Sunday, October 4, 2009

Generate Website Traffic

By Deschain Anderson

Now you have your new website and you are keen to start making some sales! But, how can you make sales if you do not have high volumes of traffic to your website? One of the challenges which people starting a new online business face is that of getting traffic to their website. This article outlines four important steps you must follow to start generating some traffic to your website.

1. Provide plenty of fresh and unique content. Google, Yahoo, and all the other search engines, send their robots into websites on a regular basis to scan for new content. If yours is newer and fresher than the other site, you'll move ahead on the page. The higher you are on the page, the more people will click on your site.

2. Your keyword or words should be included in the title of your post and the content of that post. If you are trying to sell blue baby bottles, then your post title should be something like "Get Blue Baby Bottles", and your opening paragraph in the post should be, "I have found THE best place to Get Blue Baby Bottles!". By doing this, the search engines can easily see that you have relevant information about blue baby bottles and when someone does a search for blue baby bottles, the search engines will include your site in the index.

3. Submit your website to the search engines. Some people never consider this. The search engines will eventually find your site, but if you tell them about it first, you'll be that much farther ahead. If you're using a Wordpress blogging platform, you can easily get your site map by installing the Google sitemap xml plug in. After you've generated a sitemap, then also submit it manually to Google Webmaster for indexing.

4. Exchange some website links with websites that have a high popularity rank (PR). Exchanging links with popular and related websites is an effective way to drive traffic to your website, and improve the raking of your site. You will get some traffic coming to your website through other websites that you have linked to.

By following the tips outlined in this article, you will realize that increasing your website traffic and getting more people to visit your new website is very easy to do. All you need to do is to follow these steps and you will soon see an increase in traffic to your website which will mean a lot of sales and online profits for your internet business!

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