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How to Find More Website Traffic

Are you constantly searching for new ways to find more website traffic? I’m betting you are. I spent a couple years trying to figure out different ways to find more website traffic. Mostly with dismal results.

As a matter of fact, I most often find myself writing about different ways to get traffic to a website because it’s the single most important step that people just don’t understand. Here’s a tip that might just help you get over that hump.

From my own personal experience, I will tell you (continue reading…)

What Successful Websites Have That Yours Doesn’t

Have you ever spent some time thinking about what successful websites have that your doesn’t? Sure you have! You wouldn’t be reading this article if you weren’t serious about growing your website.

Most people get so wrapped up in all the little tedious components of SEO and building backlinks that they completely forget about the one thing that truly makes a website successful. So what is that one thing? It’s connecting with your visitors of course!

Sometimes we have to slow down and realize that it really is all about the visitors. If you take a serious look at the largely successful websites or brick and mortar businesses for that matter, the one thing they are very good at doing is staying connected with their customers.

It all makes perfect sense if you really think about it. We spend so much time working on our sites that we actually forget to ask our visitors what they want. How can you run a business without knowing what your customers want. It’s pretty much impossible.

Big business makes use of surveys and polls to find out what their customers want or need. You can do the same thing online with services like Poll Daddy or Survey Monkey.

Maybe it will just involve writing a blog post that ask for  your visitor’s participation. It doesn’t really matter how you do it as long as you do it. I am guilty just like some of you of being too busy sometimes to actually get to know my visitors but this is a monumental mistake.

Remember…. people don’t like to be sold. They would rather make their own informed decision to purchase something they need or want. How can you offer what they need or want without asking them what those needs or wants are?

If you want to truly have a successful website then go now and get to know your visitors.

Best Wishes!

Building Your Backlinks

If you have been following this blog you know by now how important building quality backlinks are to your website or blog. Backlinks will be one of the main determining factors of how much traffic your online business gets and how fast it gets PageRank. Another determining factor for Google PageRank is the niche (type of product) your business is in and how competitive that niche is. I am mentioning Google because they are the largest search engine for sending traffic. However, do not underestimate Yahoo and Bing. You can’t ignore those two either because they are pretty big players in the search engine arena. It’s important to submit your content to all three. Anyway, I’m getting side tracked here. Let’s get back to discussing building your backlinks.

There are lots of different ways to go about it. You are going to need tons of them if you are in a highly competitive niche and maybe not so many if your niche isn’t that competitive. Most of the websites and blogs that I see generally have between 1,000 and 5,000. I have seen them as high as a million. Sometimes the quality of the link is more important than the quantity. It really just depends on your competition.

If your site is fairly new the first thing you can and should do is submit your site to different directories. There are thousands of them on the Internet. Just try to make sure that you submit it to directories that are relevant to your site’s content. You should also submit your blog to some high level blog directories such as blogged.com, Technorati.com and my personal favorite which I have had very good results with is MyBlogLog. Each of those will give you a quality backlink.

Next, start making some really good and powerful comments on some other blogs that are in the same niche as yours or at least relative. You can use a free service called Comment Kahuna to search for multiple blogs based on the keywords that you input. It will also list the current Google PageRank of those blogs. You need to make sure that you are commenting on higher PageRanked sites to get the biggest bang. In addition, by commenting on sites with a higher PageRank you can get your site ranked quicker. But more important than any of that should be the caliber of the comment you are leaving. Visitors to blogs read comments. I read them when I’m visiting other blogs. You want to add a great comment for two reasons. The first is that if it’s not valuable to the site the webmaster may just delete it. The second reason is that if you are giving out valuable information, the readers of that blog may see your comment and come and visit your site. And before I forget, make sure whenever you leave a comment that you always place your website address in the box where it ask for it. This will serve as the link back to your site. Without it you are wasting your time and efforts for nothing.

Later on when you get things a little more organized you can start guest blogging for other blogs, always leaving a backlink to your site. You could also write articles that you think will help a blog or website in your niche and present it to the webmaster. If the owner of that site thinks it’s valuable he may place it on his site with your site signature on the article serving as yet another backlink.

Try to make sure that you always write high quality content on your site. This always attracts search engines and other blogs. If it’s really valuable information those sites will start linking to yours. If enough higher quality sites link to your site it will serve to tell the search engines that you must know what you’re talking about.

You will learn many different methods as time goes on. If you’re serious you will get more involved and learn more. Quality backlinks are very important if you want to constantly increase your visitors and without visitors your site is nothing more than dead weight sitting in the middle of the Internet Ocean. The process of building your backlinks can be tedious but is a necessary evil.

Best Wishes!

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