I’m often asked, “how do I get people to my site?” Of course that is the million dollar question. Everyone would love to have thousands of visitors to their website each day.

You can have a website that doesn’t convert well, but if you get enough traffic you can have great success. A ton of traffic overcomes bad conversion rates. Once you have traffic, you can always improve your conversion rates, but you first need traffic to determine your conversion rates.

So, this is how I go about getting traffic to a new website.

Blog Good Content

If you have web hosting and a domain, install a Wordpress blog on the domain. Wordpress is easy to install, and search engines love blogs. It’s common for me to see my blogs indexed in just a few days after making a few posts to them.

I often see my blog indexed before my main page, and since my main page is linked to by my blog, my main page gets indexed.

Write good content to your blog at least two times a week, every other day even better, or every day for the best results.

When writing to your blog, try to think of search terms people might use to look for the info you are providing – these are called keywords. Use the keywords in your title and in your blog post.

If you use keywords that are too popular, like “make money from home” searchers will never find you because of the expert competition. You want to find less popular keywords – sometimes called long tail keywords.

When you write a good blog post, Digg it, Stumble it, and submit it to Social Bookmarking services. Here is a good tool you can use – http://www.socialmarker.com/ (I don’t do this for every post I write, only my best).

I also submit my sites to the following sites which are not listed in Social Marker.

DoFollow Digg Clone

Tagzilla – This is a new site and still has a few bugs, but I think it will be a big one. You spend a few minutes giving link love to other sites and stories that you like, and others do the same for you.

Bloggingzoom – As the name implies, this is really for submitting your blog posts.

It takes a while to signup for all the social bookmarking sites, but they can bring you some good traffic and get you in the Google top ten for your chosen keywords.

Submit individual posts to the social bookmarking services, not the main blog page, and not your site main page. You can always link to your main page from your blog posts and from you sidebar links.

Only submit a post to the social bookmarking services once, and don’t do them all in one day. Spread the submissions out so they look natural.

Take your best posts and re-write them slightly so they are unique and submit them to http://ezinearticles.com and http://goarticles.com Have a Bio box that creates curiosity and points to your website. This is also known as Bum Marketing, and this is a great bum marketing resource .

Good content on your blog, and incoming links to your blog will build traffic, page rank and best of all – credibility. This in turn will lead to people visiting your money pages, and you making sales.

Get Incoming Links

Take some of your blog content, re-write it slightly again, or use new content and create a Squidoo lens , or a Hubpage , or even better – both. From the Squidoo lens, or HubPage, or both – link back to your blog, or your main page.

Submit your Squidoo lens to http://lensroll.com

Submit your blog RSS feed, your Squidoo RSS feed, and your Hubpage RSS feed to http://feedage.com and http://rss2.com

Another good way to get incoming links is to comment on blogs that are dofollow, this is becoming very popular, but you need to do it right.

I have a DoFollow Blog Resource dedicated to DoFollow Blog Information.

Commenting on dofollow blogs is something you will want to continue to do on an on-going basis.

Following these steps will definitely get you listed in the search engines, and if your keyword is not too competitive, they could land you on the first page of Google.

Mike

It’s really too bad that some people try to profit off of the hard work of others by stealing their article content.

I recently posted an article “DoFollow Blogs Versus NoFollow Blogs“  on Ezinearticles.com and GoAritcles.com.

I was happy to see that people were picking up my article and posting it on their blogs.  Unfortunately, one of the first that I know about that picked up the article was a blogger who is stealing my article content.

This blogger has my article, word for word on his blog with no references to me, or my “About the Author” box.  So, I did the work of creating a good article, and this idiot gets quality content for his blog with no, or very little, work.

It appears they scraped the content of the article and stripped off the Biography box.  This is a violation of the article directory policies, but they won’t go after violators, it’s up to the author to go after them.

I noticed other articles on the blog, and I suspect they were stolen just as mine was.

So, I have sent the blog owner a nice message, asking them to give me credit.  We’ll see how that goes.

This is the first time, that I know of, I have had an article used like this.

The only way I knew of this thief, was I have a Google Alert setup to look for the keywords “dofollow blogs”.

When I got my alert email today, I saw my article title.  I thought great, my article is starting to get picked up.  Then I went to the site to find there is absolutely no reference to me, or my site.

This type of behavior could make article marketing (Bum Marketing) absolutely worthless.

So, if you are doing article marketing I suggest you setup some Google Alerts related to your article titles so you can spot content thieves.

We all need to be diligent on finding these people, and confronting them nicely.  Then, if they take no action, we need to contact their web hosts and report them for copyright violations.

Oh great…the email I sent this person is a bad email address – I should have known that.  So, now what do I do?  Try to find them with Whois?

Guess I’ll try to find an email via their whois info.

If any of you have experience with this content theft kind of thing, please leave your experiences in the comments.

Mike