15 Ways To Increase Traffic

From SelfGrowth.com, we have some really good advice on how to increase traffic to your website.

"To help all of you better understand what’s working for small to medium size websites, I have enclosed a list of 15 techniques we’ve used to help build SelfGrowth.com into a site that draws over a million visitors a month."


Here they are:

1. Create useful content on your website. Nothing else is as important.
   
   
2. Update your useful content regularly. Today’s web audiences expect to see fresh material, and having regularly-updated content will keep them coming back.
   
   
3. Build sticky and interactive pages on your website including discussion boards, comment capability and anything else that helps build community.
   
   
4. Create an e-mail newsletter. This is an extremely effective way to link back to your website and continuously drive traffic.
   
   
5. Seek out partnerships with other people with e-mail lists to promote your website.
   
   
6. RSS Feeds are a great way to keep visitors informed of fresh content on your site. For an explanation of RSS Feeds, see this video on YouTube.
   
   
7. Create an affiliate program to promote your products and services.
   
   
8. Use Search Engine Optimization techniques to get listed naturally at the top of Google, Yahoo and other search engines. Read more here: Search engine optimization
   
   
9. Podcasting. Podcasts are a great way to build a regular audience and keep them coming back. Watch this video on YouTube.
   
   
10. Invest in Pay Per Click Advertising (ie. Google Adwords and Yahoo) to drive targeted traffic to your website.
    
    
11. Submit your articles or book excerpts to other websites with links back to your website.
    
    
12. Blogging. Blogs are a fantastic way to create fresh content that builds a regular audience. You can use weblogmatrix to find out which blog software is right for you.
    
    
13. Social Networking. Build profiles on popular social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, or Linked In. You can use these profiles to connect to others with similar interests and send them to your website.
    
    
14. Social Bookmarking. For more on social bookmarking, you can watch this video on YouTube.
    
    
15. Invest in other forms of paid Internet advertising including banner advertising.
    

Thanks to: David Riklan, Founder - SelfGrowth.com