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How To Increase Your Website Traffic

Increasing your website traffic simply means that increasing the number of visitors to your website. In order to have high traffic to your website, you need to know how google search engine rank the websites and how google spiders and robots crawl. Learn how google search engine works here.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

How to increase your website traffic and get displayed in the top ranking of google search result is definitely depends on the SEO. Links, keywords, spam, backlink or inbound link, link farm, site map, page rank .... and many more are related to your website traffic and ranking. You can read all these at the wikipedia search engine optimization page. I recommend you to read through the wikipedia page, not all but at least those topics you think is important to your website traffic and aspects you need to improve on. I'll emphasize on explaining some useful information below.

Inbound Links

One of the most important factor for determining your website ranking in search engine is the number of inbound links you have (links from other website to yours). Getting a great amount of inbound links ensure your website to be top ranked in search engine. However, you should note that inbound link that comes from reliable and top-ranking website is a more valuable link and is given more weight by the search engine compared to others.

How To Get A Great Number of Inbound Links

- Unique & Useful Website Content (quality)

Well, the key to have a great traffic is to have a nice and unique website content. By having unique and great content, others may put a link to your website from their webpages and you'll get more inbound links and also more traffic. Also, by having great content your visitors will revisit your website again and again. It is important to have your visitors revisit your website so that you can maintain high traffic of your website. You can do so by constantly updating your website and have them informed that your website has been updated. You can do so by using commonly used twitter, facebook and rss feed.

- Website With Many Pages (quantity)

Besides, it is best if you have many pages for your website (must have good content too and definitely not duplicate content). This will help you in page rank as there is a term called cross linking used by google search engine. This is because when you create more pages for your website, you are giving more links to the main page of your website and this will increase your page rank used by search engine. It is recommended that you have at least10 to 20 pages for your website.

- Forums Participation

Another way of getting inbound links is through forum. Many forums provide the signature function for you. That means every time you post a thread or a reply, your signature will be shown on every post you made. Most people will have a link that point to their own website in their signature because every post they made will drive a certain ammount of traffic to their own website in 2 different ways. One of the way is for those who are reading the post, they may click on the direct link on the signature, and another benefit way is that you get more inbound links and directly affect the page rank of your website in search engine.

Inbound Links Quality - Links that draw the most traffic

Here is the important note about how to get the most benefit from the inbound links you created with the methods described below. To have a high value of inbound links from search engine, your inbound links are best to

have anchored text that is related to your website - (you should have your link like "flash games website" but not "click here" to visit my flash game website).
come from website that has the similar content or content related to your anchored text and your website - (if your website is related to game, you should have your inbound links in game website or forum)
come from a top ranking and reliable website - (since that website has high traffic and ranking, you will get more traffic benefit from that)

Submission To Open Directory Project (DMOZ)

I recommend you to submit your website toDMOZ since it is free and will help you in getting great amount of traffic. DMOZ is not a search engine but if you submit your website to them, they will review your website. If your website happened to get approved, you will get your website submitted to many other search engines automatically. One thing you should note is that DMOZ is very selective and approves only those website with useful information and great content. Since the website submitted need to be reviewed by human in DMOZ, it took around 2 weeks to several months to get your website approved. You may have your website rejected by DMOZ but you should know that many other web developer get their website rejected too. However it is definitely worth to have a try as those things you cant get easily are of better quality most of the time.

Subscription To RSS Feed

Subscription is becoming more and more popular. Why do people want to get subscription from visitors? This is because with subscription, you can send your updates and related information to your subscribers and when they read those information you provided, you are indirectly promoting your website to them by having a link to your website. With rss feed, you'll have more loyal visitors and a constant traffic by sending them information regularly.

Other Available Methods

There are many other methods to drive traffic to your website that you might want to try it out.

Using reciprocal links (you will have to request from other website owner),
Through advertisement (i.e. using google adwords),
Create videos to promote your website (can get a lot of traffic from you tube, metacafe and more)
Create a blog for your website,
Create a forum for your website, (learn how to create your own forum here)
Through facebook and twitter.

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