We all want to know how to increase web traffic, don’t we? What’s the point of having this gorgeous looking website when your traffic amounts to one man, a dog and a piece of tumbleweed ? Knowing how to increase web traffic, real targeted traffic, without breaking the bank is the real cruncher.
Let’s say we have a simple one page website and we want to know how to increase traffic to it. Let’s add in here that you really ought to have an opt-in form on that page where visitors can download a free e-book or mini-course in exchange for their e-mail details.
And yes this does mean paying for an Autoresponder like Aweber or Get Response. But if you don’t capture addresses, your business will never get any traction. A growing list of people who want to receive your promotional and relationship-building e-mailsshould be the foundation of your business. But let’s focus ontraffic:
I know from experience that if you launch into Google Adwords without doing some significant groundwork, you’ll get mullered. I’m not saying it doesn’t work - far from it - but take your eye off the ball and you could have a nasty surprise. Always control your daily spend, your bid price, and throw away the keywords with poor CTRS. If that all sounds too much hassle then steer clear of Pay-Per-Click completely. Period.
You could buy banners or ads on relevant e-zines and blogs, but again, only go near these if you are going to be organised about monitoring the results, and not everybody is. You have to track whatever marketing you do. Testing, tracking and tweaking is a discipline that is making huge incomes for the few who are organised and determined enough to do it.
Most new internet marketers are looking for ‘set and forget’, immediate traffic sources, and you can’t get get immediate ‘set and forget’ traffic like that without paying and risking something.
If you’re in this for the longer haul, however, you can take a lot less risks and go for permanent traffic sources that won’t cease to exist if Mother Google throws a ‘paddy’ and changes the rules on you.
If you’re happy to learn how to increase web traffic incrementally, by means of offering genuine content, backlinking, ‘White Hat’ SEO, and ethical Social Media practices then you can win big and build something that will look after you and your family big time.
The best way I’ve found to increase web traffic is to create a Wordpress blog, and keep posting content that’s optimised around relevant, highly sought after keywords that don’t have overwhelming competition. I then go to Pingoat to ‘ping’ the engines to let them know I’ve posted.
You can then craft articles from the same posts and submit them to the major directories such as Ezine Articles and GoArticles. None of these steps costs anything.
You can also post to relevant forums with useful and insightful comments and then include your ‘signature link’ which you can set to link back to your blog - creating a valuable backlink that boosts your blog’s ranking in the Search Engines.
You can comment on blogs - ‘dofollow’ blogs are preferable (Google ‘dofollow’ for an explanation) - and again link back to your blog.
You can download the free ‘All in One SEO’ plug-in, which helps the Search engines find all your new posts speedily. You can add Facebook, Twitter and YouTube plug-ins to your blog, increasing the ways you get the word out.
Above all, don’t let your blog die a lingering death. If you consistently post keyword-optimised content of say 350 to 450 words, preferably with images, you really can get to the first page of Google for some of your posts........
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That’s how to increase web traffic for free. Make the time to accomplish each task regularly, keep studying, and above all - don’t quit. If you'd seriously like to know how to increase web traffic, then do come and visit my blog. You can also go here and help yourself to some great FREE Online Business-Building Tools.
Alun Maxwell is an experienced online marketer who is also hired by many top companies to help with personal communication styles.
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