How to increase traffic to your website.

So you have a blog and like most of the people you may have a problem “ How to get visitors” or “ My visitor count is declining”, I hope through this article I can help you get more eyeballs to your blog/website in legitimate and organic way and hopefully solve your problem of getting more traffic to your website.

So you have decided to start a blog and you bought a domain for it, but hey what is this your blog is about cars and you bought a domain name of something like cloths.com or the like. This is a major mistake because your domain name should be same or relevant to the topic of your blog. If you have decided to write a personal blog then it is better to name it something like myblog.com or likewise. Your domain name should not be too large either like if your blog is about cars then try to have a domain name like cars.com, cars.net ( Although it is very difficult to get a domain name this simple ). too big domain names or website urls are difficult to remember and so you may loose some of your visitors ( it is much easy to remember the domain nae cars.com then over mypassionforcarforyouall.com, isn't it). Also avoid symbols like “-” in your doamin name or your url.

Layout of your blog is very important from both SEO and visitor point of view. A website with good layout will have clear mapping of various pages , like there will be a main page usually that is index page and this page will link to all other pages on your website like links to about us, blogposts, contact us page. It becomes very easy for a search engine spider to crawl through various pages of your website which ha since layout. Apart from this a website with good layout will make a website look more professional and user friendly. It is not very difficult to create a website with good layout , you can create your own website from scratch if you a have some knowledge of web designing or if you are willing to spend some money you can create it professionally there are ample of companies offering web designing services. You can also use wordpress templates most of them are free and of very nice layout . There is one more way, you can buy premium templates and use it in your blog with few clicks no technical knowledge will be needed in this case.

It is very important to write on topics relevant to your blog's theme or your blog's title. What is the point of writing about fashion on a financial blogs? This could cause your visitors to eventually flee, because, suppose you have a blog on finance and then the visitors to your blog may be interested in financial matters , so if you write about fashion then this may or may not be liked by your readers and as a result you may loose your readers. You can write on different topics if you have a personal blog , a personal blog is a blog where you write on any topic you like it is not necessary that you write about fiance only , you may also write about fashion or your views on fashion .

One more thing absurd content is a strict no. I have seen many blogs which have absurd content in it , like a single blog post or a you tube embedded video and lots of ads on it. These type of websites gives an impression of spam websites and eventually serch engines also dislike these type of sites.

That is right, the sole purpose of your blog is to provide nice and relevant content to your readers . Thus, well written articles are the priority. It is not about posting hundreds of absurd articles but to post a few neatly written well formatted articles. This is true with even sites like triond, hubpages, squidoo, suite101 and other article sharing sites. A good article also brings in much traffic then numerous badly written articles. Good and relevant content also plays an important role in SEO ( search engine optimization) , because search engines are constantly in search of new , informative and well written articles.

So you have a blog but you ran out of ideas and are probably not writing articles for your blog. Suddenly you thought of copying from other article sharing sites and pasting in your blog, since content is king so a well written article can easily bring in more eye balls to your blog, Right? Wrong, when I say content is king I mean nice written and unique content. A content in your blog will cause your site to be banned by google and mostof the major search engines. If your site is not listed in any of the search engines then how are you going to get visitors. It is fact that copying content is not a permissible practice in the world of writing. Although you may read a lot of articles and may take ideas from them and depending on those ideas you may write your own articles with your creativity, this is most acceptable and ethical practice. Moreover even your readers may not like to read copied content.

So you have a nice website and you are getting a decent amount of visitors, and now you thought of making benefit from your website , so you applied to google adsense or chitika or similar ad networks, and there , hey, your site is accepted by one of the ad network, good, now you placed the ad codes on your blog. Ok that is fine everybody with a website will like to earn passive income from his own website, there is nothing wrong in it. After a few days you saw that your visitors are decreasing and loyal reader to your blog are declining, so what will be the problem, is it that ad networks are not like by search engines and you are loosing visitors fast? No this is not right , it is not like that search engines don't like you to earn money through the network ads but the problem may be something different. Possibly you may have supersaturated your website with enormous amount of ads and this is a real problem. Website visitors will not like to visit your website if your site contains too much of ads , it is unpleasant and often annoying to visitors. Consider it in this way, If a website is a road then the ads are like street hawkers and the by passers like visitors. What if the street is too much crowded with hawkers , would you like to walk on such street? This is the problem with too many ads on your website. Remember don't become greedy with ad networks.

A tag is a keyword which the search engine identifies your website or blog post with. So to write a tag think of the ways you would like to search your article on web and write those exact keywords, but never stuff up any of your blog post with keywords or keywords which does not at all appear in your article/blog post, it is unethical .

This technique is common to both blog and sites like triond and hubpages or other article sharing sites. Link your blogposts with relevant blogposts written ago. This type of interlinking is very favorable step in SEO.

A backlink is a link pointing towards your website . It is assumed that most of the search engines value backlinks towards your website , that is, the more backlinks you have the more will be your page rank (PR) on google or other search engines.

However there is a catch, the backlink from a higher pagerank website will eventually be of more importance then a backlink from a website of lower pagerank . There are many ways by which you can get backlinks to your website legitimately and organicaly, I said legitimately because there are certain services on net which offer you backlinks for some money ( you may have encountered ads showing “ 1000 high quality backlinks for $10” and like these) most of these are spam and search engines don't like it because it sounds spammy when you get 1000 backlinks atonce , sometimes search engines penalizes your site by banning it, so beware. To getbacklinks legitimately you can use following ways:

• Create an email template and in the signature paste your blog's/website's url

• participate in forums and use your url in the signature section.

• Social bookmarking link building is also a nice option . Social bookmarking sites like stumbleupon,digg,reddit e.t.c are a great source for backilinks.

• Social networking sites like facebook, twitter, myspace are also a good source of backlinks, share yourblog post with your friends on facebook or tweet about your blogpsot on twitter, and there you getbacklink and direct visitors to your website.

Social bookmarking and netwrking are one of the best ways of getting traffic . By these methods you may get direct visitors and backlinks too. Social bookmarking sites like stumbleupon and digg can give you a burst of organic and targeted visitors to your website in a very short span of time but the only requirement is that your site should be liked by the community members of the social bookmarking . Social networking on the other hand is a good way of sharing your work with your friends on sites like facebook, twitter and myspace.

Don't spam your website with unnecessary ads and irritating pop-ups. If you are an affiliate marketer or wants to sell something to your visitors then do it in more friendly way , that is, rather then aggressively marketing try to build customer relations but again selling something aggressively could make your visitors flee your website.

Ping each and every blogpost after publishing. Ping has different meanings in different contexts but here it means a request send to the search engines to crawl through your website or more simply submitting to a search engine. You can do this manually by going to every search engines submission page or you can make use of certain pinging services.

Don't just write when on a blog also enjoy it as a community . This is common to both whether you have websites/ blog or whether you are writing for triond,hubpages, squidoo. Read others blog posts , p[ost your sincere comments , this way you can build relations with fellow bloggers and also enjoy it.

I personally discourage this method of traffic generation as it is , to some search engines and ad networks, unethical and intolerable, but if you are desperate to get visitors then this is a sure shot technique to get visitors. For those who do not know what a traffic exchange is , let me explain it for you. A traffic exchange is a website where you view others website for a fixed amount of time usually 5 s- 30s and then at the end of that time period you receive credits which you can use to get traffic to your website for the same amount of time. The major criticism to this method is that the visitors you get from such sites are those who are not interested in what you have written but rather they are doing it for the same reason you are here, thus the quality of traffic is very poor and you are at a rick of loosing your google adsence account if you use trafficexchange with your adsence website.