New website! How do I encourage traffic?
Hi, I’ve launched a new website: www.gobuygifts.co.uk which is basically an affiliate site. I’ve completed a simple search engine submission, emailed firends and family asking them to point their friends and family to my site and also annouced it in my Facebook profile. Can anyone else suggest how I get people to my site? It’s not a full time project but I hope it’ll earn me some extra cash. I’ve received commission from the site already but I’d like more people to see it as I think it’s quite a useful site.
3 Responses
VicSEO
08 Mar 2010
gowirelesswithme
08 Mar 2010
great suggestions by all posters and all are important in building traffic. Depending on your understanding of marketing on the Internet and the resources you plan to commit to it, you essentially have to pick a few marketing vehicles (online and offline) and make sure you regularly are putting new information out there. There is always something new in Internet marketing so do something you feel comfortable with like online networking i.e. Facebook etc. and then try to learn new things that you are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with as time permits.
It is alot involved in getting traffic to your site and keeping people coming back, from optimizing the content on your site to how you market it short and long term. You have to constantly add new content and be seen as a resource by both consumers and competitors and it could ultimately become more than a part time project that might not be worth the payout if it is not done correctly and you don’t commit to the time to it.
In addition to everything everyone above posted you should try:
1. Blogging or writing a monthly newsletter to make new announcements about any products or services that you will be launching.
2. Writing articles whether for online article directories or even your local newspapers.
3. Post answers to questions related to what you do such as on Yahoo Answers! or something equivalent, forums etc.
What Does Blog S
08 Mar 2010
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First of all, the <title> is not localized, i.e., city, state, country. The <keywords> metatag entries are excessive since entries are normally limited to no more than 15 words in plural or compound variations.
The following article may prove helpful to you in streamlining your SEO metatags in order to attract more Net traffic by higher search engine placement.
The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.
Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using
such "generic" queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.
You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.
Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, "Who’s my end user – is he on dialup or
DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.
A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.
Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.
Placement of Metatags:
A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which
should consist of no more than 60 characters separated
by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.
The second metatag is the "Description" which is
usually up to 41 words to form a complete paragraph which
best describes one’s goods and services. It is not merely a list.
And the very last category – "Keywords" are also
somewhat limited to 15 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.
Here’s an example of a very highly-placed website on
Google.com: Begin with the very "generic" search query
"sandwiches downtown los angeles," taking note to not
abbreviate Los Angeles to "LA" and of course, leave
out the parentheses ("). It will bring up some 2.4
million+ search results. Check out where "Nazos.net"
is ranked. It’s on the SECOND FRONT [ranked 15]!
Again, Nazos.net’s high web presence was achieved by
proper web design and placement of relevant metatags
according to Google’s publication guidelines.
Good luck!