Traffic Tips

An effective method to gain creditbility and publicity. Writing a press release (PR) can bring traffic and improve your website credibility .

The standard method for press releases is pretty simple. You write your press release on something newsworthy -- a new product launch, announcement of new service, awards, or other item of interest. Read more here...

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For long time in internet market, I did not realize that this was an option to increase traffic. Blogs are all around on internet, thousands of blogs are created everyday on many blogging sites.

How can blog help in driving traffic. or how to use blogs to increase traffic ?

This is one of the best kept secrets of many webmasters, as many people are just inclined to use Forums as its very popular.

A good way to increase your site traffic is to answer questions on Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Groups and Similar websites like Google Groups.

If your answer has link to your websites, it can not only drive traffic but also increase pagerank. Dont try to fool here by providing unrelated answers. You can get banned or removed.

However search for relevant questions that have your website topics and answer the question with your website links.

 
Traffic is not only about HITS, its about driving potential customers, Visitors who are actually finding value from your site, or purchasing products or services.

Social media sites & Rating Engines like Digg can draw mass traffic to your website and also make visitors come again and again. Once digg'ed your site is bookmarked in User's account.

Add your websites to the following sources and reap benefits. Provide buttons or icons on your website so that users can quickly bookmark your site on these.

Start your traffic building by setting your goal. Set realistic goals that you can achieve. Measure your performance against your goals periodically.

If you dont have a goal then you will not know if you are doing good or bad. This will also help you determine if you have to change your approach and what's working v/s what's not .

Eg: If your site currently has 10 unique visitors, set your Traffic Goal as

• Why should someone visit your website ?
• What unique feature or content does it have, that others dont provide ?
• Will the visitors bookmark your website or visit again ?

If you answered NO to above questions then you are fighting a losing battle. If your website does not provide any value to its visitors, then any method you use to increase traffic is going to prove worthless.

Check on forums like Digitalpoint.com . There are many link exchange avenues. Try to exchange 20 - 30 links with similar websites, or websites having good PageRank.

This will help in building links and will be mutually beneficial.  If your links are placed in prime position it will drive traffic to both parties.  The trick is to exchange links with

You must have read this in many place "Update your site daily".  Its on your todo list but you end up doing everything but writing new content.  The word "Daily" is very demanding, if you were told weekly, it looks more achievable.

However this is a proven and a very important tip in increasing your traffic. Your site should be updated daily.  This requires patience & persistence. You will not get results in one day. But in long run it will turn out to be your best investment.

I know this is the hardest part of all. To spend money upfront, but it helps if you select the right advertising system.

Advertising is not only purchasing Google Adwords, there is more to it.  Here are my tips on Advertising.