How to Drive Traffic to Your Website or Blog Post

Tips to drive traffic to your website

Creating a website or a blog post can be a fun way to express yourself, and sometimes, creating a website can even earn you some extra money. But what's the point if you have no visitors (i.e. traffic) that link to your site? Below are some valuable tips on how to drive traffic to your website.

First, write what you know. Make sure the content of your website contains information on a subject matter that you know. If you have a hobby or contain knowledge and it's important enough for you to take the time to share it, chances are there are millions of others who share the same interests or need knowledge you can offer. If you put up content that you have no knowledge of, people will know, and eventually you will lose their following.

Second, use keywords in your content or blog posts that will attract visitors. Keywords are short terms or phrases that a user will type in to a search engine to find information on a topic. There are some free programs available, such as Google AdWords that will help you find frequently utilized terms or phrases entered in a search box to find information on the subject matter that you are providing on your website. Consider this: What phrase would you type in to a search engine to find more information on your topic?

Third, make it personal. When creating a website or blog post, followers should be made to feel like they know you, would like to know you, or know that you have extensive and reliable knowledge on information that they seek. Place pictures of yourself doing what you are putting on your website, or pictures and/or videos of step by step instructions on how to complete a project. Also, make sure you have a bio of your background that relates to your website, along with a picture of yourself.

Additionally, try to make your website to the follower interactive by asking for input, or requesting other ideas to post. Make sure to respond to each follower. By creating an interactive environment, you will have a continual stream of new ideas to post on your website, and you will create a group of 'return' visitors.

Lastly, use social media to spread the word about your website or blog post. Do you remember the commercial that promoted the saying; "you tell two friends, and they'll tell two friends, and so on and so on and so on..."? That's the point here. Let your family and friends know that you have a new website on <insert your website content here> through Facebook, Twitter or other social media programs that you use. Spread the word and you will create traffic to your site in no time.

Driving traffic to your website is easy if you keep the above points in mind. Remember: stick to the basics and don't overcomplicate this process for yourself. The reality is, if you write with what you know, use keywords that help navigate an audience to your website, make your website personal, and promote using the most powerful social media tools available to you, the readers will flock to your content and you'll gain new and keep loyal readership.

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Back Link Building Service: What Is a Quality Link?

If you are going to hire a back link building service to help your site to rank better you have to make sure that they are able to provide you with quality links. This of course raises the question of just what is a quality link? You need to know this before you hire somebody to build them to your site.

The most important thing in determining whether a link is a quality one or not is where on the page it is coming from. For a time it was common for people to get hundreds of links to their sites by commenting on blogs. These links no longer have any real value, the same is true to a lesser extent to links that appear in the side bar. The links that have the most value are the ones that appear in the main text of the site.

The next important factor in determining the quality of the link is the number of other links that are on the same page. Basically the more links that are on the page the less value they will have. This is so that sites that are built simply as a page full of links will be reduced in value. Ideally the link to your site would the only one on the page. Realistically this won't be the case and one link for every couple of hundred words of text would still be considered a quality link.

Another important factor in determining whether or not a link is a quality one or not is the topic of the site that it comes from. Links that come from sites that are on topics that are related to yours are far more valuable than links that come from unrelated sites. That is not to say that you should avoid getting links from unrelated sites, it is just that they won't have as much value.

The last factor that goes into determining the quality of a link is the number of links that are going to the site that the link came from. This is determined by page rank for Google, other search engines have different ways of determining this. Basically sites that have a lot of quality links pointing at them are considered to be quality links so the links from them are the most valuable ones.

The best link that you could possibly get would be as the only link in the text from a site on a relevant topic that has a page rank of ten. These links are not easy to get and it would only take a couple of them to get your site to the top of the search results. In reality most of your links will be much lower quality but you do still want to get the best ones that you can.

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