How To Drive Traffic To Your Site
Here's how to send traffic to your web site on a sustained basis.
1. Put useful articles on your site.
Yes, you'll need to add content to your site. Original articles work best, because if you use reprintable articles then your site will look similar to thousands of other sites using those same online articles.
Your essays, preferably in the 300- to 500-word range, ideally should solve a problem. If it does not solve a problem, then why would people search for it?
2. Regularly add content to your site.
It's difficult to sustain high traffic with one-hit wonders. If you look around you, successful authors don't stop with one book. So why stop with a site that just contains 30 articles over the past 3 years?
You can look around you, read the latest news and developments related to your site, make reviews of software solutions and services of interest to your target reader, or even improve your existing articles and make them more responsive to the changing environment.
You can expand your offerings and serve your content in either audio or video format.
Think of how your visitors are changing and how, where and when they consume your information. Yes, you'd better start thinking of how you can make your web site easily read by cell phone users.
(TIP: It's easy to add multimedia content to your site with the help of WordPress.)
The bottomline is, you just can't do something and then stop, especially if you're interested in driving sustained traffic to your web site.
[ First posted on 04/12/2006 by Manuel Viloria ]
Manuel@Viloria.net
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