How to Significantly Increase Traffic to your Website

Starting a website has gotten a lot easier than it once was, with drop and drag templates and online services to help you get up and running. It's getting people to go to your site that's the difficult part. Taking a few simple steps can help you make people aware of your site and increase traffic to it.

Read more: How to Significantly Increase Traffic to your Website

Instructions

1
Develop the site with search engine optimization, SEO, in mind. Think about the text that you will use when creating the website and implement those keywords in your meta tags -- phrases that people search online when researching a topic. Don't overpopulate your site with nothing but SEO terms, but think about the words that people use most often when searching online for services, information and products. Those same words that people type in search engines is how visitors will arrive at your web page. Keep this motto in mind: "If you type it they will come."

2
Don't forget word of mouth. Tell of all your friends, family, co-workers, members of clubs and church that you are starting a new business and you'd like help getting the word out. You can distribute fliers in your community or pass out business cards to introduce your website; this form of marketing can be beneficial to helping drive traffic to your site.


3
Advertise your site and the services you offer. Pay for newspaper, magazine and online ads, and consider hiring an advertising firm or someone experienced in advertising to write the copy for you. Compelling advertisements evoke feelings and emotion and turn consumers into customers. Good advertising can lead a person or a business to visit your site.

4
Use social networking tools. Create a Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn profile, among others, for your business and engage people there. There are millions of possible customers there for you to tell them about your service and site; you can also pay for ads to pop up on this sites, as well.

5
Create a blog on your site. Blogging gives the consumer the ability to get to know your business and the services you are offering, as well as helps build your brand. You can create an online relationship with your target demographic by promoting your projects through your writings. The purpose of this is to create an online presence and to promote your site, brand and products.




Read more: How to Significantly Increase Traffic to your Website