Boost Traffic To Your Website
August 1st, 2006 | by Paula Brett |We are all aware of the importance of traffic to our websites. However, what is the best way to go about obtaining this traffic? Here are the top six ways of getting visitors to your website.
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Include a link to your website in every single email you send. Just sign off `best wishes, Fred Bloggs’ and then underneath this add the URL of your website
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Create your own eBook, software or report and include in it the URL of your website. Sell it or give it away for a viral effect.
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Join forums, chat-rooms, notice-boards and, if you are allowed, include your site URL in your signature.
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Establish reciprocal links with other websites. Create a links page on your website and allow other webmasters to place their links on your site in return for putting your website link on their site. Check out free reciprocal link sites at http://www.linkmetro.com/ and http://link2me.com
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Create a blog to compliment the subject or niche of your site, link it to your website and every time you post a message on your blog go to a free service like http://pingomatic.com/ to alert different search engines that your blog has been updated.
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Create your own articles of, say, 500-1000 words based on the subject of your website and submit it to as many article sites and ezines that you can find. If you cannot write your own articles, consider joining a PLR site. What is PLR? Private Label Rights. In short this means that other people write the articles and material and you are allowed to sign your own name to it, as if you wrote it yourself. You can use the PLR articles to submit to article sites, create your own eBooks or to create fresh content for your website. Probably the best website offering PLR material is InfoGoRound which boasts material on every subject under the sun and has a huge catalogue to choose from.
All of the above are effective however, the one that works best for me is No. 6. Creating Articles and submitting them to article sites. How does this work? Well, when you submit your article to an article site or ezine, you are allowed to include a little box at the end of your article with a few details about yourself such as:
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Jane Smith is an expert on dog grooming and she is the webmaster of the successful dog-grooming website http://www.doggroomingisus.com
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So, along comes our visitor to the article site, he is visiting as he wants information on dog grooming and lo and behold there is Jane’s article. Our visitor reads the article on doggy hairstyles and is so interested that he clicks on the url in the `about the author’ box and off he pops to the doggy grooming website, joins the doggy grooming forum and buys Jane’s latest doggy grooming product! Not only does the visitor do these things but he has also decided to start a doggy grooming website of his own and create an eBook too. So he uses Jane’s doggy grooming article as content for his website and his book (he is allowed to do this as long as he keeps your `about the author’ box attached to the article and he doesn’t change the article in any way.
This is where the viral aspect comes in - Jane’s website URL is spread like a virus across the internet. It is now in the visitor’s ebook which he sells on eBay and gives away to everyone he comes across and it is also on the his new website.
This is only ONE visitor that read Jane’s article on ONE article site!!!! Now imagine if YOU submit YOUR article to thousands of article sites across the internet. Just imagine how much traffic YOU would be attracting to YOUR websites if you wrote just one article a week!
Exactly………………….
But now comes the pain in the ass part!! Sorry, but there has to be a downside. Is it the fact that:
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I can’t find a topic to write about? No, that would be daft, there are an infinite number of things to write about, even if it’s my kids or my allergies!! I’m a woman, I can whitter on about these ad infinitum!
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I am rubbish at writing, I can’t spell, my grammar is appalling and I have no imagination? No! And even if it was, who cares, I just go along to InfoGoRound, choose my subject and load myself up with a mountain of PLR material and off I go - I’m an author!
No, here is my nemesis, the thing I hate doing more than anything else. It’s the actual submitting of my articles to hundreds of sites! Argghhhh - it takes forever and, in my opinion, it is such a waste of valuable time when I could be creating more and more articles for submission.
When I first started writing articles I tried about 15 different article submitter software packages, free ones, paid ones, ones full of viruses and bugs!! None of them was ideal. Some submitted to every single article site I could think of (and I know I didn’t find them all) but I first had to spend hours inserting all the article sites into the software and sign up to all the article sites in the first place. Some I couldn’t even install, the instructions were so difficult to understand - all this MySQL and databases and fiddling about - made me want to scream!!! Then I decided to do a Google search for companies that would submit the articles for me. That was a disaster too - some of them wanted as much as $50 to submit one article to only about 40 sites. Others wanted a recurring subscription payment of $50 a month………… the list goes on.
But guess what? After 8 months of tearing my hair out, screaming at my computer and waking up with keyboard impressions on my forehead from falling asleep at my desk as I worked into the small hours, I finally found the perfect solution.
A place where I can now:
Stop submitting my articles by hand
Stop trying to install useless scripts
Stop paying a 3rd party extortionate amounts of money
If you are in the same boat as I was, you have got to check out this amazing article submission service HERE and get that traffic swarming to your website.
If you have any comments about article submitters, any other ideas or better ways, I would love to hear from you - so please do let me know.
Until next time
Paula
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