How to Increase Website Traffic

Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by admin in search engine optimization

Website traffic means one of several things. Website traffic could mean the number of hits, the number of page views, the number of sessions or the number of unique visitors. When it comes to increasing website traffic you want to determine what you are looking for.

I want to focus on targeting visitors to your website that convert to a sale and the first important step to increasing website traffic is SEO. Search engine optimization has been put out on the Internet as something that only webmasters can do. Not so. Let’s forget about algorithms and other complicated bits of the puzzle and simplfy it.

SEO involves finding unique and appropriate keywords that best describes your business. Keywords could consist of single words or two-five words, sometimes known as long-tailed keywords.

The second step to increase website traffic is to consider how many times you use these keywords on the pages of your website. 5% appears to be the norm, any more than that and you will appear to be ‘keyword stuffing’. On any web page try not to use any more than 5 keywords per 100 words of text. I use the rule 5/5/100. 5 keywords/5 times/100 words of text.

When you create your webpage use your keywords in the page title and higher up in the text. Have your keywords in the Meta description and Meta keywords. Alt tags, headers and all links on your webpage will increase website traffic. Linking to similar or complementary websites will enhance your presence on the web and increase website traffic.

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2 Responses to “How to Increase Website Traffic”

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   Syed Akram 11 August 2009 at 3:02 am #

   Thanks for very informative article. Look forward for more tips and ideas.

   To me, the best websites that generate web traffic must achieve one of the followings:
   - They must either help me to generate lots of targeted traffic FAST
   - Or they must help me to generate traffic CONSISTENTLY WITHOUT MUCH EFFORT FROM ME.
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   admin 12 August 2009 at 9:35 pm #

   Hi Syed
   Finding the best websites that generate traffic is a different slant on things. Not thought of this way at all.

   Thank you for making me think differently about traffic generation.

   Cheers
   Faye

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