Web site traffic refers to the number of times your site is
viewed by the users. It is the most important point to be made
for the success of your online business.
Steps to increase the site traffic:
Step 1: Submit Your Site to Search Engines:
Major Search Engines: Yahoo ,Google , AOL Search, AltaVista, Ask
Jeeves, Direct Hit, Excite, FAST Search, HotBot, Inktomi,
LookSmart, Lycos, MSN Search, Netscape Search
?Manually Submission: If you want to submit by hand, be aware
that each Search Engine has it?s own set of rules for
determining relevancy and ranking.
?Paid Submission: Where you pay to be listed.
Good Submission Sites: ?CoffeeCup-
http://submitfire.coffeecup.com/ ?Actnowdomains-
http://www.actnowdomains.com/ ?Submitexpress-
http://www.submitexpress.com/ ?Submitnet-
https://www.submitnet.net/login/default/ ?Submit-it-
http://www.submit-it.com/ ?Submitshop- http://www.submitshop.com/
Step 2: Update Information: Put fresh content and update the
existing content of your website.
Step 3: Pay for clicks: Receive targeted pay per click traffic
from all major search engines. People will see your site in the
sponsored links section of the search results when they search
for keyword phrases related to your products or services.
Major pay- per- click search engines: ?Overture from yahoo-
http://www.content.overture.com/d/ ?AdWords from google-
https://adwords.google.com/select/ ?Search 123-
http://www.search123.com ?FindWhat- http://findwhat.com ?Enhance
Interactive (formerly ah-ha.com)- http://www.enhance.com
?Kanoodle- http://kanoodle.com/
Step 4: Get published: Write articles for publication on other
websites. The author profile will link to your site.
?http://www.articlecity.com/ ?http://www.site-reference.com/
?http://ezinearticles.com/ ?http://www.goarticles.com/
Step 5: Publish yourself: Write articles for your own site
regularly.
Step 6: Get links to your site: (link exchange) Get people with
other sites to link to yours. Links lead to clicks onto your
website and help to improve your search engine rankings.
Step 7: Classified Ads: These are generally simple text line
ads, advertising a product or service. All your classified ad
needs to do is to get a visitor to your web site. Your web site
becomes your sales letter!
The Grandfather Of All Links FREE Advertising Directory which
has over 10,000 + places to advertise for free. Contact them at:
http://www.ecki.com/links
Step 8: More steps: ?Buy links to your site: Buy text links on
other websites. ?Buy banner ads: Buy banner ads on other
websites. ?Participate in a banner exchange program: It won't
cost you anything, and will lead to a few extra visitors. ?Set
up an affiliate marketing program: With affiliate marketing, you
can either pay per click or pay per customer acquired. ?Use
off-line marketing: Do anything and everything to spread the
word about your website around your city. ?Give away free stuff:
Offer free information or/and free downloads and update them
regularly. ?Auctions: Sell your product online using one or more
of these auctions: http://www.ebay.com http://www.ubid.com
Enjoy!
About the author:
Faraj Balousha Civil Engineer, Architect, Webmaster Sketch-Plus
Inc., http://www.sketch-plus.com/
http://www.creating-website-stores.com/
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