It is widely accepted that the success of a website mainly depends on the traffic it gains. Without proper traffic all other factors like attractive design, offers it promise, cool multimedia works etc are useless. Every web-master know it and it shows the importance of an SEO consultant in web industry. So what all methods you usually use to bring traffic to your website ? Say if the website is brand new what we can do?
Here I am writing my normal steps to bring traffic to my brand new websites. Remember these steps are only for traffic and not for increasing the site rank or improving organic search result position.
Steps to attract more traffic to a new website
The steps are:
1. Run PPC campaigns to bring traffic to my websiteIf you are really serious about bring traffic to your
website ,you should use the advantages of PPC campaigns. The expenses of campaign depends on the niche of the website and keyword competition. I f I am having a business website in a highly competitive niche ,my bid rate would be high and I need to pay
more money for every single click. The major advantage of PPC campaigns is ,it bring highly targeted traffic to our website.
The major PPC services I use are - google adwords, adbrite, bidvertiser
I will start reduce the amount paying for PPC campaigns as the organic traffic to my website increases.
2.Using Social Bookmarking sites to bring traffic to my websiteWe cannot avoid the power of social bookmarking sites to bring traffic to our website. In order to gain traffic to our website from public bookmarking sites we need to bookmark our website in those sites with an eye catching title. People should click on the link while reading the title. It is also important to get more votes for our bookmarks , as it will make sure our bookmarks stay on the home page. As long as our bookmark stay on the home page ,we will get a decent traffic.
Major bookmarking sites I use for obtaining traffic are: Digg ,stumbleupon ,reddit ,mixx etc
PS: Please note that if you are using social bookmarking for link building most of the sites are useless as they provide either nofollow links or redirected links.
3. Use twitter and other social network sites to bring trafficSocial network sites have potential to bring traffic to your website. One of my good traffic source is Twitter. I am not seeing any importance for twitter in case of SEO but cannot avoid the power of twitter as a traffic generator.
4. Advertisements in local classifieds can bring traffic to our websiteAnother good source of traffic is local classifieds. You can get listed your business websites in local classified and it may draw some traffic to your website. While providing ads make sure that your ads are optimized and attractive.
5. Press releases and printed adsAnother good way to attract traffic to our website is press releases and new paper clippings. It can bring traffic to your website for few days.
6. Video Promotion of your websiteCreate an attractive video for your business and business site and upload it to youtube or metacafe. This can bring traffic to your website.
7. Get listed your business in search engine local business centerThough it is a part of organic traffic, we can list t here. Never forget to list your business site in major search engines local business center. I have already written articles related to local business center.
How to list your Local business in Major Search EnginesStill there are some proven methods present to bring traffic to a brand new website where we cannot expect organic traffic but I hope if you implement the steps above ,that will be enough for a new website.
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