Without visitors your website is nothing, the more visitors your site can attract, the easier it will be to achieve your business goals. But in an ever competitive online world…its far from easy. That's why we have created this guide to give your SEO efforts a helping hand.
Here is part one of our two part series giving you some fantastic tips on how to increase visitors to your website...
1. Create a Blog for your business.Create a blog to go hand in hand with your website and keep it updated on a regular basis - search engines love fresh content and its a great way to keep potential customers informed and up to date about your business.
2. Create unique content for your site.If you want to receive search engine traffic and only had time to work on one thing, you should work on creating unique content for your website. This is what Google and other search engines values most. The more unique content you have, and the more frequently you publish new content, the better.
3. Build backlinks to your site.The second most important thing you can do to improve your search rankings and receive organic traffic is to build backlinks. That is, you need to have as many websites linking to you as possible. The higher the quality and relevancy of these links, the better. If you have a design blog, for example, getting a link from a leading design site/blog or some other authoritative design site would do wonders to your SEO.
4. Create a mobile version of your site.As more and more users start accessing the web through mobile devices like smart-phones and ipods, it becomes important to have a version of your website that works perfectly these new platforms.
5. Create an add on Google Adwords.Pay-per-click advertising is a great way to instantly attract highly targeted visitors to your website. Depending on your niche clicks by be bought for pennies but beware…money can quickly drain away if your not familiar with adwords.
6. Write Guest Posts on other blogs.When your run a blog its always hard to keep coming up with great content on a regular basis. Thats why most blogs are happy to accept guest posts, write a quality post and include a link or 2 back to your site. This is an excellent way to gain exposure in your industry.
7. Exchange links with other relevant websites.The practice of exchanging links is as old as the web, but that is so because it works. You just need to be careful to only exchange links with sites that have unique content and are relevant to your visitors - If you are a plumber you don't really want to be exchanging links with a clothes shop!
8. Submit your articles to article directories.Article marketing is a very common and effective way to increase your traffic. You basically need to submit your articles to article directories. Virtually all of them allow you to include a link back to your site, and that is how your traffic will increase.
9. Create and distribute a press release.Creating and distributing a press release can still send some traffic to your website, especially if you have something new in your business. You can pay companies to do most of the work for you, or you can submit the press release manually to various free and paid for sites.
10. Answer questions on Yahoo! Answers.Spend some time browsing the questions on Yahoo! Answers, and whenever you come across one related to the topic of your site, answer it. You can include a link to your website as an additional resource, or to a specific article inside your site that answers the question too.
Check back soon for part 2 were we will give you the final 15 tips on how to increase visitors to your website...
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