Increasing Site Traffic

Increasing Site Traffic - Methods and Techniques

You have a blog or website but you do not have enough visitors right ! You are desperately looking for ways to increase traffic to your website. So do most of us.

Well, Believe me !, it is not that difficult to increase website traffic towards your site but more important aspect is how you handle the traffic. Internet traffic is volatile and have shifting loyalty towards good, interesting and dynamic content. So if you do not update your blog or website content soon people will forget your website and turn towards other.

Ok! that was little off topic. So, we are going to see what doors we have to invite traffic to our website.

1. Search Engine :

Have you submitted your website or blog to the search engines? If not do it.

Contrary to the common misconception it is not necessary to submit your site URL to all search engines. Submitting for google is sufficient coz most other search engines crawl google to get website listings.

Try to grab your place in top 20 search results in google if you are top 10 its more than good.

Search engine optimization techniques will help you achieve this. If you do not know anything about seo just try to get back links towards your site from your friends website or from your other websites.

2.Internet Forums :

Internet forum websites are a good way to interact with people. Be an active member of the forum and keep a signature of your website when you join the forum. In that way people of the forum will notice your signature when you post a question or reply to a question.

3.Email this content :

“Email forward this content “ feature helps site visitors to send an article or joke from your blog or website to their friend. This helps to replicate web traffic in a geometric progression. It is one of the fundamentals of viral marketing.

4.Social Networking Websites

Use social networking websites to promote your website. Read the scrapbook and profiles of your targeted website traffic to estimate the requirements and likes of your visitors. It is like a market survey in some sense.

Use your website url in your profile website field of orkut & face book like Social Networking websites.

5.Run contests & giveaways

People love to win prizes! You can run quiz contests and surveys to facilitate constant web traffic. The amount of prize is not important but frequency is.

If you are low on budget you can distribute e-books and loyalty point like stuffs in your prizes.

6.Revenue Sharing Programs

To interest people write articles for your website you can use revenue sharing programs which help your users place their adsence id on your website in your defined ad space for a given period of time as set by you.

7.Use youtube for web promotion

You can make short and sweet video story with the help of windows movie maker and float it on youtube. The video should have a source caption at the start and end like "xxx.com presents" or "courtesy xxx.com".

Companies as big as Pepsi are now using youtube to launch ad campaign for their products.

8.Keep a social book marking feature on your website

This will help visitors book mark your site content in technorati,digg etc which will further pull traffic from there.

9. Website traffic analysis

You can use statcounter.com to analyze your web traffic for location, keywords and numerous criteria’s. This can help you analyze what kind of keywords is driving traffic towards your website so that you can tune-up those keywords.

10. Newsletter

Newsletters help you inform your website members about your site updates. It is a tool of connectivity for a site administrator to his/her member.

11.Classifieds Ads

You can use classified ad websites like kijiji and others to promote your website. You can put short interesting information from your website on these sites with a back link towards your website.