You can attract a lot of traffic to any site at any given moment. Website visitors can come from just about anywhere. Search engines, links from blogs, social networking site, just to name a few.
The trick is divided into three parts.
1. More visitors.
This can be done from search engines, social bookmarking / networking, and blog linking.
2. Staying on your site for long periods of time (stickiness)
The longer that visitors are on your site, the more likely it is that they will remember your site and want to come back.
3. Encouraging those visitors to come back frequently (repeat visitors)
Repeat visitors are more valuable than first time visitors. Why? Because they are your biggest fans! Your biggest fans will tell their friends about your website and spread the word. (Higher quality traffic)
Awesome examples:
YouTube.com – Millions of people frequent the site per day. Why? Because the site has new and fresh content (videos) on the site. And it’s a community of internet users involving themselves in some way on the site – either uploading videos, watching videos, or commenting on videos.
Miniclip.com – Games, Games, and more Games. Online games are a great way to keep visitors on a site for a long time (stickiness). Besides, I’m sure people come back frequently for more games.
eBay.com – Online auctions. People frequently return to the site to check up on bids and view newly posted auctions of interest.
Here are just a few examples of websites that create a lot of traffic because of the user-activity on these sites.
So you want a site that would attract a lot of traffic? Huh? You need to think about how to involve other people (visitors) on your website. A great way to do this is to start a blog. Free and easy to setup at www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com. I mentioned a blog because visitors can make comments on your blog posts effectively participating on your site.
Controversy is one of the most popular subjects to blog about. Most people will take a side and will talk about it around the water-cooler hopefully mentioning your site and their co-workers will check it out as well.
My personal suggestions would be to start a ‘review’ blog. Start a blog and give your opinions about something that you’re into. Whether it is movies, music, games, books, etc.
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