Tips for Getting Traffic To a New Site

1. Good Content. Create a good quality website, with useful content and simple design. A basic idea but sometimes companies think about SEO before having anything good to link about. Writing articles will help. Generally these will benefit from being clear and easy to read rather than dense and complex. - Writing Tips
2. Be patient. In the first 6-12 months you shouldn’t expect too much traffic. Your site will be sandboxed. This means it takes at least 6 months to start getting good results from Google. It also takes time to build up RSS subscribers, the first 100 is always the most difficult.
3. Offer Something Unique. The internet is highly competitive. Try to offer something unique and interesting.
4. Identify Best Keywords to Use For example if your website is about Mortgages it is virtually impossible to compete on this keyword because there is too much competition. If you choose much more targeted keywords you have a much better chance for forcing your way into the search engine results. (SERPs) Examples for mortgages could be

• “Guide to self Certification mortgages”
• ”Free guide to UK mortgages” (people are always searching for free things)

5. Use Local Searches If your website has a geographical basis this is a good way to get niche results. If your site is based in the UK then remember to make the UK prominent in the title of some keypages. This narrows down the search results. Even better is to focus on a certain city. E.g. A guide to mortgages in London.
6. Choose Good Titles. Think carefully about the titles of pages generally speaking 3 or 4 words are better than just 1. Giving a page a title “mortgages” will not give you any traffic from SERPS. “A Guide to mortgages UK” may. Programs like Wordtracker and Overture can be helpful for suggesting keywords. It is worth learning how to use these programs. It is also important to choose interesting titles that grab people’s attention
7. Building Links. It is important to be able to get a steady stream of inbound links. Ideally your website will be so good people will link without being asked, but to get the site going you need to give it a bit of self promotion.
8. Good Quality Links. The majority of these links should be from related sites. A website about mortgages will derive little if any benefits from getting links from a site about funny videos. Look for sites which are well respected. Consider writing guest posts. This is an excellent way of getting good quality links and traffic.
9. Ezine Articles If you write articles you can submit them to ezines like. Ezine Articles.com iSnare. These enable you to get links back to your site by adding your link in the resource box at the bottom. If the articles are informative they may get copied by other sites giving you even more links.
10. Contact Other Webmasters It may be appropriate to write to some webmasters to let them know about your site. If you feel you have something good to offer and they would actually derive benefit from your site then it is worth asking. Don’t offer spam or average content.
11. Make Contacts at Social bookmarking sites Stumbleupon is particularly easy for beginners to use.