How to increase your site or blog visibility in internet. Internet is like universe, lots and lots of information in trillions of web pages, among them how do you going to bring visitors to your page.
Here I am going to discuss the various ways to getting visitors to your site. For readers convenience, I categorize the ways in to different topics. Some categories may controversial to some folks.
Free and Easy
‘ Really Simple Syndication ‘ some times ‘ Rich Site Summary ‘ is the best way to bring regular visitors to your site. No body wants to check every site often and probably they can’t remember your site. If your content is good and you are updating your site regularly the RSS plays a big role in increasing your sites visibility.
Your RSS should have summary which should bring people to your site, not your whole content.
you can also use E-mail subscription for RSS
Online Directories and Organizations
Submit your website url to online directories and non profitable organizations like craiglist.
E-mail Signatures
Include your site’s url or feed title with your e-mail signatures. G-mail and most of the e mail providers supporting this feature.
Custom 404 Error pages
Creating custom 404 error pages will increase the visits. If your website shows the page like this ” page not found ” , then visitors don’t bother to check your whole website, they went on to surf other pages on internet.
Provide custom error page to your visitor with some suggestions of links or with menu of your site which contains links to other pages of your website.
Bookmarks & Tell a Friend option
Provide “Bookmark this site” and “Tell a friend option” in every page of your website, which definitely bring the visitor again and again to your page
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Classifieds
Post about your website, information on your website, product or service you provide in free internet classifieds .
Free, Time and Energy Consuming
Surveys and Rankings
conducting surveys and participating in online top blog, top content competition may increase your site visibility.The target is not ranking first, the target is just include your url in the website.
Blogs , Blog Directories
start a blog for your website and submit the blog in blog directories. Regularly update your blog and make your visitor to interact in your blog
Social Media
This is one of the best way to increase your visits. Leverage on today’s top trend in building links. learn to use twitter, orkut, facebook, squidoo etc etc
Article Submission
If your website contains unique, original, quality content then submit your best content in major article directories like Ezine, etc.
Press Release, Google News
www.PRWeb.com.
www.free-press-release.com
www.prleap.com
www.prcompass.com
www.PressExposure.com
use some of the press release site to improve the visitors.
Try to make your page published in google news, once you are listed in google news, then you will get millions of impression in a day
Search Engine Optimization – Keyword Search
Search Engine are the first and foremost reason to increase traffic to your website. when you write your content or post you must be keyword conscious.
Commercial or Difficult
PPC Advertising
Best and effective way to increase your traffic. find a good ppc advertiser and then advertise in it.
Purchasing misspelled or related domains
try to find out misspelled url names and set up a domain forwarder for that url. every day millions of visitors are landed in unsolicitated webpage when they try to type the target url in the address bar.
YouTube Marketing
online video marketing is the one of the best way to promote your website. make a video about your product or service or else ‘How to’ video on your content.
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Auto Responder Email Campaign
set up a auto responder and E-mail list and regularly mail your visitors. and you have to be sure that the mail should contain valuable information, because there is risk of marking as a spam by the receiver.
Affiliate Program
set up an affiliate program and provide compensation to your visitor who refer others.
Purchasing Ad space on Other Site
purchase ad space on good websites and make sure that, the website is not your competitor.
Not Recommended
Comments & Posting Forums
commenting on the blogs with links to your website may not bring quality visits to your websites, and when the comment count increases no body bother to read the comments. This is waste of time. Posting forum is also has the risk of banned by the forum moderator.
But sometimes Quality replies and comments in forum may increase the visit.
Crazy Stuff – Viral
creating a crazy stuff and making it a viral. like the following stuff ” http://www.scrolllock.nl/passport/home.htm ” this may be viral and quickly reach many people. Try yourself
Mailing List
creating mailing list and regularly mailing them is not a good concept to increase your site visits, autoresponder is different from mailing list.Regular mailing may fail to bring visitors. “Everybody hates spam as you do”
Offline
some of the offline methods to increase your site visitors count
Business Cards – including your site url in your business card
Others use your website URL with Logo on moblie Screen Saver, Profile Name, Wall Paper and on your laptops.Infringe your website name in key chains, and belongings. If there is a will, there is a way. – Buy a pair of sandals and engrave your site’s url beneath, and walk on beach or play on snow.
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Written By Sakthi Tharan (tharansakthi)
About Author: Developer and Web Designer, blogs about latest technology and tech news.
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