Blue Wave Traffic

Today almost all the businesses are looking to increase their ROI from their website. With that, they are also looking at ways and methods by which they can increase their website traffic and maximize their online presence.

The 5 strategies listed in this article will help you in not only optimizing your website for increasing your customers but also improving the cash flow from your website. The information that is summarized below will help you in getting immediate results for your business.

Strategy 1: Setting Your Goals

A website without a goal is like shooting a bullet in the dark. Just as the bullet looks for a target, so do Internet Marketers needs to prioritize their goals as to what they expect from their website. Most of the Internet Marketers have primarily 2 goals in mind:

1. Building quality leads, and

2. Increasing the number of leads.

In order to achieve the above, it is important that your website is crafted in such a way that it can encompass the following:

Attention: Your website should be well designed and contain valuable and informative content that can attract more and more visitors from the search engines.

Interest: Your website should be able to display the advantages of your products and services such that there is an interest in the visitor to know more about your product/service.

Decision: Your website should be able to illustrate to the visitor that by purchasing the respective product/service they would be making a smart decision.

Action: Your website should be able to cut through your competition and ensure that the prospect converts to a customer.

Strategy 2: Conversion Optimization

It’s a known fact that nearly 50% of the visitors are lost because they cannot find the product or service they are looking for. If this is true, then where are the visitors going? Are you tracking the conversions that are happening on your website? For example, you had 50 visits today. Out of the 50 that visited, 30 went to the product/service page. Out of that only 10 clicked on the sign up link and finally only 2 paid. This is what needs to be tracked and you should find out where were the points or the pages from where the visitors left and what were the reasons for their exit.

Some points to ponder on:

1. Is my websites’ navigation confusing?

2. Does it display a value proposition that would benefit the visitor

3. Are my headlines able to elicit action?

4. Is my content unique and keyword friendly?

5. Does my website offer a risk free guarantee?

6. Do I have testimonials on every page of my website?

7. Does my website look professional?

8. Does my website have VeriSign certificate?

A well designed website can definitely change the perspective of the visitor and that’s something that you would like to ensure in your website. Once you have succeeded in building a well developed website, your sales will increase, conversion rates will shoot up, customer retention will increase, and finally you will get rid of all that stress.

Strategy 3: Driving Immediate Traffic To Your Website

The fastest way by which you can beat the competition with a new website is by first performing AdWords Optimization. With AdWords Optimization, you can immediately beat your competitors and maximize your profits from day one itself. Unfortunately, many internet marketers fail in their initial attempts to either take advantage of this laser targeted traffic generating method or by not monitoring and managing their AdWords campaigns on a regular basis.

The Solution!

Identify the client acquisition cost! Let us consider a hypothetical case where the profit made on the sale of a product is $250. Per the data available, a sale is made from 250 visits. Therefore the visitor value is $1.00 for each visitor to book a profit! The best solution would be to bid low and keep a constant track on the metrics and performance of your campaigns.  Then tweak them as and when necessary.

Also, create unique advertisements that are focused around your main keywords. These advertisements can then be split tested based on the CTR – click through rate to see which ad is performing better when compared to others.

Strategy 4: SEO – Search Engine Optimization To Improve Your Ranking

In order to improve the ranking of your website, you need to ensure that your website is submitted to those sites (Directory Submission Sites, Article Submission Sites, Press Release Sites, Reciprocal Linking sites) that have a good page rank.

Points to note:

• Ensure that your website gets a huge number of relevant and quality links than your competitors.

• Ensure that the anchor text that is used in your website has the keywords that are present in the content of your web page.

Strategy 5: Testing & Tracking

The key to the success of your business lies in maintaining, monitoring, and managing your metrics. The metrics will tell you exactly as to what is converting and what is not.

For example:

What amount of sales happened yesterday?

Which page of your website converted the most?

From which location did the maximum number of visitors come?

What is my ROI?

The 5 strategies explained above will surely get you results that you would have never imagined if you implement and execute them correctly.



By: Seo Traffic Spider

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There are many ways to generate traffic to your blog and I have mentioned plenty of them on my blog already, but what I plan on doing today is giving you a list of the methods I found work best.  I have tried many different ways and some of them give short term results while others have given long term results.  I think it is good to have a little bit of both so you get the maximum amount of traffic to your blog.  So below I will split my traffic generation into two categories: short term and long term traffic generation results.

Short Term Traffic Generation:

Yahoo Answers - If you are interested in driving traffic quickly and easily this is a good one for you to try.  What you do is you post answers or questions with links back to your website and write them in a way that interests readers to come visit your website.  You will get hits right away but they usually don’t visit again after the question is gone.

Facebook - I would say that the links you put in your profile are short term.  The reason that is is because all your friends will check out the new link to your blog / website when you first post it up because of the news feeds but then after that it will die down and you usually won’t get anymore new traffic.

Forums - Posting on forums can be a good way to get short term traffic to your blog.  As long as you are posting useful information on the forums and have a good signature with links to your website you will usually get some decent traffic back to your blog.  Usually a lot more traffic then some of ideas mentioned above but then again it is still only be short term traffic.  However one of the other benefits of this type of traffic is the linkbacks to your website which can help raise your PageRank.

Blog Comments - This is pretty similar to forum posts.  Basically you can get a bit of traffic to your blog / website but you are better off doing this to increase your linkbacks which in turn will hopefully increase your PageRank.

Link Exchange sites - Link exchange sites such as linkreferral will generate traffic to your blog as long as you are using them but once you stop so will the traffic.  Most of the traffic generated with this method however is not very good traffic because people are just interested in getting more traffic to their own website.  Since everyone has the same idea in mind no one really sticks around a website to see what it is about.

Twitter - As far as I can see so far this is a short term way of generating traffic to your blog.  May be after getting a very large follower base you can get long term traffic from this but in the mean time you get hits every once and awhile from this.

EntreCard - This is like linkrefferal in that it is basically a link exchange type program.  You can advertise on other peoples blogs and they can advertise on your blog.  It does generate traffic but majority of it is just traffic where people are interested in getting points so they can make more traffic.  It is worth a shot to try but it might not be the best solution in the long run.

Social Networking - This is a awesome way to get a ton of traffic to your blog.  If you can get to the front page of some networking websites you can see up to 50K unique visitors in a day!  This traffic is awesome but it will not last forever and its not easy to get to the front page.  I definitely recommend doing this step but don’t expect to see traffic for months and months after you post something on the website.

PPC Advertising - This is not something I have tried on this website but is something I have done with my full time job.  PPC stands for Pay Per Click advertising and what that is is when you pay for each click you get on your advertising to go to your website.  An example of this is Google Adwords where you see advertisements on the right of the search results.  If you click on them the advertiser has to pay for each click on their advertisement.  This is a very good way to get traffic fast to your website but it will cost you and you will only get it when you pay for it.

Long Term Traffic Generation (The Good Stuff!):

Search Engine traffic - This is really good traffic.  If you can do a bunch of SEO on your blog/website and get a bunch of your pages ranked highly in search engines for key terms then you will get a lot of traffic to your website without a lot of work.  This will always be constant traffic as long as you do not get banned from search engines.  So just be careful not to employ black hat SEO techniques and you should be fine.

Article Directories - This is another way to get long term traffic to your blog.  Once you have submitted enough quality articles to article directories you will constantly get traffic from them to your blog and it is good traffic because people are interested in what you have to say.  So if possible try to always add more articles to article directories.

Link Exchanges - As long as the sites you are exchanging links with do not go under you can usually always get traffic from the links you have exchanged with other websites.  There are rumors that Google doesn’t like this type of traffic generation but I think if you do a little bit of it it cannot hurt your website rank and will bring in some more traffic.

Link Baited Websites - There might be another term for this but this is what I want to call it.  Basically what this is is websites that have linked to your website because they found it interesting and wanted to link to it.  If you can write blog entries that are very interesting to users they will most likely link to it and refer to it in their website.  This is great traffic because it is free and you don’t really need to work for it.

Banner Exchange - This is similar to link exchanges in that you exchange a banner with another website and there is a link on the banner.  It is good for long term traffic as long as both websites stay up and active you can always send traffic to each others websites.

So that is it

For now this is the list of things I have tried so far to generate traffic to my blog.  As mentioned in a lot of the paragraphs some of the traffic generated to the website is a lot better then other traffic but all of them are worth a shot.  I would try some of them yourself and see what works best for you.  And remember as long as you write quality content, lots of content, and do some SEO on your website you should get decent traffic from search engines.

Also if you guys have any other traffic methods you would like to suggest feel free to comment below and I can add your recommendation to my list and link back to your website since you are the contributor of the idea.

 

 

 

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By: Miss Sarah

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Every day, people conduct millions of searches using the major search engines & those visitors end up somewhere…The raw numbers indicate that in just about EVERY market, somebody must be making money from that traffic, & as you’ll see below, it’s often only 3 or 4 sites that get most of it…

So, how do you break off a piece for yourself?

The key to increasing your website traffic lies in using a combination of techniques. But, developing quality inbound links is a critical aspect in that mix. And once you fully comprehend how powerful links are in the “free traffic game,” you’ll be well on your way to generating THOUSANDS of extra visitors that are currently headed to your competition…

I. 181 Milllion A Day.

First, let’s back out some numbers to show you the amount of free traffic that goes up for grabs every day…

According to the stats (copy & paste: “searchenginewatch.com/2156461″ in your browser), there were roughly 213,000,000 searches conducted a DAY in 2006. And, I’d bet that traffic levels have increased since then: More people now seem to be comfortable using search engines to find information vs. traditional offline information sources.

If you estimate that only 15% of searches result in a click of a PPC ad…then, how much “free” search engine traffic is there…?

Let’s do the math:

213,000,000 X 85% = 181,050,000 in daily natural (non-PPC) search engine traffic. So, where are those 181 million visitors going & why aren’t YOU getting YOUR fair share?

In most markets, the answer lies in cracking the “traffic monopoly”….

II. The Unfair Advantage.

“What monopoly?” you ask…

This one:

1. Take 60 seconds & open “Compete.com” in a new window.

2. Now, look at your top ranked competitors’ traffic levels.  What do you see?

3. You’ll see that in most markets, 3 or 4 sites are probably getting 80% or more of the traffic.  These 3 or 4 sites often appear to have a formed a sort of “traffic monopoly”…

Pretty shocking, isn’t it? If only a handful of sites get most of the visitors, this leaves the other 99% of webmasters to fight for the leftovers…

III. What About PPC?

Pay Per Click can be a very effective means of driving traffic & it should be part of your overall marketing strategy. One of the big benefits of PPC is that it’s FAST. If you’ve got the money, you can generate  thousands of visitors in less than 24 hours using PPC. This is in contrast to natural search engine traffic which can often take 6 months to really develop…

However, it’s also VERY easy to lose money in PPC.  In fact, in some markets (Satellite TV comes to mind), single companies are rumored to spend more than $250,000 a MONTH on PPC!

Yikes…That’s some pretty serious competition…

Since PPC is a MASSIVE topic all to its own & is far beyond the scope of this article, let’s stick to discussing free traffic techniques…

IV. A Search Engine Optimization Primer.

In just about every market online, there are people trying to get their sites ranked higher in the search engines. This is called “search engine optimization” (A.K.A.” SEO”).  Search engine optimization was developed during the  1990s & there is a TON of information about it online (to learn more, visit seochat.com & seobook.com – 2 of the biggest SEO sites currently).

Professional search engine optimization companies can charge $5,000.00 – $10,000.00 for a optimization…But, for a lot of businesses, the return on SEO can be huge.  For example, if your average account size is $50,000 & an optimization brings in just new 3 customers a year…that’s $150,000 in revenues from a $10,000 investment.  Compared to most other advertising (which SEO can almost be considered), SEO can be a pretty good deal…

Some of the major SEO techniques are:

1. In Depth Keyword Research.

2. Search Engine ‘Bot’ Friendly HTML.

3. Title & Header (H1, H2, H3) Tags Optimization.

4. Meta Tags Optimization.

5. Internal Linking Structure Optimization.

6. Monthly SEO Maintenance & Adjustment…

And many more…As you might imagine, the interplay of just these 6 factors alone can get very confusing & it really does take an experienced SEO to optimize a site correctly.

V. Double Traffic.

Besides the “on page” factors mentioned above, search engines also heavily value inbound links in order to rank sites…

The theory is that a site with 40 or 50 inbound links containing specific anchortext should rank higher than a site with only 25 similar inbound links…This is fairly common knowledge…But inbound links from related sites really have a DOUBLE “traffic  benefit.”  In other words, links from the right sites are often a “2 for 1″ deal & here’s why…

VI. Cashing In Twice On Free Traffic.

Building quality inbound links from sites with similar content is critical to increasing your site’s traffic because besides helping your site rank higher in the search engines, quality inbound links also send traffic by themselves too…Extra “link traffic” that is completely independent of search engines…After all, most web surfers spend most of their time clicking from site to site by means of the connecting links…not from repeatedly searching…

Thus, links have a “double traffic” benefit:

1. From the increased search engine rankings that they produce.

2. From the visitors coming from the links themselves.

The right links will send a consistent stream of visitors 24 hours a day like clockwork & the traffic just keeps coming, even if search engines didn’t exist. Furthermore, depending on the site, this independent link traffic can be very lucrative too…

VII. Links Mean Money.

To give you an example, I currently own a site that maintains a #3 ranking for a specific keyword phrase in one of the top 3 search engines. The site has high quality original content & many other sites link to it because they are happy to “recommend it,” in the form of link, to THEIR site visitors.

Every week, that #3 position alone generates HUNDREDS of visitors.

But, one of the independent sites linking in sends it a consistent stream of 7 visitors day too…

Those extra 7 visitors would cost real CASH to get through PPC…at 45cents a click, that’s the equivalent of saving $3.15 a DAY, which is $1,149.75 annually.  And that’s just from a single link! 10 more links of that quality would be $11,497.50 in annual savings…Furthermore, while it’s difficult to estimate the contribution, that link is surely ALSO partially responsible for my #3 search engine position & the traffic that ranking generates day after day…This is almost a PERFECT example of the “2:1″ effect described above.

I think you are getting the picture of how powerful the right links can be…

VIII. The Critical Takeaway.

The critical takeaway here is this:

Besides “on page” factors, having the right mixture of quality targeted inbound links can increase a site’s traffic in several ways. They’ll boost search engine rankings SKY HIGH & sometimes produce a steady stream of independent traffic too…

Strive to develop a solid foundation of anchortext-rich inbound links from sites with similar content. Sites that already have high volumes of targeted traffic are optimal…

Getting the right amount of quality links will help you chip away at the “traffic monopoly” in ANY market…

Now that you’ve got the info, all you’ve got to do is go break off a piece of that traffic for yourself.

Good luck…



By: Richard Martin

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There are more than 115 millions of blogs now in the world. Majority of those blog are for money making purpose. However, many bloggers fail. They fail because of many reasons, such as no traffic, not willing to invest money, being lazy and so on. Most of these failures are from the problem having no traffic.

In this post, I will share some top secrets on how to increase your traffic. Traffic is very important because you cannot make money online without traffic. Actually, you need to increase your blog traffic before you can make 4 figures income or above .

There are many ways to increase your blog traffic. The following ways may be your reference.

1. Comment on Other Experts’ Blogs

Frequently leave comments on some experts blogs which have high traffic and Alexa ranking will increase your blog traffic as well. Do not comment using anonymous. Remember to leave only quality comment instead of saying a word “Hello”. Leave some quality comments so that other people will get interest on you and then visit your blog.

2. Submit Article to Articles Directories

Article marketing is the oldest way to increase traffic but it still very effective. It will bring you tons of traffic. When I mean tons, I mean it. Submit 10 articles to EzineArticles and GoArticles will do. Do not forget to put a link which link back to your blog. For more information about article marketing, click here.

3. Participate in Community Forums

I like forums. It also brings me lots of traffic. I love forums very much because I can boost my traffic. At the same time, I can always update and enhance my knowledge. Remember to put a link which will link back to your blog in your signature. You can ask a question, discuss a topic, post your ideas and articles in the forums.

4. Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking can also increase your traffic. Bookmark your blog posts to social bookmark networks like Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit. Do not forget to submit your blog post every time you publish a post.

5. Update Your Blog Frequently

Never let your blog die. You will lost many traffic if you do not update your blog for a long time. I suggest you to publish at least 3 posts per week. If you can update your blog everyday, then that’s good =)

6. Use Paid Advertising

Paid advertising will definitely boost your traffic. What you need to control is just your budget. Do not spend too much on paid advertising. You can advertise your blog or sales page via service like Google AdWords. Alternatively, you may us BidVertiser as it is not so expensive compare with AdWords. You can also select a blog which have high visits and Alexa ranking to advertise your blog. Remember that only choose blog which have same niche with you so that you can traget your readers.

7. Organize Contests

Run contests on your blog also a way to boost your blog traffic. The form of contest and gift is based on your budget and what your readers need. Think a creative way which can grab more readers to read your blog post. Example, the top commenter of this month will be rewarded a copy of your e-book.

8. Link Exchange

Link exchange is also a great and effective way to boost your traffic. You can go to Google Blog Search and find few blogs which have same niche with you and request link exchange with the webmasters by contact them. If you able to exchange a link with a blog which have high visits and traffic, your traffic also will increase after that =)

9. Submit Your Blog to Blog Directories

This step is very important to get traffic for your blog. Submit your blogs to Technorati, Techmeme, Blogcatalog and other blog directories. Blog directories are places which you can submit your blog to get massive traffic. Thus, do not be lazy on this.

10. Offer Something Free

I realize that many people like free stuff. Even me like free stuff. This way works if you are creative enough and you know what stuff your readers actually need. If you are using auto responder for blogging, you can gift out free stuff to encourage more people join your mailing list. If your free stuff is good, your readers will definitely announce and tell their friends. Then, your traffic will increase too.

These are the main 10 ways you can use to get tons of traffic for your blog. No harm to give out a try. After that what you need is blog with consistency and repeating doing them. Do not ever give out because your are surely failed if you quit. Try to find out your problem and solve it. This article will be helpful if you want to increase your blog traffic.

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By: Jeen Hao

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One of the most daunting tasks of webmasters and the one of the most pressing concerns of website owners is to increase web traffic. Considering that the competition online is very fierce, this is no easy task, but a task that should be done nonetheless. Experts say one should do a number of basic steps to increase web traffic. These steps are currently considered as the traditional ways to increase web traffic. Traditional, because there are now more dynamic ways to do these task, yet these ways remain essential.

For those who are not familiar with these steps, the so-called traditional ways to increase web traffic include:

1. Creating interesting and fresh articles. Although the webmasters can create the content themselves, a number outsource the article writing task. This makes the job easier for the webmaster; and outsourcing is cheaper, too.

2. Improving search engine rankings. This can be done through search engine optimization. With this, people will find the website easier when they use Internet search engines like Google.

3. Exchanging links with other websites. To increase web traffic, a website should be visible in other websites as well.

4. Advertising. This method can be done through a number of ways, such as using e-zines, participating in message boards and discussion forums, among others.

These methods have been used ever since the proliferation of online marketing. But many people are now wondering if these methods are still effective to increase web traffic?

The answer to this question is uncertain. While these methods are essential, many experts say these are not enough to get more website traffic. For one, these methods to increase web traffic have become the standard. And with this, it is inevitable that these ways are no longer as methods; today, they are seen as the basics to get more website traffic. Every website is creating great content, improving search engine rankings, exchanging links, and advertising. So it is obvious that the playing field is now leveled; a webmaster who employs these methods to get more website traffic is no different from the other webmasters. These are no longer options; they are now basics, part of the process involved in creating a website. A webmaster has to think up of other ways in order to get more website traffic.

These other methods include getting web traffic solution services. A web traffic solution is a service that employs the marketing efforts for the website in order to get more website traffic. Obviously, the methodology here is different, since the service providers are not involved in the creation of the website. Instead, in order to get more website traffic, they employ other marketing strategies, such as the use of social media, among others. Web traffic solution service providers do not reveal their exact methods in order to get more website traffic, but these methods do not include the use of “bots” or programs. They also do not send spam, otherwise known as unsolicited mail. These methods of increasing website traffic are frowned upon, since they are unethical and illegal (not to mention, they will not give the website owner the expected results despite the increase in website traffic).

On the other hand, these so-called traditional ways to increase web traffic can still be considered effective. Even if a webmaster gets a web traffic solution service, the website owner should take the make an effort to create an engaging website. No amount of web traffic solution can help a webmaster if the website rarely has content (or if the content is ill-written), for example.

Webmasters should simply assess if they can make traditional methods work to increase web traffic. If not, they should consider getting web traffic solutions to get more website traffic. In the end, it all boils to down on what works best for the website and the website owner.



By: Robert

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