How do I get more people to find and visit my web site?
First and foremost, write better content more often.
Then, stop asking how to get people to find your website and start asking yourself why would people want to find your website. The trick to the Internet is that it focusses the marketing drive on the consumer, not the company so get out of the ’90s and start trying to make it about the end user instead of your business.
How to make it about the end user
When I was with the US Beer Drinking Team I came up with a marketing concept called Me Marketing, at its core was the simple belief that everybody was (in their own mind at least) special, so if you wanted to market to them all you needed to do was ensure that your business or product solved a problem that they believed they had.
I wrote an article a while back called 25 Things to Do to Increase Your Website Traffic Right Now, which offers some advice for people just starting out as well as a recent post entitled 25 simple ways to make WordPress SEO friendly which talks about some of the things you can do to make your website more Search Engine Friendly but remember the best way to build readers isn’t to create SEO friendly content, it’s to create content people actually want to read and share with their friends.
Just a new post to make people read the older posts.
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@Dave,
Yes, but it’s good that Christopher tell us about his older posts because we might miss out some nice articles. :)
As long as we create useful article that people learn something new, by the way you can apply your keyword for SEO in the post naturally as well.
Regards,
Lee
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I think you hit the nail on the head. Better content that solves problems will eventually bring the traffic.
@Dave You might be right but since I’ve already written the content elsewhere it makes a little bit more sense for me to point you to the original post rather than rehash the same content over and over plus as Lee points out, a lot of people missed it.
posting on site that offer this kind of linking is the most valuable way i find of getting your site out there. lots of work but worth the effort :)
Brett
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One thing is true – a website without visitors is useless! There are many ways to increase traffic to your website. Online advertising, public relations, newspaper advertising, television advertising, word of mouth, leaflets & flyers…the list goes on. There is only one problem – all these things cost money – and usually lots of it! The one exception is word of mouth, but for that to work you need people to have been on your website in the first place in order to pass the word on to other people…I’m thinking ‘chicken’ and ‘egg’.
i find that if you put in the hard work to start with and are patient, you will start seeing the rewards automatically in the comming months later.
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Just promote your blog like social bookmarking.
Submit your website to as many directories as possible, or pay someone else to do it. either way its the best start to any website promotion
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I liked the sound of the beer drinking team!!