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10 Cool Ways To Attract People To Your Web Site

by Dee-Dee MacLeod-Wilson

Traffic is the life-blood of any website. If you don’t have traffic, visitors coming to your site, you are dead in the water.
So much of an online business depends on getting traffic to your door, and much like an offline business you need to make your ’shop’ attractive to the casual passersby.
It is so important that much time and money is spent doing just that, getting people to your door in the hope they will come in and buy something.
Let’s be real here… why else would you have a website if it is not to make money.

There are a number of traffic strategies an online business owner can implement.

Search Engine Optimisation
SEO is setting up your website in such a way that the search engines show you favour and index your site in the search results. Doing SEO tasks such as, selecting good keywords that are relevant and appropriate to your website topic, using these keywords wisely in your page titles, headings, anchor text and articles all helps to build your search engine credibility and gain good placement in the search results.

Link Building
Building links to your site using Social Networks, Social Bookmarking, Article submission to Article Directories, etc. all help to gain link popularity with inwards links. Again the search engines will take note of this.

Apart from doing SEO and Link building there are a number of other things you can do to make your web site attractive to new and returning visitors. While SEO is important to get the ‘good’ listing in the search engine result pages for your keywords, in the end it is people who will be visiting your site. Read the rest of this entry »