When it comes to online business they say you live and die by traffic. The following free tips will teach you how to increase traffic to your website or blog.
1. Announce Your Blog on Facebook and Twitter
Start with people nearest to you. Reach out to your friends on Facebook / twitter and ask them to share your website with friends.
2. Read and Comment on related blogs.
Look for blogs where your target visitors hang out. Leave thoughtful comments on them. The readers will click on your link and in the process increase traffic to your website.
3. Join Forums In Your Niche
Join forums related to your niche. To find a forum in your niche go to Google and search, "forum:your niche." Forums allow you to have a link pointing to your website. The best way to increase traffic to your website from a forum is by presenting yourself as an expert. If other members see you as a good pro they will be inclined to visit your website.
4. Offer Value
Nothing increases website traffic more than value. Consider writing posts with resources or explaining how things work.
5. Inform Search Engines when you post fresh content
Inform search engines and aggregators using the ping functionality when your blog is updated, this should ensure maximum traffic coming from those sources. See pingomatic.
6. Write More Content
Increase your website traffic by writing more often. Keep a writing schedule of at least one article per day.
7. Join You Tube
Youtube.com is the number two search engine after Google. Do video versions of your articles and make sure you add a link to your website at the end. Use the video to tease the viewer by promising him/her he will get more information when he visits your website/blog.
8. Start an Email list
Nothing creates long-term website/blog traffic more than email. If you can have 100 people sign up to receive email updates when you make a blog post, it means 100 people will read your article. Imagine what it means to your website if your can have 1000 or 10,000 people on your email list?
9. Be controversial
I don't like being controversial but I have seen evidence that websites and blogs that write about controversial issues get massive traffic. Think of drudge report and huffington post.
10. Keep things simple
Attention span of most web users is low. Internet users don't like reading 5,000 words article. Look for long and complex articles and write shortened versions.
11. Boost Pageviews
A simple trick that will boost your pageviews is installing related post plugins. This plugins pull articles related to an article and list them at the bottom of a post.
12. Blog Carnivals
Submit articles to blog carnivals (http://blogcarnival.com) that are related to your niche. Your article almost always gets posted, and it must generate a handful of visitors, at least.
13. Be first to post breaking news
You will be listed on page one of Google news every time you are the first to post breaking news. Stay in the loop in your niche and try to be the first to cover any new/fresh content.
14. Link exchange with related blogs.
Link exchanging with other blogs can offer you a big help to increase your search engine ranking plus getting referral traffic. Just make sure you don't over do it because google has a habit of punishing those who over do it.
15. Don't forget offline
A great tip on how to increase website traffic is leveraging your off-line marketing effort. Include your url in all your off-line liturature from business cards, letterheads, pamphlets and adverts.
16. Never Neglect your Blog/website
Search engines love website that remain active. Don't stay still, keep your website updated with new and fresh content and you will continously see an increase in website traffic.
17. Encourage others to Tweet your articles.
Twitter is a site that lets people share articles, on whether people like them or not. Your readers will most likely tweet your work for you if you politely ask, or even better, add a Twitter button at the bottom of all your posts. Make sure your best articles get tweeted and started in the right direction, and if the post is good enough, it can generate thousands of visitors a day.
18. Share your articles on facebook
Start a facebook page for your website / blog. Add facebook buttons at the bottom of all your posts and ask readers to share.
19. Write list posts.
We all love list posts. This post is a list post. Examples are “Top 10 web hosting companies”, “7 tips I use to get repeat visitors”, and “6 e-commerce wordpress templates”. List posts are usually linked to a lot more and get a lot more traffic than normal posts.
20. Write a pillar post.
A pillar post is a long, authoritative, instructional post. Pillar posts are time consuming but they are worth the time and effort. Pillar posts will get linked to and receive decent amounts of traffic.
Here is to abundant website traffic!
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