Stand out from the crowd of competitors – grow your site and increase traffic
How To Grow Your Site & Increase Traffic
Below is a small list of little things you can do to start increasing traffic to your website. Once you have a product to offer or some useful information you can start attracting more attention. Have you implemented all these marketing strategies. I am still working on some of them:
- Create useful content
- Update your useful content regularly. Today’s web audience expects to see fresh, unique material, and having regularly updated content will keep them coming back (don’t forget to sign up for my blog)
- Build sticky and interactive pages on your website including discussion boards, comment capability and anything else that helps build a community (include sharing buttons) if you have the time to monitor it
- Seek out partnerships with other people with email lists to promote your website (would you like to partner with me, if yes, please sign up to my blog and email me. I am currently developing an awesome product for family and small business that you might like to be part of)
- RSS feeds are a great way to keep visitors informed of fresh content on your site
- Create an affiliate program to promote your products and services (working on that one myself)
- Use SEO techniques to get listed naturally at the top of Google, Yahoo and other search engines (I achieved this on 2 sites)
- Podcasting is a great way to build a regular audience and keep them coming back, see http://www.feedforall.com/videos/what-is-podcasting.htm
- Invest in PPC advertising (ie. Adwords) to drive targeted traffic to your website
- Create a blog with fresh content that builds a regular audience. Use the following tool to find out which blog software is right for you http://www.weblogmatrix.org – I use WordPress or Blogger
- Build profiles on popular social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Use your profiles to connect to others with similar interests and send them to your site, see LinkedIn and http://www.facebook.com/michellepavel
- Invest in other forms of free and cheap advertising including banner advertising – visit http://www.fasterprofits.com.au for a full list.
This post concept was courtesy of David Riklan, Self Growth. Links and info has been updated