How do people find your website when they are looking for information on a product or service? This question is at the top of the list for Internet marketers because without traffic to their websites of blogs, they won’t be making any money. You must get people to your site to read your posts, to click on your links and to purchase your products.
Precisely how do people find your website? Unless potential customers know that your site exists and its name or website address, they most likely will be typing search terms into Google, Bing, Yahoo or another Internet search engine. Search engines will return results. This means you need to get your website to rank high in the search engine results, as close to the first page, first listing as possible.
Thousands, even millions, of results might show up, and the chances that people will click through the pages to find and click on your link are slim if you are in the later pages of search engine page results. To climb up the ranks and place nearer the top, you need more inbound links from other websites that point to your website.
This page-ranking process means you need to get your site to rank high on the search engines. To climb up the ranks, you need more inbound links from other websites that point to your website. Google likes seeing that a healthy number of websites have found valuable information on your site, especially sites they consider reputable, authoritative websites.
How do you create inbound links to your site? Write articles and submit them to places like Ezine Articles, Go Articles and Articles Base, which are types of article directories. They allow you, with certain restrictions, to place a link in the article resource box that points toward your website. This link is called a back-link to your article. To generate more traffic to your article, create as many back-links as needed to push your article higher in the page rankings.
Social bookmarking sites also help bring traffic to your site. These sites are directories where people recommend your articles to others because they find them valuable and worth reading. When you submit a link to your website to a social bookmarking website, you are creating a back=link to your website.
Wealthy Affiliates provides tutorials that guide members through the intricacies of getting traffic to their websites. The experts here teach what has worked for them. Tips posted by other Internet marketers in the forums add additional insights and aid tremendously in your quest to increase your website’s profitability.
Many members at Wealthy Affiliate are experts at social bookmarking and can point out pitfalls of the latest, greatest place for getting back-links. They also share what sites work well, which ones are a waste of time and help keep the community up-to-date on the latest rule changes by the search engines.
Internet marketers have used video marketing to increase their traffic. They create videos and post them to You Tube and other video directories as a way to reach a whole new audience to drive to your website. These sites provide additional inbound links for you.
I love seeing my articles end up on the first page of Google, which doesn’t happen often. With some of the tips I have learned at Wealthy Affiliates, my articles do get there more often. Every day I learn something new, tweak one of my older articles and watch it climb a bit further up the SERPS, or Search Engine Results Pages.
How do people find your website? If you build it, will they come? Have you found methods that work for you? I’d love to hear more about them. If you would like to know more about how Wealthy Affiliate helps me attract traffic to my blogs, check out the tutorials at Wealthy Affiliate.
