You have set up a website with very useful information that you think will benefit your visitors. Day to day, you keep updating the latest information and publishing articles; hoping people will visit your website and enjoy your contents. But as you check your website statistics, there is little, almost no visits and definitely no sales. Why, what happened?..wasn't it somebody who said, when you build them (websites), they will come?!..
Well, the main reason is most probably that - nobody knows where or what is your website...
There are hundreds upon thousands of websites on the world wide web and yours is probably one of the countless many tucked away in a dark corner of cyberspace that nobody knows about...
The answer to that problems is You need to drive the traffic to your website!..
But how, you may ask?
Here are 08 ways that you can start driving traffic to your website.
1. Submit or Add Your Site to Major Search Engines
Search engines submission will increase your Page Ranking and when your web page is ranked in a high ranking positions, your website will be easily searched and seen by internet users if your pages are meeting their relevant search keyword. Focus on major search engines such as Yahoo, Google and MSN. Do not use the free submission service or fee submission which will submit to many search engines because those services might hurt your page ranking as many has already been banned by major search engines such as Yahoo and Google.
2. Articles Submission
Articles submissions to article banks are also ways to expose your website to the public. We are living in the information age and people are always looking for information and advice to help them in their lives. Many inadvertently turn to articles to look for solutions to their needs and problems. And this is the foundation of many marketer's free traffic sources.
3. Press Announcement
This can be one of effective methods of creating backlinks to your website and it really helps in your page ranking positions. Websites like PRweb.com and many others provide FREE press announcement service for new websites, events, product launches and other 'newsworthy' happenings in the community. It is an excellent method to drive quality traffic to your website.
4. RSS Feed
Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to. The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of websites or blogs available for syndication.
5. Trade Link Request & One Way Incoming Links
One way to have search engines optimization is to have as many as possible incoming links to your website. You could request trade links or link exchanges with other webmaster. One way incoming link means to have other website link to yours without you having to link back to them. If your website has useful information for other websites, they probably will add a link to their website to link to yours. There are many website which provide one-way links service, but almost all of them are need monthly or year subscription fee.
6. Blogs & Forums
Both methods invite comments from readers and most of them will allow you to leave a link in your signature line. One of very well regarded ways to create backlinks and drive traffic to your website.
7. Pay-per-click (PPC) Marketing
If you have a small marketing budget set aside, you can use Pay-per-click (PPC) marketing service provided by Google (Google Adwords) & Yahoo. You pay for the ads that have topics or keywords that you want to rank for on Google which will appear on Google's pages when prospects type in those keywords to search for information or for products.
PPC is a paid method and it is one of the immediate ways of driving instant traffic to your website.
8. Viral Marketing
This is another way of “word-of-mouth” marketing. On the internet, “word-of-mouth” can spread very fast thru email. The key to successful viral marketing is to send out something that people want to share. It can be anything from a joke, funny story or link to home-made videos.
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