51 Web Traffic Driving Tips
As consumer activities rapidly increase, web traffic is the number one concern for any online business to survive. You may have the best website, product or service, but you will still need traffic for your business to make money online.
Below is a list of 51 web traffic tips I have compiled for you to start generating traffic to your website.
Keywords
1. Research and focus on writing posts with keywords related to your niche so that people are likely to find your site through search engines
2. Include these keywords in your tags
3. Use keywords to name your image files before uploading them
4. As far as possible, include keywords into your domain name URL
5. Get a domain name that’s easy to remember (and buy other similar domain names)
6. Include keywords to your online profiles in social networking sites
Content
7. Create a lively blog
8. Deliver high quality and unique content on your website so that people would want to tell their friends and come back often
9. Keep your content fresh, relevant and useful
10. Write informative reviews of products and ebooks
11. Add “Sticky Content” such as a online software or useful resources people will keep coming back to use
12. Implement SEO strategies to drive organic traffic to your site
13. Create one-way back links to your website
14. Make your website search-engine friendly with on-site optimization techniques
15. Install the All in One SEO Pack WP Plug-in on your blog
16. Keep a blog to supplement your main site (if your main site isn’t a blog) as blogs are built to attract search engine spiders
17. Make your website accessible for all browsers (which may include mobile browsers)
Marketing
18. Write and submit useful articles on topics related to your website to article submission sites
19. Syndicate your content – Create a RSS feed and include a link on your site
20. Build a brand – Visitors would want to associate themselves with a brand that is of value to them
21. Do informative pod casts
22. Publish a lively and useful newsletter readers can subscribe to and submit them to newsletter directories
23. Create lenses at Squidoo or hubs at Hubpages on related topics to your website and link to your website from them
Community
24. Participate and contribute useful content to forums related to your niche
25. Set up a forum to complement your main site and encourage participation
26. Guest blog on other sites related to your niche
27. Encourage guest blogging on your site
28. Contribute useful comments to blogs
29. Engage in social networking and social bookmarking
30. Make it easy for visitors to bookmark or tag your blog
31. Upload and tag photos to photo sharing communities like Flickr
32. Submit your site for directory listing to main directories like Yahoo! and DMOZ.org
33. Makes useful contributions to email discussion lists
34. Contribute to Yahoo! Answers and refer visitors to your site
35. Add a catchy signature to the bottom of every email sent
36. Add a catchy signature to your profile in forums
37. Request to be a moderator to forums relating to your niche
38. Join business associations and clubs related to your niche
Viral
39. Create something of value for people to pass around (e.g. eBook, reports, etc.)
40. If you are selling a product or service, set up an affiliate program so people can sell your products for you
41. Be creative – do something funny and target traffic to your site
42. Create and run contests to induce interests
Analysis
43. Analyze and monitor activities on your website with Google Analytics
44. Through the analytics, find out what keywords and websites generate most traffic to your site and focus your attention there
Advertising and Publicity
45. Get free publicity and try advertising in offline media (http://www.magazine.org/content/Files/OnlineMedia.pdf)
46. Advertise on free classified ad sites
47. Write keyword-rich press releases
48. Position yourself as a personality or expert, or both
49. Get mentioned in newspapers and websites
50. Request to be a columnist on popular niche sites relating to your niche
Fads
51. Stay abreast and chase new happenings, fads and hot topics
Web traffic generation is not a secret but more like an art that needs to be practiced. There is no easy way out as far as web traffic generation is concerned and all the tips listed above still requires a reasonable amount of investment in time, effort, resources and patience. Not all the tips listed above will be relevant to you. Test, analyze and test again to determine which are the methods that best suit your site, niche and expertise to get the best results.
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You guys always have such great posts to browse on your website. I enjoy coming back to see new subject matter since I now have your website bookmarked. Thanks a lot.
Great, I was looking for something along the lines of this. I was thinking, do you think newsletters are still an way of marketing online? Does anybody still use them well and actually acquire readers?
Thanks!
Kim
Great tips for improving traffic! Your community tips are especially helpful. Thanks!
Hi Aldric,
This is a great list of things that I am rather bad at right now. I appreciate you listing them like this.
@mass mailer – I have not started using email lists yet, but very respectable people like Keith Bloemendaal swear by them. If you do not know him, check out hotblogtips.com.
Anyway, thanks again Aldric – this site is really nice & you keep coming up with great content.
Have a good day!
Great tips friends. Some of the things that were listed there I did not really know. I really need to write a ebook I think for getting viral traffic
Great Article, Awesome work. I would love to increase my traffic through offline marketing, but it sure does require alot of meetups in my area, which is not the case.
There is nothing wrong with your list. It is very thorough, but new bloggers would be confused and possibly overwhelmed by it. After all this list offers few references to articles, resources or links to definitions of the terms it employs.
A very long and useful list, though I agree with Joella. While myself and other experienced bloggers will fully understand this entry, it wouldn’t be the same for a fairly new blogger.
Here’s a thought how about you challenge yourself and create a thorough blog post on each of the 51 tips you gave (or as many as you can 51 is a lot). You can then update this entry with links to the in depth entries as you go along.
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Nice comments – Best Wishes
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Thanks!
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