The key to success in making money online is simply traffic. However attracting traffic is not as easy as you may think and in fact only some people are successful in acquiring enough traffic that make good money online whereas the rest of us are failing desperately.
Even though there are many ways you can acquire traffic but none of them is given for granted as you have to spend some amount of money, time, and efforts to work on it. The following lists are ways to attract traffic.
Search Engines
Listing your websites or blogs in the search engine is the most basic and a must way to attract traffic. This is the first gateway how people find your websites/blogs before putting them in their bookmarks. However in order for them to find it, your sites should contains the right keywords they are searching for. Having popular keywords will give your sites the advantage to be found more often as many people are searching for them for example Britney Spears, American Idols, Blogging, etc. You can use
free Wordtracker Tools (
download guide here), Google Adwords, and Overture to help you identify the most searched keywords on the internet.
Although popular keywords may help people find your site easily but it is not enough to hold them stay at least of a while and read all the pages of your sites/blogs. People will not read something which is not informative and unrelated to their interest instead they will go away quickly and never return. So by providing quality, informative, and related interest contents they will stay and may even bookmark it for future reference.
So if you want to success in search engines get the right keywords and provide quality contents to solve people's problems.
Directories
Submitting your sites/blogs to directories will increase the possibility of people finding your website through the directory. In addition by adding your site to popular directories can also increase your sites' page rank because of the directory popularity. Thus this will help to increase visibility of your site on the search engines. There are plenty of directories for blogs and websites on the internet you can search in
My Home Page Friend (you get paid to search with them).
Forums
By placing a link on your forum signatures you are helping your sites/blogs highly visible to the forums communities. This signature will appear automatically in every time you participate in discussion activities. Therefore the more active you participate in the forums the more visible your site/blog links are to the communities. Acquiring new friends in the forums enable you to share with them your sites/blogs can also help increase traffic to your site. Especially friends are very loyal to visit other friend's sites.
Social Network
Very similar to forums where you can increase publicity of yourself and people know what you are good at and they will come to your site. Making new friends sharing your site with them also increase your site visitors. Popular social network are
Myspace,
Facebook,
Friendster,
Hi5,
Mylot,
Apsense,
Yuwie. There are many more you can search them in
My Home Page Friend (you get paid to search with them)..
Social Bookmarking sites
This is the new ways of bookmarking a site instead of using the traditional bookmark on our browser. Social bookmarking sites allow us to share our bookmarks with others or friends within the same bookmarking sites. As a result the sharing process somehow can help your site attract traffic. Among the most popular social bookmarking site include
Squidoo,
StumbleUpon,
Digg, and
Del.Icio.US. More list on Wikipedia
here…
Link Exchanges
Having link exchange to other websites with similar interest can increase your page rank in the search engine. Especially websites that is already having higher page rank, that certainly make yours go higher quickly according to their page rank. Beside it also bring you traffic as people who visited their site might click on your link. So ask for link exchange with others who have similar topic as yours. Here is the list of link exchanges that I used
Back link,
Link Machine,
Ad-Network,
Receive Links,
Build Reciprocal Links,
Link Wizard, etc...
Paid Advertising (PPC, CPM)
Most professional bloggers actually do not make traffic for granted just by writing anything they like on their blogs. But rather through various ways of paid advertising such as paid per click or banner advertising in Google Adwords, popular websites, popular directories, advertising websites.
I recommend joining some forums or social network where traffic are based on friendship loyalty, therefore the likely hood for them to visit your site are more frequent because they feel connected to you.
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