Friday 17 June 2011

Attract more traffc to your website

   Most of us make a website dreaming tremendous traffic to our website. But we get upset on seeing the poor traffic. Ever wondered how these internet giants like Google, eBay, Wikipedia, Facebook etc. get this much traffic..? Well, you cannot say it is because of advertising, because we hardly see their ads..right?
    So, let us see the tactics they use to drive traffic. You also can follow these methods to get more traffic. Let me list them as points.


   Visitors like white background- Google, eBay, Wikipedia, Facebook etc.uses white backgrounds. All other colours will give a sudden negative effect in the visitor's mind. When I created my website first, I saw that most of the visitors stay for less than 10 seconds. ie., they just close the page simply when they see the colour of the website. So I researched on it. I find that users have a different approach to the background colours. The visitors interest for the famous colour combinations are as in the chart. It is clear that white background with black letters are attracts more visitors. But in some situations, you must adapt to some other colours. For example, if its a website exhibiting some digital art works or animations, then a black background with white letters is better. If it is a website about some ladies items, better you give a pink colour.  
   
    Home page should load in seconds- Your home page should not be over-facilitated with graphics, images or ads. Nobody will be patient to wait for a site taking so long to load. You can make the home page with a brief description and the major links only. Other bandwidth consuming  graphics and images should be placed inside the sub pages. You can imagine of google and wikipedia. But if the website is designed for a specific product like for a mobile phone or a car, then it shall include  high definition images and graphics. Think of the website of Nokia, Dell, BMW. In this case users will be specifically coming for this product and shall be patient enough to load the page.  


   Offer some free stuff- You can offer some free stuff for your visitors. The offer details and download link should be placed in the home page itself. You can offer some free ebooks or softwares or anything that is not much available in other sites. You can also place links to your website in the free stuff you are offering, so that others can also be directed to your site. One another thing is that, instead of straight away giving the download link, you can ask for their email address and mail the stuff. In this case you get their email addresses also, so that  you can sent them newsletters about your site in the future.
 
  
Facebook advertising- You can start a fan page in facebook about your website, free of cost. Sent it to your friends and tell them to like it. This will give exposure your site to more people than you can imagine. Consider you have 500 friends and you sent your fan page link to them. If each of your 500 friends have 500 friends, then your page will be seen by 500 x 500= 250000. Then imagine the exposure your site will get when the  friends of these 250000 people see that. Mm.. millions. Well if you have money, then you can try for the facebook sponsored ads. You get targeted visitors to your site. Facebook will automatically show your advertisement to people having specific interests, likes and geographic locations. The more you pay, the more traffic you get on this.

   
Link Partnership- You can find other websites similar to yours and contact their administrators. You can enter into an agreement so that their advertisement is placed on yours and your advertisement is placed on their. Doing so will result in traffic exchange so that you will get some redirected visitors from them. Instead of simply placing links, you can place banners to attract more visitors. You can design attractive  banners using photoshop or flash. Click here to get your banners designed by professionals at very cheap rate.

   Traffic from search engines- The best way to get traffic is not to go after them but to make them come for you. Search engines can do major role in this. You know that , if you want to buy a product, then you search it in a search engine like google. As you have the keyword ‘buy’, the search engine will immediately come up with eBay. Similarly, if you search persons name, then facebook will come first in the result. This is because, these websites have a high search engine ranking. You have to do Search Engine Optimization (SEO). But, hold on, please don't pay money to websites offering SEO services. You may see them promising 1000 vistors in one day or so. Wasting money in these type of websites is of NO USE. What they do is, simply load your website address into a program that will generate proxy IPs and browse automatically. You will see visitor statistics in your website, and does not know that these are only mere computer generated bots. Doing so will never increase your search engine ranking. You have to give your website link to many blogs and forums. Search engines will automatically get your website to higher rank, as more sites and blogs link to you. You must be patient enough, for the search engines to do that. Usually it takes months to get listed in Google.

   
Other ways- If you are so serious about your website, then you can design some posters and distribute somewhere. You can even design business cards with your website address. Click here if you want your posters and business cards designed by professionals at a cheap rate. You may also advertise in news papers
 

4 comments:

  1. These are some great stats, and very important factors to consider when designing your blog! Thanks!

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  2. This blog really helps in increasing traffic to a site.

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  3. Really informative news for all...Thanks so much for this!
    Keep up the wonderful job.

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  4. I’m really impressed by a blog unique and perfectly chosen and organized!

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