The great, vast information source that is the internet. It’s man’s most significant technological breakthrough. In a world where there are more than a billion sites, how could you make yours stand out?
Well, I’d start with increasing traffic. Traffic is important for any website to prosper, especially of it’s a commercial one.
Traffic refers to the number of people who visit your site. The more traffic you drive to your site, the more likely more people will be interested in what you have to offer.
There are many different ways to increase traffic to your site, but what we’ll be discussing here are the easier ways of driving traffic to your site.
1. Tell everyone
This is the easiest and moreover, free! If you have a lot of online or real life friends, encourage them to drop by your site if they can. The more the merrier, as they say.
2. Using Crawlers
Crawler-based search engines like Yahoo, Google and Ask Jeeves are the next easiest way to increase traffic. Crawlers work by picking up every website or page that matches a query. It crawls on individual pages, big websites and directories. Google in particular has a feature wherein you can directly add your site’s URL to its directory for easy recovery.
However, this method doesn’t guarantee that your site will be visited by hoards of visitors. Oh no. That will be determined by your page’s ranking. Page rank is a measure of how relevant your website is. It’s like a measure of how much support your site gets. If you get a lot of back links to your site, then this does much to increase its page rank.
3. High quality content, increase in keywords and add a sitemap
A lot of webmasters use the content, keywords and sitemap to increase their traffic. How you ask?
a. Content
As we’ve said, page ranking is how relevant your site it. It doesn’t matter if you have a hundred or so pages but they contain nothing but spam. This is terribly irritating, especially to Google, who might even ban you from their list.
High quality content however, is the best way to go about it. Even if you’ve got only 5 or so pages, but have out up relevant and well written articles, people are sure to come back and visit. A lot of times.
b. Keywords
For example, your site is covering a topic like, Superman. Of course the regular person looking for a page on Superman will type “superman” on his query box.
However, some search for more specific terms like “super man” or “clark kent” or “lois and clark”. If you have pages that have these keywords, there are better chances for your site to be found. The more specific the keyword, the better since it limits the number of the competition.
c. Sitemap
A sitemap is useful for any website since it increases the number of internal links and pages that you have, therefore increasing the chances that a crawler will pick it up.
It’s also a big help to people who’re looking for a particular page but wouldn’t want to bother browsing through the whole website.
4. Exchange links with other sites
Exchanging links with other websites will be a good way to foster camaraderie and friendship. It’ll increase traffic too, since most people browse through the links page of websites, especially on fan sites.
However, it wouldn’t be good to ask for an exchange link for free or just out of the blue. Before a similar site can do an exchange with you, you must have been offering them something in return, like free content or downloads.
5. Article marketing
Submitting your articles to online publications is a good way to increase traffic too. This is a bit harder than the other methods, since the magazine need to approve of your article first.
However, one approved, not only do you get to publish your work, you are also given a link back to your site. This method calls for quality not quantity so please do your best.
6. Submitting to directories
There are free and open directories like imegamall.com and searchsight.com. You can submit your site to them and it may increase traffic to your site.
This method is fast and easy but not so reliable either. It might take weeks or months before your site can be listed or maybe not at all. So it’s best to try this along with the other methods for a greater chance of success.
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