Thursday, December 25, 2008

How To Get Increased Traffic Online By Fixing One Simple Mistake

By Yakim Garanjayadh

Web traffic is the key to a very successful online business. Without it there will be no visitors who will take action. We all look forward for these kinds of actions that lead to monetization of a site. These actions are sales of your own services and products, pay per click campaigns or affiliate sales.

The most important task of every website owner is to find the key to the traffic lock and to begin generating traffic, or, better yet, pumping a lot of traffic. To be even more precise, the idea would be to generate a lot of quality traffic. Its always easier in theory than in real life. Most webmasters consider it barely possible to find the effective way to generate and drive traffic to their sites, let alone to significantly increase the size of the web site traffic.

Of course there is one way that can quickly lead to increased traffic. Its a no brainer. Just sign up for any number of ppc programs such as Google Adwords or Yahoo SearchMarketing, or MSN AdCenter, and youll get almost instant traffic. With google the traffic is literally just minutes away. With Yahoo and MSN you have to go through the approval process which can take a few days. Hence I used the phrase almost instant traffic, and not instant traffic.

It still better though than trying to drive traffic to your website with any other method. I would say that ppc traffic is the quickest and easiest to get. There is one problem though. PPC traffic is expensive. And if you have no traffic on your site yet then you dont have any income streams from the site and your budget is probably limited, to say the least.

What other methods do you have to increase website traffic? The first that comes to mind is of course " organic search traffic. Its not easy to obtain, requires certain level of expertise and experience, some would consider this type of traffic to be impossible to generate, but its quite a treat to have. Here are the methods that could help you to improve your position in search engines: writing and submitting articles, creating blogs, working with press releases, mastering SEO, posting guest posts, signing up for link exchanges, participating in social networks, etc. Improving your search engine ranking will help you to drive a lot of traffic.

Where do you begin? You start with the basics and check to see if you website is indexed with most popular search engines. Its vital to your website, its a way to confirm that your website really exists in the World Wide Web. Do not assume that you are indexed; you might not be, even considering an age of your site. If your site is not indexed than it wont appear in search results for any keyword. We will talk about the most time efficient way to get ahead, get indexed and be included in the main search instead of complimentary search results. Its also possible to bypass the sandbox(time period when a new website is not being indexed by search engine to prove its stability).

Search engines must be aware of your sites existence, therefore it has to be indexed first, then you can begin to improve its ranking. To clarify, typing a keyword that you want to rank for and not coming up in search engines does not mean the absence of indexing. It only means that your site is not ranking well for the certain keyword. It might be just buried in hundreds of pages of the search results. Of course, no one is going to check the hundred pages to get to your website, such site is as good as non-existent.

To check if your site is indexed do the following: in any search engine type - site:yourwebsitename. For example, if your domain name is www.instantfreetraffic.com then you type " site:instantfreetraffic.com. If you receive a message that no results found or alike response, it clearly indicates that your website is not indexed.

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