Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Promote Your Website To Increase Traffic

By Don Bethune

Once youave built it, they wonat come, unless you have a solid plan in place on how to drive traffic to your website. Having a page hanging out in the middle of cyberspace without properly promoting it can feel like being lost on a deserted island with no hope of rescue. However, there are some sure fire ways to avoid this dire fate.

Although a profession web designer and advertising company may be a viable choice to increasing traffic, it can be pricy and there are other methods that one can use. One of the most important things is to make the site well organized. Ensure that Meta tags are in place on each header of HTML. This will show that your products and services are legit and real.

Meta tags will provide more people to get your site as a result when they do searches in major search engines. In order to know what people are searching for it is good to look in the trends section of the search engines. This way you will have a good idea of Meta tags that will be effective for your website.

Use online video sites as a promotional tool. There are plenty of sites that offer you a capability of uploading and promoting free videos. Upload content of your amazing widget, show someone using it, get testimonials from happy customers, or other valuable information. The sky is the limit! Showcase your work with links to your website throughout the video and you can drive a lot of traffic to your website.

Create an RSS feed to showcase new material, or products on your website. These feeds are the newest rage in website promotional tools. Itas a great way to let your existing customer base know of new information you have just posted. This will help to drive targeted website traffic to your site, and help you sell a lot more widgets!

Pay per click programs are another great way to increase your website traffic while promoting your site at the same time. All you do is exchange links with other businesses and joining is easy and takes no time to install. You can also earn a little income on pay per clicks programs as well.

Another way to increase traffic to your website is to pair up with other companies that sell products similar to your own. This way your link can be on their site and the people will see your link and possibly click on it. If two companies that sell similar products pair up then that means more customers and more traffic.

A website will be nothing unless you promote it. Promoting a website will take a lot of dedication and hard work but the results will be rewarding. Put you interests into your business and find ways to increase traffic to your site. The more you promote, the more customers you have and the more successful your business will be.

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