How to Increase Traffic to Your Website
Aloha to my valued readers,
They say the Internet has made the world smaller as anyone with a computer can put anything online. It may be a smaller world, but online, it is highly competitive to drive visitors (potential customers) to your site, no matter what you are selling!
I pulled up a search engine and put in what are the top 10 ways to drive traffic to my website?
The results were many and varied on how to generate hits to your site. And most of the results were dated 2007 or 2008! What worked then, does it still work now? So, I refined my search specifying the year "best ways to generate traffic in 2014."
1. Starting a blog is a good place to start to generate traffic. It is very easy to do. I use Google's Blogger. What do you blog about? Well, what are you expert at? What is your passion? Do you have a service you want to advertise? Do you have a product you want to sell? What if you have none of the above? You can always market somebody else's products and earn a commission off of each sale.
Everybody has one thing, product or service that they are an expert at. This is what you call your niche. Use your search box and key in your niche, whatever it may be, and see what your search pulls up! You will find all the other sites and blogs that also are in your niche. It never hurts to give credit by linking back to a site where you have researched your niche for content for your blog. Give credit where it is due!
A blog is only about 200 words at the least. Use as many keyword phrases as you can so the Search Engines can find you. Once you are done with your blog, you want to send it to as many people as you can via social media. One way to do this is to just click the share options at the bottom of your blog or even better, put a subscribe link up on the social network and give your readers an option to subscribe to your blog, and now you are building a list.
Whatever the content on your site or blog is, you can't just use one keyword phrase after another in order to get that traffic! You may not get published if you do that and have to rewrite. Especially with articles, or Press Releases. Learned through the school of hard knocks! Been there, tried that!
There are two kinds of traffic, free and paid. What do you have more of, money or time? Set a budget for yourself each month and a goal of how many people do you want to meet a day, or how much do you want to earn off of your investment? If you have time, then you can meet people at Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Google+ just to name a few. Give good quality content, and I have found that most people do not like to be pressured with an offer a day, or every conversation is about selling them something. Get to know them and find out what they are into, why are they online, and what do you have in common. It is a numbers game, so the more people you "talk" to via your blog or your social networking or mailing your list, you may sell 5 out of 100. Any relationship that you build is worth having, so don't be discouraged.
Be consistent. This is really important! On again, off again, nets you ZERO! Also learned in the school of hard knocks!
Here is a great place to get FREE traffic. https://www.answers.yahoo.com. You can answer questions there on any topic that you are the expert at. It is really unbelievable how many people answer a question without leaving the link to their site or blog, or even their Facebook page. Leave your site info, or again, leave a link to your subscribe page.
Obviously, you will need a way to keep in touch with your contacts when you come across something that is of value to them. I mentioned list building earlier in this blog and you can get the very best in customer service and learn how to present yourself as the pro you are at Aweber. Test Drive for $1 the first month!
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1 comment:
Very very useful! Worth reading for new blogger like me.
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