More website traffic is what we want and then more click thru’s. I do not have a new secrete tip. I am going to list a few tips that have been around awhile and still work. Seeing several tips in one list will benefit some marketers who are familiar with most of the tips. To get more website traffic consider the following:
1. Publish articles to several article directories. This will bring traffic from readers of the published article as well as building backlinks to your site.
2. Submit your site to social bookmarking sites. This should bring quick traffic to your site as well as some backlinks. I do not always get a backlink from a social bookmarking site.
3. Use Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites. This an excellent way to get nore website traffic.Build your friends list and announce new products, blog posts, etc. to your friends. Stay away from any hard sell ideas you may have. I use a semi social site called Qondio. I post a short article – more like a short blog post along with my website URL and receive a backlink and a picture of my website when I click the link on the search page.
4. Another way to get more website traffic is to post comments in forums. Find a few forums in your area of interest and post comments and questions. Be sure and read the forum rules for posting. Each forum has it’s own rules. Put your website link in your post signature. Some forms will allow more than one URL in your signature and some will not. Also, some forums have nofollow links.
5. Submit your URL to all major search engines manually. This is more practical as some directories will not accept software submitted links.
6. Submit your website to major directories like DMOZ.
7. Email your list when you update your website or submit a new post to your blog.
8. Maintaining a blog enables you to post article frequently with a link to your web site.
9. Produce and submit videos to the major video web sites. There are may video sites with the most popular being Youtube, Metacafe, and Google. While you are on those sites post comments on other videos you enjoy and leave your site URL with the comment. This should be a fertile place for backlinks as there are many videos in your area of interest to place comments on.
10. Exchange ads with other webmasters and ezine publishers. This could be a banner ad.
11. Offer to moderate a section of a forum. A forum which is growing fast may appreciate an offer from you to moderate a section of the forum, in return for free publicity for your site.
12. Write key word rich press releases. Several of the article directory sites have sections for press releases. Some will even edit your press release – for a fee. There is press release submitting software available for a fee.
Realizing that this is generally a review list of tips to get more website traffic, integrating some of these tips in addition to what you are already doing will bring increased traffic. Use what you are comfortable with and if you find some that work well for you, keep doing it.
