How to Get More Web Site Traffic
Get Website Hits and Traffic
There must be a million ways to get more visitors to a website. A million ways would be overwhelming though, so here I'm just going to give you 30 suggestions which use different basic methods - writing, links, and offline strategies.
These include some basic, bread-and-butter methods and some which are not your standard methods that you see in every article and book - here you should find at least a few that you haven't heard of before.
There must be a million ways to get more visitors to a website. A million ways would be overwhelming though, so here I'm just going to give you 30 suggestions which use different basic methods - writing, links, and offline strategies.
These include some basic, bread-and-butter methods and some which are not your standard methods that you see in every article and book - here you should find at least a few that you haven't heard of before.
10 Ways to Get Visitors to Your Website by Writing
Words create more website traffic
5 Basic Methods- Have high quality, unique written content on your web site. This is a basic requirement, whether you write it yourself or hire someone else to do it, you gotta have it.
- Write articles and post them on article directories with a link back to your web site.
- Write useful, relevant, substantial comments on blogs related to your website, and link back to your site. Note "useful, relevant, substantial". Don't spam!
- Write a useful report or mini-course including links to your website, and give it away. Encourage others to give it away too.
- Create an interesting, lively blog and post to it frequently, with links to your website as well as others.
5 More Unusual Methods
- Write reviews of products related to your niche on review sites like ePinions.com which allow your review or your profile to link back to your site.
- Post answers on Yahoo Answers, LinkedIn etc.
- Convert your eBook or substantial report to Kindle format and list it on Amazon.
- Be a columnist for an authority site in your niche.
- Write testimonials for other product owners which they will publish with your link. Make them honest and useful to the reader.
Traffic is the Lifeblood of Your Site
Without traffic, you can't test and tweak conversions, you don't have cash flow to pay for improvements, and everything takes 10 times as long as it should. Traffic is Key!
10 Ways to Get More Web Site Traffic using Links
More ways to find you helps you increase website traffic
5 Basic methods- Submit your site to directories. Consider the biggies (DMOZ, Yahoo), unpaid directories, paid ones if you can afford to, and niche directories relevant to your site.
- Create profiles on social sites (bookmarking, forums, etc) that link to your site.
- Post videos on sites like Youtube and place a link in the description and/or watermark the video with your URL.
- Place your link in your email and forum SIG (signature - the few lines below your name) Some forums allow this, some don't check before you do it.
- Start an affiliate program - either using a ready-made service like Clickbank or Commission Junction, or roll-your-own.
5 More Unusual Methods
- Advertise on cheap "pixel" or "word cloud" ad sites
- Use integration marketing to post links to your offer on other marketers' Thank-you or subscription-confirmation pages.
- Hold a contest on your blog or website in a way that has contestants post a link to your site.
- Sign up to become a Google news source in your niche.
- Create useful software relevant to your niche and post it on free download sites with a link to your site.
Targeted Visitors, not Junk Traffic
Target your traffic-building efforts so the people who come to your site are interested, stay around for a while, and do what you want them to do.
Untargeted traffic does almost nothing for you.
10 Offline Ways to get Website Hits
Reach Your Prospects in Their Offline Lives
5 Basic methods- Write articles for publication in dead-tree magazines in your industry, which will allow you a link to your website in your resource box or bio.
- Network with people at live events like seminars or trade shows
- Give out your business card with your URL on it, and leave it in appropriate places
- Advertise on community bulletin boards, including "tearoffs" with your URL.
- Advertise in newspaper or magazine classifieds relevant to your niche.
5 More Unusual Methods
- Advertise on local radio or community TV stations.
- Get offline businesses related to yours to give out your URL and information, perhaps in exchange for an ad on your site.
- Put your website URL on your business voicemail message
- Hold a crazy contest that requires people to visit your site.
- Appear as a guest on a talk radio or TV show
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