HOW TO BUILD TRAFFIC TO YOUR WEBSITE AND MAKE MORE MONEY
Tons of traffic is often a result of luck and luck is something that we can't put all our faith in. Again, go with strategies that are proven to work! Here are some useful tips that will work every time.
Don't use domain forwarding - get a domain name that is hosted by and tied to your hosting account
To find a good web host, visit our web hosting review. With most web hosting companies you can get an account where you can have multiple domain names tied to one account. With GoDaddy for example, you'll need a Premium Plan for this to work. Google doesn't like forwarded domains because they're more difficult to handle. The search engine doesn't know whether it should prioritize the domain name itself or the address it's forwarded to. You'll want all your pagerank and credits to be stored into one address and not for the two of them to compete with each other. Plus there are some affiliate networks and link databases that will need a verification in the html head tag which can't be done unless the DNS is set to the right location.
Another aspect is website statistics. You won't be able to see what search results brought visitors to your site if your domain is forwarded. (In that case the forwarded domain name will always come up as the referral.)
Make your site appear in search engines
The easiest way for your site to be found by search engines is to post a link to it from another site or from a blog. Another great tip is to write an article related to your site and post it to one of those free article databases out there such as Articles Base or Ezine Articles.
No matter what you do and regardless of your site's pagerank, your site will appear in search engines if it's keyword rich.
Keywords
How do you determine what keywords to focus on? Well, first of all, go to Google Adwords Keyword Tool and type in some words to get suggestions of phrases and a hint on how many searches are done per month on your particular topic. Then go to Google and try to figure out who your competitors are. If your getting a lot of sites with a pagerank 5 or more on the first page in Google when searching for your keywords, you might want to consider using keywords with less competition.
Having determined your keywords the time has come to cleverly use them throughout your pages. The most important things that search engines look for are words in the html title tag, the meta description tag, what's within the H1, H2 and H3 (headline) tags and the text itself. Use the keywords a lot, but not too much. Try to write for people as well as search engines. If you worry too much about search engines your pages will end up spammy.
It's important that your website content is unique and informative. Search engines are intelligent enough to identify unique content and your visitors will appreciate it more.
Pagerank
To check your site's pagerank, go to Pagerank me. If your pages are keyword rich and if your pages have unique content you won't have to worry so much about pagerank provided you're not in a too competitive area. You will get visitors to your website. However, pagerank can be very useful to gain some popularity over your competitors.
The most effective way to get pagerank is to go to webmaster and SEO forums and trade links with others. Make sure they're quality links, that is, the websites you're trading links with should be relevant to the topic of your site.
Website statistics
Once your site is up and running it's important to check where your visitors are coming from so that you can improve the content. Sitemeter is one of the best statcounters out there. It's free and has many useful features such as key word referrals. This tool will help you determine what keywords brought visitors to your site. It also has statistics over what countries your visitors come from and your visitors' browsers.
