How
To Get Traffic To Your Site
Today, the biggest
problem that new website owners have is: “How they can get
traffic to their website?” Significant amount of time and energy
is spent today on this single task. You or your webmaster needs
to commonly focus on:
- Get ranked well on the most important search engines (Google,
Yahoo, Msn, Ask.com, etc.)
- Pay Per Click (PPC) programs
- Cost Per Click (CPC) programs
- Link Exchanges
- Directory Submissions
- And more…
All of these methods are valuable for getting traffic to your
website. If you are not competent enough to rank well your
keywords, you can obviously hire a SEO (Search Engine Optimizer)
for this work. From search engines you can get a very large
portion of traffic to your website.
Today, everyone wants to know the big secret to driving traffic
to their website. Every day I see an article or an ad talking
about driving people to your website; driving traffic to a
website has become the “holy grail” on the Internet. People are
realizing that if you build it, they won't come... unless you
give them a reason. Website traffic just doesn't happen by
itself. Your website is just one of many millions on the web and
people rarely just stumble upon your site by accident.
There are many ways to drive traffic to your website. You can
buy traffic from vendors that will pummel your website with hits
from automated programs. This will increase your hits but will
it increase your bottom line? Probably not. You can set up blogs
that spider (connect to) your website increasing your traffic
count. Does this drive users to your website? Only if your blog
is so interesting that people are reading it. There are
thousands of blogs posted on the internet and your blog is just
a needle in the internet haystack.
Another trick is to create RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
feeds for your website and subscribe to other RSS feeds. This
again will increase your hit count but will do very little to
drive potential customers to your website unless you're
providing valuable information. Tricks will increase your hit
count but do very little todrive potential customers to your
website.
People often turn to traffic exchanges. Quite simply, a traffic
exchange is a program where you sign up and agree to surf sites
in exchange for some credits. These credits are then used when
other members of the exchange surf to your site. This traffic is
not highly targeted traffic. In fact, if this were your only
method of advertising your website, you'd probably fail. BUT it
is a great method of getting traffic to your site in addition to
the other methods listed above.
So, why do people use traffic exchanges? Here are a few of the
benefits:
- Increase your Alexa rating! Did you know that some search
engines factor your Alexa rating into their algorithms? More
traffic means higher search engine placement!
- Increase your branding awareness. Any marketing expert worth
his salt will tell you that branding is extremely important to
stand out amongst the billions of websites out there. More
traffic equals more sales. A percentage of people surfing will
be enticed by your ads and click on them to find out more
information. Another source of revenue. Many traffic exchanges
will actually pay you money to surf. More importantly, as you
refer other people to the network, you'll earn a percentage of
the money that they earn! It may be small amounts but if you
work the system it could amount to a lot of money.
Now, before you head over to Google and search for Traffic
Exchange, I'd recommend knowing a few facts:
- Some traffic exchanges are simply out to get money from you
and will refer very little traffic to you.
- Some traffic exchanges have poor systems in place to stop
cheaters from running programs to increase their credits faster.
Finally, some traffic exchanges will allow popup, active x
controls, site rotators, etc. in their network. Any of these can
stop your auto surfing from working, or even worse, allow your
computer to be infected with a virus.
The best part about Traffic Exchanges is that you really have
nothing to lose and everything to gain. The worst thing that
could happen to you is you get a little bit of traffic which
increases your Alexa rankings and you don't get any money.
Of course, for the system to work, you've got to make sure that
you do some surfing yourself. The makers of the exchange
programs realize this and some of them even have an auto surf
feature where you get a reduced number of credits while your
browser happily loads page after page every 10 seconds or so.
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