Tuesday, December 30, 2008

If You Dont Follow This Rule, You Wont Increase Your Site Traffic

By Yakim Garanjayadh

Web traffic is the key to a very successful online business. Without it there will be no visitors who will take action. We all look forward for these kinds of actions that lead to monetization of a site. These actions are sales of your own services and products, pay per click campaigns or affiliate sales.

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.

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.

The first thing for you to determine is whether search engines are aware at all of your existence. In other words, is your website indexed by search engines? You might be surprised by the answer. Of course, if youre not indexed then your site is not going to show up in search results for any keyword at all. So you will have to get your site indexed first (we will discuss later how to do this quickly).

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. - 16955

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