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If you have a website, you no doubt remember how excited you were when it went 'live' for the first time. How you expected miracles. How you wanted the visitor counter to go through the roof during the first week. And how none of this actually happened. Below are a few tips on how you can increase site traffic with a couple of basic steps.
The majority of website traffic still comes from search engines. Before you even submit your website to the search engines however, there is something you should remember: they love good quality, relevant content.
Whatever the subject of your website, there should be more than a couple of Flash animations and an order form. There should be relevant content containing the keywords for the industry in which you are involved.
Let's say you have a furniture removal business. Gone are the days where you could set up a 3-page website, submit the URL to the search engines and start getting loads of traffic from day one. To get traffic from the major search engines, you should perhaps set up a number of pages about the removal industry.
Tell people how to pack their belongings. Explain to them how insurance works and why they need it. Let your website be the place they come to to get valuable information about everything involved with moving. The search engines will pick up that you have quality content and give you a higher ranking in the search results and with that will come more visitors.
There are other ways to improve your website traffic as well. One is to find an online forum where people discuss the industry in which you are involved. Sign up and start giving free, genuine advice to people.
To use the example of the furniture removal company again: explain to people what the pitfalls are of using the cheapest company on the market. Tell them about everything that can go wrong if you don't insure your furniture.
Over time you will become known as someone who gives honest advice and can be trusted as a source of information. These forums normally allow you to give your web address in your signature - this way you can get a lot of free visitors.
Then there are the social media websites. Once again they are all free and you can build up quite a following on places like Twitter and Facebook if you show that you know your subject. And once again you can get a lot of free exposure for your website.
There are of course many websites where you can place paid advertisements for your site. Google and Yahoo both have such paid advertisement options. There are also numerous smaller search engines and groups of websites with similar programs that work out cheaper than the two big ones.
Don't expect to increase site traffic overnight. It's a long process that starts with quality content and ends with loyal visitors who return time after time because they like what they find at your site.
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