How to Get more People to Visit and Stay at Your Website
Get more people to visit and stay at your website to increase the number of regular visits your website receives. Optimize your site's content and navigation to make it a more inviting place for existing users to stay. Then, use search engine optimization and promotion via social media to increase the number of people who visit in the first place. When more casual visitors come upon a website that is optimized for repeat viewing, the more loyal visitors and fans your page retains.
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Create quality content, be it permanent pages on a static website or regular, engaging posts on a blog. Although quality content alone isn't enough to increase website traffic, it is impossible to retain visitors as loyal fans if your content isn't good.
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Applying search engine optimization to your site's content using keyword phrases organically woven in to your articles and pages. If you aren't sure which keyword phrases pertain to your site's content, visit Google Keywords Tool and input a word or phrase that best describes an article's content into the field. Weave the phrases into your page titles, description and content organically. Avoid using "meta tag keywords," as these actually decrease your Google ranking.
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Launch a Facebook fan page for your site to encourage people to "Like" your site on Facebook and receive updates via their news feeds. Sign in to Facebook, click the "Create a Page" link at the bottom of the page, choose "Website or Product" and create the page.
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Promote the site and its articles using other social media -- namely, Twitter -- to increase the amount of people who see it above those who arrive using organic searches. Include not only links to pages and posts, but also engaging descriptions that encourage people who see the posts to click.
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Create a simple, intuitive navigation scheme for your site. Avoid using complex frames. Rather, use drop-down menus along the top of the page or "accordion" menus along its sides to facilitate easy navigation of the page. The more easily users navigate to other pages, the more pages they see when they visit and the higher their chances of coming back to explore more.
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