Increase Traffic To Your Web Site: Seven Ways To Get Incoming Links
If you have a Web site, congratulations! You have given future customers a means of finding you no matter what time of day or night they might be searching for your products or services.
Now you need to get more traffic to visit your online place of business.
Here are seven ways to get incoming links to your site you shouldn't ignore.
1.
Tell people to visit your Web site.
This method is obvious yet it is often overlooked because of its simplicity.
Help people remember how to find you by including your URL on all electronic, printed, and promotional material you distribute.
Mention your company and your Web site on your business cards and letterhead, in your e-mail signature, on your fax cover sheet, in your sales flyers, in the introduction and back copy of your books, on your video clips, in your teleseminars and Webinars, in your speeches and live presentations, and on your trade show or opt-in giveaways.
Include a live link to your site in your author resource box for your Ezine Articles and your blog.
Include it in e-courses, social networking profiles, and books created for e-readers, too.
Mention your Web site wherever and whenever you can without being obnoxious to potential customers, current clients, and acquaintances.
2.
Join your Chamber of Commerce.
Make sure they include your correct Web site URL in your company profile and in the Chamber's online and print directories.
Include your domain name on business cards, brochures, fax cover sheets, checks, and promotional materials as well as in e-mails when networking and doing business with Chamber members.
3.
Get involved with professional associations in your niche.
List your company and Web site URL in business directories and in your signature line when you answer questions or make comments on forums.
If you are submitting an article to an industry publication, include your domain name in your author biography.
4.
Direct your readers to your Web site.
Repeatedly create high-quality content that addresses problems or needs faced by your audience.
Publish this material in Chamber magazines, professional newsletters, or commercial publications.
Share valuable information in your blog and newsletter as well as on social networking sites.
Always include a way for people to find your site.
5.
Add thoughtful, valuable information to other people's blogs.
Answer a question.
Post a comment.
Add value to the conversation.
Get to know other bloggers and guest blog for each other.
Always include your name and your domain name.
6.
Record short audios or videos that solve common problems faced by your target market.
Post your recordings with keyword-rich titles or headings that promise answers.
Be sure to include your Web site URL in your presentations.
Spell it out letter by letter, including the "dot com," if there is a chance you will be misunderstood.
7.
Offer a special contest, prize, discount, or affiliate reward.
Post the details on your Web site.
Publicize to your newsletter audience, your article and blog readers, your fans and followers on social networking sites, and those you meet at networking events.
Offer them an added incentive or reward for directing people to your URL.
Measure your current number of Web site visitors then try each one of these seven ways to get incoming links.
At the end of a month, a quarter, or some other time period you pre-determine, take another look at your site metrics-especially referring sources-and decide which methods are best for you for leading visitors to your online presence then keep doing what works to increase traffic to your Web site.
Now you need to get more traffic to visit your online place of business.
Here are seven ways to get incoming links to your site you shouldn't ignore.
1.
Tell people to visit your Web site.
This method is obvious yet it is often overlooked because of its simplicity.
Help people remember how to find you by including your URL on all electronic, printed, and promotional material you distribute.
Mention your company and your Web site on your business cards and letterhead, in your e-mail signature, on your fax cover sheet, in your sales flyers, in the introduction and back copy of your books, on your video clips, in your teleseminars and Webinars, in your speeches and live presentations, and on your trade show or opt-in giveaways.
Include a live link to your site in your author resource box for your Ezine Articles and your blog.
Include it in e-courses, social networking profiles, and books created for e-readers, too.
Mention your Web site wherever and whenever you can without being obnoxious to potential customers, current clients, and acquaintances.
2.
Join your Chamber of Commerce.
Make sure they include your correct Web site URL in your company profile and in the Chamber's online and print directories.
Include your domain name on business cards, brochures, fax cover sheets, checks, and promotional materials as well as in e-mails when networking and doing business with Chamber members.
3.
Get involved with professional associations in your niche.
List your company and Web site URL in business directories and in your signature line when you answer questions or make comments on forums.
If you are submitting an article to an industry publication, include your domain name in your author biography.
4.
Direct your readers to your Web site.
Repeatedly create high-quality content that addresses problems or needs faced by your audience.
Publish this material in Chamber magazines, professional newsletters, or commercial publications.
Share valuable information in your blog and newsletter as well as on social networking sites.
Always include a way for people to find your site.
5.
Add thoughtful, valuable information to other people's blogs.
Answer a question.
Post a comment.
Add value to the conversation.
Get to know other bloggers and guest blog for each other.
Always include your name and your domain name.
6.
Record short audios or videos that solve common problems faced by your target market.
Post your recordings with keyword-rich titles or headings that promise answers.
Be sure to include your Web site URL in your presentations.
Spell it out letter by letter, including the "dot com," if there is a chance you will be misunderstood.
7.
Offer a special contest, prize, discount, or affiliate reward.
Post the details on your Web site.
Publicize to your newsletter audience, your article and blog readers, your fans and followers on social networking sites, and those you meet at networking events.
Offer them an added incentive or reward for directing people to your URL.
Measure your current number of Web site visitors then try each one of these seven ways to get incoming links.
At the end of a month, a quarter, or some other time period you pre-determine, take another look at your site metrics-especially referring sources-and decide which methods are best for you for leading visitors to your online presence then keep doing what works to increase traffic to your Web site.
