Friday, December 26, 2008

The Simple Secret to Increase Your Website Traffic

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.

In any case, its the fastest traffic you can get. Few minutes or few days, it doesnt really matter since other methods could take months to bring you substantial traffic. And you dont have to be a computer expert or seo genius to get tons of traffic with ppc, virtually for any niche market you want. There is only one catch with ppc, but its a big one. PPC traffic is one of the most expensive types of traffic on the net.

How else could you increase web site traffic? The most obvious answer is to increase your website organic search traffic. You could boost your sites traffic by utilizing a power of press releases, web logs, social networks, article submissions, by exchanging links with other sites, implementing seo, publishing guest posts and using many other techniques to get your on line traffic increased. Its going to improve you search engine positioning and therefore drive more search engine traffic to your site.

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).

Search engines must be aware of your sites existence, therefore it has to be indexed first, then you can begin to improve its ranking. To clarify, typing a keyword that you want to rank for and not coming up in search engines does not mean the absence of indexing. It only means that your site is not ranking well for the certain keyword. It might be just buried in hundreds of pages of the search results. Of course, no one is going to check the hundred pages to get to your website, such site is as good as non-existent.

To see if you are indexed or not, go to your preferred search engine and enter the word site:domainname (without quotes). If your domain name is for example www.instantfreetraffic.com, you will enter site:instantfreetraffic.com. If you get to see your site with a link, it means your website is indexed and you could go to the next step. If you get any other response such as no results found or something of that nature, it means your web site is not indexed yet, so you need to index it as soon as possible. - 16039

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