Driving Traffic to your website Intelligently
When you start a website, your single challenge is to increase traffic. You probably already know this, and if you are just starting a website or starting a blog, increasing traffic is not really easy. There’s really 2 parts to a website, the content and traffic, and both take a good amount of time.
Increasing traffic is time consuming, and this is especially true if you want to increase traffic for free, which is what most beginning bloggers want to do.
There are many ways to increase traffic, and most of these methods are already known and popular, and guess what, they work! The problem with most bloggers who want to increase traffic for their blog is they are not using the traffic tips in an efficient way. Here’s what I mean. If you look around and search for traffic tips, you will without a doubt read that you have to comment on other people’s blog, or that you have to post on forums. You would be surprised at how well these methods work.
Yet, people still ask how to get traffic, or complain that it doesn’t bring enough visitors. Their problem is that they are not using these methods in an intelligent fashion. They count: Quantity>Quality. WRONG! Going on blogs and making comments such as, “Great post, I like it”, or “Interesting Blog”, in hopes that the readers will click on your name or URL doesn’t work. Why would anyone click or want to know more from someone who didn’t prove has anything intelligent to say. Same things on forum, there are thousands of topics everyday on which you can make a post. Instead of making the same old 2-3 word comments that don’t really contribute to anything, or even making 20 of those, you could take your time to construct a smart reply.
That single smart comment or post might not bring much at that time, but if you keep at it and do it consistently, you will slowly start getting noticed from the blog community or whatever forum you are on, and when you start gaining some credibility, then people will start clicking when you say something.
Unless you are willing to invest money in paid reviews or other forms of advertising, making use of already known working techniques for increasing traffic but only intelligently is the only way. Notice, this is the same thing as people who say: “Content is King”. The same principle works here: “Smart Comment Is King”.