Monday, December 29, 2008

If You Dont Follow This Rule, You Wont Increase Your Site Traffic

By Yakim Garanjayadh

Web traffic is the key to a very successful online business. Without it there will be no visitors who will take action. We all look forward for these kinds of actions that lead to monetization of a site. These actions are sales of your own services and products, pay per click campaigns or affiliate sales.

So the number one priority of every website owner is to somehow break the code and finally start pumping in some healthy traffic. Unfortunately, its easier said than done. For majority of websites operators it seems nearly impossible to find an effective way to drive traffic, let alone to somehow increase website traffic.

Of course there is one way that can quickly lead to increased traffic. Its a no brainer. Just sign up for any number of ppc programs such as Google Adwords or Yahoo SearchMarketing, or MSN AdCenter, and youll get almost instant traffic. With google the traffic is literally just minutes away. With Yahoo and MSN you have to go through the approval process which can take a few days. Hence I used the phrase almost instant traffic, and not instant traffic.

In any case, its the fastest traffic you can get. Few minutes or few days, it doesnt really matter since other methods could take months to bring you substantial traffic. And you dont have to be a computer expert or seo genius to get tons of traffic with ppc, virtually for any niche market you want. There is only one catch with ppc, but its a big one. PPC traffic is one of the most expensive types of traffic on the net.

How else could you increase web site traffic? The most obvious answer is to increase your website organic search traffic. You could boost your sites traffic by utilizing a power of press releases, web logs, social networks, article submissions, by exchanging links with other sites, implementing seo, publishing guest posts and using many other techniques to get your on line traffic increased. Its going to improve you search engine positioning and therefore drive more search engine traffic to your site.

I would recommend to start with the simplest task of all " check to see if your site has been indexed by the search engines. Indexing is a validation of your sites existence. If you have not done it yet, go ahead and do it now You probably think that if your site is old enough then youre definitely indexed. But you might be surprised to find out that your site is actually not indexed at all. We will cover the quickest way to get indexed a little later. For now just keep in mind that without indexing your site will not show up for any keyword search.

Search engines must be aware of your sites existence, therefore it has to be indexed first, then you can begin to improve its ranking. To clarify, typing a keyword that you want to rank for and not coming up in search engines does not mean the absence of indexing. It only means that your site is not ranking well for the certain keyword. It might be just buried in hundreds of pages of the search results. Of course, no one is going to check the hundred pages to get to your website, such site is as good as non-existent.

To check if your site is indexed do the following: in any search engine type - site:yourwebsitename. For example, if your domain name is www.instantfreetraffic.com then you type " site:instantfreetraffic.com. If you receive a message that no results found or alike response, it clearly indicates that your website is not indexed.

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