How to Increase Your Website Traffic

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Are you getting a great deal of traffic to your website? Is your Internet presence strong and are people excited by your offerings? If not, it is time to make some changes.

There are many different ways to increase the traffic to your website. The more traffic you get, the more your business will increase and you will become more and more successful. The methods that you use to increase your traffic will be effective but will require a consistent and dedicated effort on your part as well.

Some small changes that you might want to make that will most likely prove effective are buying an appropriate and easy-to-remember domain name (which you will have for a long time), identifying keywords and key phrases that increase your website traffic and your search engine rankings, and increasing the amount of content that you post and will continue to post on a frequent and regular basis. Another sensible thing to do to increase website traffic is to find a blog to contribute to that is a good match for your content. Remember that when you give feedback on articles in that blog, you should always be sincere and constructive. At the same time, you should include a link back to your website as well as submitting your website link to other directories.

You will also need to use link-building methods as part of the strategy to increase your website traffic. The following are some of the most effective methods for ensuring that you drive more traffic to your website.

  • Article marketing: With this method, your online marketing campaign revolves around articles. Article marketing is a very good way to promote your business through your website and your products and/or services and there is little or no cost involved. The results of your article marketing methods can dramatically increase sales and you have the potential to double, or even triple, your income. In your article marketing campaign, the topics of the articles should be in your area of expertise and should touch your target audience in an emotional and personal way. It is very important to submit your content to Web content sites that don’t charge you a fee to do so. Article marketing is one of the simplest ways to promote your business online and to generate a lot of traffic to your site and increase your business’s revenue.
  • Video marketing: Video marketing is an extremely effective and attractive method of getting your word out. Once you have made a video (or several videos over time), you should put it on your website, where it can reach a very large number of people. The search engines react very favorably to videos that are part of websites and your search engine rankings will increase if you use this type of marketing. It is also very easy for you to send the video link to all of your current and potential customers. Another excellent venue for leveraging your videos is a blog, forum and other social media channels. It is highly recommended that you put your video on as many websites as possible that allow videos.
  • Use Email newsletters to promote your Web presence: Newsletters are an excellent way to share company updates, new products, and provide your customers with valuable information that offers solutions to their problems. You must make sure that your Email newsletters include links back to your website.
  • Participate in discussion forums and Q&A sessions: Remember to add your website’s URL to your signature on those discussions. In addition, you should always include links in your blogs that lead your audience back to your website.
  • Include your website’s URL on all of your marketing materials: This includes business cards, postcards, posters, flyers, etc.
  • Make sure to optimize your website for search engines: You want to do this so that your rankings with the search engines are increased.
  • Make sure to change your website content frequently: Adding a blog to your website is an excellent way to ensure that your content is constantly fresh. Make sure to display the links to your most recent articles on your home page.
  • Submit your website’s URL to directories and search engines
  • Add your website’s URL to all of your social network profiles: Remember that your URL should be in each and every social network profile.

Conclusion

If you use the marketing methods and tips that have been discussed here to increase the traffic to your website, you will start to see results in a few months, if not sooner. There is little or no cost involved although you will need to devote some time to your online marketing campaign in order for you to see results. If you use all of the marketing methods that were discussed here, you are bound to enjoy increased success in your business.

We are pleased to provide you with the insightful comments contained herein. Please contact us at CompuKol Communications for further discussion on how we might be able to assist you and your team.

Author

  • Carolyn Cohn

    Carolyn Cohn is the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Services of CompuKol Communications. Carolyn manages CompuKol’s creative and editorial department, which consists of writers and editors. Her weekly blogs are syndicated globally. She has decades of editorial experience in online editing, and editing books, journal articles, abstracts, and promotional and educational materials. Carolyn earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo.

6 Responses

  1. Mitch Hutton says:

    Thanks for a very informative article I always look for helpful info . Also when you make changes to your site it's trial and error you can only tell whats working with good analytics .

  2. ellipsis dive! team says:

    Thanks for sharing. We believe a lot of material related to this has been already posted on the Web. In your experience, which one of these techniques helped you get maximum exposure? For us, SEO/SEM has worked greatly.

    • Michael Cohn says:

      We find that applying the Inbound Marketing principles of building inbound links by syndicating blog articles to varoius social media channels, gives us the maximum exposure.

  3. Barbara Brazile says:

    Hello Ms. Cohn, thank you so much for your informative article.  You are absolutely correct.  Your website address must be on all of your correspondence.  Making connections with other online forums, blogs, and business groups is an excellent way to drive people to your site as well. 
    Thanks for sharing this info.

  4. Linda A Young says:

    Excellent advice, Thank you!  Ive been working in a small business development group and attending seminars, networking with other new or expanding business owners. I will soon be creating a website, am just learning computer skills and I'm grateful for this info..

  5. Carolyn Cohn says:

    Hi Linda,
    Thank you for your comment. I am glad that you are enjoying our posts. By the way, if you need help with your website, we would love to speak with you. Please check out our website (http://www.compukol.com).
    Have a great day.
     
    Carolyn