Increase Website Traffic at No Cost

Spending money is not always the case to increase traffic, you can drive traffic on your ecommerce website without paying for pay per click program and other traffic generator tools or software. In order to build a solid website traffic foundation, you should try to increase your website traffic with your own effort.

Here are some effective ways on how you can increase website traffic without paying for it.

Choose the right keywords

Keywords are words that people usually type when searching for something using search engines. Choose only those keywords or phrases that closely fit the theme of each of your web pages and write your web page content using these keywords. You must select  keywords with the right amount of competition or else you’ll be outranked.

Starting with highly competitive keyword or phrases is a common mistake for website starters. If you opt to choose for a keyword “diet” then you'll see there are almost a hundred million websites competing for this keyword. Try to use a more specific keywords like “my diet plan” or “my diet routine” when starting to build traffic and page rank. Later on you can try to shorten your keywords or compete for a highly competitive keywords. 

Write great content for your website

Creating a good original contents for your site is very important in building a solid traffic foundation. If your website contains good original content with a right keyword phrases on it, your site will be ranked high by search engines and you will get a lot of visitors not only for months but even for years.

Content is king. The more useful and interesting content your website has the more successful it will be. This is because more people will visit your site and refer it to others.

Write your own articles and submit them to the article directories and archives.

If you can write with a minimum of 500 words about interesting stuff that is relevant to your website theme then you should try to write an article.  Articles are short 500 to 1000 word pieces written by anybody, usually about a very specific topic. Webmaster write articles to drive traffic to their websites and these articles are submitted to article directories or ezines.

Writing an article is quite easy if you know your stuff. You should be more specific when writing an article. If you submit good articles, webmaster will tend to post it into their site with the resource box containing the authors name and a link to the authors website.

Exchanging links

Links are one of the factors in ranking algorithms used by search engines such as Google. The more link backs to your site the higher you will get in search engines.

You can start exchanging links by sending an email to a webmaster and ask for a reciprocal link, ask them for a link to their website and include all the information needed to use for the link back to your site.

Try exchanging links with websites that rank high in search engines. This will give your site more points in ranking algorithm by search engines.