7 ways you can improve your site and increase site traffic:
7 simple way to improve your web trafficc for this year (2008)
- Keep Content Fresh - New
content is a great way to keep visitors coming back. Search engines
also rank sites with fresh content higher. Keeping an active blog is a
great way to keep your site new and fresh.
- Keep it Simple - Visitors
should be able to easily look around your site. If visitors are
frustrated and can't find what they are looking for, they are likely to
leave quickly and never come back or recommend your site to others.
- Help Visitors Contact You - Make
it simple for visitors to reach you if they want. Include a guestbook
or blog where they can post questions. Add a "contact me" form where
they can submit questions to you via email.
- Use Descriptive File Names - Use
descriptive keywords as names for the files (e.g., pictures, videos) on
your site. This will help your site appear more with search engines -
especially through things like Google Image Search.
- Create Links -
Getting links to your site from other websites will help generate more
traffic and improve your placement in search engines. Find other
Freewebs sites on your same topic and put a link to them on your site
-- maybe in a new "Favorite Links" page. Then ask those sites to link
back to you by signing their guestbook.
- Tag your Site - Adding
site tags can increase the number of times your site shows up in search
results. To pick the right keywords, try putting yourself in the shoes
of your visitors and think what they would search for if they wanted to
find your site.
- Liven Up Site with Widgets - Add widgets to help your visitors interact with your site, get useful information, or just have fun. They are free and easy to add.
How to be indexed quickly in Google
First I want to share with you this help material from Brad Callen :
Here it is :
You may or may not have heard people claim they can get listed in Google in only 1-2 days. It seems that nearly 100% of the people you run across in forums act like in order to get indexed by Google within 48 hours is some miracle feat that can only be accomplished by doing some "top secret" marketing tactic or advanced optimization strategy.
Well, the truth of the matteris...
Getting listed in Google in under 2 days is quite easy!
First let's talk about what NOT to do. This drives me absolutely crazy when I see people doing this, and is actually what I did at one time as well. After you read this lesson, DO NOT waste your time doing this. I repeat... DO NOT waste your time doing what I'm about to tell you.
The following URL might look familiar to you:
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
This is Google's actual website submission form. They state that you can use this form to submit your website to their index of websites and it can take up to 6 weeks for your website to be placed into their index.
I don't know about you, but 6 weeks is a heck of a long time to just wait to be placed in their index rotation, let alone get a top ranking!
Never Use The Google Submission Form!
You should never use this form, or any other of the top search engine's submission forms. These search engines include Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, Alltheweb.
So, how do you get your website indexed within 48 hours?
There are many methods, but for someone that has a new website and doesn't have tens of older websites already indexed by Google, there are 2 main ways I would suggest to get indexed into Google quickly. Note, when I say "Google", I'm basically referring to Google, Yahoo, and MSN.