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6 Ways To Attract More People To Your Web Site

By Mervyn Love

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Published: 10Apr2008
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You've built your website and it's brimming with cool features and great content. All you need now is visitors to come along and enjoy it. And maybe buy a thing or two as well. But somehow they seem reluctant to cross your virtual threshold. What can you do?

1. Start your very own newsletter or e-zine. It's really not that difficult. You must be interested in the theme of your website, right? So that means you know more about the subject than the average person. Just write a few paragraphs once a week about a single topic related to your niche and send it out. There are free auto-responder services if you are just starting out and if you want subscribers there are free advertising websites such as trafficswarm.com that will put your ad in front of the right people.

2. Give your visitors lots of free quality content. If you can write your own articles, that's great. Otherwise the web is heaving with great articles on practically any subject you care to mention. Try ezinearticles.com or goarticles.com for starters, or search on the term 'e-zine directories'. Change the content frequently and visitors will return to see what the latest article is.

3. Make sure you have some freebies for your visitors to download. These could be eBooks relating to the topics that your target audience will be interested in, or maybe software. There are sites where you can obtain both eBooks and software as give-aways. You could also include shareware and demos.

4. Run a contest from your site with prizes connected with your site topic. Set a closing date and then publish the winner or winners. People will keep coming back to your site to see who won. The contest can be run using a free service such as surveymonkey.com.

5. Search engine submissions are also important. You can do this manually, and there are also services that will do it for you.

6. Write articles and submit them to article directories. At the bottom of each article put a resource box or writer's bio. Here you can put a link back to your site. This has two benefits. First the readers of your article will visit you site to see what benefits it has for them, and secondly, for every directory and every website that picks up your article and publishes it there is a link back to your site. The search engines pick these up and your search engine ranking is improved.

Building your visitor traffic is an ongoing process and you should take it seriously. If you devoted just an hour a week to putting into practice the things I have recommended above, your visitors will steadily increase.

Mervyn Love writes articles on various aspects of Internet Marketing, and his website ' http://www.fortresspublishing.com - has a wealth of resources and information on all aspects of starting and running an online business. Join his newsletter here: http://www.fortresspublishing.com/MPNsplash.html

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