Getting traffic to your website is potentially the biggest task you have to handle once you decide to publish a website. If there is no visitor, there is no use writing a website since there will be nobody who will read the site. I strongly believe that there are few fundamental aspects that a webmaster need to understand when finding ways to generate traffics. These aspects are rarely spoken and yet these are the most fundamental criteria to generate a loyal and targeted visitors. The normal traffic generation methods will be explain further down this page, but these methods will work best if combined with these fundamental criteria. WRITE FOR HUMAN and then for machines. This is the most important aspect that one should concentrate. Are you developing a website for a machine to read or for a human being who has flesh and blood? Of course it is human ! Therefore, write your website as how you would like to communicate to a human. Do not write website/blog mainly for search engine spiders to index your site. Even when your website appears at the top search engine ranking, but the moment a human reads the side and finds it is full of keywords and no solid content, they just going to avoid the site in the future.

 

WRITE SOLID CONTENT

Writing a website with solid and valuable content. Many webmasters write their website with content that are available everywhere else in the internet. Even if your website has a generic content, arrange them in orderly manner and include other crucial content to your site which will make reader able to distinguish your site with your competitor. When readers could see this within your site, they will find the advantage of reading your site compared to your competitor.

 

KNOW WHO ARE YOUR READERS

Knowing who will read and be interested with your website is crucial. For example this site www.toliveonline.com that you are reading is meant for beginner and intermediate entrepreneurs who would like to start or improve their online business. That is why I wrote almost every aspects about starting online business and these groups of people are my target readers. A advance and knowledgeable online business entrepreneur may not find this site carry much information that they need, but this group is not the targeted group of readers for this site. Therefore it is okay. When writing your website/blog, understand and know who is your reader and write for them.

 

Marketing your website sometimes will take some time before you could see result, but focus on writing your website using the above fundamental criteria and incorporate the below standard methods . Before you start thinking about traffics, here are two types of visitors who will visit any types of website or blog. The first is random visitor and the second is targeted visitor.

A random visitor is a person who end up on your site by chance, and may or may not be interested in what your website content is all about.  Sometimes, people tend to market their website all over the internet without any targeted visitor. If he/she likes what they have found, they may want to stick to the site and read further. Otherwise, they will be gone as fast as they came. But its always good to have even this type of visitor, since they might come back in future when they want the information that your site could offer.   A targeted visitor is what most website needs especially if the site is intended to make money. A targeted visitor is a person who comes to a particular website and is actually looking for information that the website could offer. He or she could have found your website by chance or thru your marketing campaign. This is the type of visitor that you could turn into a sale easier than random visitor since their mind set is already tuned to the same interest as your website content.

 

 

METHODS TO INCREASE YOUR WEBSITE TRAFFIC

 

Getting Listed In Major Search Engines

Any website that want to be successful must get listed by the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. You need to prepare your site for the major search engines too.

 

Article Marketing

Article marketing is a power marketing tool for your website and could build credibility for the webmaster as an knowledgeable person in his topic.

 

Forums & Groups & Free Classified

This is a place where you could market your website to people who are interested about the same topic as your website. Highly targeted audience and a place to create credibility for your website and yourself.

 

Open Directory Project

Try to get listed in this directory and you are almost rest assured will be indexed by major search engine. This is a place here every submission for directory listing is done by human ~ just like you and me :)

 

Email and Mailing List

Many successful online business entrepreneur knows that mailing list is one of the key way to have a loyal and highly targeted visitor to a website/blog.

 

Leave Constructive Comments In Other People's Blog

Another way to get visitors to your site is by leaving very good and constructive comments in blogs which have same topic as your website and has content.

 

Blogging

This is another great way of generating traffic to your website.  Blogs are heavily visited by search engines and indexed. You could divert your blog visitors to your main website.

 

Link Exchange

This is another great way to get free traffic from other webmasters. You as a person who is trying to generate traffic, should always look for a way where you could get links to your website.

 

Do Google Your Competitors And Be Where There Are

You could use Google or any other big search engines to study your competitors and  generate traffic for your site. This traffic generating techniques is rarely spoken by very effective.