50 Ways to Get More Traffic For Your Business
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Loading ...Here I will share ways to get more traffic for your business and small business websites in general. Most of these internet traffic tips can be applied to just about any type of business site, whether it is to promote business products or business services you may offer. Please keep in mind that you always want to get relevant targeted traffic to your site as it will convert much higher. With that being said, let us begin with 50 ways to get more traffic for your business:
1. The quickest way to get tons of traffic is with Google AdWords.
3. MSN adCenter
4. Press releases. Write and submit press releases about your business to places like prweb.
5. add a blog to your site and write articles regularly promoting your products or services, news related to your niche business, etc., update a minimum of once per week.
6. Tag your blog posts at social bookmarking websites.
7. Offer rss feeds for your blog
8. Encourage your readers to add relevant comments on your blog. This is a great way to generate extra content.
9. Comment on related blogs for your niche.
10. Write and submit quality unique articles and avoid submitting rehashed articles with no insight.
11. Advertise your business in the appropriate categories at Craigslist. This can be done even if your business doesn’t have a website yet.
12. Submit your business website to DMOZ: http://dmoz.org/.
13. Submit your business website to Yahoo! Directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/ There is a one-time, non-refundable processing fee of $299.
14. Get a business listing at http://www.business.com/.
15. Utilize forum signatures when posting at niche related forums that allow you to have your website url in the signature.
16. Always add your business website url to any emails you send. This can be done by adding a signature to any outgoing email under the options setting for most any email program.
17. If your business sells products or services in other countries, add translations for them countries. Especially Chinese if your market includes China.
18. customize 404-error pages with a link to your homepage.
19. Sponsor charities. This can create a buzz about your business while your business does a good deed. Also makes your business look good to customers.
20. Brand your business with a logo and catchy slogan.
21. Create a buzz within your niche by having a contest. This will also bring your website more traffic and backlinks.
22. Create a free tool within your niche your visitors will love to use. If the tool is useful, other websites will link to your website.
23. Offer a free newsletter subscription. This is a great way to get repeat visitors for your products or services.
24. Offer only excellent products or services. If it’s sub par, no marketing in the world will generate long-term sales growth.
25. Have custom t-shirts made with your business url on them.
26. Have business cards made and hand them out to potential customers.
27. Post your business cards on bulletin boards where future customers may gather.
28. If your business is targeting local customers, solicit a link from your chamber of commerce.
29. Have an short, brandable, easy to remember domain name. Avoid the use of hyphens.
30. Purchase the common misspelled versions of your domain name and redirect them to your main site.
31. Include appropriate and important keywords in your title tag first then your business name, etc.
32. If your business site uses images, include keywords in your file name and alt tags.
33. Utilize anchor text with appropriate keywords when linking.
34. Try to get one-way links with relevant anchor text to your website with high Google pagerank. This will raise your website pagerank and higher pagerank sites tend to receive higher search engine results page (SERP).
35. Be like a virus within your business niche. Offering something for FREE will work just like a nightcrawler on a fishing pole, it’s pure bait. Give people a reason to talk about your business and to create a buzz. This will get your website more traffic and one-way-links.
36. When forum posting or commenting on other related blogs to your niche, always write quality posts and comments.
37. Test your all your campaigns to see which ones are making the most return on investment (ROI) and which ones are costing your business money. This way you can maximize your marketing dollars.
38. Promote your business with affiliate marketing. Offering an affiliate program is a great way to promote your product or service.
39. Use Yahoo! Answers to answer people’s questions and use the source field to provide a link to your website.
40. Create a video and upload it to YouTube. Use appropriate keywords in the description of your viral video so you can target it’s intended audience.
41. Gain credibility in your business niche as an expert by writing a book or ebook.
42. Have excellent customer service. People will spread the word for you via word of mouth and message boards which will give you many referrals.
43. Add your business to your local yellow pages to reach local customers when they will be searching for particular services.
44. Add a direct mail marketing campaign.
45. Create your own infomercial for your products or services so you can brand your products with “as seen on TV.”
46. Make a sitemap for your business website giving visitors an easy way to find the products they are searching for.
47. Make sure your website works perfectly in all internet browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Netscape and Mozilla.
48. Avoid javascript, frames and flash on your website.
49. Optimize your website for your intended keywords. A website that is SEO friendly will attract more search engine visitors without costing your business a dime.
50. Have excellent web hosting. If your site is down because of your web host you are losing money. An excellent web host should have a minimum of 99.9% uptime. I personally recommend Yahoo! Web Hosting because it utilizes the same network infrastructure as Yahoo! uses so you know it’s reliable. Plus they have a lot of great tools to help you create your website painlessly.
