[deb0and]

Whats the easiest way to direct traffic to a website?

[justfigures]

Join a web forum and reply to queries from other members.

And actually more seriously and in order:
get respected bigger sites to link to you,
respond by linking to them,
join social networking sites,
join ecommerce sites,
register with search engines,
make sure that there search bot can find all your pages,
clear descriptive page titles,
descriptive text near to top of the page,
alt tags for images,
meta tags for content and keywords,
tell everyone.

Its a fine art and a career for some, this is just what I do.

[Rachael]

Network.

[Ben]

Rachael, on Oct 14 2007, 08:23 PM, said:

Network.

Networking is good, also try submitting it to Social Bookmarking sites such as Digg, Stumble Upon etc. or just join forums and try and get your name around (careful not to spam though). If your content is good, word will spread. There's also Viral marketing.

Justfigures, posted some great ideas above /\

[Rachael]

Make friends!

Comment on other peoples blog (making sure to say something useful) and people will come and visit you. If your site is good, it will spread.

[red01]

Write and post articles to such sites as www.page92.com or ezinearticles.com.

The great thing about articles is that if they are relevant they will be picked up by users. And because you will have included links back to your site or have a bio at the bottom of the atrilce. When people use your article on thier site it creates a backlink to your site. Which google and yahoo love.

So your article could be potentially used by thousands creating thousands of links to your site.

everyone wins

[BenG]

justfigures, on Oct 10 2007, 05:19 PM, said:

Join a web forum and reply to queries from other members.

And actually more seriously and in order:
get respected bigger sites to link to you,
respond by linking to them,
join social networking sites,
join ecommerce sites,
register with search engines,
make sure that there search bot can find all your pages,
clear descriptive page titles,
descriptive text near to top of the page,
alt tags for images,
meta tags for content and keywords,
tell everyone.

Its a fine art and a career for some, this is just what I do.

ALT tags are a waste of time for SEO, you should do them for accesibility. Never register with search engines either, always get links instead.

Personally, I'd buy the SEO book, its fantastic, the best ebook I ever bought

[Rachael]

There's no such thing as alt tags!

Someone show me <alt> in the HTML specification please?

[Christopher]

Rachael, on Oct 21 2007, 10:40 PM, said:

There's no such thing as alt tags!

Someone show me <alt> in the HTML specification please?

Please tell me you are young and naive, either that or joking... surely anyone with even the most basic HTML knowledge / their own website knows about the alt attribute - don't they?! Or maybe you're just assuming "tags" means it references it's own object like 'input' 'img' 'ol' 'div' etc, and not a sub attribute of these objects such as 'height' 'width' 'alt' 'title' etc.

[Dizi]

Terminology is key and as such using the correct terminology should always be used to avoid confusion, and you said it yourself Alt is an attribute, therefore there is no such thing as an alt tag. (although I am guilty of also calling them alt tags on occasion)

What is the difference? well, attributes are assigned to a tag....you can't have an attribute without a tag but that doesn't make them a tag, it simply makes them part of a tag. I mean this is basic coding stuff...right? Anyone who has a basic knowledge of coding should understand what the difference between an attribute and a tag is. Yet we still refer to the alt attribute as a tag, shame on all of us that do.




.....anyway, this is offtopic and as such can it go back on topic, if you wish to argue about terminology and if alt is a tag or not start a new thread...maybe add a poll so its easy to see everyone's opinions

[EggMan]

BenG, on Oct 15 2007, 10:39 PM, said:

ALT tags are a waste of time for SEO, you should do them for accesibility. Never register with search engines either, always get links instead.

Personally, I'd buy the SEO book, its fantastic, the best ebook I ever bought

Woah.

1. alt tags (or attributes) are very very much important to SEO, like anything else, keyword spamming doesnt work, but search engines value them highly for content relevance. I would NEVER overlook them from an SEO perspective

2. Why not submit your site to search engines? There is absolutely no benefit to being added to a search engine rather than submitting the site yourself. At the end of the day the faster you get indexed, the faster you can start building positions.

3. There is no such thing as 'the' seo book, there are loads, and not all of them share the same views about seo, and not all of them are up to date. So its good to read more than one book on the subject to get a wider perspective of seo as a whole rather than individual techniques.


As for the original question of the thread - what drives traffic? In my experience blogging and social bookmarking are the two quickest ways to get traffic, but like anything else, to establish consistant high traffic over time you'll need to work from the ground up and have a long term seo plan as well as a short term one

[MixCat]

IMO marketing your website start with your content. Providing useful and relevant content in your niche is very crucial. Here are my top picks:

1. Great content - be it information, service, products... providing relevance and usefulness gives you higher chances of making a visitor into a customer
2. Forum and blog posting on relevant niche - you participate constructively and learn new things while promoting your site via signature.
3. Pay-Per-Click - done properly, best at getting target traffic faster on a direct marketing approach to your potential clients.
4. Targeted Link backs - another premium way of getting the right traffic.
5. Article marketing - useful and relevant articles to your niche is a nice way of link baiting.
6. SEO - through link building - this will get you more traffic in the long run

Other things you could do to drive more traffic to your site:

Submission to SE's and directories
Article marketing
Email campaign (opt-in)
Classified ads posting
Social Bookmarking
Etc. etc.


Hope that helps

[*kenv]

isnt alt like an alternative? exemple

<div id="something">
<table>
  <tr>
	 <td>
<img src="images/cantbefound.jpg" alt="Searchin for the image that cant be found!" />
	 </td>
   </tr>
</table>

So if the image isnt found when someone come on the actual site, it will shown "Searchin for the image that can't be found!" insteed of the image?

just to make sure...

[Dizi]

alt is alternative text that would be displayed if an image cannot be found, the browser has images switched off or for use of a text reader. So you wouldn't do a full description within the tag but you would use a descriptive alternative such as a warning triangle's alt tag would just say 'warning'.

Yes you are right, but I think your example could lead to confusion as some might thing alt attributes are supposed to say that image cannot be found, when it is meant as a text alternative to the image to help those who cannot see the image

[BenG]

Neurotoxin, on Oct 26 2007, 11:42 AM, said:

Woah.

1. alt tags (or attributes) are very very much important to SEO, like anything else, keyword spamming doesnt work, but search engines value them highly for content relevance. I would NEVER overlook them from an SEO perspective

2. Why not submit your site to search engines? There is absolutely no benefit to being added to a search engine rather than submitting the site yourself. At the end of the day the faster you get indexed, the faster you can start building positions.

3. There is no such thing as 'the' seo book, there are loads, and not all of them share the same views about seo, and not all of them are up to date. So its good to read more than one book on the subject to get a wider perspective of seo as a whole rather than individual techniques.


As for the original question of the thread - what drives traffic? In my experience blogging and social bookmarking are the two quickest ways to get traffic, but like anything else, to establish consistant high traffic over time you'll need to work from the ground up and have a long term seo plan as well as a short term one

THE SEO BOOK:
http://www.seobook.com/

The best there is

[wonggogel]

Ben, on Oct 14 2007, 19:26, said:

Networking is good, also try submitting it to Social Bookmarking sites such as Digg, Stumble Upon etc. or just join forums and try and get your name around (careful not to spam though). If your content is good, word will spread. There's also Viral marketing.

Justfigures, posted some great ideas above /\

thanks man......it's really useful

[AVVStudios]

Good news... But wow did that post go the wrong way

[DesignArrow]

Easiest way would be Google AdWords.

[Journey]

MixCat, on Oct 30 2007, 17:44, said:

IMO marketing your website start with your content. Providing useful and relevant content in your niche is very crucial. Here are my top picks:

1. Great content - be it information, service, products... providing relevance and usefulness gives you higher chances of making a visitor into a customer
2. Forum and blog posting on relevant niche - you participate constructively and learn new things while promoting your site via signature.
3. Pay-Per-Click - done properly, best at getting target traffic faster on a direct marketing approach to your potential clients.
4. Targeted Link backs - another premium way of getting the right traffic.
5. Article marketing - useful and relevant articles to your niche is a nice way of link baiting.
6. SEO - through link building - this will get you more traffic in the long run

Other things you could do to drive more traffic to your site:

Submission to SE's and directories
Article marketing
Email campaign (opt-in)
Classified ads posting
Social Bookmarking
Etc. etc.
Hope that helps

For additional info, you can also write a press release for your website and submit to several free press release submission sites. This would help you to advertise what services or products your company offers. It is also a good way to promote your company's achievements.

[actelios]

HI!
you are asking what could be the best way to promote your website.. great question! As interesting as so difficult to answer surely! there are many ways to promote and to do advertisement on the web. For my personal experience I believe that, for beginners, the best way is Paid to surf. I mean the service provided by a lot of sites in which you get credits to advertise your website watching the advertisement of others. This way , you are able to increase a lot your web traffic so that you can count to a steadly growth of your traffic. if you need a complete list of sites you can find it at www.trizone.it on pts page and pts2 page. There are a lot of sites which provide paid to surf in auto and manual mode. Let's join them and try by yourself which is the best or the worst.
i hope to have been helpful to you.. look fwd to replies and ideas!
bye
marco

[Badmotherz]

There's a difference between traffic for the sake of it and valuable traffic. If you just want traffic I'd question the real business benefit of this. A bunch of numbers does not add to your bottom line. What you actually want is targeted and relevant traffic, which may be less, but will actually turn into business.

[Spyros]

Hi there!

From personal experience, the best way to promote your website, is to work on promoting it personally via Forums, Blogs, Communities and any kind of website out there. Many people think that only high traffic websites are important, but I have found that even the most unknown website add a drop in the ocean. So promote by word of mouth, article and post writing and keep it up, don't quit EVER. If you do this for 1-2 years EVERY DAY you will see your site climb and get steady and faithful traffic. Update your content and write stuff that people like reading about and never - ever take a break!
I took a break and my company website lost an important ranking point. I will never make the same mistake again. So my advise in general is:

• Promote on your own, using all possible means of promotion (forums, blogs, etc...)
  
• The most important thing is NEVER QUIT.

Cheers!

[ooyes]

There is no easy way, you will have to work hard to do this

[Craig Dewe]

Many valuable ideas in this thread.

My biggest recommendation would to plan a strategy and follow it.

1. Find out what you visitors are looking for
2. Give it to them on your website
3. Decide what you want from your visitors when you get them
4 Then find out where your best visitors are likely to be
5. And make sure you're there too.

Whether it's in a forum, commenting on blogs, participating in social media. Develop a strategy and as Spyros said, stick with it. Posting a comment on a few blogs one day will not see much results. Posting a comment on a few blogs every day will start to pay off very quickly.

[MixCat]

The easiest way would be to advertise through paid means. For immediate traffic: lease out banner slots, sitewide links, ppc, ads, etc. A bit coslty though but it will surely bring you instant and easy traffic.

[g00db0y]

Hi, I'm a newbie in this forum and in the world of internet. I would like to say thank you for the input guys. One quick question: Does link exchange with other related website also can boost the popularity of our website?

Cheers

[Expat629]

g00db0y, on Feb 12 2008, 04:29, said:

Hi, I'm a newbie in this forum and in the world of internet. I would like to say thank you for the input guys. One quick question: Does link exchange with other related website also can boost the popularity of our website?

It can, if you choose your linking partners carefully. For example, if have PageRank 4 site and you're exchanging with a 0, it won't affect you in any noticeable way (but it will really help them). Also, if the site linking to you has a lot of outbound links, this will water down the effect on your PageRank.

Conclusion: If you go for someone with few outbound links and a decent PageRank (relative to your site - Microsoft probably doesn't link to Joe Internet ), it will help your PageRank, not to mention your search engine results.

[ERE1]

Hello, to get traffic on your website, put it up for judgement on award sites, print cards etc, within budget obviously.

Submit your website to search engines, easy just look for the 'submit a button' on the search engines webpage.

Design a well worded catchy remberable signature with a link i.e. mine.

Viral which is either word of mouth, a free game that your visitors can play, put up a video advertising it on youtube.

Put a tell your friend link on ur page, give your visitors every oportunity to tell their friends.

Peace

[cssloaf]

Check out Skellies great post on attracting traffic: http://www.skelliewag.org/how-to-get-piles...omments-273.htm

[Tracy]

deb0and, on Oct 10 2007, 13:22, said:

Whats the easiest way to direct traffic to a website?

Hi,
your should do the off page and on page optimization of your site.

OFF PAGE:

Always start with keyword research, testing and selection
Keywords in links
Links from high ranking publisher sites
One-way inbound links (not link exchange)
Different keywords in your link-ads from the same site
Gradual link building technology (no growth spikes)
Relevant keywords near your inbound link
Deep linking (from multiple pages to multiple pages)
Target a large list of keywords (5-500+)
Link from sites with a variety of LinkRanks
Track active link-ad keywords
Discontinue campaigns if ranking does not improve
Expect results in 30 days (MSN) 1-9 months (Google, Yahoo)

ONPAGE:
Always start with keyword selection, research and testing
Title tags
Meta tags
ALT tags
H1 tags
URL structure
Internal Linking
Content
Keyword density
Site maps
Usability
Track target keywords
Expect results in 12 months

[Neeraj Choudhary]

Ben, on Oct 15 2007, 00:56, said:

Networking is good, also try submitting it to Social Bookmarking sites such as Digg, Stumble Upon etc. or just join forums and try and get your name around (careful not to spam though). If your content is good, word will spread. There's also Viral marketing.

Justfigures, posted some great ideas above /\

thanks for reply but my dear i have already use for all type seo tips but do not good result. you have any new techniques seo for free plz tell me.

[icecube_media]

Twitter is the best way to get huge traffic to your website. Keep posting useful tweets and follow 100 people daily. This will increase your followers and send you hundreds of unique visitors to your website.

[karanwalia]

In addition to SEO, go for SMO websites like Stumble, Reddit, Digg, Traffup, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Hubpages, Squidoo, Youtube..

[elissawilson]

Blog posting
Forum posting
Forum profile
Article writing
Classifieds ads
Social media marketing
All those are a good way to get targeted traffic to your website.

[jamesosix]

N-N-N-N-NECRO'ED THREAD!

[rallport]

BenG, on 15 October 2007 - 09:39 PM, said:

ALT tags are a waste of time for SEO, you should do them for accesibility. Never register with search engines either, always get links instead.

Personally, I'd buy the SEO book, its fantastic, the best ebook I ever bought

Some of the information from people on this forum is just plain incorrect. Methinks it's you who should be reading about SEO. The alt tag, as long as you don;t abuse it, is very much alive and well in terms of SEO.

[rallport]

icecube_media, on 11 October 2011 - 12:18 PM, said:

Twitter is the best way to get huge traffic to your website. Keep posting useful tweets and follow 100 people daily. This will increase your followers and send you hundreds of unique visitors to your website.

OMG, classic lol

Ask yourself for one minute Mr "icecube_media" exactly how fruitful will it be in getting hundreds of random unique visits to your site? Answer, not very useful at all. How many of your random followers are likely to convert? Again, answer is next to none if you're just following 100 people for the sake of every day.