How to Increase Website Traffic

Learning how to increase website traffic is important for anyone with a website. The average business owner and the person or business making money online selling a product or service need traffic to their websites.

When driving website traffic a person must have a consistent plan of actionable steps to bring in the right type of traffic, no one needs traffic from gamers to a weight loss site. Here are three of my 13 Traffic Boosting methods GUARANTEED to get more traffic to your websites.

1. Press Releases

A press‐release can be on the front page of Google within hours, and they are super powerful. The online press release serves the same purpose as TV media & newspapers, which is communicating and announcing newsworthy information.

A good press release will display on the top search engines and greatly enhance your web presence, and provide links to your website.

Write the press release in journalistic language, this is not an advertisement. The press release is there to inform the people not advertise.

The power of the press release can help build your brand, gain credibility, and bring a lot of traffic to your website.

An online press release is one of the most popular ways to get publicity and quick bursts of traffic. Here are the top 10 press release sites online:

  • PRlog.org (free)
  • Free‐press‐release.com (free)
  • I‐newswire.com (free)
  • MediaSyndicate (free)
  • PrLeap.com
  • PrWeb.com
  • OnlinePrNews.com
  • PR.com
  • BusinessWire.com
  • PRNewswire.com ($195)

Paid press releases give you more options so I highly recommend the paid press release sites. I would rather spend some money in return for increased traffic &  user options. My top recommendation is PRWeb.com

=> 13 Super Powerful Traffic Strategies

2. Document Sharing

Repurpose your articles & blog posts by submitting them to document sharing sites directories to generate traffic. Upload your content  in Word, PDF, and PowerPoint slides. The most popular document sharing sites are:

  • Scribd
  • Docstoc
  • Slidesix.com
  • Slideshare
  • Issuu
  • Calameo

Most often you can insert a live link into your document to build more links & drive more traffic.

Google indexes document sharing sites pretty fast, and they rank high in the search engines when you optimize your keywords.

3. Facebook Ads

Facebook is one of the most highly targeted traffic sites you can advertise on.  The images are what get your facebook ads clicked. The best images are amateur type images and not professional looking images with graphics.

Facebook ads are extremely targeted because you can choose the demographics of your audience. Use quantcast.com for your demographic research, and take that information and plug it into your facebook campaign.

On facebook you can target age, sex, location, interests, language, likes and interests.

Use CPC and not CPM for your campaigns. Choose half of the recommended bid and inch your way up until you receive impressions. DO NOT try to lower your bid-you will stop getting impressions or they will slow to a crawl. Once your bid is chosen, you should only go upwards.

A place to get some free stock images for your campaigns is stock.xchng (www.sxc.hu). Tracking facebook campaigns is critical to successful campaigns, I recommend (prosper 202, or bevomedia)

Keep your ads fresh, banner blindness occurs fast on facebook. Test plenty of images and the one that converts the best find new images that are similar to keep the campaign alive.

Direct your ads to a customized fan page with an opt in form, keeping the visitor on facebook increases conversions. Here are the 3 DO’s of facebook advertising:

  1. Always TRACK- Tracking is critical in fb advertising, and it allows you to make changes to poor ads and get the most from your winners.
  2. Images- Images are the bread & butter of your campaign-keep it amateur-keep it simple-TEST!
  3. Know your demographics-Use sites like quantcast.com and google ad planner for your research.

Here are => 13 MORE POWERFUL strategies to get more traffic to your website. Simple and proven techniques on how to increase website traffic.

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Filed in: Internet Marketing Tools • Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
 

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