how to learn to generate traffic?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by nikolay, Dec 10, 2005.

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    Hi,everyone. I'm a beginner and i was buying my traffic before but now it looks like i'm not making any profit so i've decided to learn to do it by myself.
    I want to get a general idea on what quantity and quality of traffic depends, how can you drive people to your site, why do you want to have high PR and stuff like that. And another thing i want to clear for myself is how people optimize their sites for search engines so they appear in top 10. What do the do for it? If you can? please give some urls where i can find some articles or material about written above. I want to understand the principle and theory before i start doing smth. Thanks
     
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  2. INV

    INV Peon

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    Why not read the forums as a start. Why are you asking to get spoonfed into making money? No one has time to make give you lessons thats why these forums are great and should be searched/read.
     
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    Yep that's how it works when you want to make money, you have to investigate, put time and effort into it, but okay i will give you some tips.

    1) Read as many SEO & forum articles as possible. A good start is this forum, webmasterworld.com, searchengineforums.com and seochat.com
    2) Get as much links as possible to your site in the same theme as your site. Search for sites like yours and exchange links with them by asking the webmaster. You could also join a link service like Link Vault or Co-Op (see my sig).
    3) Create good articles and submit them to article services. Include your link in the article.
    4) Submit to directories.
    5) Optimize your site by putting the most important keywords into the title tag, into headers (<h1>MAIN KEYWORD</h1>, <h2>MAIN KEYWORD</h2> etc.) and in your overall content.

    Hope this will help you a bit.
     
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    As long as you maintain a clean site layout and sane URL's (so that SE's don't get tangled in GET variables), content will be the prime factor in the quality and size of the traffic.
     
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    if that thing about get variables is true then my wordpress powered sites are screwed
     
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    nikolay:

    I spent my first year researching and testing. I suggest that you take the time to read through the DigitalPoint forums as INV suggests, and see what will work for you.

    I don't have a high PR site; that's because I try to focus on my site and content and not get wrapped around the little green bar that most users, only we web geeks, don't even have. I may only have a home page PR3, but I get thousands of visitors a day. Where do I generate the traffic? Search engines through optimization tips and techniques, not tricks, learned in forums and other research.
     
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    shahab6 Well-Known Member

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    As a beginner its hard to get traffic to your website, if your selling something on your website try ppc or expire domain traffic, both are very targeted traffic.
     
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    First is to put some relevant content on your site. And then get more quality traffic research and testing. Focus on the content quality more.
    Good luck :D
     
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    There is a lot of info out there that can teach you how to generate traffic, most people din't practice it.Method such as article marketing, ppc and others are all not new anymore, but people who actually practice it is less. Try find on free ebook and learn.
     
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    1. Make sure you have a quality website, this includes keywords, titles, descriptions and content.
    2.Submit to search engine
    3.submit to web directories
    4.link your site in forums and other places
    5.exchange links
    6.advertise your website
    7.after this you are ready to start earning little money!
    Also check my "make money online" link, it has all kinds of guides, tips, tricks and info on how to build, maintain, incrase traffic, submit to search engines, monetize your website/blog and more!
     
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    Good and interesting content, plus good SERP positioning and site links would be better. :)
     
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    Hi,
    No worries.First make a neat n tidy website that will be light for fast loading.
    Then make some useful articles or free downloads that is relevant to your category.
    Then submit to High PR sites and directories.Use social bookmarking and social networking websites for added traffic.
    I bet you will be listed in google.com in 24 hrs if you submit articles in digg or any other High pr social bookmarking sites.
    Although you will have some traffic from these source Search engine traffic is the real traffic.so try to optimize the pages.For that use some available tools like IBP,webposition gold or addweb or else submit using some websites as submitexpress.
    Get listed in yahoo directory ($300/yr) and DMOZ (free).These will bring hundrs of visitors daily.
    Make blog and submit to blog directories.Update it frequently.RSS submit using RSS submit software.These are all best practices to bring your site on top position.Now you are on the right track,yes you are in DP now.This place will bring you more information about SEO.
    DIg more on DP.
     
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    The only thing I have to add to what has already been mentioned is that you take the time to go over your HTML to make sure that it is all correct. Also make sure you don't have any broken links on your site. Other than that, just visit a couple of SEO forums and read. You'll see that it won't take you that long - maybe not as long as reading through all of your replies...
     
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    Just do SEO and get your site ranked for a high traffic term! Its that easy!

    Ok seriously though, this forum already has tons of info laid out, just use the good ol search button. you never know what you might find :)
     
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    Posting to forums that is related to your site can give you targeted visitors. Fresh and interesting content can attract visitors.
     
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    My free eCourse on traffic generation might help you (see sig)
     
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    read this article buddy :)
    http://www.seomoz.org/article/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimization
    http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
     
    calixto, Apr 20, 2007 IP