7 Ways To Generate Traffic
By Anna Johnson on August 22nd, 2008Congratulations, you’ve got a great looking website!
You’ve even optimized it for the search engines, and the design, layout and copy have all been carefully constructed to maximize the number of web visitors who buy your products and services.
So now it’s just a matter of waiting for the visitors… right?
Wrong!
Having a website on the Internet is like having a book in a draw somewhere. No one knows it exists, unless you tell them.
And, today, where getting a high listing on the search engines and cutting through all the marketing “noise” on the Internet (not to mention that in the “real” world), you can’t expect anyone to visit you… even if you’ve “optimized your website” for the search engines.
You see, as far as search engine optimization goes, all your “on-page” factors are no longer enough to generate a high listing and generate traffic. Nowadays, search engine optimization relies on many “off-page” factors as well.
So the bottom line is: you need to put considered, and considerable, effort into generating traffic to your website. You just can’t rely on the expectation that you can “build it and they will come”.
So what are the best ways to generate traffic? Well, here are seven (7) of the most (if not the most) effective ways of generating traffic to your website:
- Joint ventures
- Search engine optimization
- Blogging
- Submitting articles
- Distributing press releases
- Viral marketing
- Social online networking
What’s so special about each of these methods? Well, look out for tomorrow’s issue of the newsletter, when I’ll give an overview of each one…
