Traffic is critical for any online venture, and because of this, you should know the best ways to get traffic to any website you have started.
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Optimize Your Website If your website is optimized for search engines, your site will show up higher in the rankings and you're more likely to get people clicking on your website.
This isn't a guarantee, but it's almost a foregone conclusion that you won't get a lot of traffic if your website doesn't show up on the first couple of pages in the results.
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Advertise It's not likely that you'll get a lot of traffic if you don't advertise at all.
Make sure you sign up for an ad service like Google AdSense.
This will ensure that people see your ad when they search for something similar to what your website offers.
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Have Good Content Not only will you attract visitors if your website is interesting or entertaining, but you're more likely to have people come back.
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Social Networking Sites These new social networking sites are critical sources of traffic.
If you tell all your Facebook friends to check out your website, and you update your Twitter for all the people who follow you, you'll find yourself with more traffic.
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Social Bookmarking Sites There is a distinction between networking and bookmarking.
Sites such as Digg are important because they can get popular content even more popular.
If you write something controversial or clever, you'll benefit from additional traffic with these types of sites.
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Marketing There are multiple types of marketing.
With affiliate marketing, you get other people to help sell your products.
With "regular" marketing, you simply explain why your product or service is the best.
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Review Sites These sites are set up either by you or someone else, and it's their job to fill up the top of the search engine results with reviews of your product and service.
If you do it right, every one of the sites will point people to your website.
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Testimonials While not as effective as they used to be, if you have other people give detailed testimonials about your product or service (whether on your site or theirs), you'll attract more curious people.
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Word of Mouth Even social bookmarking sites can't supplant the benefits of good, old-fashioned word of mouth.
When people tell their friends, you get more traffic.
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Be the Best Focus on the high-end market of whatever your website is for, and strive to do better than any of your competitors.
When people feel satisfied, they're more likely to get you more traffic.