subject: Drive High Traffic to Your Website [print this page] Author: Roodlyne Mason Author: Roodlyne Mason
1 - Content is key First of all what do you have to offer? If you are blogging, selling a product, selling a service or whatever mean you are offering on your website is it valuable? Would you read your own blog? Would you use your own product or service? Chances are if you provide valuable content to your users they not only will keep coming back, they will refer you to their friends and their friends to their friends and so on. That is how you expand through word of mouth. How many times you go to the mall and find that they are having a good sale, do you not call your girlfriends and tell them about? I bought a Combi double stroller for my daughters just because a lady at the store had one and she told me that if was the best double stroller around. I later find out that I could have shop around some more, but that is not the point. They got my business because they were valuable to somebody so she testify in their favor. This is true for a website good content=good traffic. 2 - Scratch that.. Original content is key Last time in How to make money from your website I talk about niche, is your content, product, service original? You can't go sell burgers in front of a McDonald. That is just plain stupid, unless your burgers are some finger licking, slap your mama kind of burger that people just can't pass. I'm not saying to run away from the competition, because there's nothing new under the sun what ever you can come up with someone else somewhere had probably already done it. I'm saying to make sure that your version has something original. In one of my breastfeeding classes I used to go to, I once met a mom who makes bibs. Are bibs a new concept? No but her bibs had these all around feel to it that would caught the baby's slabs even if the baby was lying down. I thought that was very clever and all the moms agree that regular bibs don't give you that feature. All the moms bought it including me. My point is although bibs are sold in almost every baby store around hers was original. That goes also for a website although there are millions of websites out there; yours can still be something that people need. 3 - Have a heart for people Be mindful of people, if you care about people they will care about you. It's the golden rule Do to others as you would have them do to you. Would you keep going back to your site if it wasn't yours? Umh.. That's all I'm going to say. Why do you want traffic to your site anyway? What does more traffic mean to you? Does more traffic just mean more money or does it mean you get to serve more people? What is your primary motive? Focus on the people. 4 - Keep money in its proper place. Don't be greedy. Just focus on genuinely helping people and the rest will take care of itself. Anyway Building a high-traffic website can be very challenging ugh! I know. These words of advice just sort of get your foot wet - keep learning. Most the of the time you will learn through your trial and errors, if you lucky you get to learn from someone else's mistakes. I guess you are lucky.About the Author:
Roodlyne Mason Share tips on online business, being a working mom/mom entrepreneur, family, kids, blogging even a laugh if you in for it. Connect with her on her blog at SuperMomPlace.com
