Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Looking to drive more website traffic?

The following will you to gain more exposure for your website.

Google analyzation. Implement google analytics into your website and analyze your website traffic trends.

Google Analytics helps you to learn more about where your visitors come from and what content gets the most attention. Find out where you are losing visitors in your conversion funnel.

Google adwords. Select 5-10 keywords that you would like online traffic to find you by. Google adwords allow people who search on Google to view your website using your keywords, your ad may appear next to the search results. Now you're advertising to an audience that's already interested in you.

This is only recommended for new websites or faster traffic results for new keywords. The best traffic results are from organic search.

Direct Marketing. Use direct mail or email marketing to drive specific target segments to relevant landing pages on your website.

Ensure that your list is specific to the audience you want to reach and that your message is relevant to their needs.

Blogs or Forums. Create your own blog or forum with backlinks to your website. Relevancy is the key for backlinks so make sure your comments and blogs are speaking to the audience you want.

The biggest key of all is to constantly check your traffic reports. Find out how people are finding your site and what page is the most popular. This will help to build your niche on the web.