Increasing Web Traffic ( Tutorial By Yola.Com )
Resources: Submit your site to Google, Submit your site to Yahoo, Submit your site to MSN
1. Submit your website to the three major search engine
Submitting your site to a search engine does not mean you will be
automatically included in the search engine's index. By doing this you
alert the search engine to your website's presence and are added to a
list of sites to be crawled.
2. Do link exchanges
The search engines will look at the amount of
links that come into your site as well as the status of the sites that
link to you (the amount of traffic those sites get). Although the
search engines look more favorably on links that are not reciprocal,
exchanging links is a great place to start!
- Find other websites that have the same topic as your site and send an email to the webmaster asking if he or she would like to do a link exchange.
- Ask local organizations such as your Chamber of Commerce or Visitor's Bureau if a link exchange could be done.
- Ask your friends and family members with a website if they would like to exchange links.
3. Submit your site to website directories
There are numerous directories on the Internet that accept paid and un-paid website submissions. You’ll be able to give your listing a title, short description and link to your website. Don’t ever pay someone to “submit your website to 200 directories,” this is not looked highly upon by search engines.
A few web directories to get you started:
4. Get involved in social networking
A great way to develop a following for your website is to get involved in the social networking arena. Becoming active on social networking sites will bring traffic to your site as well as develop back links. The goal of this is to get social with others on the web while promoting your site at the same time.
A few hot social networking sites right now:
There are many more options including niche focuses social networking sites to get involved in.
5. Consistently add more content
Building up more content on your site is an extremely important part of search engine optimization. When you add more content to your site you are:
- Providing visitors to your site a great reason to come back.
- Giving search engines a reason to visit your site often. Search engines want to keep the most updated version of sites in their index and they also want to consistently add new and improved information to it as well.
- Adding to the searchablility of your site. The more pages your site has in the search engine's index, the more possibilities your site has of being found for keywords searches.
