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Web Site Traffic

Do You Know What to do to Get the Click?

There are numerous ways to get web site traffic.

Visitors, clicks or traffic, what ever you call it, with out it, eventually you will be out of business. It can come from over 30 sources. Building this kind of traffic is a never ending job. It is like sweeping the sidewalks in front of your shop every morning.

With a concept in place and your website created the next step is getting the click.

Your DIY website needs to be built for both your visitors and the search engines. The engines will provide most of your websites web traffic. The web site visitor that come from the search engines will be your foundation for success. Both have to be pleased with what you create.

There are other sources of internet traffic in addition to the search engines. They all play a part to increasing your traffic.

Free Traffic For My Website starts with your content. Here are some resources. Oh yes, they are free.

How much web site traffic is good? Depending on the topic, the first goal would be 500 per day. The next goal to reach for would be 1000 visitors a day. After that, it will be up to the topic. Remember, high end real estate needs only a dozen highly targeted visitors to a good income and a site that only makes a few pennies per click will need 10,000 per day. The numbers are relative. Do not get hung up on numbers.

This is a review of the top ways to getting the click, boosting web site traffic and increasing visits.

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Website Promotion Help An Overview.

Top 30 Ways for Website Traffic Building is the start of an exhaustive list of the various ways to build traffic to your site. More to come in time.

Search Engine Optimization for Users

Although optimizing for spiders is good, optimizing copy writing for your users is even more important. Spelling, grammar, proper word use, and good writing are essential for building web site traffic.

Search Engine Submission

Submit your website to the big four, Google, MSN, Yahoo, and Ask

Each has unique aspects requiring a different approach to rank high and build web site traffic through these listings. No need to pay. It can be done for free.

Google...getting listed
MSN...Getting Listed
Yahoo....Getting Listed
ASK...Improving Chances of Getting Listed

If you purchase the site builder we recommend, this process is automated and manages the process, freeing up more of your time.

Other Ways to Increase Web Site Traffic

Links

Links work on several levels to help your site be seen. The higher the PR (page rank) the better the vote for your site. The better the rank the more you will be desirable to link to. You literally need thousands of links. This will take years and is one part of a never ending DIY website building strategy to boost your site popularity.

Get a PR 10 Back Link from Google to help boost website traffic.

XML Site Maps and Pinging for Web Site Traffic

Save your money. Why pay for the services that guarantee your site will be submitted to all the search engines when you can easily do it for free. By the way, the big four mentioned above are all that really matter. The traffic return on time invested for the other search engines is just not worth it. You might hope to get less than a double digit increase in traffic.

Google, Yahoo and MSN allow you to use XML site maps for “submitting”. Even better yet, if you ping Google at it’s BlogSearch with a blog post you will instantly get indexed.

Article Marketing for Web Site Traffic

Article marketing was big when it was important to get many links from different websites and IPs. Duplicate content issues, low quality and other disadvantages made it less of a viable option. However, for some it still proves to be one of the most valuable ways for DIY website traffic building. Learn why here.

Article Writing For Links and Traffic

How to write an article.

How to Submit to Article Sites

Article Submission Sites...The List

Article Submission Software
Why in the world wide web do you need this? Find out.

Directory Submissions for Web Site Traffic

Free or For Fee Listings

Hire It Out

Do It Yourself Directory Listing

DMOZ is a totally human directory which means months to get listed. Only great content gets listed here.

Help getting listed. will give instructions on how to get in.

Yahoo Directory is also a human directory. It costs $300 per year and only takes about a week to get your site listed.

Help Getting Started with Yahoo

Business.com is a human directory. Fee is $199 first year and $149 there after.

Help To Get Listed on Business.com Directory.

ZoomInfo Is a directory that allows you to post a profile. It is not totally human.

Zoom Info submission page to start the process of getting listed.

The Top 100 Free Submission Directories is the best. Word of caution. Rather than starting at the top, start with directories that have a PR of 1-2 or 3. The reason is simple. There is a learning curve. Until you actually learn what works best, you could be wasting a great opportunity.

Blogging for Web Site Traffic

Mini-Blog...a unique feature to boost traffic.

Business Blogging

Some are finding that business blogging works far better for generating links than article marketing. It is a lot more reputable because, in its purest form, allows for both positive and negative comments which speak to honesty.

If you would like to learn more, visit the library and get the book Gonzo Marketing.

Local Business Directories This is a great business marketing tip if your on the web or not.

Social Networking Web Site Traffic

De*lic*ous

Gather

Your invited to join me on Gather. It's free!

Social Networking is an essential aspect of building web site traffic, credibility and links.

Social networks allow people to write about and share interests.

The content can include subjects from politics to cooking. On Gather you can publish your own articles and photos and comment on the contributions of others.

There is a bonus...you even earn Gather Points just for using the site! Then you can exchange points for great stuff like books, CDs, wine, and vacations. Check it out! Hope to see you on Gather.

Click Here to Join Gather

Topic Focused Sites

Forums

Submitting to forums...A home page link on active social media profiles can provide traffic. This is even better if it is a forum that allows signatures that “pass on the PageRank” vote.

When social media sites allow you to add a link to your homepage in the profile and you are contributing consistently to these, you gain more authority. As people check out who you are you get traffic.

Adding a forum to your site? The wisdom from experience says not to. Forums are for problems. People go there to solve a problem and the people who use them are often times aggressive. Then there is the time and trouble tied up in moderating them. They could take years to create. Usually, they are not worth the trouble.

Create a Social Community

Social communities offer a far more positive enhancement to a site. This makes possible to add content based on popularity which will create more traffic fodder.

Sphinn is an example you might want to check out.

Music Promotion Sites

The Music Promotion Sites List.

OurStage.com Upload your music and listeners vote for what they think is the best. Prizes awarded.

MP3.com Upload your music and start building a fan base of those directed to your music.

MVine powered by an online community, fans vote for their favorite artist.

TubeTribe

ArtistFirst Global music sharing platform.

NME Music news, artist, places,blog, and a place to press release.

Purevolume is the place for rising artists to host their mp3s and get exposure. We showcase unsigned artists, independent labels, and major label artists. Visitors can download over 100,000 mp3s for free.

MusicForte Music Forte is an indie music website community offering something for everyone interested or involved in independent music, indie music promotion, forums, and more.

Sound of Traffic Publish your music here and build traffic to your page by paid and other means.

Starpolish helping artists help themselves, promotional ideas and more.

Artistopia

SoundClip.com Almost every music category can be searched here. Start a blog, post to forums, get known.

MusicSubmit A service to promote artist online.

iodaPROMONET a promotional music internet distribution alliance.

Note...some of these sites also have forums and blogs to help get visitors to your site.

Artist Websites

Real Estate Websites

Existing Business Websites

Links

Links work various ways to help boost web site traffic. Each link in to each page is like a vote for the site. Each link in could bring another visitor. Each link can serve to brand your site.

Effective Link Strategy...a tutorial.

A Link Exchange that Works

Authority Links

If you get a recommendation from a respectable website, it will weigh as a heavier vote of confidence for your site but the more you are linked, the greater the worth.This can translate into clicks in a few ways.

Yahoo Answers (no follow links) Once juiced, others started posting one of my sites as a resource. This meant they were doing my work for me, like a virus.

Craig’s List (short term links) This has not been great for me, however it is for some. It worked great for my art work and artwork site.

Stumble Upon

Blast

Squidoo

Link Lists and why you need to avoid them.

Email Signatures

Posting on Forums

Blogging for Links Content links are the result of your superb content that just makes people want to write about you and link to you in their blogs. This is accomplished by providing exceptional resources, current news as in up to the minute, unique analysis and or opinion that does not repeat what you can find anywhere else. The result is credibility and clicks to your site.

Press Releases for Web Site Traffic

Releases provide buzz, links and best of all traffic. One press release not only got one site a few thousand views, it resulted in a few newspaper and magazine articles requesting an expert interview. This is one form of making your site known that cannot be overlooked for web site traffic building.

Free Press Release Sites and a few pay sites.

Other Ways to Boost Traffic

Boost Your DIY Website Building Power using SBI

Cost Effective Web Site Promotion Offline Promotion

Business Cards

Postcards

Brochures

Fliers

Materials

Eliminating Looser Links

Some widgets and counters have third party links that will sometimes take your visitors to an unrelated site. Why would you want to lose a visitor in such a way. If the link is not high value or producing an income for you, it may be time to say good by. One option to create web site traffic is to not lose it in the first place.

Come back as watch as we bring you more about building web site traffic.

Next: After Web Site Traffic Go To Website Confidence

Do You Want Traffic?

If you build a website using the principles found here, you will get traffic? Want proof, ask us to show you our web site traffic screen shots.

Traffic Tip

Is your website in your signature on your email?

Many send e-mail with a signature from some other company. This amounts to free advertising for someone who does nothing for you. Why not advertise yourself. Put your website in your signature. Every time you send an email, you are promoting your site.

It is not considered spam, even if you put a pitch in your signature.

Best case, you only tempt and tease with a question or thought that will make them click. If you ask a question, there should be an answer at the other end. Failure to do so is bad form and a violation of net etiquette.

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What is Traffic Overview

Gets tons of traffic. What does that really mean? Are they for real or are they a con?

Organic Traffic is made of the visitors who find your site from keyword searches.

Link Traffic comes from links on other peoples sites that link to your site. They can be put there by others who like your site. They can be put there by being included in articles you write and post on article sites. They can come from blog postings. Most blog posts do not provide a live link unless your link is in the body of the post.

Links from Ads are like rented traffic. When you stop paying for traffic, it stops. Although it is risky, there are people who spend $30,000 to $100,000 in sales a month and even more. It can work but is only for the experienced.

Social Media can produce a lot of traffic and if done correctly, it can even produce raving fans who will be loyal customers.

Directory Traffic Only the best directories provide traffic. Although some will provide little or no traffic, they are still valuable, only for other reasons.

Business Cards, Signs and Off Line Advertising can all bring traffic to your site.

Your signature in your email.

Other You will see ads about getting tons of traffic. Unless the traffic wants what you have, they will come and go and be of little or no benefit. Some sites like Digg and Stumble upon can provide incredible traffic spikes. Very few who come to you will actually convert to customers. Their value is limited.

This is not to discouraged you from going after it. Just do not expect it to do more than help promote your brand.


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