Getting site traffic
Posted on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 2:35 PM
How can a web master get additional traffic to his/her site ? Here are a couple of tips.
Put up a blog at www.yoursite.com/blog. It doesn't matter if you use WordPress, Blogger, Thingamablog, or any other blog platform you prefer, just make sure you host it on your site. Make a few posts about your site, what people can expect to read, and why your site will be unique. After your first post, sign up for a Feedburner account. Under 'Publicize' in your account make sure to sign up for 'Ping Shot'. This will notify blogging directories of your posts which hopefully will result in a few links to your site.
Regardless of what your site is about, there is certainly a topic relating to your site that you could write an article about. For example, if your site is going to sell sports equipment, you could write an article about how to build a home gym. Or if you are going to rate and review new computers, you could write an article about how to shop for a new computer. After you've written and your article, submit them to article directories like Ezine Articles and iSnare. Be sure to include a description of your new site and a link back to it in the resource box. Again, this should result in a few links to your site.
Of course, getting your visitors to put on their own sites a link back to your site is a wonderful way of increasing links and hence traffic - YOU ARE GOING TO LINK TO THIS SITE - AREN'T YOU ?
These steps should result in some links from indexed sites which should then ensure your site to be indexed. But it can't hurt to get a few more on your own to be certain. When I launched my last site, I linked to it from my personal blog, which I knew was indexed. If you don't have that option, you can ask someone with a blog or site related to yours to mention it.
There are also various sites where you can submit yours to some of the major search engines. Here is a link to one such site for free search engine submission. Here is a another link to another part of the site where you can find out just how popular your site is with search engines. And here (finally) is a link where you can check how visible your site is to search engines. All of these pages will send you an email report.
Here are recent results for this site's visibility check. AllTheWeb 331 AltaVista 335 Google 370 MSN 762 - clicking these links will display the results for this site which contains not only what you are reading, but also my own web site and that of my church, Anstey Methodist Church.
Best of luck - and DO let me know how you get on.
