Singing Pig

Does anyone know of how you can get your website..............in my case website to be...............more traffic and hits free ...............if there is such a thing....................oh  and web site designers sorry but  I have mine already sorted so I am not looking for your help unless you can advise me how to get more hits to my web site...........which be very kind.

Thanks

I'd like to know this as well.

Or is it a case of having to go down the google adsense route I wonder and paying for hits? 

HI Miiionare 2B

The obvious would be things like AD words through google etc.  But one of the most effective ways is obiviously to get your website from being number 111,999 in a search engines list to being on the first page the only really effective way of doin that g thisI have heard of is by having loads of links from other websites that point to yours.  This way the search engine robots can see that WoW all this other sites are pointing to yours there for you most be King in your little community and they start raising you up there list.

Google also have a master tools section on there site which in theory gives you advice on how to increase your website productivity.  the fact that you would have lots of other links from other websites to yours automatically means that you will get hit referals from them, so this increases your hit rate straight away, so even if you didn't move up quickly in the search engine list, you will be benefiting from more hits anyway so you probably wouldn't be to bothered.  LInk exchanges or some sort of incentive is the way to get others to advertise your site on there web page.

Hope this helps

Use the services of s Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) specialist. Expect to pay anywhere from £100 per month upwards for this service.

I'm lead to belive that this needs to be an ongoing exercise - hence the "monthly" figure.

Edited: I've decided not to use Adwords for the time being.

One of the best ways to bring hits in is to let the world know about your website.

Use websites like pr.com prleap.com etc.

I have a piece of software which I use to send my press releases around the web, just write once, submit and wait for the links.

If you want to know what it is, just contact me and I'll send you a link.

On adwords - unless you are working in a very specialist area, you will need a large budget.  Do some keyword research and find the 'long tail' key words and pay for those.

so instead of bidding on : property

try : cheap property in northern england

you'll get less hits, but they will be more relevant and Google will eventually reduce your cost per click as well.

hope this helps

Opel.

This is a big topic but as mentioned in previous posts, it's essentially about letting other people know you exist.

Adwords = pay for traffic. This works but can get expensive quite rapidly.

Press releases => there are numerous services on the web. Some are paid, some are free. Your item needs to be made newsworthy for it to stand a chance. You can either write it yourself, using one of the various guides on the web or printed, or pay someone to write it for you. Get a newsworthy angle - read the tabloids for a day or two to get an idea of what makes a story "work". In fact, splash out on a bunch of newspapers and see which non-news stories make some/all of them (non-news for me means something that didn't happen yesterday e.g. survey results)

Articles => write (or have written for you) articles that are published in the major article directories. Make sure your headline is catchy. Make sure your "author bio" is catchy as that's what you want people to click on for more info.

Links => ideally these should be one-way (into your site). Article bios count. So do links from blogs (make a relevant comment, maybe using a program like Comment Hut to help). YouTube videos, if appropriate, can drive traffic. Your own blog, regularly updated, can give you links. Host it on Blogger or Wordpress so it's an outside link. Write targetted articles and offer them to other sites for them to use as content providing you can have a link or two back to your site.

Viral stuff => pass-along ebooks can work. Either as free or rebrandable or cheap (e.g. under $10). Ideally with your links inside. Screensavers can have links inside them - get a decent one made on Rentacoder or Elance and give it away or sell it cheap. Camtasia tutorials can work as web content or viral content & can be made to go to your site once they have run their course.

Tutorials => email or web based. With enough information to make them useful but enough "still to come" to make people want to pay you for the remaining info.

Ebooks => promoted through Clickbank, etc. (With your links inside of course!)

Small classified ads can work to drive qualified traffic.

Rebrandable stuff => if you've done a Clickbank book for instance, offer a rebrandable item that people can distribute with their Clickbank link in it.

eBay => sell cheap stuff and use it to build your list.

Newsletters => set them up on an autoresponder service such as AWeber and then drive traffic to them from your articles. Each pre-written article can sell something and/or point to your site for more info. 

Something in that lot should appeal and keep you busy for a while!

Trevor 

A SEO expert I know runs his websites through "web position gold" Not cheap, but he swears by it. The sites he looks after have no 1 and 2 pos for important related keywords with google and yahoo.

 On a personal note my Half Price Holidays Forever site is now getting upwards of 1400 hits a month and adsense revenue is increasing pro rata.

Content is king IMO.