Ideas to generate traffic to a website?

Question

How can I promote a website to generate traffic? Are there any good books or websites on this topic? Thank you for your input.

Answer 1

The following article will prove helpful to you in streamlining your SEO metatags in order to attract more Net traffic by higher search engine placement.

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.

Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using
such "generic" queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, "Who's my end user - is he on dialup or
DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which
should consist of no more than 60 characters separated
by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the "Description" which is
usually up to 41 words to form a complete paragraph which
best describes one's goods and services. It is not merely a list.

And the very last category - "Keywords" are also
somewhat limited to 15 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google's spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.

Here's an example of a very highly-placed website on
Google.com: Begin with the very "generic" search query
"sandwiches downtown los angeles," taking note to not
abbreviate Los Angeles to "LA" and of course, leave
out the parentheses ("). It will bring up some 2.4
million+ search results. Check out where "Nazos.net"
is ranked. It's on the FIRST FRONT PAGE [ranked #5]!
Again, Nazos.net's high web presence was achieved by
proper web design and placement of relevant metatags
according to Google's publication guidelines.

Good luck!

Answer 2

When I needed to get alot more traffic flowing to my small business website, I went and signed up at Google Adwords. I paid about $30, and my website was on those special side-ad banners on google searches, and the bars that show up on random webpages for about three months. It tripled my income.

Often you have to spend money to make money, and this was an awesome investment in my mind.

Answer 3

You may want to try engaging in a link exchange with other website owners. Ideally, you would find some who already have much traffic on their site.

Answer 4

Try this http://www.BoxForYou.com a free classified website, you can sell anything for free!

Some people put a link in the ad, to help direct traffic to their own business website. I think that is the cheapest way to promote your business, especially to those newly start up small business owner. $zero cost.

Hope this will help. Good luck!

Answer 5

U have to spend some times for ur website. Publish articles in articles directory. Visit http://tipsofseo.blogspot.com. Here u will find free articles directories name. Create 2-3 blogs, work on it and then provide link to ur website from these blogs. Also submit your website in dmoz.org, yahoo.com and other quality directories to increase backlinks. Also add meta title and description in the pages of ur website. Hope it increases the traffic in few months. Else advertise your website in google.com.

Answer 6

For best SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION results We recommend applying Google Search Bot: http://is.gd/gsbsoftware Employing that software We have rated our website to very first page of Google on a extremely high competitive search phrase.

Answer 7

Well ! there are two methods, paid and Free. Paid is quick and free one takes abit time but provides long time results.

Paid is adwords, Free is SEO or Organic Search Engine Optimisation.

You need to optimise your web site. SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is the only way to get good traffic free ;)

You need to do two aspects of SEO

1 is On site Optimisation, which includes adding Titles, META, Keywoerds, then content related to your META. Also Alt tag for

images can optimise your images.

2nd is Off site optimisation, which includes getting good links from other web sites related to your content/topic.

Also consider Social Bookmarking for Offsite Optimisation.

I will suggest you to use http://www.Tagza.com - submit your stories there, thats Cool young web site and any submitted URL

goes to its home page.

There is alot to do and it needs patience ;)

I hope this helps, if it does, please select as BEST answer ;)

Cheers

Answer 8

a catchy name...buy an advert link on other popular websites like espn, new york post, nfl,mlb, etc...advertize seasonally, like now advert on xmas sites. in february advert on valentine sites, easter on easter sites...thnxgvng on thxsgvng trky sites. figure out a catchy way to have viewers bookmark your site...websites are like virtual real estate...you have to provide an incentive for people to go visit it...mall/movies/sports arena/museum...once you build up traffic, you can use advertizing to further monetise your site by contacting advertisers and have them advertise on your site...there are many ideas..you can also look at popular sites and get ideas from there...

Answer 9

the most simple answer: offer an incentive for viewing