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So you've put together the best website on the net - now what?
To put it simply - "your website needs traffic, loads of it".
And there are only two ways to increase website traffic:
- Increase the number of new visitors coming to your site.
- Get your current visitors to look at more pages.
But please bear in mind that just because some "guru" might not have had any success with a particular method does not mean that it is unsuccessful or not worth trying.
The secret is not what methods you use to increase website traffic, but how you use them.
One interesting thing about the internet is that effective manual forms of advertising that have been automated, only remain effective for a very short period of time.
As soon as the automated advertising method is made available for anybody to use, it becomes progressively less effective as more people use it.
A good example of this phenomena is posting your website URL to "Free For All" Links Pages, which in the space of four years went from being one of the most effective forms of advertising to becoming a form of SPAM (through excessive automation).
But we're digressing, you're here to learn how to increase website traffic...
How to increase website traffic by increasing the number of new visitors coming to your site
Getting people to view your website is not as simple as you might think.
There are many millions of websites on the internet and each webmaster wants traffic, some are so desperate to increase website traffic that they will try anything...
And they get themselves into trouble.
You can avoid getting yourself into trouble by applying this simple rule of thumb - if something seems to be unethical or seems to be a form of SPAM, it probably is and you should avoid it.
There are a variety of commonly used methods to increase website traffic. They all work to a certain extent, but some are incredibly more effective than others, as indicated in the following chart:
How to increase website traffic by getting your current visitors to look at more pages
Content, no...
Great content is what will get your current visitors to look at more pages.
Not only that, but the search engines also love great content.
If you build websites with good original content based on popular keyword phrases, they will be ranked highly by the search engines, which means you will get an increase in website traffic from first time visitors.
But, how do you create great website content?
There is no magic quick fix. A concerted effort and a lot of work is required.
There are a number of components that make up the process of creating great content. Each component is a major task and accomplishing these tasks effectively will have a significant effect on your website traffic, by increasing both the number of first time visitors and the number of pages viewed by existing visitors:
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