What Are
The Top 5 Simple Ways I Can Improve My Websites
Traffic?
Even if you have
little understanding of basic website coding
there are some very simple proceedures you
can implement that can see your website traffic
increase very quickly. Here we present the
Top 5 simple ways you can improve your website
traffic and see your website coming up top
on the search engines...
1. Articulate Yourself
The very fact that you
are reading this article itself is testament
to the ongoing power of articles as a form of
cost effective promotion. If you have a unique
skill, whether that be reciting the combined
works of seventies prog rockers Van de Graaf
Generator backwards to fighten the kids or creating
paper mache miniature farmyard animals then
by golly, tell people about it. By writing about
your specialist subject matter and distributing
your articles online you are effectively setting
yourself up as a guru and your article content
will find a home on countless websites that
are hungry to fill up their pages and offer
their readers something of interest to read.
The payback of course for diverging your vested
knowledge is an increasing array of backlinks
pointing to your website which will serve to
reinforce the impression that you are one heavyweight
dude/mutha in your respective field of expertese.
If you can submit 1 article a week and that
article is distributed to just 20 websites (although
popular articles are often redistributed thousands
of times) you can be looking at an additional
minimum 1000 high quality backlinks every year.
2. Freshen Up
Keeping up to date fresh
content on your website used to be a real grind
until some bright spark developed RSS feeds
(Really Simple Syndication) this allowed website
owners the chance to converge other websites
useful content and feed it into your own pages
thus giving your boring old website a constant
source of fresh stuff. The only problem with
this of course is that when every website begins
to carry the same source of digested news, what
is going to make visitors come back to your
website? Well, if you think that writing your
own web content is a chore why not blog about
it or tweet about it instead? Yes, by using
your twitter and facebook updates live streaming
on to your website you are effectively providing
your followers with up to date witty information
and freshening up your website content while
simultaneously skiving off work. Put that in
your pipe and smoke it the man!
3. Viral Infection
Looking for an easy way
to reach millions of potential customers? Well
if you apply some original thought you might
just get that to happen. There can't be many
of us who haven't been forwarded a hilarious/obscene/violent
email from friends that you've instinctively
then forwarded on to a handful of your confidants
who might appreciate the link. Well imagine
if you were the bright spark who came up with
the original idea, whether that be an amusing
celebrity bit of tittle tattle, a mobile phone
video of your cat dumping in the neighbours
porch or some other easily spread example of
idiocy at large, providing theres some kind
of link back to your website then you could
very well see your website traffic going through
the roof.
4. Free Sex! (T&C's apply)
What's the one word
guaranteed to get internet users instant attention?
No, we weren't talking about SEX despite the
attention grabbing headline - although that
does of course rank pretty high - we are refering
to the word FREE. Free downloads, free samples,
free membership - you name it, as long as
your website visitors are not paying for something
then you can bet that slowly but surely the
news will get round that there's something
going begging down at your website and before
you know it the cheapskates will be hot footing
it over to join in the fun. Naturally once
these skinflints have filled their pockets
you can then forward them over to some of
your other paid for services - not all of
them will hang around but you should get a
fair few who will kindly take you up on your
offers (PS. Always remember to wear a condom
and scrub well after every use)
5. Get out Your Wallet
So you've tried all the
above and had less visitors per week than a
down trodden B&B in Weston-Super-Mare. So
what's to be done? Well when all else fails
it's time to get out your wallet and head for
our old muckers Google and make use of the best
targeted website traffic money can buy - Adwords
(we're not affiliated by Google by the way -
though it doesn't hurt to grease the wheels
now and again). You can set up an account and
have an ad running within minutes. The vast
majority of internet users are largely unaware
that the list of websites on the right hand
side and at the top of every Google search are
paying each time someone inadvertantly clicks
on them. The good thing about adwords is that
you can turn it on and off depending on how
busy or quiet you are and how much you are prepared
to spend down to the penny. So the next time
you get a call from someone saying they can
guarantee getting your website to the top of
Google within 24 hours for just a small fee
of £99 you can tell them where to get
off and do it yourself for free. |
