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5 Scientifically-Proven Ways to Increase Web Site Traffic
The more you understand about any subject, the more interesting it becomes. As you read this article you’ll find that the subject of web site traffic is certainly no exception.
Offer additional value on your website for affiliates and partners. You can place links to their sites and products, for example, and ask them to do the same for you. In addition, you can advertise affiliate or partner books or videos if these products relate to your industry, and are not in competition with your own product or service line.
Make your content USEFUL. Think about your target audience and what they may be coming to your site to see, learn or buy. THEN DELIVER THAT! Search engines and keywords can bring people to your site, but if your content is not useful or doesn’t live up to your sales pitch, your prospective customer may leave and never come back. Your web site traffic will faint in stead of growing.
Before you submit your website to search engines and directories, which is an absolute must to get more web site traffic, be sure you are ready. Don’t submit websites that are incomplete. Have a plan for how and when you will contact these search engines and include information about your website, a description, keywords and any other information that may be pertinent, including the name and contact information for the business owner. Remember that submission to search engines companies does not guarantee that your ranking will be high. It only guarantees that they will look at your site, but it may take a while because there are literally thousands of new websites springing up every day.
If you find yourself confused by what you’ve read to this point, don’t despair. Everything on increasing your web site traffic should be crystal clear by the time you finish.
When starting a website, give serious thought to domain names and web hosting services because these are the underpinnings for your website. First and foremost, when it comes to domain names, stay away from the silly, stupid, ridiculous or clever. Keep your domain name simple and make it something your customers can remember if they lose the link to your business website. A professional domain name that uses your primary company name or associated words is likely to get more attention and be considered as a stable business by your prospective customers.
When you design or revamp your website, do not use frames or FLASH programming unless your company is very large and your website is very complex with lots of opportunity for other keyboard use. Many search engines do not read content that is inside a frame so you can have many great keyword references in your content and still miss that all-important search engine ranking which will eventually increase your web site traffic. You might have trouble achieving a good ranking on a search engine that does read content in frames because the frames increase the page file size and total words (even though a frame is NOT a word) and thereby dilute the keyword density.
So now you know a little bit about web site traffic. Even if you don’t know everything, you’ve done something worthwhile: you’ve expanded your knowledge.
Kurt Naulaerts
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-business-articles/5-scientificallyproven-ways-to-increase-web-site-traffic-70378.html
Web Site Traffic Secrets Exposed
Here are the secrets to increase your web site traffic. Here is how to create thousands of visitors daily to your website; and these three methods guarantee targeted visitors to your web site, not just hits from some email list or advertising gimmick you probably paid too much for.
There are several ways to generate both free and paid web site traffic, but there really are only a handful of effective ways to generate traffic without spending a lot of money and without wasting a lot of time. What I mean is: There are only a few ways that are really powerful and worthwhile.
I won’t waste your time telling you about all those “other ways.” I am interested in showing you the most powerful, proven, and fastest ways to create an avalanche of targeted traffic to your website, without it costing you a small fortune!
There are a couple of free methods that I could recommend, but these only really work as a result of your primary traffic generation methods. What I’m getting at is using a free viral traffic generation matrix. This type of free traffic generator only works well if you already have a ton of traffic to your site which you have generated by other means. You could also use a free traffic exchange program and surf for credits, but not until you get lots of people signed up under you will you see any real increase to your web site traffic.
Joint ventures are no doubt the fastest and most powerful way to drive thousands of visitors to your site, to build a large list, and to make lots of money in an amazingly short amount of time. But to take advantage of a joint venture (JV) you need your own large list already or your very own product which you own outright. If you’re like most people, however, you are an affiliate marketer using other people’s products to build your own online business from scratch, so a JV is simply not an option.
Let me cut to the chase. The three most powerful methods to generate tons of traffic to your site without costing you a fortune are:
1. Ezine Advertising
2. Article Writing, and
3. The Search Engines
Ezine advertising will get you super fast results so that you can begin building your list and generating a small income from your “One Time Offer” immediately. It’s affordable and it’s fast. You can generate literally thousands of visitors with one Top Sponsor Ad. Ezine ads are cheap enough to run once a week, and you can track and test different headlines and copy until you find an ad that works well for you. Prices run from $20 to $80 per insertion depending on the number of subscribers.
Article writing is extremely important to your business. It qualifies you as an expert in your field, it generates traffic every time your article is posted on somebody else’s website, and it builds trust with your customer which makes it easier to convert your traffic into sales. Article writing also dovetails with your search engine traffic generation method to get you on page one of the search results, so article writing really is essential to achieve lots of free organic search engine traffic.
Search engine traffic is the secret to your super success. If you can get placed on page one of a Google search result for some highly targeted keywords, you will drive so much traffic to your website that your success will be off the chart! I am talking about thousands of visitors per day! This really is achievable in the long run, and therefore something you must shoot for.
Getting search engine traffic depends on three main variables: 1) SEO on-page optimization which is not difficult to do. 2) Writing articles which create links back to your site. 3) Content, content, and more quality content on your website that contains the same keywords that your articles are optimized for. Additionally, you can purchase some text links on some high page rank web sites that will give your site a big boost in the organic search results.
Don’t waste your time with banner ads or free classified ads. It really is just a waste of your valuable time. Sure you may see a trickle of visitors to your website from these promotions, but what you want is a river of people rushing to your website! Put your time and effort into what works in a BIG way. Remember, your objective is to drive thousands of visitors to your website.
There are so many offers and promises of free traffic on the net today. Ignore them. Don’t waste your time and money! And remember, even the free methods require that you promote them. Most of what’s out there is hype and doesn’t work well. What works amazingly well are the three methods I mentioned in this article.
William Perkins
http://www.articlesbase.com/communication-articles/web-site-traffic-secrets-exposed-68475.html
Web Traffic Techniques You Can Use Right Now for 2006
As you probably know, getting web traffic to your site is one of the three most crucial components to making any money online. In Mark Joyner’s Internet Intelligence Manuscript (Volume II) he clearly explains how any web traffic (not just “targeted traffic”) can be made profitable, by mentally framing, or conditioning your visitors to become receptible to your offer.
One of the easiest ways to mentally re-frame your visitors upon entry to your site, is to walk them through a three-step process that:
A) Grabs their immediate attention with a promise of benefit
B) Pre-Qualifies them before they get to your sales letter
C) Follows up with them over time with new content and reminders of your offer
Keep in mind, web traffic is just one component of the three required to sustain sales.
The other two are:
1. Testing new advertising campaigns and ad copy
2. Tracking and keeping records of your results from each campaign
Here’s an example case study of the three-step process…
On December 16th 2005, my book “The Instant Traffic Formula 2006″ was released to teach internet entreprenuers how to create, attract and monetize responsive web traffic to any web site or affiliate program. As of today, my web site, which uses the exact techniques taught in the book is averaging a 64.86% visitor-to-lead conversion, and an average sales conversion ranging from 4.69% up to 11.36% all-around from the redirect, which is currently netting me just over $1.48 per unique visitor to my site.
Again, these statistics do not take follow-ups into account. These are “straight-out-of-the-gate” type sales that occur within minutes of my visitors signing up to read my sales letter.
And you can do this too.
I follow a simple formula to create web traffic, qualified leads, responsive subscribers, loyal customers and even active affiliates who promote anything and everything I sell online.
You can sum up the entire formula into the three major components I mentioned above, and create a fail-proof success system for your products, services and affiliate programs. After you’ve activated the formula, the best way to keep the momentum of traffic, leads and sales coming in on a consistent and even predictable basis, is in three words…
What those three words are, and how to use them by combining eight other powerful elements is carefully documented inside my book. But here’s the process I used personally on my site:
1. My visitor is directed through a tracking link (or affiliate link) to a lead capture page called a “Name Squeeze” where prospects give their contact information in order to get details of my report.
2. Upon submitting their contact information, they are immediately directed to my sales page for the details, and offer for the Instant Traffic Formula Scientific Marketing Report.
3. My follow-up autoresponder system immediately sends them an email reminding them of my offer, giving a few testimonials of the report and sends them a link to check it out at another time. A few days later, they receive reminders of my offer, more quality feedback of my report, new articles and content about getting web traffic, and again – links back to my sales letter.
The lead capture page serves to “pre-qualify” visitors who actually want to read my sales letter to find out more about my offer. I’ve heard a lot of people claim many visitors (and sales) can be lost by forcing your prospects to “do something” before they get to your offer — but my direct experimentation and results show the majority (64.86%) of visitors who hit my site, sign up.
Once my visitors sign up, they become leads and are set into my autoresponder system to receive consistent follow-ups until they buy, or unsubscribe.
Thankfully, the autoresponder service I use allows me to easily direct my new subscribers to a custom “Thank You” page. Most web marketers still use the “default” thank you page and their subscribers are returned to a “thanks for subscribing – now close the window” type message. Useless.
My thank you page re-directs to a tested sales letter that continues the mental conditioning process by giving in-direct answers to questions that were created in the mind of my prospects upon reading, and signing up from my Name Squeeze.
Now that my three elements are together, I combine them with “CII” or the three most powerful words in all of marketing, and achieve phenomenal and consistent results over time.
Using just this part of the formula alone, can cause a massive shift in your bottom line. However, when the complete formula is both discovered and activated, you’ll have a direct funnel to bring money “out of thin air” to you whenever you like, and for whatever you want.
Do this. Think of something you’d like to have.
Anything. It can be anything. Don’t limit yourself.
A new car, a new house, a nice expensive necklace for a loved one — anything.
Now put a price on it.
That’s your goal. Your intention.
Write it down.
Next, get out a calculator and punch in the price of what you want.
Divide that number by the price for whatever item you want to sell.
Round up to the nearest whole number, and you’ve got a definite number.
This number equals the amount of sales you’ll need to get your wish.
Now use the formula described in this article, and funnel the correct amount of sales into your business, by getting the traffic, pre-qualifying them, and going for the sale using CII to guide you along every step of the way — until you reach your desired number of sales.
Once the sales you’ve accumulated equal your desired amount, you get your wish.
Try it for yourself and see the power in this technique to create anything you want.
Above all, stay focused… keep the momentum… and enjoy your prosperity in the new year!
Jason And Skye Mangrum
http://www.articlesbase.com/online-promotion-articles/web-traffic-techniques-you-can-use-right-now-for-2006-10450.html
5 Free Ways to Jumpstart your Web Traffic
So you have your own website. Congratulations. Now, what exactly are you doing to get people to visit your site? Just like a brick and mortar storefront or an office suite in the commerce park, your website isnt just going to become a popular hangout spot for clients and prospective customers. Youve got to tell everyone about it!
When you open a restaurant, you put up signs, you take out a newspaper ad, you buy space in the yellow pages, you turn on the lights, you open the door, you tell everyone you meet about your new business. Your website deserves the same treatment. If you fail to promote your site, youve basically just spent a thousand dollars or more on a standard lot in cyberspace with no roads in and no roads out. You need to get the word out on your new company website, and heres the best part it doesnt have to cost anything at all, if youre willing to take the time and make the effort to do it yourself.
Sohow does a small business owner jumpstart his or her website? You may consider hiring a professional to do it for you. Your web design and development firm built your site for visitors, but probably did not include promotion along with it. A good ad agency will raise the topic when quoting on your site. An experienced marketer knows its always best to group your promotions and cross-sell at every opportunity and should have suggested handling your web traffic. But in case they missed the boat, you can still contact a full-service ad agency to help. Of course, thats not the FREE methods mentioned in the title of this piece, so for those whod like to take a shot at handling it themselves, this article tells you 5 FREE steps to jumpstarting your web traffic:
1. Connect the Cables
2. Start the Engine
3. Get it Running
4. Give it Some Gas
5. Put it in Drive
Everyone whos ever owned a car long enough to pay off the loan knows that an indispensable part of the trunk contents is a set of jumper cables (the other is a gallon of water). You never know when youll be stuck somewhere with a car that just wont get going. Same with your website. Its there, but its going nowhere unless you first get it connected to something thats already running or capable of running. Whether you already have established business or not, youve got to connect your website to every promotional piece you create. This means adding your web address to:
- company stationery (business cards, letterhead, envelopes, invoices, quote sheets, receipts)
- business signage (windows, counter displays, and company vehicles)
- ads (yellow pages, newspapers, and local magazines)
- everything else (boxes, bags, cartons, promotional pieces and more)
Everything that gets your name and phone number, gets your URL (web address). This shouldnt cost you anything if you wait until its time to reprint. But, if you want to get started today, youll need to redesign and reprint new promotional pieces to add your site. Since jumpstarting requires the cables be connected, its a great way to get your site visited sooner rather than later.
Its important not to lose track of one key point, there are 2 sets of clamps on a set of jumper cables. You must make sure your website is sending the right message back to visitors. It must look and feel like your existing promotional pieces. Your brand identity is dependent upon it. And your website must clearly identify who you are, where you are and what you do. Your contact information is as critical online as it is on your business cards. Make sure the electrical current is flowing freely between both vehicles if youre ever going to get rolling!
Okay. So your cables are connected, and now its time to start the other engine. The most important engine on the internet is the search engine. You want to become very friendly with Mr. Search Engine because he knows lots and lots of people. You want his friends to be your friends. Search engines, and their brothers, Directories are the traffic cops of the internet. They basically tell people where to find the files and pages theyre looking for out of billions of documents on the world wide web. Soyou cant have them over for dinner, butyou can get them to know about you by sending them an invitation to visit your site.
Search engines use robots and spiders to crawl all over the web and take inventory of the files and their content, its a computerized process. You can wait weeks to be crawled, or you can help the process along by submitting your URL to the search engines directly. Well over 80% of internet users take their first step via a search engine like Google, AltaVista, or HotBot.
Directories like Yahoo, employ humans to compile lists of websites and web pages from the millions available online at any given time. You can also help the directories find you by submitting your site to the proper subdirectory inside these engines. Directories will consider your site on a free submission. If you want a guarantee, youll have to pay for it.
So, as soon as your website is complete and live, SUBMIT. List your site on as many FREE (there it is again) engines as you can find. Check out www.directoryguide.com for a list. You should resubmit your site every few months especially if you have had content changes, page additions or other major changes to your website. Make sure you submit to the local yellow pages and white pages online too. Most offer free listings for businesses.
If you havent already done so, confirm that your web developer added page titles and keywords to your website. If you arent using metadata like this, you need to. Search engines utilize the keywords and compare them to your content. They return your title and page descriptions in search results. Dont expect the best ranking without metadata, so call on a pro to get your pages optimized. Consider your keywords carefully. They will be ones that are basic to your business or industry. Put the most important words and phrases first in the list.
Search engines like the popular sites. So, another way to make your site attractive to the search engines is to have lots of friends. The way to gain popularity is to have lots of good websites linking to your website. When a search engine returns results, they rank the pages based on relevancy and popularity. Your goal is to always be in the top five or ten listings returned on a search. Popularity pays off in ranking your site higher than other less noticeable sites (thousands of them!).
Getting popular doesnt have to mean spending money. Sure you could spend thousands and thousands on ads to get onto the first page of search results (basically buying your friends), but why? If you can get your site linked up, youll get the engines fired up about you. Youll find more info in steps 4 and 5 below.
Step 3 Get it Running. Once the engine starts up, you need to let it run for a while to get the power flowing to your site. While its idling out in cyberspace, run off with promote your site via email. There are two email tactics you need to think about. The first is your email signature, the second is email marketing.
Your signature is unique, and your unique web address is as important as your name and phone number in the closing of every email you send out (business and personal). You and your employees must include your companys digital signature. It should include a clickable link to your URL. This form of viral marketing is both FREE, and easy. Your email software will have a place to format your digital signature. Find it and use it.
Email marketing is one of the most effective tools to market your website and to showcase products and services. Permission-based email can be extremely targeted by including only those people whove expressed an interest in your business, product or industry. By building and maintaining your own house list, you ensure youre compliance with anti-spam laws. There are also reputable list brokers who can help you choose a list of email addresses to prospect to with an offer, coupon, or other introductory special. Of course, list rental isnt free, but you can certainly start building a list of your own with friends, family and current customers. You can ask for email addresses and permission to send on every inquiry your company receives both online and off. Build your list, keep it clean and offer an easy way for people to unsubscribe or opt out. Most important, send relevant and targeted content, a clear call to action, and pay close attention to your subject line. You want your mail to be opened, read, and acted upon. Armed with this info, you can easily create simple text emails for FREE!
Done correctly, email marketing will become an extremely powerful tool for sales and customer service. When youre ready to make your email campaigns even more diverse, in-depth and creative, call on a professional marketer. But whether you keep it simple by doing it yourself, or hire someone for the task, dont let this one get by you.
Pushing down the pedal helps boost the power. Step 4 of our FREE Steps to Jumpstarting your Web Traffic involves content. Quality content makes the difference between visited and forgotten. Hopefully, when you created your website, you included the kind of useful information web surfers are looking for. Your content is what makes your website important, its what keeps people coming back, and its what helps you rank in the search engines. Keep your content relevant, current, and easy to navigate. Some examples of content that you should include on your site, and keep updated, include:
- instructions for assembling and using your products
- technical specifications
- maintenance schedules
- warranty and upgrade information
- frequently asked questions (FAQs)
- articles/information bits on your industry, products, or services
Youre already an expert in your field, so show it off online! Write hints and tips, articles (like this one!) and more. Post this information on your website, but also, submit it to article and press release websites. These types of directories house hundreds of articles on all different topics. If you cant write, then visit an article site and download some relevant content to use on your website. Heres the bonus: if you write and submit, your bio and website link go with your article. Anyone who wishes to use your content must keep your bio and links intact. BAM! You just added links throughout the world wide web, back to YOUR site! Watch those FREE rankings go up in the search results! Giving your website some gas by filling it up with quality content is step number four in our 5 FREE Steps to Jumpstarting Your Website.
When steps 1-4 are complete, youre ready to turn the key and shift into drive. Youre marketing your website on all your promotional material (for free), your site is ranking with the search engines (for free), youre sending regular email messages to customers and growing your list (also for free), and youre keeping your content relevant to both customers and potential customers (againfor free!). So now its time to take off! Once your site is doing things to help grow your business, its time to turnover it over with step 5 — new ideas. If youve started your website for Ecommerce, its time to enhance customer service. If youve begun as info only, its time to sell or take orders online. If your restaurant started a site just to add its menu, then its time to take customers in the kitchen, show them what their meal takes, what its made of, what youre made of. Whatever you do, dont just jumpstart your traffic, then sit back and watch everyone drive past you.
The final step to jumpstarting traffic is really not the end of the road. The internet is different daily. Search engines change their algorithms, new technology is available almost by the minute, consumer tastes and preferences are in a constant state of flux. In this environment, you need to keep your website and marketing tools up to date if you want to stay competitive. Subscribe to free E-zines, newsletters and other information sources that will keep you current on whats new and whats hot. Keep your marketing efforts tuned up and it will always be rush hour on your website.
Linda Lullie
http://www.articlesbase.com/advertising-articles/5-free-ways-to-jumpstart-your-web-traffic-112658.html
Tips to Drive Internet Traffic to Your Website
You have set up a website with very useful information that you think it will benefit your visitors. Day to days, you keep update the latest information and publishing articles; hoping people will visit your website and found your useful information.But day in day out you check your website traffic stats, there is no one comment and your website has very low impressions. Why its like that? There reason is nobody knows your website. There are thousand of hundreds of website on internet, you put your website on internet but who will know your website if you not announce it. Yes, you need to drive the traffic to your website, but how?Here are 10 tips in no particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to get traffic moving to your website.
Submit or Add Your Site to Major Search Engines Search engines submission will increase your Page Ranking and when your web page is ranked in a high ranking positions, your website will be easily searched and seen by internet users if your pages are meeting their relevant search keyword. Focus on major search engines such as Yahoo, Google and MSN. Dont use the free submission service or fee submission which will submit too many search engines because those services might hurt your page ranking as many has banned by major search engines such as Yahoo and Google.
Audio Postcard for email marketing Internet has been for a short time but it has gone through various revolutions, today, silence web now can start talking and help you to promote your website and persuade prospects to click “Order Now” buttons faster and with less resistance. Press Announcement Making press announcement can be one of effective method of creates backlines to your website and it really help in your page ranking positions.
Articles Submission Articles submission to article bank is one of the best ways to expose your website to the public. There are many visitors drop by these sites to look for related information and your articles might be among their search results.
Trade Link Request & One Way Incoming Links One of the search engines optimization is to have as many as possible the incoming links to your website. You could request trade links or link exchanges with other webmaster. One way incoming link is other website link to yours without the need of you to link to them. If you website has useful information to other website, they probably will add a link to their website to link to yours. There many website which provide one-way links service, but almost all of them are need monthly or year subscription fee.
RSS Feed Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to. The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of websites or bogs available for syndication.
Viral Marketing Viral marketing is another way of say word-of-mouth. On internet, word-of-mouth spread so fast thru email. The key to successful of viral marketing is to send out something that people want to share. That can be anything from a joke, funny story or link to home-made video.
Smita
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-marketing-articles/tips-to-drive-internet-traffic-to-your-website-699714.html
