If
you have a website, then its lifeblood is traffic. If you are
selling your own product, you need more website traffic to
turn a percentage of visitors into buyers. If you are selling
someone else's product as an affiliate, you need to constantly
increase website traffic to offset dwindling conversions as
the product cools off. And if you have created a high quality
content site in order to display Adsense, Chitika or other
context sensitive advertising units, then the more website
traffic, the more clicks on your ads.
Here
are five surefire tips to increase your website traffic:
1.
Writing articles is a win-win-win situation. The ezine editor
gets content, the reader gets valuable information and you
get backlinks. And it’s not hard, just tedious. Go through
everything you’ve written down as part of creating your
website and, if applicable, producing your product. This is
your area of expertise and others will benefit from it. And
it’s original. Highlight separate topics and bring like
topics together. Associate relevant keywords with each topic.
Pick a keyword and write a headline based on it. Use three
to five relevant topics as your content. Finish off with a
resource box like mine at the end of this article. Rinse and
repeat until you’ve got several articles. To get more
website traffic, submit them to the high Google PR, low Alexa
Rank article directories listed at:
http://www.trafficfloodgate.com/articles/bestdirectories.html
2.
Create an account at http://www.trailfire.com. Find four other
sites, blogs or articles on the same or a similar topic as
yours, but who are not direct competitors, and link them and
your site together in a “trail.” Include your best
keywords in each review. Google loves these “fire trails” and
with luck will rank yours highly for your chosen keywords.
3.
An oldie but still a goodie. Create several unique (very important – you
will get deleted if they are the same or even too similar – you
might even need to create separate accounts) advertisements
at http://www.craigslist.org across different regions in the
Small Business category, using your best keyword as the anchor
text linking back to your site. Craigslist has a Google Page
Rank of a whopping 8!
4.
Every time you create a website, you should add a Wordpress
blog to it. If you’re using cPanel, it’s a very
simple process. Click on Fantastico, then select Wordpress
blog, new installation and follow the simple process through.
Do a Google search on Wordpress theme (free if you like) pick
one that appeals and follow the instructions to change the
theme. If you don’t, your blog will look like a million
others. And what to post to your blog? Why, the articles you
wrote in Tip 1. Try to post one a week, and watch your traffic
go up.
5.
Include a keyword based anchor text link back to your website
in every blog entry plus keyword tags. Tempt your blog visitors
with a free e-book or other valuable information. Make sure
that http://www.technorati.com/ is included in your blog’s
ping list. (Click on Options:Writing:Update Services to maintain
your Ping List.) Then when you post, the Technorati spider
will list your blog post on their huge PR8 site under each
of your tags.
Future
articles will expand on each of the topics covered in this
article as well as introduce new ones, all with the single
purpose of getting more website traffic for you.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR: Phil Lancaster is recognized as one of the leading
experts on getting new websites indexed and ranked quickly
and then driving free, targeted traffic to them. To get his
very latest resource and learn everything there is to know
about getting an unstoppable flood of traffic to your website,
visit:
http://www.trafficfloodgate.com |
