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Increase Visitors Traffic To Your Website
nternet has come long ways taking the time out to analyze
from the days of early your website and look at your
1990s when it was easy to numbers tells you whether your
find websites and remember doing it correctly or not.
website address - the URL. Today
billions and billions of websites In order to analyze the site,
exist on the internet and the what you need is some kind of
number just grows by the second. analysis software such as Google
Many high school kids have Analytics, AwStats or Sitemeter.
websites of personal interests, These are free website statistics
stay home moms have websites of software that makes your life
personal interests bringing you easier by giving you the most
excellent and much needed important information: number of
information. We all know how easy visitors per day, per week, per
it is to put up a website in month fashion in nice graphical
minutes but we also know how layout as well as in a matrix.
difficult it is to attract
traffic to the website. This Now that you have one of the
article talks about bringing above stat software mentioned
traffic to your website. above let us first check new
versus repeat visitor numbers.
Let us assume that your site has Growing your repeat visitor
at least 100 visitors per day numbers helps waterproof your
which is a very achievable target site from any sudden SERP drops,
for any new website. Then the and also lets you grow rapidly
next step is to watch that grow using your existing user base.
if you spend time implementing Second step is to set a goal. Aim
strategy to make your website for at least 20% returning
sticky, yes you may have read visitor percentage.
that term many many times but
If you can make 20% of your At the start refraining Adsense
visitors return then after a week or any such instant monetization
of getting 100 visitors per day technique is very critical.
you could be looking at extra 140
visitors in week 2 for FREE! Things that can make a difference
Extrapolate that through 3 months on your website:
and you could go from 100
visitors per day to 320 just - Having an 'Add to favorites'
using the same new 100 visitors link or button, making it
per day that arrive to your site prominent and having it
and retaining 40 of them. throughout the website, traffic
arrives into all the pages not
Today, a lot of the websites use just the homepage, having it in
some sort of monetization. the navigation and at the end of
Majority of the sites found use ALL articles or pages, don't make
Google Adsense or Yahoo Ads. people look for it.
Although it is great to take the
advantage of such high traffic by - Reduce monetization like
displaying ads and making some Adsense while you build the user
profit, but the biggest nightmare base up, or best, refrain using
occurs if such ads are clicked - such techniques till you have a
users are taken to sites away stable 500+ user base.
from yours. If your site is
fairly new and you have just - Favicon, quick and easy to add
started building up a visitor and lets the bookmark stand out
base you want the visitor to in a browsers favorites list
arrive back. However by using potentially alerting bored users
such monetization techniques, you to the bookmark and returning.
will lose the visitor early on
which will lead to forever lose. - Get user involvement, if
visitors add comments, images, this may be allowing registered
text or suggestions they are far users the ability to affect ads,
more likely to return to see how color schemes, navigation etc
other visitors feel, this can be
rating images, voting, polls, - RSS feeds allow visitors to
comments, suggestions and subscribe to the latest content
competitions. from your website but if you run
a blog do not presume your
- Have a mailing list if readership will all be tech
applicable, a mailing list is a savvy, guide your visitors
great way to alert previous users through the process.
of new changes and additions thus
surging returning users. Most importantly, give them what
they are looking for! Tricky and
- Add a forum, again if you feel misinformation is great maybe for
it will work a forum offers a short term gain but if you plan
great incentive for users to to stay in the game for the long
return. haul and want that one website to
do well over a long period of
- Empower your visitors, letting time then give users what they
visitors decide in certain are looking for, at the very
aspects of how your website works least offer a certain amount for
empowers them and offers a great free and offer subscription paid
incentive for them to enjoy your services for more content &
website and return so try and let features.
them decide as much as possible
how they experience your site,
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