Webbies: How to Build Traffic | How to Make Money

How to build traffic and make money are the two quantitative questions that represents e-success. Many people who build websites which have generated neither traffic nor money, are often frustrated by the lack of success in these to areas.

E-Success is possible by every one. All it takes is the knowledge, skills to put certain practices in place and the patience to do so in the right way.

How to build Traffic

Building traffic means getting people to come to your site. People come to your site in one way via many different routes. Every one comes to your site whether they input the URL (site name- http://www.my-site.com/ ) directly into the address bar or the search engines bring it up as a response to a search term, via being connected to the internet and meeting certain internet protocol.

If you are not well known, like Coco-Cola or Microsoft the only way people are going to in put your URL directly into the search bar is if they have it. This means that you have to let them know you exist, excite their desire and or curiosity to visit your site. When you have done that you have to get them to keep coming back, link to you (ie, tell others about you) and purchase or perform 'click-throughs' operations and behaviors.

This is the basic premise on getting traffic. Here is a checklist to help you in this regard:

√ Include into monthly budget monies for traffic getting strategies

√ Research the relevance of your site-idea, and its niche ? Without a niche there will be no traffic.

√ Isolate the keywords and phrases associated with your niche

√ Us one of the more potent and popular of those keywords as your site URL

√ Write content that liberally uses those keywords, but without over-doing it

√ Build site on certain ethical and safe SEO (Search Engine Optimization) practices

√ Build site with the right tools/ HTML Editors that follow W3C compliance -so that people using different browsers will not be able to access your site properly so (irst line of every page, when check source) starts with / or something similar :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”/>

√ Using tools of propagation to aid in getting site info out into the vertical world

√ Make content dynamic, fresh daily, with articles (and links back to your site) and other items of interest

√ Have a good host who is up 99.999 percent and who has back-up systems that automatically kick-in when there is a glitch or failure

√ Have a robust linking campaign with good and relevant links either via a tool or with a SEO expert

√ Registered with the 3 primary search engines, many secondary engines, directories, hubs -do this with a good tool or a great SEO expert

√ Have or eventually have a newsletter

How to Make Money With Your Site

The internet by its very design is more geared towards some types of business than others. There are several models of monetization models that lend themselves rather well to the uniqueness and phenomenon of internet technology. To succeed a business, whose presence is not already established in the brick and mortar world, must follow one or a combinations of these models.

Is your site based on one of the 5 most popular ways to online wealth ? That is, is your site:

1. Info-preneurial in design, and is your site's monetization model based on a selection of the best affiliate programs such as those offered by Click Back or Google Adsense, and other merchants links?

2. Based on an auctions model with either specialty items (niche) or on e-Bay

3. An e-Merchandizing online store, with quality e-products which you have made and that are immediately downloadable 24/7 anywhere across the globe where there is internet connection

4. A membership (niche) providing service to a specific group with specific needs that are not being met by larger corporations and businesses

5. A turnkey e-business without the aggravation of overheads but which gives you the freedom to mark-up or down certain items which you have direct access to from wholesalers across the globe?

√ Have a privacy and or money back policy?

√ Accept every kind of money / cash /card on site

√ Have a secure site use security seals/ logo

√ Have accreditation seals / awards depending on site's business

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