How to to Increase Your Internet Presence--7 Methods

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By Joe Hunley
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So, you are on the Internet, you have a Website or Blog that is full of valuable information or a great product. You have spent alot of time designing your Site, and you are happy with it, and your viewers will be also---If you had any. Day after Day you check your Stats only to find that nobody, except you or maybe a few friends have visited your Site. You visit numerous Sites, Sites that have a great deal of traffic, and find that your Site is just as informative, or has Great information, just as they do. So what is the problem?

Welcome to the Internet, you are now a "Webmaster", the Author of your own Website, the Designer, everything is in your control, but with Little or nothing to show for it. You have followed every method in developing a great website, you have ton's of information, or loads of products, you just don't have the "Internet Presense". Internet Presence=Someone knows your there!!!

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Step 1

So how do you get this Internet Presence? How does one standing in a crowd get noticed--By Screaming!!! No matter what product or service you are trying to sell, there are numerous Websites and Blogs devoted to the same product, some sucessful. some not so sucessful. They have the same product, so what is the one thing that determines their sucess or failiure--Viewers, people, customers---that's the difference.
Step 2

How do you scream???

There are several thought's on the best and most productive methods to improve ones traffic to their Website or Blog. Without a great deal of traffic coming to your Site everyday--you might as well just hang it up, traffic is the key to any sucessful Site. This Traffic is only achieved by alot of work--not the 30 minutes a day sales pitch you will receive from so many of these Affiliate Programs. You must use every tool avaliable to you to be heard by numerous people, and have links to your Site plastered in as many places on the "NET" as possible. The methods I will list below are very effective, I will not bore you with a description of each method, as that would take numerous pages.
Step 3

1. Write and Submit Articles to Numerous Article Directories:
Submitting articles to numerous directories has proven to be a very effective method of drawing traffic to ones Website or Blog. Well written articles with a topic people are searching for can draw a large amount of viewers. The ability to "Plug" your Site in the Author Bio is a great way to forward the interested reader to your Site---remember--He found you, and you must convince the reader that you are an authority. Once the reader feels they can "Trust" your Info--they will want more!

2. Manual Traffic Exchanges:
I have no use for Auto-surf Traffic Exchanges, I want at least a slight chance that the surfer will see my content.

3. Join Entrecard:
If you have the extra time to spend "Dropping" your card on other members, Entrecard can definitly increase your Traffic. Though I believe the percentage of members that will actually scroll through your Site is low, if you can catch their eye with interesting content, I have found them to be useful

4. Join Forums related to your subject:
Simple---Post your opinions, make comments and place a link to your Site in your Signature--I have had a great deal of success with this.

5. Join Twitter:
A community of"What I Did Today", allows you to acquire friends and "Plug" your articles, Blog or Website

6. Leave comments on Blogs:
All Webmasters read the comments made on their Post's. Place your link to your Website in your comment--this allows the Webmaster and others reading the comment to visit your Site.

7. Join Blogging Communities:
Bloggers--one big happy family---a family that likes to check out "The Other Guy". Bloggers love to rate other Blogs, get pointers from others, make comments and swap links. I've done well in the communities I have Joined, very little time has to be invested and you can learn alot about improving your Blog by viewing others.