How can I get free traffic to my web site?

How to Get Traffic to Your Web Site

• Answer:

  Your website is uploaded and running smoothly. The next step is gaining traffic from search engines or paid advertising. There are several ways to get traffic to your site. Some of them are more affordable than others, but even paid marketing can bring in high amounts of revenue. Marketing your website and gaining traffic is an ongoing effort, but it can be rewarding for the site and your business. After your revenue increases, you can improve marketing strategies and add to current techniques. Difficulty: Moderate Instructions Code your site with the best search engine optimization techniques. Google provides a start guide that helps you edit your code (see Resource), to assist search engines in correctly finding and ranking your site. The starter guide can be implemented for dynamic or static webpages. Create pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns for Adwords. Adwords is a Google product that places sponsored links to your pages on the first page of the search engine results. PPC can be expensive, but it brings instant traffic to your site. Market your site in forums. Each industry niche has related forums. Become a frequent contributor in a website forum and add your website in your forum signature. This allows you to show your expertise in the industry and obtain traffic from the signature link. Provide compelling content to readers to gain backlinks to the site. Backlinks determine your PageRank value. Content-rich websites improve your PageRank in the search engines, and it attracts other readers to post your link to forums, blogs and other websites. Start a blog that links back to your website. Blogs are common ways to promote a website, and they are free to install on your site. Blogging sites provide free tools, layouts and content creation interfaces to make it easy for you to upload information with a link back to your site.