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A website without traffic brings little joy to its author, but building traffic is a must only, if you are hoping to make profit with your site. These tips are a starting point to building your traffic, when you don’t really have a budget for it.
- Search engines: If you can rank for popular search terms, search engines can give you thousands of visitors each month. That requires work, and time though. If you can come up with long tail keywords that have little competition, you can get a smaller stream of visitors, but quickly. SEO takes time, but is worth it.
- Link exchange: A link on a high traffic web site can get you high traffic, but a high traffic site might not want to exchange links with you. Find smaller, but highly targeted sites and you can build a nice stream of traffic with link exchanges. Look for websites with complementary content, rather than straightforward competitors.
- Advertise yourself: The most effective ways are commenting on blogs, if your website is a blog, and posting on discussion forums. Link to your site so that it’s helpful, such links will generate much more traffic than spam, and it will be of better quality.
- Social bookmarking: Sites like Digg and Netscape can bring you hundreds of targeted visitors, if you can get a first page story. I have written an article on social networking before, which explains more ways to use these sites to your website’s benefit.
- Quality content: This is the most important thing, when trying to increase your traffic. I only left it last, because this might not be what you are looking for in a ‘website traffic’ list. If your website does not have good content, any gain in traffic will be temporary. Content is king, as so many bloggers will tell you.
by Sutocu | August 29, 2007 
thanks for the tips! maybe you could add, that the content of your webpage should be unique for better rankings…
You’re welcome!
Yeah, that’s both SEO, and making sure you have quality content. It’s very important, especially if you want your visitors to return.
Content is clearly the key. One of the things that annoys me are those adverts that promise to teach you how to write great content. I don’t think that anybody can, to be honest. You either have it or you don’t
I don’t, by the way, but I can knock out workmanlike prose. Just over a week ago I started writing sponsored postings and I have so far written 16 of them - I got my first payment of $53 yesterday!
I have uploaded a couple of essays on how to write sponsored postings - any feedback that people want to give would be more than welcome.
Yeah, I agree that teaching someone to write through an eBook, or a short course won’t really so any good.
However, I don’t think “[y]ou either have it or you don’t” is the truth either. If you blog and write articles for a long time, you are bound to improve.
One thing to note about link exchange, is that two way reciprocal links aren’t as good as they used to be. Search engines count a link from one site to another as a vote, but if both sites are voting for each other, the votes cancel and no benefit to either.
I’ve spent the last few months trying to find good links for my Make Money Online website (Google Adsense, Buy Wholesale, Sell on eBay, etc.) BeatMyAuction.com and I’ve been noticing that the 2 way links have gotten me almost nothing. For now I’ve found buying links, or working hard to get 1 way links is the best.
Of course you will improve, that is axiomatic, but will you be a great writer?
I aim for workmanlike prose and I think that this can be taught.
Ouch! Sorry about that - the post marked as “Ken” is actually from me. I clicked the wrong button, although it is my name.
BeatMyAuction, I agree. Purely reciprocal link exchanging is not the right way. Search engines should be kept in mind when exchanging link. The correct way to do it is to do a triangle exchange, with two pages on one side, or more.
Ken/Exile, there are writers, who have not been good at writing at first. I think no one can really be a good writer without being taught it, and similarly anyone can improve if taught. Whether or not one becomes a great writer depends on skill, and determination.
we know there are a lot of ways to get traffic but most of them are not immediate traffic. so it is hard for us to concentrate on taking the necessary action. got to make a plan. got to make a plan. got to make a plan. and follow.
I agree, redspace. Content is definitely the foundation to marketing.
Good article - many thanks.
regarding the social networking, do you have tips for myspace and facebook? those are the two sites i want to really hit hard