Setting up your website so the search engines love it is vital to your business being relevant to the internet spiders that crawl your pages. Doing all the basics that SEO experts tell you for optimizing you pages is essential for to get traffic to your website.
Once all of this is done, it is worthless unless you also promote your website in the right ways to bring you direct traffic from clicks on your links, and from search engine results. If you throw up great, SEO optimized pages, and do nothing, you will get nothing.
So here are three very simple steps you can put into action immediately to start promoting your online business, and get traffic to your website:
1. Create an Opt-in Form on your website.
The easiest way to get repeat visitors and repeat buyers is to create and opt in list. You do this by placing an opt in form on your website. It is connected through autorepsonder software that is designed to handle your email database, and broadcast messages to your customers.
This database enables you to literally tell your customers when and why to come back to your site. If your site is relevant and full of good content, they will do exactly as you tell them. This is highly targeted traffic.
2. Write Great Articles and Post them in Article Directories.
Writing articles, or article marketing, is very powerful. Using the keyword phrases of your niche site to create short, informative articles will bring you direct traffic for life. It will also create a steady new flow of back links that raises your relevance to the search engines.
Your relevance is everything to a spider. Posting 2 or more articles per week will help you build a powerful pool of inbound links to your website. Check out the top 50 directories and start posting. You have everything to gain by promoting your website this way.
3. Good Use of Press Releases.
Study the online press releases, and start creating some for your site. You’ll be amazed at how much direct web traffic this creates, and it is very highly targeted.
By posting your press leases to press release sites, you get traffic to your website directly from the release, as well as new back links. The back links from press release sites are very relevant and powerful from the eyes of a search engine spider. So learn how to promote your site this way as soon as possible.
- Wayne Sharer
P.S. My favorite tool for creating all this search engine optimized content to get traffic to your website is called ‘Content Mania‘ by Icansoft. Your can check it out here to save you time and optimize your content fast…
I am almost willing to bet you have been ignoring your blog, video, and social network sites RSS capability. Haven’t you?
Do you know what RSS is and how it can bring you more website traffic?
RSS means really simple syndication.
Blog websites, in particular, have and RSS feed embedded in the software. Many other sites also have RSS embedded in their pages. Some examples:
Twitter
Squidoo
Youtube
Almost every video site
Nearly all Social Networking sites
Are you getting the picture?
Throughout the web there are probably 200 or more RSS directories… and yes, real people search these directories for information on very specific niches. Many of the RSS Directories are very high traffic websites.
Directories like 2RSS.com has nearly 20,000 visitors per day. So, submit your RSS feed to the directories, and you now my be increasing the chance of your site being presented to more than 1,000,000 visitors each day.
So, are you going to get wise, and start submitting your RSS feeds to the top directories?
I hope so, because here is what happens when someone finds your feed.
They click on the link to the feed to check it out
If you have good content, they add your feed to their feed reader as a subscriber
You get a new, return customer for free. In fact, on just one of my RSS feeds, I got over 10,000 visitors in the last month.
So, if you have ten websites of equal quality, with equal competition, using the same keywords of focus, you could be bringing over 100,000 visitors to your sites each month. Are you getting the picture?
I hope so. RSS feeds are such a simple way to get tons more website traffic, you really are foolish to be ignoring them. So what are you waiting for?
- Wayne Sharer
P.S. Here is how I automate my RSS feed submission and pinging my updates to non-blog sites (and increase online traffic for free):
SEO isn’t so elusive, and the steps to using it to get more website traffic can be easily put in place. Previously, I showed you 3 simple tests for choosing keyword phrases that will bring you the best results.
Now lets look at the second step of bringing your search engine optimization of your website up to speed. By doing this step, you increase your niche website relevance to both your readers and to the search engine spiders. What’s the step?
Get More Website Traffic through Back Link Management
Having other site linking to your website is a major step in making your website a bullseye for targeted traffic from Google, MSN (Bing), and Yahoo. To the search engine spider, the number of back links is just like being in your high school popularity contest.
To be a major player in your niches stack of online websites, you must get a lot of other people pointing to you. This is called an off page element of SEO, and since it isn’t as easily manipulated as the on page factors like the keywords you choose, it is highly weighted by the search engines.
The text used to create the link back to your website is also very important. This is called the anchor text, and the more often that this anchor text contains a keyword phrase relevant to your website, the better for your results. This also can directly increase online traffic through direct clicks on the links.
There are many places to put your links. Social websites are great. Online directories with good page rank are also very good places to be listed. You can search the web for directories relevant to your niche, and place links in those directories
Also, high traffic blogs are great, and using resources where you can leave comments with your link back to your site will help build your back link count. Finally, don’t forget to get listed in the DMOZ directory. It remains a top place of relevance for your listing.
This step of back linking combined with Step 1 in part 1 of this article series makes all the difference in the world on how your website is seen by real viewers and by the major search engines. Do these 2 steps correctly, and more website traffic will be yours.
You can learn exactly how I put these two power steps to work to create an immediate swarm of targeted traffic when any of my websites go live. Just click the link below:…
P.S. If you are the type that is serious about putting the search engines to use f0r you, but your biggest fear is that you don’t know what you’re doing… Here’s the solution – Pat Marcello. She’s the “Spider Whisperer.” She can train a mouse to optimize for search engines. Her style is simple, clear, easy, exact. Check her out now, before she closes down the training…
Whats the single most difficult aspect of getting your online business going and profitable?
You can answer that question below in the comments. Your perspective is important.
For me, it was getting targeted traffic, and then being able to increase online traffic. I learned the hard way that a nice website gets you nothing.
It’s true that after your business is up and running profitably, you can increase your sales and traffic with an improved presentation or look. However, focusing on pretty when you first begin is a huge mistake. Pretty won’t bring you targeted traffic or buyers.
It has been repeated and emphasized over and over that plain text websites with a clear message, using the proper keywords will bring you targeted web traffic faster. It will also bring you profits faster.
Tellman Knudson brings in tens of millions of dollars a year. Have you ever seen his opt in pages? There is nothing fancy about them. You can easily learn to duplicate the style.
John Paul Raygoza is another that uses simple text squeeze pages to capture targeted traffic. He makes millions doing it.
I am not going to keep listing successful online entrepreneurs that do this, I think you get the point.
Your focus, in the beginning, must be on getting the right niche market, and selecting the right keywords to attract search engines and real targeted traffic (targeted visitors) that are eager to buy things in your niche, whatever that might be.
When I finally took a step back and simplified my web pages and really paid attention to my keyword selection, I could easily increase online traffic.
That is one of several reasons I put together TrafficStarterPro.com … to show you exactly how to get a website started that will really get targeted traffic from the day you start posting content.
So I ask again, Whats the single most difficult aspect of getting your online business going and profitable?
Here is a video about how to get targeted web traffic that emphasizes the points I show you exactly how to do in TrafficStarterPro. Targeted web traffic is possible, from the very start, if you have the right approach…
I don’t know anything about the video creators product on targeted web traffic, but I do know that they understand the importance of having a plan before you put up your website. TrafficStarterPro.com will teach you the way to increase online traffic from the day you start. Want more website traffic they day you go live on your site? Then check out TrafficStarterPro.