How to improve website traffic?

This article for the submission from Tristan, is a translation of the article, the article is relatively long, but if you have a website or blog, many methods are still worth learning.

Traffic is the currency in the network. The larger the website traffic, the easier it is to reach the target: make money, spread ideas, interact with others, or whatever.

That's why I'm writing this article on 100 ways to improve web traffic. Just use some (or most) of the following methods to make sure your traffic increases dramatically.

Blog

1. Add blogs to your site. If the site is static (Tristan: For example, a corporate web site or an online store), consider adding a blog to go and update the content regularly. This will not only attract repeat customers, but also get more traffic from the search engines. Need blog software, of course, is WordPress. (Free and easy to use)

2. Leave a message on the other person's blog. Develop a habit of visiting blogs in niche target markets and leaving messages. The comments will allow you to leave a link, and some visitors may have clicked on your site. Visit alltop to see which blogs are in your niche market.

3. Submit a submission to the reader. Most blogs welcome readers to contribute. Bloggers allow you to contribute to them, and usually the article will keep the author's signature pointing to your website. Send the article to the blogger to see if he will publish the article as a reader, it is so simple.

4. Sponsorship Blog competition. A popular practice in the blogosphere is to play blog games. You can sponsor a competition, offer prizes or bonuses, and bloggers will leave a link to your site on the game page.

5. Participate in the blog carnival. A blog Carnival is an online activity in which bloggers gather to write about a topic. At the end of the day, the organizers of the carnival usually write a summary article, which gives the article links to each participant, and the participants usually link to each other's article page. You can organize a carnival with your friends, or find a blogcarnival.com on the table.

6. Networking. There is a saying that "it is better to be a man than to be able." "This also applies to website promotion, meet the blogger, the webmaster to make friends, they will be happy to put a link to your site, and bring traffic." But before that you should probably link to their website or contact them by e-mail.

Subscription

7. Publish RSS feeds. Publish RSS feeds to facilitate readers to subscribe to blogs via RSS reader. So as long as the blog is updated, they are automatically notified of updates, which is a good way to ensure that they can read the updated article also prompted them to regularly visit the site.

8. Use of FeedBurner. If you want to facilitate the management of RSS, you should register a FeedBurner account. This service is completely free, and there are many useful features, such as statistical subscriber information, with various customization options, and so on. FeedBurner also makes the content of the blog output well compatible with most browsers and RSS readers, without losing subscribers for technical reasons.

9. Provide email subscriptions. Many users do not use RSS, the provision of e-mail subscriptions is very necessary, fortunately, the use of FeedBurner is easy to achieve. Simply activate the "publicize" feature in FeedBurner and paste the subscribed link into the Web site.

10. Create an email newsletter (email newsletter). The email subscription can be optimized to create an email newsletter, which can effectively control the content pushed to the subscriber's mailbox. For example, define an automatic push rule that sends specific content to a subscriber's mailbox at a specific time. You need an email marketing software to do this, like using Aweber software. (Tristan: This is a paid solution)

Content for the King

11. First-hand news of the material. If your site is the first news source, there will be a lot of talk about this site links to you, the flow of course also went up.

12. Write a controversial article. If you can successfully write a controversial article, people will naturally link to your article when arguing, whether they agree with your point of view or, most of the time, disagree. The result is, of course, a significant increase in traffic.

13. Write a list of "Top 10". Internet people like the "Ten xx" list, the form of simple and understandable, but also can contain valid information. (such as ten XX resources, ten tips, etc.)

14. Write a list of "Top 100". "Top 100" is certainly more useful if you have a large amount of traffic on the list of "10". This article is an example. Because such articles can be aggregated to sum up valuable things, it is natural for people to tag this article in a bookmark and share it.

15. Write a "General course" for doing sth. People are willing to learn new things, especially skills that can solve their problems. Make sure your tutorials are as detailed as possible and visitors will flock.

16. Publish an interview. If the interviewee has a blog or a website, the effect will be better, the other party will give a link to the interview article, his visitors also clicked over.

17. Use festivals or recurring events as a topic. Write some of the events related to festivals or regular events, and the flow of traffic will increase greatly. such as Christmas, elections, the Olympic Games, the World Cup and so on festivals and events.

Link Bait

18. Create a test. People like to do tests (Tristan: This is the kind of game test), if you can come up with an interesting test, the visitor will not only be willing to do it, but also share it with their friends, so the traffic will increase. To proprofs.com, you can easily create tests.

19. Write a list. For example, publishing a "50 of the hottest women entrepreneurs" is a list that uses people's curiosity to bring in a lot of traffic.

20. Write a website ranking. Like the previous strategy, write a list of websites, such as "25 best weight loss blogs." The webmaster of the site is certainly willing to give a link to this article (Tristan: If you can get in touch with them to tell them that this list, the effect is better, more traffic).

21. Put a funny picture. At the end of a busy day, people may just want to have some fun and relax. A funny picture can satisfy everyone's wishes, but also can increase the flow. Where can I find pictures? Look at the pics section on the Reddit.

22. Create an information graph. If you are creative and also like to do research, you can try to create an information graph, which is also a good way to attract other people's links and traffic. Click here for a tutorial to help you create one.

Free strategy

23. Publish an ebook. This is one of the most effective ways to get traffic. Write an attractive ebook, put it on the website, send an email to the bloggers and webmasters in the niche market and attach a direct download address. The more useful the information in the book, the more people share the comments and the more traffic there is.

24. Create a free CSS template. CSS templates are very popular on the web, and submitting templates to CSS catalogs will always be used by many people. Put a link in the footer point to your site, will certainly get some traffic.

25. Write a free WordPress theme. You can also translate CSS templates directly into a WordPress theme (or create a new theme from scratch). With millions of users in WordPress, submitting your topic to the directory (including the official topic directory) There will always be a lot of people downloading your topic.

26. Make a cheat sheet. Cheat sheets are very popular on the internet and you will definitely find a huge increase in the number of visitors you can make. For example, take a look at this article that lists more than 30 Web development memos.

27. Provide resources for Web design. The web design community is one of the most active communities on the web, and providing them with resources is a good way to increase traffic. such as the provision of icon sets, fonts, textures, Photoshop brushes and so on similar resources.