5 Ways Increase Web Site Traffic Fast!

For those of you who want the answers with as little fluff as possible, here it is. Follow these steps and watch your traffic grow. Remember that your objective it to make as many people as possible aware of your website and recommending your site to their friends.

1) Give away downloadable products, services, or information to entice visitors to join. This is a great way to thank visitors to join your site as well as give them the ability to sample your products.

2) Start a direct marketing campaign via email. Direct marketing can be a great tool to initially drive traffic to your site. This combined with step #1 , free products, will drastically increase your conversion rate from visitor to member. I have included a link below that I have personally used for my direct marketing campaigns. They are very helpful and affordable.

http://www.americaint.com/

3) Post interesting, informative or helpful information, in your niche market on the following websites. Remember to include a link back to your website in the signature of your post. This is a great way to increase your back links and page rank in google. It does take work but your efforts will be well rewarded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page <--- Lots of traffic and a good source of high quality back links

http://groups.yahoo.com <--- Large communities to email your message to

http://www.blogspot.com <--- Moderate and steady traffic

http://groups.google.com <--- Good page rankings and moderate traffic delivered to your site

http://www.youtube.com

http://www.metacafe.com

4) Submit interesting, informative or helpful articles, in your niche market on the following websites. Remember to include a link back to your website in the author section of the article. This is a great way to leverage your work and get quality back links.

http://www.articlesbase.com <--- Simple and easy to submit articles. My personal favorite.

http://www.webpronews.com

http://www.ezinearticles.com

http://www.submityourarticle.com/main.php

5) Link exchanges are extremely important. This can become a full time job but you must link with as many, complimentary, high quality websites as possible. Make it a weekly objective to link exchange with between 5 and 10 websites a week.

Now that is it. Five simple steps that you perform daily and you will see your traffic and sales grow by leaps and bounds.

Next week I will be writing an article on great tools to monitor your page rank, alexa ranking, back link quality and more. So stay tuned and don't miss my next issue.