what can I do to increase traffic?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by swaggerer, Jun 5, 2009.

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    Short of buying traffic, what else can I do to get traffic? Are my keywords bad? do I need better top sites (there really aren't many). I'm not really sure what I'm missing.

    www.paranormalamerica.com
     
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  2. tanakanewyork

    tanakanewyork Guest

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    DO PPC to get quality traffic. If your site is not for business, why you need traffic?
     
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    jasontn Well-Known Member

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    SEO and social networking are two good ways. If your trying make money then you have to look at the subject of your web site. What are you selling? Some things sell easily and others don't.
     
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    avonlee1983 Well-Known Member

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    Article writing really works. Everyone enjoys reading informative articles about paranormal topics. Write a few hundred words here and there with variations of keywords and then submit the articles to article directories. Social bookmarking and networking are also good ideas.
     
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    Article writing, social bookmarking are good, also try to make good quality posts on other peoples blogs which allow you to include a link back to your site.
     
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    JamesW2983 Active Member

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    You haven't actually told us what you are already doing to get traffic.

    However there is one thing that sticks out a mile. You are not updating regularly enough. To be honest, i read about a technique a while ago and every time i have tried it...it works.

    Just by writing a lot of content on a blog, social bookmarking and pinging, you will get a steady stream of traffic daily within a few weeks.

    My suggestions - write 5 articles a day. Add 3 to your blog and 2 to ezine articles. If you know your subject well and have researched it properly, this shouldn't take longer than an hour or 2 a day.

    Social Bookmark your blog posts at Digg, Propeller, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Mixx, Reddit & Delicious. That should take half and hour.

    Then ping your blog at ping-o-matic, pingoat & pingler. That will take 2 minutes.

    Try that for 2 weeks first and see what sort of results you're getting. If you are still not getting much traffic, then you should look further into keyword research!

    Cheers
    James
     
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    nicesurf Active Member

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    Send your articles to digg.com and myspace, you would get better visitors.
     
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    swaggerer Active Member

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    In order to write 5 a day I would def. have to write some articles that were words only. The reason I don't update a lot is that I'm afraid of running out of video and image content. I know that there is a TON of it out there but I try to be pickier than a lot of sites in the same genre.
     
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  9. JamesW2983

    JamesW2983 Active Member

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    Sure, i can understand that. How about picking some of the best stuff that is on the net. Then either link to that from one of your blog posts. Go to 3 decent sites in your niche a day and read some of their recent content and leave comments.

    From what you read, did that spark off anything in your own mind? Then just write about it! Have you thought about doing a video blog post. Kinda get your readers in the mood.

    I'm sure if you search hard enough, you will find a lot of decent stuff out there in your niche.

    Try all the search engines, not just google, for certain keyword phrases, but make them really really longtail, so it completely narrows down your search for more info. Have you tried to find forums in this niche, i'm pretty sure there will be some. If you do find a few, read through them and see what you come up with.

    Try viral marketing - perhaps if you've got a few really cool videos. Put them together into a short report. No more than say 7 pages with 5 or 6 videos. Leave a link to your blog on every page of your free report.

    Give it out free at relevant forums. Check Yahoo Answers and Wiki Answers for any relevant types of questions or discussions. Link to your freebie. Go to craiglist and pick one town a day every day for a month and paste up one of your articles with a link to your site and your free report.

    There's loads of stuff you can try, but the main thing is...You Need To Keep The Content Flowing!

    If you are running out of things to write and say, that means either you haven't done enough research or your heart's just not into this niche.

    Cheers
    James
     
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    More traffic...YouTube video!...google owns youTube...hence Youtube gets priority in google search...plus you can add a lot of tag words...It works for me.
     
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    Mmm, article marketing, social websites, yahoo answers, videos, PPC, signautre in directories, etc
     
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    kipas_angin Banned

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    u can download ebook about how to increase trafic for free click in here u can find page about how to increase ur trafiic n download them...:D
     
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    grew your Twitter account at rapid speed and then turned right around and made money from it.
    see my signature
     
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    you can also send emails to market your website.
     
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    This was a very helpful suggestion for me--thanks!
     
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    I was aware of most of these but a few of them I haven't head of before and I like them. Maybe when I find some time I'll try them out.
     
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    Use Social Bookmarking and link building they are the fastest way to get traffic
    and of course forums are a good way to get targated traffic
     
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    social bookmarking all the way
     
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    Try to participate to various dofollow forums related to your niche. Be patient and build good reputation within the community to earn credibility. ;)
     
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