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

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Getting Traffic to A New Site