subject: Convenient Strategies To Get Traffic To Your Site [print this page] Convenient Strategies To Get Traffic To Your Site
It's pretty exciting to publish your first blog or website. You put something together, some text, and pictures, and publish for everybody to see. Only when you check your logs a few days later, you find you've only got three visitors. But then you realize those three visitors were you, checking your visitors. When you get your site up and published, you've only covered the first step. Next thing you've got to do is put in the grunt work of promoting your site. There are plenty of ways to do this, both paid and free. In this article, you'll learn a few of the basic ways, so you can get the word out about your wonderful site. A simple and popular way to drive traffic to your site is through article marketing. This is when you write an article, related to the theme of your site, and submit it to an article directory. You'll get to put a link back to your site at the end of the article. That way, when people read your article, they can click on the link and visit your site. There are plenty of high traffic article directories out there (hint, this is one of them), and the more articles you write, and the more directories you submit them to, the more traffic you'll get. Another way is to use social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace. There are plenty of others, and they all operate the same way. You join, create a page with some interesting content related to your site, and then start networking. Join groups, create groups, and make friends. After a while, you'll have a pretty large group of friends to suggest your site to, and this can result in an enormous amount of traffic. Another great source of to get visitors is Twitter. You can generate quite a number of followers over time, even if you are just starting out. Simply look for and follow people that are interested in the same things you are, and they will tend to follow you back. Before you know it, you'll have plenty of followers that you can promote your site to. Of course, if you want to skyrocket your traffic, you can go the paid route. Depending on what your site is about, you can get some traffic for relatively cheap, at around three or four cents per click. You'll need to sign up for Google adwords and create some ads. Whenever somebody clicks on one of your ads, you get a visitor to your site. Be careful, though, unless you are sure how much money you'll make per visitor, Google ads can get pretty expensive. These are just some of the basic ways to promote your site. The more you get involved, you'll find there are plenty of other methods to draw visitors to your site.
