Website Newbie Wanna Have Traffic

N o traffic, no income,           I consulted a friend who owns a    nothing. After you've gone     website and he taught me a few     through nights and days of      points which I'm gonna share with  brainstorming on what to put on       you. This disclosure of ideas     your site, what to offer to your      is, of course, with his            visitors, and how will your           permission. So, sit tight and let  website look, now you are faced       me share with you what I have      with questions like ‘What           found out.                         now?', ‘How will the people                                            know about me?', ‘Why are there     The first thing I learned is to    no visitors, no sales?'               make my website appearance neat                                          and orderly and to avoid colors    As a new website owner myself, I      that are hurtful to the visitor's  also have gone through that tight     eyes. Also, I should try to make   spot. I think desperation for        everything look good and           visitors is really the first          harmonious. Next is to embed      phase of any website that has         some kind of a traffic monitor in  recently been launched. At the       the code so I will know how many   first few weeks of my site, I         visitors I am getting everyday.    went through so many doubts           The traffic monitor can also be    because I relatively had zero         used to observe from which         traffic! Is my site really as        referring link the visitors came   useful as I think? I changed so      from. In choosing a traffic       many things, from ad placements,      monitor, be sure that it could     colors, etc. thinking that maybe      provide the needed stats so that   people do not like the colors or      from the stats, a website owner    that the overall production of        can better optimize his/her site   what I have to offer is just too      for traffic. Better choose one    drab and uninteresting.               that is free. I personally                                               recommend href="http://www.statcounter.com"     Readers will surely be curious     title="http://www.statcounter.com     not just about the article but     "                                     also about the author and what     target="_blank">http://www.statco     he/she does. This move actually    unter.com                         has a dual purpose. Chances are,                                        readers who loved reading the      Next is to make use of every free     article will click on the link to  advertising that I know of. This     the site or if not, someday,       includes word-of-mouth or telling     somehow, the keywords in the       everyone I know about my site and     article will be crawled by search  asking them to spread the word. I     engines and from there, more       also made use of forums where I       readers will be able to read it    can advertise for free and most       as a link to the article will be   importantly I made use of the         displayed on the search engine's   thing called ‘site linking'. I      results page when the keywords     exchanged links especially with       are searched, therefore resulting  those sites that have high PR or      in more chances of gaining         high search engine rankings. The     traffic.                           more important are the sites that                                        have my link, the more important      Speaking of search engines, it is  my site becomes.                      an established fact that 89% of                                          any website traffic comes from     Another mode of advertising that      search engines like Yahoo, MSN     cost me nothing is to write free      and Google. When you land on the  reprint articles with my byline       first ten of a results page, that  or bio at the bottom. Free           will guarantee you instant boost   reprint articles are like crumbs      in traffic. Therefore, in order   to hungry ants. Everybody loves      to land on that prestigious spot,  them, especially if what you're       a website must be search engine    writing about is of interest.         friendly.                                                               If you decide to follow my simple  For a website to be search engine     techniques, expect your website's  friendly, it should be constantly     traffic to increase from 10 per    updated, teeming with fresh           week to a hundred and then to a    content, and the keywords should      thousand. Words of caution        be strategically placed.              though, do not expect these                                              changes to happen overnight. One  Actually there are many more ways     thing good about owning a website  to build traffic. The ones I         is that it teaches you patience    mentioned are the ones I have         and it teaches you how to learn    tried and I am happy to add that      to work at how to get what you     never did I once regret my moves      want.                              in building my website traffic.                                       About the Author: Gina Marie Capatar invites you to visit her website - http://allwomencentral.com where you can find and submit articles that are of interest to women. Read more articles by: Gina Marie Capatar Article Source: www.iSnare.com