Web Traffic
Here are some practical tips for increasing website traffic
- Add content to your site frequently
- Increase the amount of pages on your site
- Increase the amount of web sites that link to your web site
- Incease the amount of links on your site to other relevant sites
- Try to include your product or idea in your top level domain name - for example: www.lakegeorgecondo.com is more relevant then www.lgc.com
- Try to include your product or idea in your web page names: for example: www.authenticclawprints.com/gray-wolf-shirt.html
- When linking to pages within your site try to use the keywords that describe the product or information. For example: " view more info on Frank's French Fries "is better then " click here ".
- Make sure to properly include title tags, meta keyword tags, and meta description tags for every web page. For help with this visit:
- Make sure to include alt tags that accurately describe your product or idea on every picture in your website
- Make sure you use Heading tags that are relevant to the topic of your website. The <h1> tags have the highest level of ranking. Then the level of relevancy decreases in descending order through the <h6> tags.
- Make sure the content in the body of your paragraphs are relevant to the topic of your website
- Links embeded in paragraphs helps to improve relevancy and increase search ranking
- Make sure your website has valid html and css code. For help with this visit:
- After you have everything in place make sure to have the three major search engines index your website. No need to submit your site to additional search engines as the majority of the other search engines feed from thes three major search engines:
- Use article distribution sites such as:
- Use video submission sites such as:
- Use press release distribution services. Write you article as if you are announcing news not writing an advertisment. An example of a press release distribution service is http://www.pr.com
- Use pay per click services. What works well with this program is that you only pay for the traffic you receive to your site. You can set a budget and experiment with what keywords work best. Both sites offer great tools to assist you with selecting relevant keywords.
- Incorporate blogs into your site. However, only do this if you have something to say. Visit the section on this site that describes blogs and how to set them up.
- Collect emails from you visitors and develop an email marketing strategy. For help in this area visit www.aweber.com
- Utilize social networking sites
- Submit your site to some of the more popular directories
- Keep adding content to your website
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