Knowing how to drive traffic to your site is very important. Even if you have a really good concept and have a great website if no one hears about your website then no one will come to see it. It’s pretty much like being the greatest writer that ever lived but writing only on your dictionary. No one will find out (except when you’re already dead) and you’ll never get a book published, meaning no profits. Hence, if you want your website to fulfill its purpose you need to learn how to reach out to your target audience. Below are two of the most basic things you need to do in order to get the traffic you need.
- Develop an online social network in your niche – Not only do you need to widen your social network but you also need to build you and your site’s reputation. Once you build your reputation you can be sure that traffic will come in by simple word of mouth.
- Get indexed by search engines and rank well in their result pages – To be indexed by search engines you can submit your website URL and/or make sure that your website can be crawled by search engine spiders. Getting indexed is easy but it is the ranking well that is more difficult. To rank well your site needs to either be a phenomenal success in its field or you need to employ SEO techniques.
Most other techniques used to drive traffic to a website falls under SEO, which is why I will be discussing a few SEO strategies next.
Originally posted on April 29, 2008 @ 11:27 pm