How ‘not’ to lose traffic from your site!
Having traffic problems?
Traffic is the most precious asset of any website or online business, and almost all new starters fail in protecting traffic loss, which results in their business being paralyzed before they could even start to the fullest potential!
But the most important thing is, that those who fail in this are mostly the ones that do not realize the difference between ‘real people’ and the term ‘traffic’, but i can’t blame them, because the so called gurus teach them about traffic as if those are some bots which will pump us money like a ATM,but on the other hand those who learn about the value of traffic and understands the needs and requirements of those people who visit their sites and then use those learned information to optimize their service are the ones that will make real money!
So keeping that in mind, i did my research and found lots of interesting things and facts that will make traffic coming to your site vanish! So this is how you can ‘not’ lose traffic from your sites, do and don’ts!
1. Don’t Offer any advertising on your website/blog if its less then 30 days old
2. Make sure your website carters to the needs of the subject on which its built upon, i.e stick with your niche don’t wander off
3. Do not do fake comments on your posts
4. Participate actively in communication by replying to comments on your posts
5. Make sure your content is original, fake content of any sort, even PLR and MRR articles are useless and it could hurt your search engine rankings as well
6. Never Do pop-up or pop-under advertisements, its a very well known fact that visitors hate the pop ups and are tend to run away from a site that spams the visitor with tonnes of pop ups
7. Obey the rules of service providers,advertisers and other programs that you are affiliated with, for example AdSense, do not offer them or ask your users to click those ads or use words such as ‘pick a link’ etc, such terms can get you banned not just from the program but from the search engines as well.Use words such as ’sponsor ads’ instead.
8. Make sure you submit your site to all top search engines, directories, etc.Write ezine articles for article directories and get back-links to your site, maintain a must follow blogs list and use them to build more back-links
9. Do not spam on social media sites or any site for that matter, set your goal every month or week and do not deviate from those, never try to scam or make money illegally, such things might be bountiful for some time but in the long run your in loss
10. Make sure your website design and layout is user friendly, do not use too many dark or eye irritating colors.
11. cloak your links, do not start using affiliate banners in your advertising space.
12. Don’t use flash banners and too much flash work, search engines don’t detect flash as good as they do words.
13. Make sure you offer your visitors RSS feeds and subscriptions, its always advisable to start building a mailing list since the start, you can also create a custom landing page and use list building techniques to build a huge list of opt in subscribers.Offer Free reports,ebooks or products to attract more subscribers.
14. Do NOT waste real money doing blog promotions, blogs with content are not worth promoting with real money on services such as the ‘get paid to’ or ‘opt in lists’ or even the custom ‘traffic’ packages from sites, such traffic is pointless because for a blog the most important traffic is the readers and those who are interested in the niche you are working in, google AdWords and other advertising networks should be used to promote affiliate products instead.
15. Remove the first default post on the blog, the blog-roll and make sure you adjust your plugins and widgets, this is the step where most ‘new comers’ fail in blogging
16. Customize your Error pages to give it more professional look, add a custom favicon and custom blog logos to fit your overall blog design.
17. Offer search in your site and make sure its visible by the visitor, this helps the reader find what he is looking for.
18. Offering links to your other accounts including social networks and twitter is always advisable, this helps build a relation with the visitor and could actually gain you loyal readers.
19. When users exit from your site,its up to you, if you would like to include a ‘exit pop up’ that could ask your visitors to check out another offer, etc. But this is not advisable for normal content sites and blogs, as it would not work and is most effective on landing pages.
20. Use google Analytics, always analyze your traffic on a daily bases, note down the visitor trends and the change, keep yourself updated to your traffic sources, top landing pages and use this information to optimize your service.
21. Remember what i said about the term ‘traffic’ and the ‘actual traffic’ ? always keep in mind that people visiting your site are real and not bots, so give them real things and make your posts look real, as if your giving a speech or talking to someone on email, the more personal and targeted you get the more the reader will read further.
22. Don’t get too professional, their are many people on the Internet and depending on your niche, specially on a ‘make money online’ niche, 80% of the visitors to your site might be new comers and they will have a hard time understand your hard use of terms and concepts, so break down your content and information to make sure everyone can understand
23. Most traffic is attracted to ’sources’, which means nothing else but a list of ‘top’ services or ‘top tools’ etc, such source posts are always indexed quickly on search engines and study shows that users spend more time on ’source’ posts then on other average posts.
24. Make sure your posts are spelling free, the font and colour of your font are readable, divide your content in paragraphs and/or point-wise this would give a more organized look and feel, which will guarantee a longer stay.
25. Highlight and bolden the area or words that are of importance, the semi title and the title, use more eye catching terms for your title of the post. Post title should ALWAYS be search engine keyword related, for example someone looking for ‘twitter tools’ are likely to search with keywords such as ‘twitter tools’ ‘top twitter tools’ etc, so make your posts with similar titles, don’t use titles that are very long, for more information on how to write killer posts and content, including amazing titles read my article writing post and using your writing skills post.
Hope this was helpful, have a great day,
SJ
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