Where to get real traffic

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Gordon.C

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Hello,

I am running two websites (see my sig.) which both require quite an interaction of visitors to keep it going.
OpenBlog is an open article directory ready to save and publish text from random users.
ConfessionHall is offering help or advice in relationship at time when it does not go the way planned.

I get some traffic, not much still at least some, but I cant think of a way how to get traffic that would produce some interaction. Without it, both sites are very hard to keep alive.

Do you have any experience with this? Shall I maybe try payed advertisement?
 
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This is a tricky subject that people have argued about for years. Some say advertisement is crucial, others say word of mouth is all you need. I tend to side with the latter, because I have never spent a cent on advertising and my sites all eventually reach a point where I am satisfied with the daily traffic.

The first thing you need to realize is that your site needs to be a place that people want to visit. It needs to look clean and accessible, without raping the visitors eye with things like flashing graphics and ads everywhere.

http://speckyboy.com/2008/01/06/top-25-css-clean-sites-of-2007/

That site will show you some excellent examples. Web design seems to be slanting towards simple styles now. CSS in addition to some light graphics are about all you need to make a great looking site.

I'm sure your site is already well past the design phase, so telling you what it needs to look like might seem redundant, but I have found that a clean looking layout has a lot to do with traffic.

Next is social networking. Word of mouth plays a huge role in a websites success ultimately. Join stumbleupon and digg, etc, and start to submit some of your websites better pages in hopes that people will like it as much as you do. Use it, don't abuse it. Webmasters that spam their sites on social networking are shooting themselves in the foot.

The thing you need to realize is traffic takes time, a lot of it. It doesn't appear out of nowhere, you slowly build it over time. Every day do one thing that you think would help your site reach more viewers. Good luck :good:
 
I will try to do as you advice, I have submitted my sites to some web directories so lets see about that. I am also trying to improve my SEO, some results based on SEO are not bad, but still not what I am looking for.

Thank you for new ideas
 
Yes well I am working a few days on my sites... A few hours a day, please dont think that I just pop my site on the web and expect millions of viewers, I just dont see any progress so far
 
Hi

How to Drive Real Traffic to Your Website Everyday

Start at Yahoo spot. This search engine is flooded with millions of searches everyday and to be on this site, it's impossible if no one can read your ads. Go to Yahoo Directory and click the link below that says Advertise with Us. You can pick which strategy that you can afford in your pocket.

Don't like yahoo? Well, use the Google instead. Google search is a giant head in Internet Industry even if Yahoo is number 1. You can subscribe the AdWords advertising method and then see how much attention that you are getting from this way of marketing.

Look also for exchange traffic services online and you can submit your URL manually and you can also ping your web pages once in a while.

Sign up for Press Release for your business or products or website. Try pr-web or other media online. Just Google search it or Yahoo search it, you can get more choices to promote your merchandise or product.

Blog it out. If you like gossiping then you will probably good in blogging with your own Business or site.

Thanks
Have a nice time ahead.
 
aaren47: Thank you for new ideas. About Yahoo I would not say I dont like it, however even the cheaper variant of $300 is too much for me right now. I do some work on my SEO to make it more google friendly.

I will have to put more effort into link exchanges, it is quite hard to find it.
 
You can exchange link with my site...

I cant promise a heavy traffic but I get around 100 visitors from Google each day.

Do let me know if you (or anyone else) are interested.
 
webmaster1105 said:
You can exchange link with my site...

I cant promise a heavy traffic but I get around 100 visitors from Google each day.

Do let me know if you (or anyone else) are interested.
Click to expand...

I am indeed interested to exchange. My exchange information can be found at
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http://open-b.net/icon.php

Please let me know about your information...
 
Well there is a lot that can be done FOR bringing traffic...!

There are different SEO tools that can be used
for bringing in traffic you need to do things to keep your web-page url in the top pages of search engines..!

keeping your site updated always help.
 
webmaster1105: Thx just added your link to mine blogroll too...

About the SEO I am doing some SEO for my site, I can see that google pics it quite well but not as much as I would like it to.
 
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