Sunday, January 4, 2009

Using These Tactics To Increase Website Traffic Today

By Jon Rognerud

Blogging. If you have a blog that you can link to your website, than do so. If not, visit blogs that are related to your website and leave comments with a link back to your site. If you know people with blogs, ask them to recommend your site in a post. If you do not have a blog yet, then start one, either on your website or as a site of its own. Blogging is dynamic, interactive, and one of the best ways to reach a wide Internet based audience in a short amount of time.

One way to impact your results positively is META tags, for example. They are HTML codes that get placed at the top of your web page, and are very important. Keep in mind, however, that your META tags must match the content of your page or they will be worthless, which again, is why it may be best to bring in a professional.

Email Newsletters. Creating a newsletter is a great way to encourage repeat and new visitors to your site. Not every email needs to a sales pitch, necessarily. Industry and company news are always good things to include, and you can also use this opportunity to find other websites that are similar to yours and link to them, both in your newsletter and on your site. Keep your newsletter short and to the point, and consider including fun facts and interesting trivia as well.

RSS and media feeds. RSS feeds are a great way to ensure fresh content is delivered to your blog on a daily basis, and sites like MyYahoo.com allow your site to be spidered regularly by the Yahoo search engine. Tools like Ping O Matic, which pings or notifies blog directories each time you publish a post, are valuable, as is simply submitting your website to directories of related sites.

One of the most popular ways to generate website traffic is through social media marketing campaigns. These can be in the form of coupons, contests, games, videos, and other media. Companies like DelMonte and Wal-Mart have used these types of campaigns to increase sales, build awareness of products and brands, and of course, generate traffic to their respective websites. The good news is that the methods for website traffic generation are virtually limitless, so if the first method that you try does not work, keep trying until you find the one that does. - 17943

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