How to build traffic for website is a common question in almost every new website owners’ mind . All we know it is the traffic that decides that fate of a website . To say more specifically it is the flow of relevant traffic that decides the degree of success for a website.

Like doing other operative works for a business , regularly ,if possible everyday,doing things for getting relevant traffic for a website is also highly essential for success. Many ways one can build traffic for his site. Some of the traffic building methods are paid while others are organics .

Listed below are some of the traffic building methods . Some are widely used . Some are creative in nature, used less widely as others. While some help only to get traffic others can also help getting inbound links that help to boost search engine ranking . Top position in search engine ranking is the best source of Read the rest of this entry »

Search engine optimization - SEO - helps our pages to show higher up in search results. SEO involves both on-page and off-page actions (such as creating external links pointing to our Web page). In this article, the focus is on the on-page actions.
On-Page SEO

Identify the search terms searchers use: Your first action should be to identify the particular words and phrases Web searchers use to look for your topic. These words and phrases are known as “keywords” and you have to optimize each page for one or two keywords.

If you optimize for words that searchers do not use, you will receive no visitors through search engines. Your page might be at the top of search results for some obscure words. However, because nobody is searching with those words, the page will not come to anybody’s attention. Read the rest of this entry »

Just in case you don’t know what exactly RSS is, here is a short note:

• RSS is a way to distribute your Web content to its consumers
• You do this by offering an option to interested readers to subscribe to your regularly updated content
• The subscription option is offered by creating an RSS button at your website, and by distributing your RSS feed to feed directories. Interested readers can then click the button or feed link.
• There are a large number of RSS feed directories to which you can submit your feed, and then ping them every time your content is updated and added to the feed
• Unlike emails (that is also a way to distribute updated content) there will be no spam complaints because only readers who subscribe to the feed get the content
• If you have good content that will interest many readers, creating an RSS feed and distributing it is an excellent way to get these readers visit your site every time you add content

RSS thus has the potential to generate traffic to your website.

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Podcasts have become the rage now. It can attract considerable traffic to your website compared to written communications. We look at the WHAT, WHY and HOW of podcasts, and also at how you can make the audio/video podcasts findable by text-based search engines.

What is a Podcast?

Podcast starts as an audio or video recording. You also create an RSS text file that contains information about the audio/video file, including its location on the Web. You upload both the audio/video and RSS files to your server and people can now subscribe to your podcast, and download it to their iPods or computers.

You can add tags to podcasts, making it easy for search engines to index it relevantly, and for people to find it through search engines.

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Friends for Traffic and SEO!

Friends and Web traffic? The two might seem mutually exclusive. Friends are for sharing a relaxed drink, or some active adventure. Web traffic is strictly business and not for pestering friends with.

Actually, we are speaking of virtual friends that you acquire at social networking sites. For that matter, even real friends can help you if they are themselves writing blogs and Web pages. However, virtual friends are already on the Web and can typically offer much more. Let us focus on them. Read the rest of this entry »

Themes are webpage templates that you can use for your blog or website. Extensions are plug-ins that you can install on applications, Web browsers in the present case. We look at how these affect SEO and what you can do with these.

Let us look at WordPress themes and a Firefox extension to see the issues involved. Once you understand these, you will be able to apply what you learn elsewhere. Read the rest of this entry »

Web widgets are small applications, typically written in DHTML, JavaScript or Adobe Flash, that can be installed and executed on Web pages. Widgets offer the potential for creating viral traffic and help create search engine friendly links.

It is the widget distributor who gains major viral traffic and SEO benefits. Web pages that install such distributed widgets can gain from the added value and get some increased traffic. Or increased revenue as from Google AdSense clicks (the AdSense code from Google that you install on your Web pages is a good example of a widget). Read the rest of this entry »

Discussion forums were the popular hangouts of people interested in particular topics before blogs became popular. There are discussion forums for every topic. You can join these forums and then comment on the views expressed there.

You can also start a new “thread”, i.e. discussion on an aspect of a topic that has not already been initiated. Other people will then comment on your starting post, creating a thread of discussion.

Forum Posts and Web Traffic

Forums typically allow members to create a signature, i.e. a short profile about you. You can tell people what you do, and include a link to your website in this signature file. Some forums might even allow multiple links. Read the rest of this entry »

The blogger community thrives on conversations. Most blogs allow readers to comment on their blog posts. They also allow you to put a link to your website URL somewhere. In addition to back links, blog comments can also show you off as a friendly person or even an expert.

Some blogs might add a no follow attribute to the links in blog comments. However, if the content of the comment is good, readers are quite likely to follow your link and land at your site. That means traffic.

How to Comment on Blogs

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Flickr is a photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo. It has become very popular and offers some potential to generate traffic to your website and increase your search engine ranks. We look at Flickr and the traffic and seo possibilities in this article.

Let us start with words of caution, however. Flickr is a site for great photographs and a community for photographers. Upload only high quality pictures to the site. And do your promotion in an incidental manner rather through blatant sales pitches. Get respect from the Flickr community and let it carry to your business.

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