Website traffic is the number one requirement for making money online. Almost, anyway. That the traffic is made up of people who are interested in what they'll find on your website, is of far more importance. In other words "targeted traffic" is boss.
To appease my sensibilities for just this short report, let's stop calling people, traffic.
Traffic is cars, trucks, and buses cruising up and down our roads and streets. The beings coming to your websites aren't cars, trucks and buses. They're people. They're someone's Mom, Dad, son or daughter. People. People we want to help when they get to our websites.
Because we want the right people to visit, we want to be candid, and clear, when we promote the content we've put on our web sites. Yep, our 'meta tags' should entice clicks.
But, we want the description of our content accurate. It's to our benefit, to make sure the people who click on our link, will quickly, and easily, find what we described they would find.
That's why they clicked your link. They're looking for something specific. Some kind of information you implied your site would provide them. Give it to them, or retarget your market. Don't waste your time getting eyeballs who aren't interested in what you're offering. That's just bad marketing.
Anyway, here are five pretty simple methods to get interested people to visit your web sites:
1. Search engine optimization, SEO. Construct web pages around a clearly defined keyword phrase. Put the keyword in your title and in your meta 'description' tag. Use the phrase in your first paragraph, in the body, and in the closing paragraph. But, don't let the use of keywords detract from your visitor's experience.
2. Write articles using a keyword that you've built a web page for. (See #1) Publish the articles at article directories. Submit them to websites and blogs that are relevant to the theme of your website.
3. Post USEFUL comments on blogs having information which would interest your prospects. Link back your comment to web pages you've already optimized for the subject of your comment.
4. Link to your web site index page, and link to individual web pages, from different social sites. If possible, make the links anchor text which includes one of your keywords. (Not always an option.)
5. Update your website often. Search engines, and your fans, need a reason to keep returning. Give them fresh, quality content to satisfy their yens.
We need people, interested in what we're selling, to visit our websites. Otherwise, we're going to have skinny kids. So give your site visitors the content, and the information, you promised them when you enticed them to click on your link.
Your checkbook will be glad you did.
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