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Increase Web Site Traffic!What is a web site without traffic?Just a file on a server. Everyone who has a site is trying to get more traffic, and why not? The fundamental reason that site owners create a web site is so they can share it with others. But what if they are not getting any web site traffic? |
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7 Ways to increase website traffic Banner Exchange Well, you could join a banner exchange to increase traffic. The problem is that most banner exchanges give you exposure only if you give them exposure first. Moreover, once you serve up their banner a thousand times, they will only display your banner half as much. Then, by the time you actually increase traffic to your site, you have only increased traffic by ten viewers. It is just not worth it. Web Rings Another way to increase hits is to join a web ring. That used to be a good idea. A group of related sites would join a "ring" & this would increase hits to the members. The problem is that people rarely use web rings anymore. The rings are small, specific & don't increase hits very much at all. However, you will probably increase hits more using a banner exchange. F.F.A. pages Some web site owners turned to F.F.A. ("free for all") pages to increase site traffic. "Back in the day" circa 1996, people actually read F.F.A. pages & you could increase web traffic. Eventually, everyone started using F.F.A. pages to post their sites, but no one ever actually visited the links on the pages. Now, F.F.A. pages are just used to collect email addresses for spam, not to increase hits or increase traffic flow to your site. Search Engines Some web site owners increase web traffic using the major search engines. This is a good idea if you have a grand laying around to pay for a decent search engine optimization company to help you configure the pages correctly. Plus, you can't just increase web traffic this way if you built your site on a free hosting service like Geo-cities. To increase web traffic this way, you have to pay additional money for premium hosting services. Search engines can increase web traffic dramatically, but it is usually an expensive solution. Exchange links Exchanging links is a great way to increase hits! The problem is that it takes a LOT of work. First, to increase site traffic you must search for sites that will exchange links with you. The sites must be looking to increase site traffic as well. It takes about eight hours to collect one hundred by hand. Then you must email all of the web site owners & hope they want to increase site traffic. E-mails go back & forth. Finally you a have ten to twelve to twelve new links. If you are lucky, they will increase traffic by an average of 1 hit per day per link. The reward is not usually worth the effort - unless you pay someone. Offline Advertising Advertising offline is very expensive & even the experts fail to increase traffic for very long. Remember the Super Bowl ads? Many of those companies wanted to increase hits & are out of business now because they couldn't increase web site traffic on a permanent basis. Other companies like e-tour.com had as much as seventy-five million dollars in venture capital & the inside track to billboards - & well, you know the story. This is no way to increase web site traffic - especially if you have a non-commercial site. Changing LINKS There is another way to increase web site traffic. Add your pages to ChangingLINKS.com. It is a free service for sites that don't sell anything, & commercial sites are charged very little. It takes about ten minutes to completely register each page & you can permanently increase traffic. Member sites have received a substantial increase in traffic & the increase lasts for months, not days. |
