How to Drive Traffic to Your Website
Traffic is a key component of website revenue. As a web entrepreneur, investing some time and effort into building a base of regular web visitors will increase your likelihood of success. Acquiring website traffic is as simple as making your online presence known while ensuring that your website is a place worthy of return visits.
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Make your site worthy of being bookmarked and linked to with quality content. Give your visitors what they are searching for, what they require or what is of interest to them and they will not only return, but also spread the word and encourage new visitors. Use professionally written articles and high quality images. Ensure that there are no spelling, grammar or factual errors.
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Use social media to promote your brand, and open accounts in Twitter and Facebook for your website. Create a LinkedIn profile for yourself. Provide widgets on your site for bookmarking and feeds. If your website is not a blog, add one linked to it and make regular, quality posts about your industry. Leave positive comments on other blogs about their content.
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Ensure that your website is search engine optimized so it will be easier to find by search engines. Use keywords throughout your article texts, as well as in title and description tags. Ensure that your keyword density does not exceed 10 percent of your article text, as this can appear to be spam. Add keywords to headings and your URL. Make one or two of your keywords bold using the <b> </b> tags. Update your content frequently, as search engine spiders favor fresh articles.
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Tips & Warnings
If you implement these relatively simple techniques, your web traffic will increase. You may wish to install web analytic scripts into your site so you can watch your traffic trends. Visit Gnosis Arts for more Internet marketing tips.
References
- Forbes: How To Network Like A Pro Online; Lisa LaMotta
- Entrepreneur: Make Your Website a Daily Destination; Scott Steinberg
- USA Today: Google's Cutts: Good Directions Drive Traffic to your Website; Jefferson Graham; June 23, 2008
- SEO Writer: The 52 Top SEO Tips - Here Are 10 of Them; David Leonhardt
- Webconfs.com: List of Best and Worst Practices for Designing a High Traffic Website
- SEO Design Solutions: Increase Relevance for Search Engine Spiders with Frequent Updates
- Photo Credit Thinkstock/Comstock/Getty Images
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Another helpful hint is to create accounts in forums related to your site. Put your website in your profile and signature if it's allowed and as you help people and provide content on the forums people will click your signature and check your profile links to see what other value you can give them.
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coachmac4
Aug 05, 2008
Thank you so much for these tips! We all need help in how to promote our articles!
