 2005 cashway.com
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