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Fourteen Great Ways to Build Website Traffic The traffic that comes to your website is like blood - it flows through your website’s veins and keeps it alive. When that blood doesn’t flow, your website is effectively dead. What’s the point of having it if nobody comes to visit? Here are ten tried and tested ways that you can keep that blood flowing and attract traffic to your website. 1. Focus on Content Good content will market itself. Whenever you put your effort into building and promoting the content you use, the result is going to be more traffic to your website by people sharing your link with others. Be sure to add social sharing buttons to your website. Don’t assume that visitors are going to share your content without that extra push. Make it easy for them by adding social sharing buttons to your company blog posts. 2. Answer Questions on Social Sites When you see people on social networking sites ask question, be sure to answer them with helpful information. By doing this it will increase your website traffic and add customers for life. 3. Distribute Press Releases Distribute press releases to promote significant accomplishments of your site. Whenever you have something that is noteworthy to share, be sure to do it. It will drive up your traffic. 3. Use search engine optimization Don’t over-optimize your site, but use search engine optimization to be sure you make use of the latest SEO practices that tell search engines where they should list your site properly. Higher rankings will result in lots of new visitors to your website. 4. Publish great looking posts If you publish great looking posts constantly in your website’s blog, you’ll build up your

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Fourteen Great Ways to Build Website Traffic The traffic that comes to your website is like blood - it flows through your website’s veins and keeps it alive. When that blood doesn’t flow, your website is effectively dead. What’s the point of having it if nobody comes to visit? Here are ten tried and tested ways that you can keep that blood flowing and attract traffic to your website.

1. Focus on Content

Good content will market itself. Whenever you put your effort into building and promoting the content you use, the result is going to be more traffic to your website by people sharing your link with others. Be sure to add social sharing buttons to your website. Don’t assume that visitors are going to share your content without that extra push. Make it easy for them by adding social sharing buttons to your company blog posts. 2. Answer Questions on Social Sites

When you see people on social networking sites ask question, be sure to answer them with helpful information. By doing this it will increase your website traffic and add customers for life. 3. Distribute Press Releases

Distribute press releases to promote significant accomplishments of your site. Whenever you have something that is noteworthy to share, be sure to do it. It will drive up your traffic. 3. Use search engine optimization

Don’t over-optimize your site, but use search engine optimization to be sure you make use of the latest SEO practices that tell search engines where they should list your site properly. Higher rankings will result in lots of new visitors to your website.

4. Publish great looking posts

If you publish great looking posts constantly in your website’s blog, you’ll build up your

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relationship with readers and get visitors to check back frequently. That way they can view your latest posts. 5. Newsletter

Put together a newsletter that rocks. When readers find email newsletters they like, they always share them with their friends. If your current email follow-up sequence is not up to par, make improvements so it looks as good as you can. This will result in significant referral traffic. 6. Podcast

Publish a podcast. By producing a high-quality podcast on a regular basis, you will increase websitereferral visitors and reach new visitors through podcast directories. 7. YouTube Channel

Put together a YouTube channel. YouTube is one of the Internet’s largest search engines. It’s a great way to expose new audiences to your website. As a bonus, your videos might be listed in Google GOOG+ which will lead to even more traffic. 8. Share Your Site

Ask your visitors to share your site with others. Simply asking the people who visit your website to share your articles with others is a great way to quickly boost you’re your page views. 9. Guest Posts

Write guest posts for any the top industry sites in your industry. Ask other websites in that are in your field if you can pen guest posts for their blogs. When your content is featured there, it brings inmore traffic to your website and adds to your perceived authority as well. 10. Social Networks

Pay attention to any new social networks, especially if they cater to your industry. When a new social network appears, there’s a significant “first adopter” advantage to anyone who establishes an early presence on these sites. Be sure to keep an eye out for these new opportunities in the future. 11. Website Errors

Be sure to delete any website errors. If search engines can’t index your website right because of errors, you will not receive all the search traffic you should. Use sites like Google Webmaster Tools to check on common problems you may not know you have. 12. Over-Deliver Company News

Push to over-deliver news about your company’s products or services. From the standpoint of getting traffic, word-of-mouth cannot be beat. When you appear to be near the top of your particularindustry, customers will definitely recommend you to others. That leads to more traffic and a highermarketing return on investment.

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13. Check with Industry Experts

Check with experts inside your industry. Everybody loves to hear from experts, so if you can interview and publish an expert’s positive opinion on your site, you will reap the rewards of a big surge of traffic from his existing audience. 14. Comment About Other Websites

Comment about other websites. When you leave comments on the blogs of other websites, it can be a good way to build traffic that goes straight back to your site.

Just remember that you need to keep your website fresh and alive. Website traffic coming to you is your lifeblood. It flows through the veins in your website veins and keeps it alive. You are the doctor that makes it all happen. Don’t ever let your patient down!