Today I will share with you some tips to get more traffic to your website/blog.

Very often we see on the net that people ask this: What is the best tips and advices to get more traffic to my website? There is a lot of good advices out there so we decided to give a summary on that important topic. Almost everyone is interested to get more traffic to their websites and whether you have a home based online business or a store, getting traffic is essentially to have a good chance for success.

Okey, you took the decision to put a decent effort in this. But where to start? Google is a very good place to start. But you ask yourself: “What is the terms and phrases to search for?” The answer is really simple, but after that you must do your job to achieve the goal you set.

What to search for in Google, Yahoo or MSN? You can start with:

- Ways to get more traffic
- Ways to get more traffic to my website
- Ways to get more traffic to my blog
- Tips on how to get traffic

…and more terms like that (just be creative in this process)…

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Keyword Optimization
SEO is a very often discussed subject when it comes to planning a website. Planning Search Engine Optimization is probably, if not the most important step to take if you want to prepare your website(s) to rank high in the search engines. Especially if you decide to make a business on internet, SEO should be the most highly ranked topic. SEO is often mentioned directly as the process of choosing targeted keyword phrases related to a site, and ensuring that the site places well when those keyword phrases are part of a Web search. Keyword Optimization is the part of SEO to use in your website optimization and Adwords Campaigns.

Article Writing and Submitting
Writing On Your Website, Blogs(Don’t forget to ping your blog), Comments on other related blogs, Submit your articles to as many Article Directories you can (ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, isnare.com).

Forum Activity
Have your signature-links back to your sites/blogs in your posts. Try to participate in as much related forums as you can.

Link Strategies (You should have your link in every strategic place you can think of). You should have Your signatures in all your e-mails and articles. It’s also important to think of a strategy when it comes to Link Directory Submitting. Normally it is One Way Links and Link Exchanges (Exchange/share links with others)

Ezine Advertising

Write and Submit Press Releases.

RSS Feeds & Syndication.

Submission in top and high traffic directories
Dmoz and Yahoo Directory

Social Bookmarking.
This is often more used as strategy nowadays. Consider to have at least bookmarks to your websites/blogs at those social bookmarking services you are signed up for.

* A1-webmarks.com
* Blogmarks.net
* Blummy.com
* De.lirio.us
* Del.icio.us
* Dnhour.com
* Digg.com
* Furl.net
* Goodwebdirectory.com
* Info4it.com
* Mister-wong.com
* Kapely.net
* Ppnow.com
* Plugim.com
* Propeller.com
* Buddymarks.com
* Rawsugar.com
* Reddit.com
* Startaid.com
* Stumbleupon.com
* Zimbio.com
* Technorati
* Twitter

Also consider if you can have a strategy when it comes to Facebook and MySpace (give your links to your friends/buddies). But you also should think about the effect on some social network sites like Facebook and MySpace. You should think of those as an extra way to get traffic, but don’t put all your effort in it because people who really wants to buy something is more likely going to use Google, Ebay or Amazon to search for products. So only consider Facebook and MySpace as one of many ways to spread your links.

Here is a blog article on how to use Facebook to promote your blog:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/06/25/using-facebook-pages-to-promote-your-blog/

Constantly make sure that you strive for as much quality and unique content you can achieve in your articles. Always try to write something very interesting and useful to your visitors about recent topics in your business. Sometimes it could be practical to pay an article writer to do the job if you not be able to manage that work in the beginning. But article writing is only a matter of practical learning and training over time. So don’t worry too much about your talent. It is not so difficult as you think. Nowadays you can also find pre-written free content for your website or blog so you can have a quick start. But over time you should consider to write your own articles. And remember, practical training for a longer period will make you a better article writer. Tip: Why don’t study other writers articles and see how they do it. And finally: If you become a good article writer and submit to article directories, try to remember that webmasters allover the world maybe consider to use your article in their websites/blogs. That is a huge opportunity to spread your links everywhere.

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