subject: How do I get more people to my website? [print this page] Did you know that there are about one billion people using the internet today? So, how do you target your audience in this vast pool of potential? You first need to consider who your audience will be, this will enable you to better target them. Your website can get lost in the web if it is not correctly designed. You want to also think about how many of these people will be regular visitors. Here are three reasons why:
Helps you to estimate your website costs
Determine back-end requirements
Better gage your revenue
Point one: Helping you to estimate your website costs.
Your audience size will pay a large part in the overall cost of your website. If you have a very popular website, then it will cost more to maintain and update. A E-Commerce site will require that you update products regularly to keep customers up to date with your latest items.
Point two: Determine your back-end requirements.
You will need to take into consideration your operating system, which includes your back-end system, that is your bandwidth allocation, storage space and programme data. Remember that you website is more than just a few pages on a computer screen, it needs these back-ends to function correctly. You will be allocated with a limit to your bandwidth for your site, and when the traffic increases to your site you use up more bandwidth. This is calculated at bits per second.
If you're planning on having a large site, you will require more bandwidth.
You will be allocated a limit (normally per month) for your bandwidth. Once this has reached its limit your site can not be accessed. You can however contact your hosting provider to adjust your bandwidth limit if you do come across this problem.
There are other factors to consider about your back-ends when you're designing your website, but this is one that is vitally important to remember.
Point three: Your revenue.
If you are like most people on the internet that have a website, your site will need be making you money somehow. Whether it's through adds or sales of your products, your site needs to pay for it's self and hopefully make you lots of money in the process. To earn more money you need to attract more customers to you site, it's simple. Remember that an average of less than 5% off all visitors will purchase something from a website
