How to Boost Your Website Traffic, Today

By Ciara Carruthers


Building said successful website is much more difficult than defining it, however. To build a high trafficked website, one must achieve both factors of the following equation: [Great content] + [Lots of inbound links] = Lots of traffic

Adding great content over time and developing a link building strategy is a sure fire way to a profitable and valuable website. With steady work, on a daily or at least weekly basis, a website owner can start to see results within a year.

However, some of us don’t have the patience to wait that long. So, are there ways to build traffic TODAY? Yes. The following methods have all proven to be efficient ways of increasing traffic in the short term. Combine these methods with the above equation and you will create a successful website…right now.

Create viral marketing for your website

When you start out, you don’t have so many links pointing into your site. People just don’t know you exist. So, a fine way to spread the word is through viral marketing.

Viral marketing is essentially an way of getting people to notice your site in a way that spreads by itself. Hence the word ‘viral’. It acts as a virus does. Techniques include; ‘Tell a friend’ buttons, del.i.cious, ezines, ebooks, etc…

Forum Participation

Join two or three GOOD forums relating to your website. A good forum has continual visits. Joining a slow forum won’t benefit you greatly. Assure that the forum allows ‘signatures’ within which you can put a link to your website. Signatures are a small message that will automatically attach itself to the end of your questions or answers within the forums.

Get into those forums and really participate. Add value to the forum. Don’t just post silly answers in order to get your signature up there. For further information on forum participation, please see the following link: "Boosting traffic with forums"

Yahoo Answers

Yahoo Answers is rather similar to forum participation except that the site is not confined to one category. You can answer questions based on anything, though naturally, you will be answering questions mainly based on your topic. With Yahoo Answers, you are not given the use of a signature. So, you will find a way to include a link to your website within your answer.

This is a tricky game, however, because if you include a link to your website within every answer, you may be accused of spamming and get chucked out. My advise is to aim to provide valuable information, including a link to your website within every third or fourth answer. Try also to include links to other useful websites, not just your own.

Using these three strategies on a continual basis will start the traffic ball rolling without having to wait those awful visitor-less months and months.

Ciara Carruthers is a professional website content writer. She specializes in the creation of ‘information centers’ for all websites, which increase traffic and add value. Her website also offers free, useful articles on website writing and traffic increasing. See the following link for her entire list of articles: "Writing and traffic related articles.