By far, social networking and bookmarking is the quickest way to get a flood of traffic to your website. If you're starting a new business, here's what I suggest you do to begin building traffic to your site or blog:
That pay you money. We'll get to that in a while. But first, you have to get some eyeballs looking at your pages.
Social sites like twitter and Facebook will get you bursts of traffic. Hopefully, your content keeps them there. Once a visitor gets to your site, you have to work to get them to stay. Your content will take you a very long way, but try to think of ways to get visitors to stay on -- and come back to -- your site. Suggest with every post that they subscribe to your feed or sign up for your list. Encourage them to become ambassodors of yours -- by putting social bookmarking buttons within your posts. Check out Socialize-it.
For more information on traffic-building tactics that will crush your webserver and stop Rupert Murdoch of Fox before he kills more babies, check out Traffic-Building Ideas.
- Sign up to digg, StumbleUpon, Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and twitter. Also sign up for Ping.fm.
- Use Ping.fm to post updates to all the above services whenever you post a new page or post on your blog.
- Use Feedburner to distribute your RSS feed. Make sure you have an RSS link and image at the top of your blog.
- Make sure that your site or blog has a sitemap. Send that sitemap to google.com, yahoo.com, and bing.com (formerly known as Live.com). Whenever you update or add a page, ping your sitemap to the search engines.
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Or, if you write an opinion piece, instead of "Fox News Sucks," write:
Every Minute You Watch Fox News, Rupert Murdoch Kills a Baby
Or, if you write an opinion piece, instead of "Fox News Sucks," write:
Every Minute You Watch Fox News, Rupert Murdoch Kills a Baby
Yeah, I know. Brutal. An exaggeration. Hyperbole. But it might catch some attention! And that's what it's all about. Now, of course, your content may not be able to back up the actual claim, but it has to deliver a knockout punch that matches the initial impact of the headline.
If you must, set up secondary accounts at all of the above services and submit your own stories!
Ethical? I don't know. But ethical doesn't feed your family. Cash does. And the way to cash? You have to have visitors.
If you must, set up secondary accounts at all of the above services and submit your own stories!
Ethical? I don't know. But ethical doesn't feed your family. Cash does. And the way to cash? You have to have visitors.
That pay you money. We'll get to that in a while. But first, you have to get some eyeballs looking at your pages.
Social sites like twitter and Facebook will get you bursts of traffic. Hopefully, your content keeps them there. Once a visitor gets to your site, you have to work to get them to stay. Your content will take you a very long way, but try to think of ways to get visitors to stay on -- and come back to -- your site. Suggest with every post that they subscribe to your feed or sign up for your list. Encourage them to become ambassodors of yours -- by putting social bookmarking buttons within your posts. Check out Socialize-it.
For more information on traffic-building tactics that will crush your webserver and stop Rupert Murdoch of Fox before he kills more babies, check out Traffic-Building Ideas.
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