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29 Ways to Drive Traffic to your Website ... and keep them coming back
In 1998, if you wanted someone to find your website,
you placed some "meta tags" on it, and submitted it to free
search engines or directories. In 2002, there are many
ways to help your website be found including...
1. Build a solid business foundation. Design a business
plan, marketing plan, ideal client profile, and a site map
for your web site.
2. Be consistent. Brand your company.
3. Make your website trustable. This article will show you
10 ways. www.coachmaria.com/articles rustableweb.html
4. Create policies that build trust: customer service, code
of ethics and newsletter privacy policy.
5. If you have pages on your site that you update monthly
(like an articles page or recommended links page) say so on
the page.
6. Find easy and secure ways for your clients to pay you. A
shopping cart with paypal and a secure merchant account
works very well.
7. Network locally to bring people to your site.
8. Check your links regularly to make sure they all work.
Use a free link checker like:
http://home.snafu.de ilman/xenulink.html
9. Place your website address on all your printed
literature -- business cards, brochures, newsletters,
letterhead, email signature, ads - everything!!
10. Offer added values that make sense to your business and
ideal client. This can include affiliate programs, books,
and recommended links to websites.
What A GiftClose the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you. Figure out .....
11. Use your web address in your signature for emails
(change it regularly to highlight something new you're
promoting).
12. Add a "Recommend This Site" on your site. If someone
visits your site and knows someone else who may appreciate
it, this feature will email the page's link to a recipient.
13. Provide monthly chats or bulletin boards (forums) to
build a relationships and community.
14. Instead of a link to subscribe to your ezine, offer a
subscription box on your most viewed web site pages.
15. Teach classes or speak to groups about subjects relating
to your products.
16. Permission market by gathering the email addresses of
students or the audience as part of your evaluation form.
17. Add a favorites script such as "add this page to your
favorites list" to some pages.
18. Conduct periodic contests and announce the winners on
your site.
19. Offer a free ebook on your site. This could be two pages
of information that would be helpful to your visitors that
contains your business information, too. Recommend that this
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20. On large websites, create a "What's New Page" or even
better, ask your webdesigner to design a "Site Map" for your
visitors.
21. Write articles, post them to your site, and submit them
to article banks
www.coachmaria.com/articles/articlebanks.html.
22. Design some quizzes. Statistics show that visitors love
quizzes and assessment tools.
23. Participate in online forums as an expert. You get to
"quietly" promote your business in your 3 or 4 line
signature.
24. Join a few web rings. Some sites to visit are:
www.webring.com/rw and www.bravenet.com.
25. Search engines look for certain things so it is crucial
to make sure your site is "search-engine friendly".
oTITLE tags: Title tags should be 60 or so characters
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