Thursday, December 25, 2008

How To Get Increased Traffic Online By Fixing One Simple Mistake

By Yakim Garanjayadh

Website traffic is one of the most important components to a successful online business. No traffic means no conversions, which ultimately mean no website monetization via ether pay per click, affiliate sales or sales of your own product/service. You need these actions to get paid for the work you have done, therefore you need traffic to accomplish it.

The most important task of every website owner is to find the key to the traffic lock and to begin generating traffic, or, better yet, pumping a lot of traffic. To be even more precise, the idea would be to generate a lot of quality traffic. Its always easier in theory than in real life. Most webmasters consider it barely possible to find the effective way to generate and drive traffic to their sites, let alone to significantly increase the size of the web site traffic.

There is a method that will lead you to increased traffic. This method is well known for its almost instantaneous results of generating traffic. Its not one of the most affordable options for many webmasters who has to worry about initial investment and marketing budget. Yes, you are correct, I am referring to different ppc programs: Google adwords, Yahoo Search and MSN adcenter. Googles program has an automatic approval system that helps you to generate traffic in a matter of minutes. The other two ppc programs have a manual approval system, which means that human has to approve your submission, so it will take some time to get your wheels spinning.

It still better though than trying to drive traffic to your website with any other method. I would say that ppc traffic is the quickest and easiest to get. There is one problem though. PPC traffic is expensive. And if you have no traffic on your site yet then you dont have any income streams from the site and your budget is probably limited, to say the least.

So what other methods can you use to increase website traffic? Lets look at organic search traffic. Yes, its not that easy to get, but its not impossible. Here are just a few methods you could use to boost your position in search engines: press releases, article submissions, blogs, social networks, seo, guest posts, link exchanges, etc. The added benefit is that many of those methods can not only help you with search engine positioning, but they can drive a lot of traffic on their own.

Where do you begin? You start with the basics and check to see if you website is indexed with most popular search engines. Its vital to your website, its a way to confirm that your website really exists in the World Wide Web. Do not assume that you are indexed; you might not be, even considering an age of your site. If your site is not indexed than it wont appear in search results for any keyword. We will talk about the most time efficient way to get ahead, get indexed and be included in the main search instead of complimentary search results. Its also possible to bypass the sandbox(time period when a new website is not being indexed by search engine to prove its stability).

Please do not confuse ranking for a keyword with indexing, those are two different things. When you enter a keyword in a search engine of your choice and your site does not come up, it means you are ether not indexed or just not ranking well enough for this particular keyword. Your site might show up as a result somewhere at page 1000 that no online user cares about. Indexing, on another hand, means that your website is now part of the search engine catalog, so you could begin to work on improving your positioning/ranking.

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. - 16039

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