Website Traffic Strategies For You To Consider

I’m sure you’ll agree that it is pretty important to have a decent flow of regular, targeted traffic to your website. After all, there is little point in having a website if nobody ever sees it!

This is by no means a comprehensive list, but here are 5 strategies for generating website traffic which you might want to consider using:

1. Get Involved with Social Media

There is simply no getting away from social media tools such as Facebook or Twitter. The key to success with this method is to attract potential prospects to become your followers and then also tell them about your websites. You can use a tool such as http://bit.ly to track how many people click on your links (this is an excellent tool which provides real time statistics).

1. Submit Your Website to Directories

This probably isn’t going to drive much website traffic in itself but it does have excellent SEO benefits. By submitting your website url to site directories you will build up a number of backlinks to your website. This can help your ranking in the search engines (ie. How high up the search results your site appears when people search for specific keywords.)

1. Take Part in Giveaways

A giveaway is a special website, usually only live for a specific period of time (for example 30 days) where people come together to exchange freebies. Giveaways are a great strategy for generating website traffic. Simply create or source a good information product (for example a report) and then include links back to your websites within the content. You can also ask people to sign up to your mailing list to download the product, thus increasing your subscriber numbers at the same time.

1. Viral Marketing

This is one of those strategies for generating website traffic which is often overlooked, and yet it remains one of my favourites. The beauty of viral marketing is that it works on autopilot for years to come. The easiest way to launch a viral marketing campaign is by creating a free report (which includes links to your website within the content) and then distributing it to people online. Offer people giveaway/resell rights and encourage other marketers to sell or give away your report. The key to success with this method is making sure that the content you provide is valuable and making it as easy as possible for other marketers to pass your report onto their customers (e.g. give them a ready made sales page).

1. Paid Solo Ads and Adswaps

Fancy an instant surge of traffic to your website? Strike a deal with another marketer to email their mailing list about your product or site. If you have a list yourself you could do this as an adswap, or if you don’t have a list (or just don’t want to email it for whatever reason) you could pay for a solo ad. This is simply where you pay someone to email their list promoting your product. The most important thing to remember if you decide to use this strategy is that you need to be very careful about who you buy the solo ad from. Is their list responsive? Will their subscribers be interested in your offer? Find out the average click rate of the mailing list and ask about the type of subscribers they are. How was the list generated? Etc. Choose wisely and you can achieve excellent results. Get it wrong and you might be extremely disappointed!

Another Way To  Get More Traffic To My Website

Every website owner wants to increase the level of traffic their website receives. It doesn’t matter if you’re already achieving what you consider to be decent levels of traffic – there is always the desire (and usually the scope) for achieving much more.

If you want to increase your traffic levels, one of the first things you need to find out is where your current visitors are coming from and then concentrate some of your efforts on those sources. Let’s say, for example, that you are getting 40 visitors a day from a particular online forum by posting messages and including a link to your website in your signature. A good way of increasing your traffic would be to increase your activity on that forum and then find other similar forums which you could also post to. If you can find the sources which are working for you now, you know which things to spend time on. Over time you will start to see which methods give you the biggest return on the time you spend on them.

Remember however that not all traffic is equal. You always need targeted traffic because there is no use having 1,000 people a day visiting your site if none of them are remotely interested in what you are offering!

Think about the places where your target audience hangs out. If you are reasonably knowledgeable about your niche you’ll probably already know some of the most popular websites in your niche which you could potentially use to generate traffic.

Make sure you don’t overlook paid methods either. Would Google Adwords, for example, be a good way to get more traffic to your website? If you know what you are doing it can be an excellent source of traffic, although it is easy to loose money from it if you don’t. If you would like to trial it without taking much of a risk it’s worth looking out for the free credit vouchers which Google seems to give away on a regular basis to encourage new people to sign up for Adwords.

Traffic generation is all about finding your target audience. If you can do that and then give them a reason to check out your website you should draw visitors in.

Increasing Website Traffic For Free

Increasing the number of visitors your website receives doesn’t have to be expensive. Below are 5 ideas for increasing website traffic for free:

1.    Start a Blog

Blogs are a great way to boost traffic to your sites. Search engines love blogs because they contain regularly updated, current content (or at least they should do!) and thus they tend to rank well in search results. Blogs are also a great way of demonstrating your knowledge and if you can build up a loyal following they can be an excellent source of free traffic. You can place links within your blog posts or include banners or adverts down the side, on your resources page or ‘about’ page, etc.

2.    Recruit Affiliates

Imagine having an army of people all working to drive traffic to your website. Well, that’s exactly what affiliates can do for you!  Let other people do all the hard work for you and in return you pay them a commission when someone buys something from your website through their affiliate link.

3.    Start a Mailing List

Your own mailing list gives you the ability to drive traffic on tap and is one of the best ways of increasing website traffic for free. If you have a decent sized list you can simply send out a broadcast email and get an instant surge of clicks, or you can set up an autoresponder series and have it drive traffic for you on autopilot.

4.    Arrange Adswaps

Having a mailing list gives you access to this wonderful method. Adswaps have become increasingly popular in recent years and they can be a highly effective traffic generation strategy. Basically you find another marketer with a mailing list and arrange for them to tell their subscribers about your website in exchange for you emailing your subscribers about their website. If you can find someone suitable to swap with (they must be in a similar market) adswaps can provide an instant surge of traffic to your site. The drawback, of course, is that you need to regularly arrange adswaps in order to keep the traffic coming.

5.    Write and Submit Articles

Writing and submitting articles is one of the oldest traffic generation strategies. Basically you write unique articles and at the end you include a resources box with a link back to your website. Doing this generates you backlinks which will improve the ranking of your site, together with generating direct traffic from people who view your articles. Simply submit them to article sites such as EzineArticles.com or use them to create a content site.

As always please leave your comments and thoughts below.

The ability to monitor website traffic is absolutely essential if you are serious about growing your online business and you have the desire to increase the amount of visitors you receive.

Being able to see where your visitors come from, how long they spend on your website and what content they view etc gives you an absolutely invaluable insight into what is working (and what isn’t) in your business right now…

Let’s say you check your statistics and find that one particular traffic source (for example the Warrior forum) has sent 500 people to your website in the last two days. That’s a pretty hot source and it shows you that you should probably spend some more time promoting your site on the Warrior Forum. You also notice that from that traffic source 100 of them signed up to your mailing list on the homepage – this indicates that the traffic this website is sending to you is pretty targeted and that they are definitely interested in the content you are providing.

Here are the best free tools to monitor website traffic.

1. Google Analytics

This is probably the most well known tool of them all and it provides an excellent level of information. You simply insert some code onto your website (Google provides this for you and it is very easy to install) and from that the system tracks visitors to your site. You can get a general snapshot of your sites traffic, as well as more detailed information such as referring websites, visitor locations, time spent on your website, average page views, the top performing pages, etc (the list is almost endless.) Google Analytics also has the advantage that it links in nicely if you are using Google Adwords to promote your website.

1. StatCounter

This is another pretty well known and (in my opinion) excellent tool. StatCounter provides a similar level of information to monitor website traffic and has its own special features too. It works in a similar way to Analytics, so it is pretty simple to set up.

1. Your Hosting Account

Many hosting accounts come together with a tool already installed which will monitor traffic to your website. The advantage here is that it is all built into your hosting package and there is often no need to install any tracking code (useful if you feel especially daunted by the process of doing so.)

Whichever tool you use (and there are many others besides the ones I have mentioned) the data it provides you is very useful indeed. Look for overall trends and analyse how visitors interact with your website. Doing this on a regular basis can improve the performance of your website in a big way.

As always please leave your comments below as I love to hear your feedback.

Introduction To Auto Blogging

Blogging is one of the hottest craze in the internet today. People use blogs to interact with people using social forums and to make money online. The insufficient time of many bloggers, the need to update constantly their websites with articles and constant maintenance of the blog are some of the problems that bloggers encounter. Due to these foreseen crises, many bloggers consider autoblogging as the key to their quandary. This mini-course has 5 sections that will teach you how to set up an auto blog that will help you generate income.

1. I. Understanding Autoblogging
2. II. Creating Your Site
3. III. Generating Traffic
4. IV. Making Money Online
5. V. Promoting your Auto blog

Understanding Auto blogging

Auto blogging is the choice of bloggers who lack time to blog everyday, explore new ideas and market their articles. Most of all, it is the option of those who fancy earning six figures annually. As more and more people earn money online, auto blogging is in demand. However, before you start creating your site for your blogs, is best to understand auto blogging.

Definition of Auto blogging

Auto blogging uses automated ways for blogging. Because of automation, you do not need go through the usual way of writing the contents or posting the articles manually. With auto blogging, you can automate the contents of your articles and link them for your blogs.

Benefits of Auto blogging

1. Get your work done

It only takes a few hours to set up an auto blog. When you follow the step-by-step procedures, you can leave your blog on its own and it automatically updates itself.

2. An Up to dated blog

For a blog to get constant traffic, an up to date site is crucial. If you do not constantly update your blog, you will be out of the search engine. The heart of blogging is the visitor who reads your articles. Without an updated blog, you will soon lose visitors to your site and this is not healthy for your blogs. However, constant and regular writing can take much of your time. With auto blogging, you become worry-free because it automatically updates your site.

3. Income generating

Writing is the passion of many bloggers. But nothing is more rewarding than getting income from your passion. With your hobby and interest, you can generate money online. Although for starters the earning is not much, it is still gratifying knowing that you earn by simply posting your articles. As you progress with blogging, an auto blog helps you create hundreds to thousands of blogs. The more blogs you create, the higher your earnings will be.

4. Maintenance-free site

Once you set up your auto blogging, you do not need to visit constantly the site except to check if everything is working well. You can let your computer do all the work. Take away the hassle and enjoy other things that interest you.

Tools for Auto blogging

1. Auto Plug in

Using software, you can leave your site and it will still produce innumerable articles and update your site

2. RSS feed aggregator

Article posting and data feed posting need the RSS feed aggregator to work.

3. Social Bookmarking Sites

Using famous social bookmarking sites, your blogs get better ranks in the search engine results.

4. Virtual Private Seller

A Virtual Private Server handles your domains and individual accounts for each of your blogs.

I hope you have enjoyed this introduction to auto blogging

Look out for part 2 of auto blogging in the next few days.

As always please leave your thoughts and comments below.