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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Greatest Ways To Get Traffic to Your Website


Targeted traffic is traffic that is interested in the content of your website. On the other hand, random traffic is traffic that stumbles onto your website by accident and has no interest in your website content. This is a problem because if a person visits your website by accident, and therefore, has no interest in your website's content, there is probably no chance that the visitor will buy anything from your site. If you have business website, people buying things is the primary purpose for that website. As such, if nobody is buying, the website fails.
You can get Internet traffic by way of search engine placement, paid advertisements (such as pay-per-click, pop-up ads, bulk e-mails, and advertisement placement on other websites), and linking.
Search engine placement pertains to how high you appear in the search engine results for a particular keyword. Statistics show that people generally click on the results on the first page only. Therefore, you want to be as high as you can (obviously, appearing as number one is the best place to be) on the first page of the search engine results. In order to accomplish this, your website content needs to be keyword rich for that particular keyword. Additionally, links to your site will also help you.
Paid advertising is the easiest way to get traffic, but the problem is that you have to pay for the traffic. As such, you may be spending more money on getting traffic than obtaining revenue from sales from that traffic. If this is the case, you need to reevaluate the amount that your spend on paid traffic, the content and appeal of your website, and the company you use for the paid advertising. Evaluate these things and make some changes so that you can create a successful mix of traffic and sales.
Links are helpful because they provide a way for people to get to your website if they are at
another website. It is important that you link to other websites that have a similar business or have similar content so that a visitor that uses your link is more likely to make a purchase from your website.
These are just some of the ways to drive traffic to your website. Experiment with these methods and other methods based upon your business needs and capabilities. Once you discover a successful, traffic driving formula, replicate the formula so that you get the most amount of targeted traffic possible visiting your website.
Article writing must be the most cost-effective but yet the most powerful method to increase website traffic. If done effectively, you'll not only gain more traffic but you'll also have established yourself as an expert in your niche.
Although I can tell you its hard work, and you really need the time and effort to make quality articles, I enjoy it, but thats just me, if your looking for other ways to generate traffic this is what worked for me


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