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.

Re : Increasing website traffic

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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Re : Increasing website traffic

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


Daniel Lyddon
Creative Director & Administrative Manager
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Re : Increasing website traffic

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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Re : Increasing website traffic

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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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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Re : Increasing website traffic

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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