What are people doing to drive traffic to their sites? How do we get people to know that our sites exist? I finally have the base site up and want to see it start growing.
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I have been doing an experiment for the last couple of weeks on this very question. All I am doing is adding quality content to my site and only advertising its existance through my signature on this site. I am not advertising anywhere else except here.
I feel that this is the way to go, grow naturally. Until you have a firm content base and really do have the site hashed out, you should not put the cart in front of the horse. Growing naturally in this way will take off quickly once you get a strong base of supporters who appreciate what you are writing about. I believe that if you focus too much on advertising and a quick bang then you will only amount to becoming a fad. The sad thing about fad's is that they don't last. Consider crystal pepsi and pepsi one. Crystal pepsi was a fad with lots of advertising while pepsi one is much more. Of course my point about these two drinks is not at all relevant here, but just consider the two.
My advise to you is to let your site grow naturally, wait until you have some exciting and useful content before you start trying to advertise your mundane and unnesessary content. Because if you attract too many people before you get that exciting content up, then they will only visit your site once. Sure you may have a few thousand steady hits for a week, but what happens after that week and your content is way old. Grow naturally!!!
Wyatt Preul
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Although this is the best site to grow naturally but I've also seen many forums do not allow to put your signature with the post. They take it as SPAM and link violation.
I would also focus on submitting articles and blog comments to ezines with good page rank. These ezines allows you to put atleast three links to your signature and credits your article.
Hope it may work for all.
Wyatt, what is it with you and Pepsi???
One thing we have done is to get links from high PR sites to our blogs. We have "claimed" our blogs on Technorati which includes the blogs in their search, but also links to your site. We also listed it with PRWeb, the news release site, which will put our content into there database and provide a link if anyone is looking for our type of material. We achieve exposure but also quality links to these sites, which will raise our Google PR value over time.
Wyatt Preul:...wait until you have some exciting and useful content before you start trying to advertise your mundane and unnesessary content. Because if you attract too many people before you get that exciting content up, then they will only visit your site once. .....Grow naturally!!!
...wait until you have some exciting and useful content before you start trying to advertise your mundane and unnesessary content. Because if you attract too many people before you get that exciting content up, then they will only visit your site once.
.....Grow naturally!!!
Touche ! I agree, Content and Returning Visitors are Key !
haathi featuring a blog..
It is pretty basic stuff that will get your traffic. Not paying for traffic, not getting links from high PR sites, not worrying about your PR.
1. Focus on building the content on your site
2. Pay attention to what people are reading on your site
3. Find sites like your sites and actively participate in those sites. Don't do stupid stuff like "Me too" posts just to get a post/link in.
4. Find the people that run sites like your sites. Offer to exchange interviews.
Don't focus too much on generating traffic. Hopefully you opened your site for reasons other than to generate traffic. Focus on making your site a better place to me. People will come if it has value - not because of what its PR is or how many inbound links you have.
There are also several good blogs out there that expand on some of my points above.
I have an existing, high traffic site that recently switched to CS. Any ideas on how we can maintain our search engine rankings? All of our previous pages are now pointing to our CS search page instead of the traditional 404 page...But I also want to ensure that the new site and data in the site is caught in each search engine so our new site info is returned as the results.
Anyone?
I owuld use the URL redirects and setup some third party redirect to catch these pages coming from the SE's and redirect them to the actual page you want them to go to.
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