I am sure you all want that your website would have a lot of traffic, you want to be known and wanted (or even admired) for what you are doing and what you are selling. A good or huge traffic is also good for business - even if you are not selling anything you can make good money from online advertisement.
I am not going to tell you some bulletproof methods to boost your traffic over night, but you can get that boost for short periods of time. I am telling you three things that work every time and in almost any situations (as long there is no problem with the website itself or the content):
- what I've already told you about SEO is perfect for improving your traffic. That means that your webpage should be fully optimized for the search engines (with the metatags, title, h1 to h6 tags, URLs and everything else), it should have unique content and targeted to specific subjects, you should choose interesting and catchy titles, and so on.
- you should post the URLs, their titles and a short description (if it is possible) to the highly visited places over the internet. Their traffic could improve your traffic once the visitors see your titles and consider them interesting to access.
- never give up. The statistics say you will almost never get the desired results from the beginning. I steady high traffic for your website can be obtain only by hard work promoting that website as good as you can.
I must remind you that if you "overdo" the SEO (when you use black hats methods or you use too many elements of on-page SEO with few or no content) sooner or later you will be penalized or banned by the search engines.
The list of the highly visited places over the internet is very long, I'll try to give you some examples I know that have valid results. Social networks always works, but you already know that: you have opened at least few titles shared by your friends until now. You might not realize that their links were a way to improve the traffic, but it's true. So, use Twitter, use Facebook - they are well known, they have millions and millions of user logging in every day. Hi5 was a big hit some time ago, but lately it's not so important.
Aggregators like Tehnorati, Digg, Stumbleupon and Reddit are also great for boosting your traffic. Don't rush into getting too many backlinks over there, even if they are letting you (in some reasonable limits)... you might get penalized.
Write articles and post them on websites like GoArticles and EnzineArticles and backlinking them to your site will not boost your traffic at once, but they will get you some steady traffic in time.
As I said, don't give up. No matter how much time it will take you to get your desired traffic on your site you will get it. You can do it yourself or get help.
