Saturday, November 8, 2008

Monitoring And Increasing Your Website Traffic

By Don Bethune

Web traffic is determined by how many people visit a particular site and by how many pages they look at while there. It relates to how much data is sent and received by various visitors. Monitoring traffic is important for deciding which pages are being read most often and using that information to revise or generate other pages.

Web traffic monitoring is therefore of great importance if you are operating a website. The information gathered from web traffic monitoring is usually used to help in structuring of sites, potential lack of bandwidth and security problems if there are any.

Web traffic can be thought of as a measure of the popularity of the website. By regular web traffic monitoring and analyzing the information gathered from web traffic monitoring one can see the shortcomings of a website and try to improve on those areas. We can also take steps to increase the popularity and the traffic to the website.

Web traffic can be increased by placing the site in search engines. If a web-page is not listed in the first few pages of any search, the probability of someone finding it diminishes greatly. These odds are further diminished if some other competition is available on the first page of the search. Very few people go beyond the first page and the percentage of the people who go to later pages is significantly lower. Thus, getting a proper placement on the search engines is of equal importance as the website itself.

Traffic to the website can also be increased using paid advertisement. By paying small amounts, we can advertise our site on other popular sites. The popular ways of advertising in this way is the Cost Per Impression (CPM), and the Pay per Click methods.

Your websiteas domain name is very important as well, so you should put a lot of thought into it. It should be quick to remember and closely associated with your content. That way, potential customers can recall it easily and wonat need to visit a search engine at all.

Writing articles for other sites is another good way to get more traffic to your site. You wonat get paid for this type of work, but it can definitely pay off for you. All you have to do is include a link to your website, and you will begin to see an increase in traffic.

Increasing traffic to your website can be done in a variety of ways, including through the use of paid advertising and search engines. But it is important for you to remember that your content needs to be useful as well. When visitors enjoy your content and find your website helpful, you will get repeat visitors and they will even refer their friends to the site.

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