6 Ways to increase traffic to your website

[iBotPeaches]

6 ways to increase your websites visitors

Written by iBotPeaches of iBotModz.net

 

I would like to give my experiences and opinions on the top 10 best things you can do to increase your website's hits. They will be in order of the least difficult to most difficult possible things to do.

 

One

Alexa Toolbar.

 

Alexa is a site that sole purpose is to rank sites from #1 to #5,000,000. As your site hits the top 100,000 Alexa will start tracking incoming and outgoing links, provide daily screen shots and additional features.

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However some people may ask "How are sites ranked?" The answer is by the Alexa ToolBar. Any user who installs it sends information on which sites they visit towards Alexa. Every 48 hours then that gathered information is used to base the ratings. The problem being, only Web Developers install the Toolbar. If anyone installs the toolbar and visits your site then your site rating will increase. You could provide a download to it on your homepage. I urge anyone reading this to click the above link (3 or 4 lines up) and install the toolbar. It simply adds this to Firefox, and is compatible with all majors browsers.

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Two

Google Page Rank

 

Google Page Rank is a system based on 0-10 with 10 being the best. It ranks how many incoming links and outgoing links you have. Google is a search engine so they send so many outgoing links, and through Google Adwords and Google Adsense receives so many incoming links. With that being around 300 million they get a Page Rank of 2. There are many sites out there devoted to checking the page rank, but then require you to place it on your site, so they can exchange hits to increase their page rank. A good idea, but clutters your site. I prefer Dig Page Rank It is a site devoted to checking your page rank at 20 authorized Google data centers. There is no specific toolbar to help you increase your page rank. Only affiliates will help. Affiliate with any site you know. It doesn't matter if you have 10,000 members and they have 6. Members really never view affiliates its a proven fact. However those exchanged links get you one step closer to an higher page rank. Another great way to increase it is with signatures. Plenty of online sites offer them. Simply add a link like My site It isn't advertising and exchanges links to increase your page rank.

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Three

RSS Feeds

 

RSS Feeds are used so users may receive an instant notification of a new update for any valid RSS Feed. They spread fast and are an easy way to pick up extra customers. They are also good for admins and moderators. With the RSS Feeds available here. I am able to select only a few forums and receive at 1 minute intervals an update on new posts. This is used so I can reply super fast to support topics. Here is my current setup of my RSS Feed.

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Try http://feedburner.comhttp://feedburner.com to read your RSS Feeds, and any major CMS should be able to handle RSS Feeds

 

 

 

Four

Sitemaps

 

A Site map is a list of all pages on a website. These pages are crawled by spiders or bots. These computers spend 24 hours a day following link after link after link. Upon entering a new web page it traces all links on that site. However is can miss alot. So high end search engines such as Google and Yahoo offer a way to submit your sitemaps. There are plenty of costly programs out there to handle the job, but I have one which is free to use and works great. This one uses 15 crawlers and can crawl one site of 12,000 URL's in under 4 hours.

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Here you can see it does daily crawls to update your site with Google. After you have the sitemap, you need to upload it. Google Webmaster Tools is the way to upload all your sitemaps directly to Google. Its quite simple to use and I will not cover it.

 

With more links submitted to Google, the more times your site can appear in the search results. Its a simple way to gain extra traffic.

 

 

Five

Meta Tags

 

A Meta Tag is like the description you see on Google. Or the keywords you search to get those results. Meta Tags tie directly into crawlers of sitemaps. When any page is "crawled" the "crawler" looks for meta tags. They are usually 3 lines located at the beginning of any page. Like so.

 

So the bot would grab those tags and use them in searches and use the description for that link on Google. If you use any type of CMS the content of the site is stored in a mySQL database, so there is no way to install Meta Tags. However now there is. Using a variable in the description field and keyword field. Like so.

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Then when the page is visited the post is scanned and keywords and description field is generated. There is plenty of mods for this available for any type of CMS. You just have to search for it. Adding Meta Tags is an invisible change that only is noticed when users search on search engines.

 

 

 

Six

Search Engine Optimization

 

Search Engine Optimization (or SEO) is a static URL. If you know what a static IP is then you should know what a static URL is. If your on a forum that says &f=89&t=7876&start=7322. That is telling you to go to forum #89 which we can pretend to be Advance SEO Support, and topic 7876, which is a support topic, and to start on post number 7322. So there has been over 7000 replies to this topic. What happens when you link to a specific post and a user deletes his or hers? The URL changes from &f=89&t=7876&start=7322 to &f=89&t=7875&start=7322. So now post number 7875 is no longer that post. It creates havoc when search engines and bookmarks are used. Static URL's take keywords from the post and use it to create a never changing URL. So..

&f=89&t=7876&start=7322 becomes advanced-seo-url/advanced-phpbb3-seo-url-vt1219.html And that will never change (until that exact post is deleted) Most CMS have the option to install it, otherwise it is quite a hassle to install. That is why its our 6 hardest change to complete.

 

Before: http://www.ibotmodz.net/forum/uploads/remoteimages1/24463-5

 

After: http://www.ibotmodz.net/forum/uploads/remoteimages1/24463-6

 

See the difference?

 

 

 

 

 

Glossary

 

CMS= Content Management System

Static= Never changing

 

 

Thanks for reading.

This was written by iBotPeaches of iBotModz.net

[Dark Slipstream]

Holy... i just print screen all of that.. lol. That will help anyone with a website for traffic, i wont have to use it for a while because im active on this site, so why create another.. thats pointless

[SmokiestGrunl]

Very nice post peaches. I'm sure this is going to get trafic from google when people try searching ways to get more trafic.

[Yokomoko]

Nice and thanks!

[Xx Anarchy xX♥]

i love you peaches as i have just made a site for Halo 3 lessons, boosting and selling 50s

the Meta tags go in the Head section of the HTML right?

[SmokiestGrunl]

Yes thats correct. If you need more help just PM me.

[iBotPeaches]

i love you peaches as i have just made a site for Halo 3 lessons, boosting and selling 50s

the Meta tags go in the Head section of the HTML right?

 

If your getting tired with free hosts, let me toss you a sub-domain I have. It will have all those features that free host don't. Plus I can help <!-- s:) --><!-- s:) -->

 

I didn't realize IM NITELIGHT was you. I sent you a FR request. I think I have to get my General, before I play with you though

[Xx Anarchy xX♥]

i love you peaches as i have just made a site for Halo 3 lessons, boosting and selling 50s

the Meta tags go in the Head section of the HTML right?

 

If your getting tired with free hosts, let me toss you a sub-domain I have. It will have all those features that free host don't. Plus I can help

 

I didn't realize IM NITELIGHT was you. I sent you a FR request. I think I have to get my General, before I play with you though

dont be silly peaches

i may take your offer if we become serious about it. im away for 2 weeks and after that ill talk to you

 

and you can play with us, is your 49 is TS? me and my mates can probably help you get your 50

[swepower]

and where can we gett this "crawler-watch"?

[iBotPeaches]

and where can we gett this "crawler-watch"?

Have fun with it. It might start costing money, but its still in BETA for now.

 

http://gsitecrawler.com/

[Dark Slipstream]

Thanks for the crawler Peaches, heard about this in grade 11 when me and friend made a website for fun (about a month ago near end of school).

[Quinn]

Great job, you could always get a hit increaser which, if you have a counter makes the numbers go up and up and up Did you know according to the Alexa Toolbar youtube is #3?

[iBotPeaches]

Great job, you could always get a hit increaser which, if you have a counter makes the numbers go up and up and up Did you know according to the Alexa Toolbar youtube is #3?

 

Yeah, since I use the Alexa Toolbar, and mostly only developers use it. Sites are based on more "tech" sites. Please everyone download Alexa toolbar on post and visit iBotModz alot!

[Snowmon333♥]

downloaded the toolbar for you, who is #1 google ?

[SmokiestGrunl]

Great job, you could always get a hit increaser which, if you have a counter makes the numbers go up and up and up Did you know according to the Alexa Toolbar youtube is #3?

 

Yeah, since I use the Alexa Toolbar, and mostly only developers use it. Sites are based on more "tech" sites. Please everyone download Alexa toolbar on post and visit iBotModz alot!

 

I also downloaded it, I don't know how to work it but its there.

[Snowmon333♥]

haha same, and google is ranked 2 facebook-6 myspace-7 youtube-3 whats number 1 ? msn ?

 

just found its yahoo