Hey everyone. I've always wanted to have my own site, and now that I'd finally had a chance to have my own domain and premium hosting, I was pretty darn excited. Not because of monetizing it or anything, just the idea of having a site. Then I became involved in the world of ads and money and the like... I put up some ads on my site from bidvertizer and have been reading up on how to basically increase your traffic and basically increase your clicks. Most stories seem like those things on tv, where you will become successful and make good money only if your that lucky one in a million guy, and it's just discouraging. Now, I'm not looking to become rich or anything near that, just making something small, even $30 a month I'd be all smiles... Basically, I want the opinions and suggestions from you guys, you all seem like professionals in this field. How do I basically increase my traffic / get people to click ads? I think I covered all the spots I can with ads, without making my site look too... ad-y. I also submit my site to 10 free directories a day (not exactly sure why/what this does...but people suggested it). Other questions: SEO (Search engine optimization, right) How can I do that, specifically with my niche. - - - To wrap up, give me some advice on how to increase traffic to my site. I really appreciate it. Thanks. http://forthelose.org (Right now I get about averagely 40 uniques visitors a day with 100 pageloads)
You're going to want a good amount of keywords per page on your website so that is will rank well in the search engines. You should also try and get high PR backlinks. For traffic/click-thru boosting, there's no real proven method.
Work on getting links to site from sites realted to topic. Add site to directories and other places that allow it.
See, I see that kind of stuff everywhere... "get backlinks" , "get a higher PR" , "submit to directories". But, like, why? What do each of these do and how does it help?