Traffic is the lifeblood of any website. Without traffic, your website, no matter how good it is, is meaningless.
Search Engine Optimization is very important, getting a good ranking for your niche is essential, but I often come across people who are too focused on their ranking. If they drop from two to three for one sentence, they will spend weeks obsessively trying to get their ranking back up.
It is maddening and if this is your case, I recommend you stop for a while. In fact, for a whole month don’t look at your search engine rankings. I know it sounds crazy and it’s as hard as quitting smoking or eating ice cream, but give it a try. The reason is that it will allow you to focus on “alternative” methods of generating laser-targeted traffic. It will give you the freedom to broaden your reach to drive different ways to drive website traffic.
Well, let me give you a simple idea to drive website traffic to your website. This is an idea I discovered myself and hardly anyone is doing it.
Image Marketing: Do you know how many daily searches there are in the Google image search engine? Million. It’s not as much as the text results, but it’s huge. Virtually no one takes advantage of it. So let’s put this marketing method on a solid example. Let’s say your site is about golf. Create a jpeg or gif image with bullet points describing all the cool things a person will find on your website. Maybe your golf website (again, this is just an example) is all about how to lower your golf scores. So create an image that tells people what kinds of things they will learn on your website to lower their scores. Next, very importantly, title your image with a keyword-rich title. In this example, you would title the image lower-golf-score.jpg. Then upload it to your website and wait for it to get indexed. But don’t just put it on your site, also upload it to sites like TinyPic.com and other free image sites. Free image hosting sites will not only get indexed faster, but drive traffic. When uploading to sites like TinyPic, be sure to add keyword-rich tags. They have a place to do that and these tags will help your image show up when people search for TinyPic.
Another good thing about this method is that Google cannot read the image content, so duplicate content is not a problem. Want to compete for a new phrase, just change the caption of your image and bingo, upload it again.
There you go. This is just an example to boost website traffic. There are dozens of other ways that you can easily figure out…