How to get increased website traffic

Blogging?

Yup, here are just a couple of reasons:

Search engines love blogs, with their constant updating of content, RSS feeds and links back and forth to relevant content.

But you should be blogging because you have a point of view or something of value to say.

Your posts will be indexed quickly by the major search engines and if your posts and blog link back to your website then you will start to see an increase in visitors to your site.

Use sites such as pingoat to ping your blog after you have posted, this will let the search engines know that you have updated your content and they will come take a visit.

Submit your RSS feeds to as many RSS directories as you can.

Join MyBlogLog and build your own community around your blog, this will also drive traffic back to your main website.

Comment on other blogs, leave well thought out replies.

If you post on your own blog and refer to another blog, use a track back. It will increase your link popularity and could even generate some visitors from the linked blog.

Article marketing is a proven method to increase website visitors to your site.

All you have to do is to write short 300 - 500 word articles, include a resource box with your website link and submit the articles to an article directory.

These articles will be picked up and published by other website owners and ezine publishers, they can re-publish the article on their own sites and in newsletters provided they publish your resource box also - Instant free back links!

The back links will help to increase your position in the search engine rankings and any reader interested enough to find out more, will click the link and visit your site.

But I can't Write!

You don't have to be a writer to write articles, you could for example, record yourself talking about your topic or niche of choice, then transcribe it.

The best way that I find to write, is to get a rough outline first by studying similar articles. Once you get focused, you will be knocking articles out in no time.

The increased traffic you will receive from your efforts will be well worth it.

If you really struggle writing but understand the benefits, such as being recognised as an expert in your field and the additional traffic the articles will generate, then simply outsource your article writing. Get someone else to do it whilst you drink tea!

Trading links with another website is also a great idea that is proven to increase website traffic.

You don't have to spend a cent! All you have to do is reach an agreement with another webmaster.

With exchanging links, the efforts both sites put in will benefit all, its a win/win situation. Every website visitor that goes to the site could potentially click on your link and visit your site as well.

This works well especially when both sites complement each other but aren't in direct competition.

Getting targeted website traffic from forums is one of the easiest ways to boost the visitors to your website.

To find suitable forums, just do a search in google for "forum" + your niche.

There are forums dedicated to everything!

Go and sign up at 2 or 3, lurk in the forums for a while to get a feel for the types of questions people are asking and the replies that are given.
Don't forget to read the terms and conditions for each forum as they may differ slightly from one another.

When you feel comfortable, start posting replies to questions. Don't forget to set your forum signature as this will be the link(s) back to your website and blog.

When people find your reply helpful, chances are, they will click on the links in your signature and visit your site. An instant increase in website traffic.

Check out the forum posts that get the most views and replies. When starting your own thread in forums, try to copy what made other posts so successful. You want to achieve maximum exposure to your signature, thus creating an increase to your website traffic.

Forums are also a great place to research topics for future articles.

If you find a lot of people asking similar questions in the forums, I guarantee they will be searching google and other search engines for the answer. Write an article on the topic, post it to your blog or to an article directory. You could even hit the google #1 spot!

Over time, posting in forums will give you 'authority' status in your niche and plenty of friends to call upon when needed.