Increasing website traffic...

This is my first post, so hope you find it useful! I'd like to share some simple ways that you can use to help build traffic to your web site.

The first tip is the obvious one, but many people do not do it! That is to submit the site to search engines on the web, and in particular Google.

On the Google home page there is a link you can follow called 'About Google' and from the page that comes up a link called 'Submitting Your Site' which you can click to then list your site on Google... it will then crawl your site and in time add it to the index.

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Tim

There are also many other search engines that it is useful to submit to, and many of them have free submission processes. It is well worth spending a few hours once your site is first created.

Of course, if you can get links through to your site then the search engines will find your sites in time naturally.

Patience is also important these days in having your site indexed, particularly with so many web sites out there!

Dan
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Another way of driving traffic to your site is online viral marketing:

1) Have a web movie produced for your business.
2) Upload it to Youtube or a similar online movie portal
3) Include a link to your website

For those interested in the movie's content, it'll most likely draw them towards your website. Host some movies on your website itself and you'll draw them in even further!!


Daniel


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Is viral marketing a solid strategy to drive traffic to a site though?

It probably depends on industry again - perhaps it works with music or advertising and other media based 'cool' industries, but I've not heard of any viral campaigns that work for your run of the mill boring company?

Chris

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Very true Chris the viral affect on advertising is useful in certain circumstances but not others. An example where viral advertising could be useful is businesses like; web design services, holiday accomodation, unique websites offering cost cutting services and a local good quality garage. These are just a few examples where word of mouth could benefit a business. I do agree with Chris's point that a boring on run of the mill business will not really benefit from viral marketing.

Of course the flip side is the viral affect can be negative for a business if the business is second rate.
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What does PR3 mean Pete?

Thanks

Sasha

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PR = Page ranking Sasha, if you downlod the Google toolbar you will see a little green bar, this is suppose to be google method of measuring the strength of a web page.
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Page rank used to be a big thing in the past, now it is just a general indicator, however still useful if you want to get a rough idea of a site, as in how big it is and mainly how many links it has, a site with a PR of 5 or more is generally well linked or has one or two links from very high PR sites

Thomas

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Ah, OK, thanks for the clarification

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Does anyone make money off YouTube... I mean in terms of individuals that post their videos up onto the site?

Chris

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But as our website, how to make it popular, you could check our factory

http://www.honestycraftbox.com , tell me if anything could be changed.

Thank you very much
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Hi honesty4u

Just looked at your website and it asks for a language pack to be downloaded and installed... this may well put people off visiting your english site, may be worth looking into.

Cheers

Dan
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I have talked to several people about how to increase web site traffic and one of the points raised is that by having a range of topics covered other sites from a variety of sources will reference your material.

The focus of some sites is clearly the home page with subsidiary pages regurgitating similar themes and content.

By exploring a given subject area from a range of views, can result in it featuring well for non mainstream search queries and thereby attract more visitors.
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Hi,
We find offering free resources can be helpful. If you can, try to be the industry reference for you line of work.

Gary
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Targeted traffic is difficult to acquire, none targeted easy.
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Hello all,
I have been submitting my websites and shops over the last 9 years or so with software called Addweb, I started with Ver 4 and run ver 8 pro over the last 14 months.
Apart from auto sending your pages to search engines, you can view as to where your site is listed on any engine eg:page 4 or 1177, and if it is not on page 1 you can get it up to page 1 within days with no tears.
For eg to find my shop web site, you do not now have to type the extra bits like the co.uk you can just type Alternative4u and you will see it mostly on page 1 of most search engines, if not up top it only drops to 6th or 7th place on page 1.
Good luck folks.
David
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Hi David

Interesting stuff, thanks for that.

What are the main things people search for to reach you - presumably very few search for Alternative4u (unless they have already heard of you, in which case the search engine part isn't really needed!)

Stephen

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My regards to the members, all of us now that to make a site popular we need to have good content in them. But, there are many techniques that can be employed to get the sites up and running. SEO techniques play an important role in getting the job done.
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Hello, thanks for msg re how do people search for us.
Well I have put html into the site so that people can find us by entering in the search things like>> Health & beauty care shop> health shop> certain other departments names that sell our products (by the way some very large shop website builders have used Alternative4u in their html pages, yes it did shock me to find that out.
Cheers, take care,
from
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Hi, i wanna to advertise on a high traffic b2b wbesites. especially the america people. for i mainly deal with america and english people.

more specifically i export shoes/

can you help out?
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Hi
Some nice tips here, thanks. I also believe in participating in appropriate forums for exposure.

Joan Wilken
http://viralurl.com/joan/10181617

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Pete

Thanks for the information on pagerank - is this important... is there a link between pagerank and where a site appears in a search engine or not really?

Sasha

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Yes, it is relevant. However, where your website appears on search results will also depend on which keywords you type in search engine.
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Pete,

Uncertain, whether or not anyone here reviews web-sites, but i would love an Appraisal!! if that is possible..Thankyou.

http://www.resort-rentals.co.uk

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I have seen some website reviews on here before, of course whether they are by "experts" or not who will give good advice is another matter

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It's always the same problem "If you don't know what to ask, will you understand the answer?"

Many companies small and large are mainly concerned with managing their business and do not understand all of the current possibilities for marketing their brand and the shop window of a website.

There are SEO and SEM specialists, which might have limited knowledge of creating an online shopping cart, or a customer survey, or a YouTube video from existing images, or building all versions of sitemaps, etc.

Drachsi
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As Matt Cutts from Google says, content is the most important ingredient - he rates it before external links. I suppose it's a chicken and egg situation, as we all know the central plank of Google's algorithm since they began was the number and quality of external links coming into a website.

Of course the other important aspect is the on-site coding and page structure, and that includes meta-tag information.
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Hi ,
Im developing a business entrepreneur community ,
What would you change , i know there are big areas
that need to be improved.
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Regards

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Using a Keyword Rich Title - This is a carefully researched term or key phrase people would search for in the search engines that would lead to your website. Generally, you would not use the name of your business unless it happens to be an effective keyword for your topic.

Use the Title Tag Correctly - You have seen pages scattered throughout the search engine results that have not inserted the title tags correctly. The page was picked up as, "Untitled" or "New Page."

Focus Your Content - Don't try to cram 10 different topics in on just one page! Concentrate on one topic per page, using your keyword rich content.

Use Text Links - Fancy menus look great, but usually the k.i.s.s. idea is best. (Keep it simple stupid!) If you want the search engines to find you, use text links. Add a site map to your website, along with a link to it on every page!

Include a Resource Page of Links - If you want people to link to your site, don't hide the links resource page. Make sure your "home" page is linked directly to it

I refer this information from internet seo

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Hi everyone ,
My first post as well
what I've found is, If you want visitors to your site, you are competing with the big boys all the time, who can afford large campaigns.
So the best thing I found was to regionalise my key words, so i put in loft insulation flintshire and so on. doing this i got to first page on google.
This suits me as i sell most of my products off line in my local area. I also purchased some backlinks and a few other things which you can see if you but the above in search and check it out yourself my site is http://www.seentobegreen.com then click on what i did.
It works for me and its very cost effective.

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Some good ideas here

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Hi guys, i came across this nice looking, Free business directory, searchlocally.org which i thought i would share with you. Customers can find your business by business name/type and area, so it does make it easy to find your business.
I dont know how long they will be offering Free listings for, but a free link is always good!
I have received a few leads from here so some free online marketing is always good

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Ah, one of pet amusements there MarketGuru - "I came across this nice looking site blah blah"... which always translates to "visit MY site!!!"

I wonder why people always try to distance themselves from ownership?

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SEO is the most helpful thing to do when you market your website online.

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Hi there this is my first post and have found some interesting stuff, im currently building up links from directories but are wondering whether it would be easier and quicker to outsource to a professional. What would people recommend?

Ps i would be grateful for some feedback on our website, its been up and running now for about 7 months nearly reached 1000 hits but still its only ranking on pages 2/3 on key words( im not sure if thats good progress or not??)

http://www.greenfieldcleaning.co.uk

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SEO is the best way to increase the traffic on the site..!
i also do that sometimes..to increase traffic on my site..!

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Yeah, i think the seo is the best way to add the traffic, then the twitter and facebook is better way for traffic...

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Submiting your site to Google is not necessary, as long as you have good content on your site relevent to what people are searching for then Google will have no problem finding it in time.

http://www.smseo.co.uk
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A lot of great points.

Just to elaborate on the keywords comments above, you should be careful not to cram too many of them into a headline or paragraph. Your content should read and flow well before you worry about keywords too much.

Content is king after all. If you sort out that side of things, the rest will fall into place.

Regards,

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