7 Tips for generating traffic to your site

Posted by Suriati in SEO and Traffic on May 21st, 2009 | 0 comments

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Tips for generating traffic to your site

Traffic generation is the bloodline of any online business because without it your business will not be successful. Just, how do you generate valuable traffic to your site?

First, ask yourself what type of visitor do you want? Will they be interested what you’re offering? You want what is called a “targeted traffic” and not just any traffic because from this type of hits you’ll have higher opportunities of sales conversion.

Acquiring directed traffic is easy once you know what and how to do it.

If you already have a site and you think that you’re not getting the traffic that you’re supposed to be getting, then its time to reconsider the strategy.

What can be done to generate more traffic? Here are some seven surefire ways to grow your traffic starting from yesterday (in no particular order)

1) Invest in good advertising with search engines

Google’s Adwords offer great advertising schemes. They are very popular and assures great traffic. Using paid advertising might be a good choice but it would cost some money and you could blow your budget if your are not careful and do not have concrete plans on what to do with the traffic surge. Although some people would feel uncomfortbale spending money to increase traffic, it is still a good method if you know how to utilize it. Having said that, newbies might be better off trying some other methods first before jumping to paid advrtising.

2) Exchange or do link swaps with different sites

By exchanging links with other sites, both of you will benefit from the efforts to enhance the sites hits. When one site features another sites link, they could provide each other with the traffic that each site generates. The efforts are twice beneficial as it would seem like both of you are working to yield more traffic. The more links traded with more sites, the more traffic could be anticipated.

3) Use Viral Marketing

Viral marketing allows you to spread and circulate the word about your site, company and product without any costs or if ever, low costs only. This is a marketing technique that can be quite sneaky because you can include your company’s name, product or link to a certain media such as a funny video, entertaining game, an interesting article or a gossip or buzz. With this method, people get infected with the creativity and entertainment of the medium that they will pass it on to many people.

4) Lookup, research and apply suitable keywords or keyword phrases for your sites content

Search engines look for certain keywords that they’d show in their results page. In doing so, having the right keyword and keyword phrase is essential in commanding a high rank in search engine results. You could publish your own content or you could hire someone to do it for you.

5) Write Articles that can lead traffic to your site

Submit articles to sites that would contain the same subject that your site deals in. If you sell car parts, write press releases and articles about cars and car parts. Attach your sites description and services at the end of the article, as well as the link.

6) Join forums and form online communities

Capture a market and show your expertise and credibility. When you found a good foundation for your site, people will trust you and your site and will pass along to many people their trust. Traffic will certainly increase because they know that you can provide what they need.

7) Finally, Offer newsletter or e-zines

If many people know what you are about and your existence is shared with many others, you will find a loyal traffic that can provide you with more traffic by recommendation. If you arouse your customers’ curiosity, they would be pushed to help you with your traffic.

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