20 Easy Website Traffic Ideas

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By Gerry Walter


Your website design and layout makes a big difference to your traffic. If it is effective and memorable people will return and this will increase your traffic. This is what you are aiming for, as many repeat visitors as possible as well as getting new visitors.

Apply these tips to get more repeat traffic.

Traffic Idea 1 - Tell a Friend

Have a tell-a-friend form on your site

Traffic Idea 2 - Domain Name

Buy and use a memorable domain name. This is hugely important. How many times have you gone back to a website because you remembered the name ? Choose a memorable website name.

Traffic Idea 3 - Display Your Domain Name Correctly

As one name websites are limited in supply you will have to choose a longer website name. Ensure you display it so it is memorable.

For example; If you domain name is;

www.blackdogsandcats.com

Display it all over your website so it is easier to remember using TITLE case. So it would now look like;

www.BlackDogsAndCats.com

This makes it much easier for people to remember.

Traffic Idea 4 - Subscribe To Mailing List

Add a mailing list subscribe form in a high profile spot on your site.

Traffic Idea 5 - Optimize

Optimize each page of your website for a particular keyword or search phrase

Traffic Idea 6 - Error Page

Make a custom error page for your website redirecting people to your home page

Traffic Idea 7 - Bookmark

Add a "bookmark this site" link to your web pages

Traffic Idea 8 - Titles and Keywords

Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark

Traffic Idea 9 - Add Value

Create a site with valuable content, products or services

Traffic Idea 10 - Primary and Secondary Keywords

Place primary and secondary keywords within the first words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document

Traffic Idea 11 - Correct Keywords

Research and use the right keywords/phrases to attract your target customers

Traffic Idea 12 - Correct HTML

Use your keywords in the right fields and references within your web page Like Title, META tags, Headers, etc

Traffic Idea 13 - Simplicity

Keep your site design simple so that your customers can navigate easily between web pages, find what they want and buy products and services

Traffic Idea 14 - Memory

Make your customer visit easy and give them plenty of ways to remember you in the form of newsletters, free reports, reduction coupons etc.

Traffic Idea 15 - Our Policies

Create a 'Our Policies' page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.

Traffic Idea 16 - FAQ Page

Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked.

This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.

Traffic Idea 17 - Fast and Easy

When selling products online, use simple payment and shipment methods to make your customer's experience fast and easy.

Traffic Idea 18 - Sell Your Site

OK, not sell - but advertise it for sale at Sitepoint. Put a massive asking price on it and watch the people flock to check it out.

If you get a good offer take it, otherwise you will get traffic.

OK, this is not a real honest approach if you have no intention of selling so totally up to you if you want to try this one.

Traffic Idea 19 - RSS Feeds

RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication."

Visitors and readers of your blog can subscribe to your feed. They will get email updates when new content is posted and this is an easy way for them to read your posts without having to visit your site.

Traffic Idea 20 - Submit Blog to Blog Directories

There are plenty of these. These are really social bookmarking sites, so participate in them and you will get traffic.

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websitesecurity  says:
6 months ago

These are some great ideas and I am all about easy! Thanks for the information!

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