Best ways to drive traffic ?

I second that! Ultimately, you are looking for SEO traffic.

Time consuming and lower conversion rates!

PPC can burn a hole in your pocket!

 

bringing traffic to website demand the devotion and dedication. If you are devoted and dedicated person then the strategies you are applying will become the best source of traffic. join the discussions, give reply to people, keep updated your visitors regarding your website and most of all, there should be something special on your website that become the need of visitors like widget,tool etc.

 

1. Build a strong, solid business foundation. Design a business plan, marketing plan, ideal client profile and 30-second elevator speech.
2. Be consistent and “brand” your company. Use the same colors, logo, motto, etc. everywhere on your business web site!
3. Make your business web site trustable.
4. Create policies that build trust: customer service, code of ethics and newsletter privacy policy.
5. Ask your web master to name each of your pages using a keyword you have supplied them with.
6. Offer added values on your business web site that make sense to your business and ideal client. This can include affiliate programs, books, and recommended links to web sites.
7. Add a “favorites or bookmark this site” script to some of your business web site pages.
8. Add a "Recommend This Site" on your site. If someone visits your business Web site and knows someone else who may appreciate it, this feature will e-mail the page's link to a recipient.
9. If you have pages on your business web site that you update monthly (like an articles page or recommended links page) say so on the page.
10. Join a few Web rings. For additional information, visit WebRing and Bravenet.
11. Provide a subscription box, to your e-zine or business announcement list, on your most viewed business web site pages.
12. On large business web sites, create a "What's New Page" or even better, ask your web designer to design a "Site Map" for your visitors.
13. Search engines look for certain things - titles, headings, meta tags - so it is crucial to make sure your site is "search engine friendly". Visit the Search Engine Optimization and Submission page on this site for additional resources on search engines and search engine submission tips.
a. TITLE tags: Title tags should be 60 or so characters and include some keywords.
b. Header tags are numbered from 1 to 7: some search engines recognize Header tags. So make sure you use these tags for each of the titles on your page.
c. Keyword Meta tags: Add no more than 15 to 20 keywords to keep the search engines from flagging your site for keyword spamming. Prioritize your words. The best way to submit to search engines is to submit to each search engine individually.
d. Use keywords in the text area of each page. They are especially important at the beginning of sentences and higher up on the page.
e. To learn more about meta tags and choosing keywords, read "Effective Search Engine Optimization" (from About Small Business: Canada).
14. Search engines do not find your site unless you submit your site's information to them. Below are four ways to submit your Web site to search engines:
a. It is recommended that you submit to search engines individually (this is also the way I do it and it works great, but is time consuming)!
b. Since some people prefer to use a free service to submit their sites to search engines, I recommend that they open a free e-mail address to use when you do "anything" for free on the World Wide Web. Two good search engine submission services are Submit It!, and Scrub The Web. You can pay for a program that will assist you to submit and critique your site such as WebPosition Gold.
c. Hire a Search Engine Optimization Expert to handle your search engine submissions.
15. Visit these search engine information sites: Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Guide.
16. Find easy and secure ways for your clients to pay you. A shopping cart and a secure way to accept checks and/or credit cards work very well.
17. Check your business web site's links regularly to make sure they all work. Use a free link checker such as Xenu's Link Sleuth.
18. Provide monthly chats or bulletin boards (forums) to build relationships and community.
19. Conduct periodic contests and announce the winners on your site.
20. Offer a free e-book or e-report on your site. Its size doesn’t matter if you’re providing it for free and it’s specifically for your ideal client. Provide permission for the e-book to be forwarded to others for their personal use.
21. Write articles, post them to your business Web site, and submit them to article banks.
22. Design some quizzes or surveys. Statistics show that visitors love quizzes and assessment tools.
23. Participate in online forums as an expert. You get to "quietly" promote your business in your three or four line signature.
24. Place your business web site address on all your printed literature -- business cards, brochures, newsletters, letterhead, e-mail signature, ads - everything!!
25. Promote your web address in your signature for e-mails (change it regularly to highlight something new you're promoting).
26. Teach classes or speak to groups about subjects relating to your products.
27. Network locally to bring people to your site.
28. “Permission Market” by gathering, in writing, the e-mail addresses of students, or an audience as part of your evaluation forms. Create index cards so that you can invite your friends, networking partners or associates to join your list. Keep any papers involved in this process for at least a year or two.
29. When your business web site is launched, updated, or you write a free e-book, send a Press Release to the media, your clients, and friends and associates, too.
30. Want to know more about Internet Marketing? Visit this Internet Marketing Index at Internet.com's Interactive Marketing Channel.
31. If this list of web site promotion ideas seems overwhelming, visit your favorite search engine to conduct a search for Search Engine Optimizers and Consultants or ask others who they use and would recommend.

 

you are right, you can use social network site like facebook and twitter to gain traffic.

 

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things you are doing are also fine but that will not give you your desired traffic, so you need to look in to other ways like social media marketing using Facebook and other such sites. PR submission is also a good way. also keep working on micro-blogging sites like twitter...

 

Well the best way for getting traffic for ones website is by use of social media networks what so ever......

 

yeah..go to social networking..to get more traffic

 

Best traffic source is search engine traffic that is targeted traffic. So work on SEO.

 

I will agree with SMO ...we get very good traffic with this. And rest of them will give good back links..I appreciate all for advising me.

 

Good content and Social media optimisation are the best tools of derive good traffic.

 

If you have targeting proper keyword and you generating quality back links, then slowly your keywords going up in search engine, then definitely you will get traffic.

 

social networking sites can help to increse your website traffic.

 

Link building is a very good way to get traffic to your site!

 

social bookmarking is best technique for gain traffic, bookmarking a new page or a new blog post on your site can help get that page indexed in the search engines quickly. most social bookmarking sites like stumbleupon, diqq, facebook etc allow you to use tags. you can list your target keywords in these tags and this can help your ranking for these keywords.

 

Article marketing, social networking sites the best ways to get traffic

 

Yes you are absolutely right, in some of the social bookmarking sites we an add tags also so that we can improve rank for that tags as well.

 

Social media optimization and social bookmarking, local classifieds, unique content submit on article website are the best way to drive traffic towards website.

 

Social bookmarking sites are good in providing good traffic to your website!SEO good!

 

For me also same problem. google keyword position is quite good. i am getting search engine traffic but no reffering traffice. backlink is increasing but no traffic from submitting sites

 

you are just looking for traffic then you can go for social media sites like - digg, facebook, twitter or more.
and you are looking for targeted traffic then must do SEO and facebook